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EVANS JONSIN FIGHT ON GOP 2% CLUB BILL
Motion to Recommit for Revision Loses Following " Bi-Partisan Assault.
A bi-partisan attack on the Republican bill to abolish the “Two Per Cent Club,” defunct Democratic campaign-fund raising organization, broke out in the House today. + The measure, already approved by the Senate, specifically would place the club, killed by Democratic Governor * Schricker a month ago, under: the provisions of the Corrupt Practices Act. . Rep. Howard Batman (D. Terre Haute) charged that under its provisions, candidates “would not be able to eat chicken dinners served ‘by the Ladies Aid Societies,” a “would be prohibited from passing out stogies.” Evans Supports Him
His arguments were supported by Rep. H. H. Evans (R. New Castle), majority leader in the 1939 session. Rep. Batman also charged that the bill, as written, would prohibit newspapers from “panning” candidates in articles or cartoons. This was denied by Rep. Hobart Creighton (R. Warsaw) who pointed -out that the bill contained the word “falsely” ‘in connection with cartoons or articles and that he believed “this certainly should be included.” Rep. J. Chester Allen (D. South Bend) came to Rep. Creighton’s support and said that he believed this clause was a good one “because it would prevent certain practices of the last election campaign.”
Recommital Voted Down Rep. Batman’s motion to recommit the bill to committee for revision was veted down. g Meanwhile, House members who had spent two days at home during the week-end recess, came back and dumped in the largest number of measures for a single day’s session —35 bills and one resolution, An increase in license fees for large chain stores was proposed in a bill introduced today by Rep. Charles Bond (R. Ft. Wayne). Under the present law, the companies are assessed according to the number of stories operated within the State. The new proposal would increase the rate per store according to the number operated throughout the country. ‘Juke’ Boxes Affected Another bill, introduced by Rep. Harold E. Korn (R. Ft. Wayne) would license “juke” boxes, phono- - graph and cigaret machines owned by out-of-state companies on a sliding scale and create a State Division of Vending Licenses. Rep. Korn said his proposal would net (Continued on Page Three)
‘DEMOCRATS DRAFT. NEW ‘RIPPER’ OFFER
Another ‘compromise” proposal on a new state government set-up will be offered by Senate Democrats tomorrow in proposed amendments to the House-approved Republican “big ripper” bill. This bill would shear Governor Schricker of most of his patronage ard administrative: power. The amendments, to be offered by Senator Charles Bedwell (D. Sullivan) would give the Governor control of the State Police Department, and 18 state departments which the Republicans propose to place under G. O. P. dominated boards. They also would abolish the three-man boards and place the elected Republican officials in complete charge of their departments.
SCHRICKER NAMES 5 TO NEW COMMITTEE
Five Democratic state bficials today were appointed by Governor Schricker as ex-officio members of the newly organized State Committee on Interstate Co-operation, controlled by Republicans. They are Fred Eichhorn, chairman of the Public Service Commission; Edward Stein, Motor License Bureau Director; Frank N. Wallace, State Conservation Director and John Taylor, head of the State Health Department Dairy Division. "The other 15 members of the committe are Republican legislators appointed by majority=ledders of the. Legislature. The full committee was to hold its first meeting this afternoon. :
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: I N. Y. Specialist Says That Vitamins Also Are Being
sed in Tests. By JOE COLLIER Radio-active cocktails, so mised that they go to specific places in the body when swallowed, are one of the new things scientists are
testing in the battle against cancer, Dr. Frank E. Adair, New York, saicl here today. 1
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The cocktails are the direct result; of the invention of the cyclotron by Prof. Ernest Lawrence of the University of California. This machine can make certain. chemical solutions radio-active. It was found that a solution of phosphorous, for instance, made radio-active, wil, when swallowed, go to the inside of the bone. These cocktails are being taken in research laboratories by persons suffering with cancer of the white blood corpuscles, Dr. Adair said.
Most Dramatic
_Another- chemical solution, when made radio-active and swallowed, will go to the outside of the bone, where it medicates another type of cancer, Ir. Adair said. He said this experiment already is being used as cancer treatment, and is. the most dramatic of the new discoveries, Much work also is being done with vitamins against the disease, he said. It was discovered that persons in the Noise countries, who eat no green vegetables for many months of the year, develop a type of sore in their throats, which, if
Dr. Frank E. Adair... , ‘We’ll have to knock them over one at a time.’
AID BILL PASSE 1ST HOUSE TEST
3-Day Debate Approved; Gives FDR War Mandate, La Folletie Says.
allowed to go unattended, becomes cancerous.
Exploration. Going On
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It also has bein discovered, he by voice vote a rule fcr three days
said, that these sores are arrested and do not beconie cancerous when: green vegetables or brewer's yeast] are introduced in% the diets of the individuals. | These two things are being explored as rapidly as possible by those who are leading the battle y claims 150,000 victims, Dr. Adair said. Another important study now be- | ing conducted, he said, is the rela-| tion of heredity to cancer. Every person whose family’s medical history contains cancer should havean | annual examination by a competent | physician--a search for evidence of | cancer, he said. | There are, he said, many encouraging things in the fight against cancer. The American College of Surgeons has registered more than 30,000 oured cases of cancer, and Dr. Adair said that it is quite posa (Continued on Page Two)
CLAINS 36 DANISH | SHIPS TO AID BRITISH
Paper Says Plan for Idle Vessels Needs U. S. Okey.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3 (U., P.).—
The New York World-Telegram said today it had learried that 38 Danish | ships now idle in United States ports soon might be en route to British! ports “with full cargoes.” The action, the newspaper said, would be subject to the approval of the United States Government. “The same move that would release the ships here, its believed, will free an addifional 20 in South American ports,” the World-Tele-gram sgid.. The newspaper said the | total registry of ‘he 58 vessels was! about 450,000 tons, adding that 15 of the ships, including some of the! newest and fastest, were in New! York Harbor. | The newspaper said it had learned through & reliable Norwegian source “that a group .of representative’ Danes living in Eagland were working with Prime Minister (Winston) Churchill towarcls setting up a! temporary Danish government there. This body will be known as the Na-| tional Danish Council. Its chief purpose, it is explained, will be to assume responsibility for releasing to Greaf;: Britain the much-needed tonnage #n this side of the ocean, with the approval, of course, of our State Depgriment.”
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of general debate. The House debate caine as former Governor Philip’ Le Follette of Wisconsin fought the measure before a Senate Committee on the ground that its passage would give President Roosevelt a “mendate for a war policy,” and as &peaker Sam yburn (D. Tex.) of thie House predicted that the bill would pass by the end of the week with a margin of 100 to.125 votes. . © The discussion began immediately with a plea for passage by Chairman Sol Bloom (D. N. Y.) o: the Foreign Affairs Committee, . " Aid Lessér Risk, lie Says
Mr. Bloom described the Administration measure as the “best way to safeguard our land and our liberty.” | * “Even without aid to Britain—in other words, by no action at all—the risk of war is greater “han it is by giving material aid to Britain,” he argued ]
o. Mr. La Follette, testifying before the Senate Foreigr. Relations Committee said that passage of the bill would give the President alone “the decision over peacs or war.” He declared that unless the United States is prepared to furnish manpower to Britain, that nation has no chance of delivering the “smashing knockout the Administration is talking about.” The pending measure means the initiation of an outright war policy because, he said, Mr. Roosevelt indicated in" his last Fireside Chat that the United States would guarantee the aid needed by Great (Continued on Page Two)
Boy, Girl Seized In Stolen Car
AN 18 - YEAR - OLD BOY, charged with vagrancy, and sa 16-year-old girl, turned over to her mother, were arrested last night when State Police captured
a stolen ‘car after ¢ chase in which several bullets ‘were fired. The driver of the stolen car escaped. The car was stolen from Cecil Mathewson, 1410 S. Capitol Ace, Dec. 29 and once before was sighted by police but escaped. It was sighted three times yesterday and escaped the first two. On the third time, hovrever, State Policemen Walter Schofield and Robert Shields joined the chase and fired several shots at the car. One of them, they said. punctured a tire. The car turned into an alley
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‘The driver escaped, and the cther youth attempted to but was caught. The girl remained in the cer.
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Petain’s Envoy Is Quoted as Resisting Any Nazi Demand for Fleet.
By UNITED PRESS British forces have smashed halfway across Eritrea, it was reported today, and are pressing their campaigns on all fronts against Italian East Africa. The hard-hitting forces of Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell occupied Barentu yesterday, it was. revealed,
following up their capture of Agordat, important rail point on the route to Asmara and Massawa. Italian troops defending Barentu retreated toward Tole and it was believed . they might be trapped without a feasible way of escape from the mountainous Eritrean wilderness. Some 6000 to 8000 Fascist troops may be involved.
Prepare for Blow at Benghazi
On the Libyan front the British consolidated preparations for the attack on Benghazi, last stronghold in eastern Libya which remains in
Italian’ hanas. The Admiralty reported that many Italian prisoners lost their lives when a German or Italian plane attacked a merchant ship on which they were being transported in the Mediterranean. British planes dropped aerial torpedoes on the Tirso Dam, in Italian Sardinia, at the head of the largest artificial lake in Europe, and seriously damaged one of the main sources of power supply, London claimed. It was believed the attack marked
The Administration’s British aid|the first time in the war that aerial { bill passed its first. jest on the House {torpedoes had been {floor today when mémters approved | waters.
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The Tirso Dam was completed in 1923. It is 197 feet high. The power house in the center of the dam is the heart of Sardinia’s power system. Italians denied there was any damage. One British plane was admitted lost.
Bombs Fall on London
British planes smashed at German invasion bases in northwest France before dawn as.they continued patrols designed to impede German preparations for an all-out offensive against the British Isles. ‘During the week-end the British blasted at other invasion ports, with Boulogne being the chief target, German bombs fell on London in a series of hit-and-run attacks. Other German. raiders appeared (Continued on Page Two)
HOME GUARD PLANS SHELVED FOR TIME
Herr Asks Addition of 200 To State Police Instead.
Plans to create a Home Guard to replace the Indiana National Guard were shelved at least temporarily today as Republican Senate leaders introduced a bill to add 200 men to the State Police force, 100 immediately and 100 next year. Senator Ben Herr (R. Lebanon), chairman of the Senate Military Committee, who authored the measure, explained that the additional state police were to take the place of the home guard “at least for a time.’ o He said he had found “quite a bit of sentiment” throughout the state for adding more men to the State Police force inpleace of creating a Home Guard. The bill provides for the hiring of 100 additional policemen immediately upon passage of the measure and appropriates $22,000 to pay their salaries until the next fiscal year begins.
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0. K. DEBT LIMIT OF 65 BILLIONS
House Ways and Means Approval Voted Over G. 0. P. Opposition.
. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U. P.). —The House Ways and Means Committee, by a divided vote, today approved a bill to increase the national debt limit from $49,000,000,000 -to $65,000,000,000., Republicans voted solidly against reporting : the ‘measure, after having lost a fight to hold the: debt increase to $56,500,000,000. The vote on reporting the bill was understood to have been 15 to 10, strictly on party lines. . In addition to increasing the debt limit, the measure provides authority for taxing of the income from future issues of Government securities- It wipes out a special $4,000,000,000 debt category set up last session for financing national defense preparations.
May Reach Floor Next Week
Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C), hopes to get the: bill to the House floor next week. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., told the Committeealast week that the proposed increase would be sufficient to finance the rearmament program until June 30, 1942. Unless. the bill is passed, he said, the Government will reach a financial crisis in May. On Jan. 30, the last day for which figures are available, the public debt was ‘$45,227,123,474.90. .
“Slacker Money” Sought
The bill’s provision allowing taxation of income from future bond issues is the result of a long attempt by the Administration to eliminate future issues of taxexempt securities. Mr. Morgenthau has described it as an attempt to enlist “slacker money” for the defense program. That section also would allow the Government to begin a stamp savings plan designed to corral the pennies of school children and the quarters and half-dollars of “little men.”
Hurlin' Hal Signs With Cincinnati
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Feb, 3 (U. P.) —Hurlin’ Hal Hursh, passing ace of the Indiana Univere sity football team, today signed a contract with the world champion Cincinnati Reds baseball team. Hursh, a ‘catcher, will be sent to the Reds’ school in California, ‘where he will be coached by Hank Severeid. : At Indiana, Hursh played three years of football and was catcher on the Hoosier diamond squad for one season. He was declared ineligible for competition last week and withdrew from school.
JANUARY. BUILDING BIGGEST IN DECADE
New Construction in City Totals $1,120,636.
Last month was the biggest January for Indianapolis building in the : past 10 years, City ‘Building Commission records showed today. New construction totaled $1,120,636. This was 866,948 in excess of January, 1940, building. Building Commissioner George R. Popp said that industrial expansion was the chief factor in the high valuation. The largest single industrial unit added to the City’s valuation was a $300,000 building at the R. C. A. plant on the East Side. The Curtiss-Wright Corp. installations also were made during the month. Industrial valuation was $372,000, new residential valuation totaled $202,700 and business buildings were $136,700. In addition, repairs and alterations were high, while the City Sonate fees totaled more than 1000. . -
SENATE PASSES BILL FOR 200 CARGO SHIPS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U. P.).— The Senate today unanimously passed and sent back to the House a measure appropriating $313,500,000
for 200 “ugly duckling” cargo ships for the merchant marine.
Salmon O. Levinson, Hoosier Famed for His Fight for Peace, Is Dead in Chicago af 75
Salmon O. Levinson, internation-ally-known peace advocate and attorney, died yesterday at Michael Reese Hospital in Chi
sulting from high blood pressure. He had been ill 18 months. He was born in Noblesville, Ind., the eldest son of a poor tailor. Mr. Levinson was credited with fathering the Kelllogg-Briand pact to outlaw war. : He went to Europe in 1929 and met Aristide Briand there for the first time. M. Briand greeted him: “I'm happy to meet the real father of the peace pact of Paris.” Mr. Levinson replied: “But the father would have died childless, M. Briand, had it not been for you.” It was in the same year that Mr.
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for proclamation at the White House of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Known for his aid in reorganization of railroads and other corporations, Mr. Levinson first gained wide public notice for his efforts to out-
f|law war during the administration ilof President Harding. He was in-
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lawry of War in 1921 and publication of the Senator Philander C. Knox-Levinson outlawry of war
plan. He opposed the final organization of the League of Nations because the covenant contained no clause to outlaw war and he also fought the
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1. Sustained the constitutionality of the Wage-Hour Law. 2. Held that Federal anti-trusf statutes do not apply to restraints of commerce caused by inter-union jurisdictional disputes, om * The unanimous action of the 3
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ern cotton mills. ; Justice Harlan F. Stone wrote the decisions, Indictments Reinstated d In one case the Supreme Cour: reinstated indictments which Feds
we ; : a eral Judge William H, Barrett had : TE ; MSISBN |quashed on the grounds the law
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had refused to pay time and onew half for overtime in excess of the prescribed work week: ved validity The other case involw of the determination of a spec industry committee setting a 33% cent minimum hourly wage for the cotton textile industry. A group of small Southern ‘cotton mills hi contested that action, challengl the procedure used in arriving @ the wage rates as well as the gens eral validity of the law. ’
Setback for Arnold
In the anti-trust ruling the Court sustained the dismissal of in ments against four officers of the American Federation of Labor Ca penters’ Union who had been charged with Sherman Act violas tions. :
PROTEST WIDE POWER FOR FD
13 Leaders Here Sign Letter Sent to VanNuys, Willis And Ludlow.
Times Special WASHINGTON, —¥Feb. 3.—Indiana’s two U. S. Senators, Frederick VanNuys and Raymond Willis, and Rep. Louis Ludlow received identical letters today signed by 13 prominent Indianapolis business and | Ge professional men urging that they vote against granting President Roosevelt Congressional powers. The letter reads: “In the highest interest of America, we wish to protest against any measure giving the President carteblanche authority to spend money. “Congress will be and should be in session during the entire time of this emergency. “Any measure requiring the expenditure of Pillions of Hollars of the people’s money a Congressional emergency, not a Presidential| Anheuser-Busch, Inc, 8t. emergency—an emergency to be at-| brewers and three concerns tended by the one Federal body that| in expanding the heewery punks
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monopoly laws when the in pursuance of “unjustified”. jectives interfere substantiall interstate trade. 1 The _indictments had been turned against William: L. dens of son of Indianapolis, president of the United Brotherhood of per ters ad Joiners, and St. Louis ¢ cials' of the union, in connection with their alleged nation-wide ef forts to, restrain the trade
accomplished in this country, Mrs Roosevelt said. “I am not in agrs ment with the attitude they take: foreign policy. And as I consider that very important and more oF less fundamental in order to ev later on the things we wish achieve in this country, I could take part and seem to agree | something with which .I do = agree.” ;
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The groundhog did not see his shadow yesterday, and you can put whatever degree of dependence in that you please. If you are a groundhog fan, then you may assume that the winter is practically
over, If you subscribe to the meteoro-
logical doctrines of the groundhog, you may count this the first day of spring, but it might be well to understand that there’s nothing in the literature of the weather which agrees with the groundhog. They're still not running airlines on groundhog calculations.
Even so, the first report of a robin came by phone today and|been requisitioned from the
the person who saw it said it was|Since Jan. 14. Men arriving at the: chirping happily. - That may cheer|Fort today are from. Marion you up. But some robins winter| Putnam Counties. ; over in this area, and can be seers, Meanwhile, Maj. Lytle J. during the bleakest|hafer, in charge of mobil here, announced that replacen Now if you take J. H. Armington, who is paid by the U. 8.
With 74 new draftees induc into military service, today at Harrison, Indiana’s second call ‘f men under the Selective system has been announced today. So far, a total of 3153 men
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