Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1940 — Page 27

may, vay . pin | U, BANDSMEN COMING MAY 14

Perry Stadium to Be Scene Of Two-Hour Program Of Music, Marching.

The Indiana University R. O. T. C. band will give a concert the night of May 14 in Perry Stadium. The program, lasting two hours and 15 minutes, will be sponsored by the Indiana University Club of Indianapolis, of which John Scott is president. Although this will be the first appearance of the famous musical unit here, it has received high praise in appearances in New York, Boston, Louisville and Cincinnati. Two successive appearances have been made at the Kentucky Derby. The band performed before 20,000 persons in the New York City Polo Grounds. A program of popular, band and light opera airs is being arranged, in addition to marching maneuvers.

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National Commander Raymond J. Kelly (left) was presented with a diamond-studded gold medal for the American Legion 1940 convention by Glenwood J. Sherrard, Boston, president of the convention

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Milwaukee already is bidding for the 1941 convention. Frank L. Greenya (left), Wisconsin Department commander, brought Carl F. Zeidler, Milwaukee's new 32-year-old Mayor with him to extend the

BUFFALO, N., Y., May 3 (U. P). —Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, Republican Presidential nomination candidate, criticized the Adminis tration today for assertedly spending $5,000,000 a year in salaries to

Federal employees {issuing New Deal “propaganda.” Senator Taft declined at a press conference to comment on progress of his campaign except to say that “I know I'll have more delegates on the first ballot than any other candidate.” He addressed a luncheon meeting of the Interstate Advertising Club Association.

FIND BODY OF HOSTESS

CLEVELAND, May 3 (U. P). — Justine Hartford, 35 an attractive night club hostess, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a driveway near her home today. Coroner Samuel R. Gerber announced after a post-mortem examination that she had been murdered. He said death was the result of asphyyxio-suffocation, probably caused by the placing of a hand over her mouth,

Wants $25,000 Hitler ‘Advance’

CLEVELAND, May 3 (U. P). — Joseph J. Dunkel, daredevil parachute jumper and National Air Race star, today considered himself ‘practically a million aire” after telegraphing acceptance of Samuel Harden Church's offer of $1,000,000 for delivery of Adolf Hitler alive. He said a plane, with pilot and radio man, “is waiting” on Long Island for word to under take the task. The jumper telegraphed Mr. Church: “Plans complete for Hitler venture. Need $25000 to defray partially transportation expense. Wire instructions and

cash.” “That's all I could afford to wire,” said near millionaire Dunkel,

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HINTS PAY-HOUR BILL ‘BUNGLING’

Roosevelt Makes Views Known as Vote on Exemptions Looms Today.

WASHINGTON, May 3 (U.P). — President Roosevelt indicated his belief today that the House is bungling its efforts to correct the WageHour Law by granting wide exemptions for processors of farm products and other workefs. He made his views known as House Administration leaders said

they did not believe they could prevent passage of broad amendments. A final vote was expected today on a bill that has been amended to grant exemptions to an estimated 2,000,000 workers now governed by the 42-hour maximum work week and the 30-cent-an-hour minimum wage. Mrs. Norton Disowns Bill

“In. the guise of help to the farmer,” Chairman Mary T. Norton of the House Labor Committee

said, “more than 2,000,000 workers in industrial establishments have been exempted. Enough amendments have been put into the bill to make it pass. I doubt that it can even be recommitted.” Mrs. Norton was the author of! the original bill which the House! now is considering. But so many drastic amendments have been added to it that she has disowned it and announced that she would vote to recommit—kill—it. She conceded that it would pass, however, because each amendment has a tendency 'to draw a few more favorable votes among congeessmen whose constituents mig be affected, she said. Rep. Graham A. Barden (D. N, C.) whose proposed substitute bill which was defeated was not as broad in {ts exemptions as Mrs. Norton's bill in its present form, was asked whether the pending measure was satisfactory to him.

Barden Is Amused

“No comment,” he replied, and then laughed loudly. The amendments which changed the form of the bill completely included: 1. A provision by Rep. Frank H. Buck (D. Cal), defining agriculture —which is exempt under the wagehour law—as including all processes in the handling of farm products between the farm and the first commercial market, including canning by farm co-operatives. The Labor Department estimated this would exempt 200,000 workers now under the law, 2. An amendment by Rep Schuyler Otis Bland (D. Va.), exempting from wage-hour standards all processes in the handling of fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as canning, processing, freezing, preserve ing, and handling and transportation incidental to such operations. The Labor Department estimated this would exempt another 1,000,000, workers.

Strikes Out Phrase

3. An amendment by Rep. August H. Andresen (R. Minn.), striking the “area of production” phrase out of the exemption section of existing law—and action which Mrs. Norton said exempted “everybody else” connected with agriculture. There were other important amendments in the bill, one of which would permit a flexible work week on agreement between employers and workers, provided that the average for half a year or a year did not exceed 40 hours.

SCHOOL TO MEET

The Indianapolis School of Maturates will meet at 2 p. m. Monday in the Y. W. C. A. Prof. W. S. Hiser will lecture on the “Best Investment in the World.” The Rev. Charles M. Fillmore will conduct a lesson study on “The Message of

NEW YORK, May 3 (U. P).— The Moore-McCormick freighter Flying Fish reached New York Harbor today after a hair-raising adventure in the German-seized port of Bergen, Norway, where, according to a crew member, a British airplane machine-gunned the decks of the American ship. The Flying Fish sailed from New

York for Narvik March 10, spent three days in the Norwegian iron port, proceeded to Bergen and was there on April 9 when the Germans took over. Capt. Waldo Wollaston, master of the freighter, said in an interview with the National Broadcasting Co. that he first learned that something was wrong when the harbor was suddenly blacked out at 2 a. m. on April 9. The ship moved to a new anchorage about four miles out in open water and was riding there with a half dozen or more American flags displayed when the British bomber came over, George Gilbert, a crew member, told NBC. The plane dropped several bombs, Mr. Gilbert said. A German crisuer was sunk and other bombs struck a supply ship, exploding its cargo of ammunition. The British craft then swooped over the Flying Fish and peppered

GANNETT CALLS FOR FARMING RECOVERY

LAWRENCE, Kas, May 3 (U. P.). —The farm problem must be solved before this country can have general recovery and “we must have general recovery soon or our form of Government will be in danger,” publisher Frank Gannett, a candi-

date for the Republican Presidential nomination, said last night. He charged in an address. that agriculture had suffered hardest from the depression. “The voting this year may decide whether we shall have peace or war, determine the future of our (economic system and, most impor|tant of all, determine whether we shall maintain our constitutional form of Government . . .” he said.

FATHER IS FOURTH AUTO CRASH VICTIM

LEBANON, Ind, May 3 (U. P.) — Charles O. Melling, 46, foreman of the Indiana Brass Co. plant at Frankfort, died in Witham Hospital last night, the fourth victim of an automobile accident Tuesday night at Royalton in which his wife and two of his children also were killed. Mr. Melling succumbed to a skudl fracture without regaining consciousness. Joint funeral services will be held for him, his wife Zella, 42, his daughter Christina, 15, and a son Lewis, 3. Four sons ranging in age from 14 months to 11 years survive. All of the boys are recovering from their injuries suffered in the accident. Boone County authorities still are investigating the crash, which they believe was caused when a hit and run driver side-swiped the Melling car, throwing it over an embankment,

IT'S FLOOD, THEN DUST NORTH TONAWANDA, N. Y. May 3 (U. P.)).—Conditions change fast in North Tonawanda. One week the Common Council heard complaints of flood conditions. The next week ‘“‘dusty” conditions were | brought to the attention of City | Engineer Carl L. Oelkers.

FORT PITT HOTEL SOLD PITTSBURGH, May 3 (U. P.) — The Fort Pitt Hotel, which contains 800 rooms, was sold today to the Lebis Hotel Corp. of New York for

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British Gunned U. S. Boat

In Bergen, Seaman Declares

its decks with machine gun bullets, most of which struck bulkheads without doing any serious damage. “There were 15 men or so on the foredeck and forecastle head of the vessel,” Mr. Gilbert, an able-bodied seaman, reported. “The plane was flying low, at an altitude of 400 or 500 feet. We were hit at three or four points on the port bow. ... “There were three distinct bursts as the plane came overhead and raked the vessel from the bow to the midship section on the port side, puncturing, I should say, 10 or 12 drums of fuel oil.” He added there was “no doubt” of the craft's nationality and added that three planes were shot down by the Germans. Mr. Gilbert said a deposition cone cerning the incident was filed with the American consul in Bergen, but expressed the belief that the British plane, despite the American flags, had mistaken the ship for a German vessel. The Flying Fish was fog-bound in the harbor and the interview radioed in. Capt. Wollaston said the Germans did not molest the Flying Fish or its crew members and, when the vessel sailed for home, escorted it through the German mine fields. “The Germans seemed to be well supplied and and their discipline was good,” the captain said. The Flying Fish was one of three American vessels caught in Norwegian ports by the German invasion. The Moore-McCormick freighter Mormacsea arrived here last week from Trondheim but the Charles R. McCormick of the McCormick Line of San Francisco still is in Norwegian waters. Capt. Wallaston was less positive than Mr, Gilbert about the machine gunning of the Flying Fish's deck. The bullets, he said, “were probably from a plane that flew overhead,” but added later that they might have come from a land fortress “firing on the plane and following its flight.”

FIGHT PUSHED ON POOR DRAINAGE

Works Board Acts to Place New Additions Under Regulations.

Works Board members reached an agreement today to act as quickly as possible in presenting legislation to the City Council granting the

Board broad powers in regulating the development of new additions. The Board ordered John J. Cooper, assistant City attorney, to draft an ordinance giving the Board the authority to require real estate developers to meet strict drainage and street improvement requirements. The necessity for such regulation was dramatized this morning when a South Side resident, who said he had made an investment in a lot, told the Board that unless an improved street and a sewer were put through, his investment would be worthless.

Disagree on Grading

Board members disagreed as to whether the city should grade and gravel the street, which the investor sald now is virtually impassible. Louis C. Brandt, Board president, said he believed the City at least should gravel the street, but Charles O. Britton, Board member, said that if all requests of this nature arising out of new development sites were granted, the City would be unable to maintain older unimproved streets needing attention for some time. “It's not only unimproved streets but our improved streets, as well, which need attention,” Mr. Brite ton said. “I don’t see how we are going to keep up grading and repairing the streets which have been in the City for a number of years if we have to go out and grade new streets which never properly were put in.” Leo P. Welch, Board vice president, said the discussion clearly pointed to the necessity regulating new developments so that when new streets are added they will not become a “permanent liability to the city.” Urges Adequate Sewers

In addition, if sewers are not provided in developments, developers ought to be required to show that adequate drainage can be provided, Mr. Welch added. He said he considered this type of regulation “one of the most important” matters currently in front of the Board. “The small home buyer who makes an investment in a new addition ought to be protected by some sort of regulations which assure him that streets wil be accurately surfaced and drainage will be provided,” Mr. Welch said.

ACTRESS PAYS $50 FOR TRAFFIC LESSON

HOLLYWOOD, May 3 (U. P.).— Claire Alexander, dark haired British actress, was brushing up on Hollywood's traffic laws today with a $60 fine for driving through a red light and knocking down a pedestrian as an incentive, Gerald Shapiro, 14, the pedestrian was injured only slightly. Miss Alexander told the judge that she had been in Hollywood but six months, and when she heard a bell ring at an intersection she thought it was a signal to go ahead. Her alibi did not impress the court,

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20-YEAR PLAN FOR MURDER GHARGED

NEWPORT, Ind, May 3 (U. P.), —The State today called additional witnesses in Vermillion County Cire cuit Court for the trial of Mrs. Mae bel ‘Houston, 39, of St. Bernice, charged with first and second degree murder and manslaughter in cone nection with the fatal shooting of her husband, Daniel, 44, last Dee cember. Three witnesses testified for the State yesterday. They were Coronef Ott Casey, Dr. 8. I. Green of St.

Bernice and Dr. W. E. Meyers of Dana.

All said that Houston had died from a bullet wound in the chest. Dr. Casey testified that Mrs. House ton had told him that she had been planning to kill her husband for 20 years.

The defense asserted that House ton for years beat Mrs. Houston res peatedly and that on the day of his death he had beaten here se verely, even bouncing her head against a concrete floor in the barn at their farm.

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