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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
CODE PROPOSES
ROOSEVELT AS
OIL DICTATOR
Hearing on Rules Urged by
Petroleum Institute
Begins Monday.
BY MARSHALL M'NEIL
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, July 22.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt would take on the
role of oil car, controlling produc-
ton and licensing marketing under
the American Petroleum Institutes
code Of fair competition which is
to be headed by the national recov-
cry administration starting Monday
In this hearing the pressure of
the great international figures of oil
will be felt; there, too. the govern
ments of the oil-producing states
will be represented; and the small
independent wildcatters whose en-
terprise in seeking for this black
liquid wealth will raise their voices.
Issues Are Clear
The issues are clear and the code
hearing controversies will revolve
about four major points:
l. Whether the federal govern
ment shall be given authority TO
control production.
2. Whether marketers of petro-
leum shall be licensed.
3. Whether the federal govern
ment shall fix prices.
4. Labor provisions.
These latter are paramount to
the Roosevelt administration and
the recovery administration. but
generally they are of secondary i'm
portance to the industry's leaders,
who are concerned more deeply in
price-fixing. licensing, federal pro-
duction control.
Propose 40-Hour Week
The institutes code proposes
forty-hour week, with minimum
wages ranging from 40 to Al cents,
depending upon the region. An in
dependent code that will be pro-
posed at the hearing provides mini
mum wages of so cents and a 30
hour week
The production provisions of the
code leave no doubt that the great
of the oil industry want President
Roosevelt as their dictator For
they provide that before well
can be drilled the drillers must
obtain a permit from the govern
ment at Washington; and, having
found oil. the pool in which it is
located may not be developed until
a plan for its utilization Is worked
out.
Thus if Farmer Smith in Chambers
county down in Texas wants to drill
a we'll in an abandoned pasture On
his own land, he must first come 70
Washington. or through the mails
seek federal permission.
Ask Minimum Prices
Here. according to some, is a
serious conflict with Texas law,
constitutional guarantees of prop
erty rights. the well-recognized pc
troleum law of capture which per-
mits a man to take from under his
own land all the oil he can. There
may be, also, conflicts with pro-
ration and conservation statutes in
Texas and other states.
If and after Farmer Smith pro-
duces his oil, its price would be set
at Washington, for the code says
the President is requested to es-
! tabliSh, from time to time, minimum
prices for crude petroleum in the
various petroleum producing areas
E. and . to protect consumers
may also fix maximum prices :"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
The Nations Ne7C Code

Highights of the voluntary agreement to which all
employers asked to subscribe in the nations
cry drive
l. The agreement would become effective Aug 1.
2. Child labor is banned, with certain exceptions.
3. Clerical white collar" workers Will limited
hour week, with minimum SIS cities
sl45o in cities of between 100000 and 100000 population
cities between $500 and 250O0 20
towns of less than $500 provided this does than
S12 a
Factory mechanical workers limited IS
until Dec. 81. with
weeks within this period shall
eight hours day. Forty shall
mum wage, unless scale lower than that
1929 and in no shall less than 80 hour be paid
5 Prices must be
where made necessary by increased costs
Fexibity is provided hardshps par
ucuar where limitation hours of skilled
due production but time and third be paid
in excess of the maximum hours
T. The voluntary agreement will
the competition
Sept is fixed deadlne of codes The
President otherwise will fix dates for hearings arbitrarily
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
Banner. Event
Ethiopian Flag Made in
Nick of Time for
Princes Arrival.

BIZ United Press
XXTASHINGTON, July 22.-Be-
w hind the pomp and circum-
stance of welcoming a royal
Ethiopian prince to Washington
are problems as tough on the
prince as they are on bandmas-
tiers. hotel keepers and diplomats.
Ask Prince Ras Desta Demtu. He
knows.
His troubles began before he ar
rived. The state department
wanted his arrival at the MayS
flower hotel to be as magnificent
as possible. The department wired
the prince, please, would he get
all dressed up? The prince
obliged.
He wore banmasters shake a
foot and a half high. 1t was
made of the hide and name Of an
Ethiopian lion. He had on a
cream-colored coat. incrusted with
gold braid. 1t fitted tightly about
the princely waist and flared at
the princely knees.
The hotel recognized the prince.
all right. The royal Ethiopian
flag given was waving is the
Connecticut breeze. A beautiful
flag it was. too. with green
stripe. a red stripe and a yellow
stripe, from top to bottom. The
hotel had hard time getting
that flag.
There was no Ethiopian flag in
the hotels flag files. The state
department had no Ethiopian flag.
Neither did any of the embassies.
The assistant to the assistant man.
ager finally unearthed a picture of
the flag in the back of the die
tionary. He sent the picture to
a flag factory in Philadelphia. The
factory made flag in the nick of
time
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
BATTLE STILL RIDDLE,
EVEN TO THE JUDGE

He called my girl a brat"
charged Ellie Gray in municipal
court three Friday before Judge pro
tenn Dewey Myers.
He left the gate open and my
COW could have been killed" coun-
tered Quincy Lanham. accused by
Gray of shooting with intent TO
kill
The men live in the same house
at Eighty-sixth street and the ALI
sonville road. Lanham is a farm
hand.
Trouble apparently has been
brewing between the pair for some
time. their testimony indicated.
Recently. they passed the words"
stage. A shot was fired. Gray had
Lanham hailed TO court. Each told
the judge their versions of the af-
fair.
Myers withheld judgment until
Aug. 10. He warned the men to re-
main on good terms" until that
time and after.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22

BILE street address and awakened
Mrs. Foreman. She was upper
turbed.
Admitting that the note was
written by her husband, Walter
Ray Foreman. IS, who recently
lost his job in a cleaning estab-
lishment. she said that he had
written several other notes threat
ening suicide.
They had quarreled, she said,
because he wanted her to move to
Fl. Wayne to live with relatives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
DISCOVER NEW INDIAN
VILLAGES IN ALABAMA
Forty Sites Are Found by Party OF
Museum Scientists.

rorty SITES Are round by Party OF
Museum Scientists.
BIZ Science Serrice
UNIVERSITY. Ala. July 22.-
Forty heretofore unknown sites
where Indians once had their homes
and villages have been discovered in
this state by party of scientists
headed by DR.. Walter B. Jones.
director of the Alabama Museum of
Natural History and state geologist.
The expedition, which has re-
turned here. spent two weeks travel
ing by water through counties OF
northwestern Alabama. One bluff
shelter, previously known and partly
explored by the owner of the land.
David Barger. further was investi-
gated, and some of the bones of the
ancient occupants were found The
shelter had been used by two young
adults. child. and an infant.
Several thousand specimens of
beetles. some already recognized as
new to science, were obtained by
naturalists of the expedition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
Goodbye Walls Suicide
Note; Wife Is Skeptical

TWO street car conductors re-
l. turning from work Friday
found a bottle of poison and a
note threatening suicide. on the
guard rail of the Illinois street
bridge over Fall creek.
Police said the note was adj
dressed to Mrs. Alice Foreman,
7l3 North Noble street. 1t read:
TO whoever finds this hat send
1t to above address and tell Alice
I said goodby Hope she will be
happy. (Signed) w. r. F."
Police hurried to the North No
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
MEXICAN ROAD CLOSED
Rain Blocks Work of 10000 Men to
Open Highway.
nTnitedPress

MEXICO CITY, July %. - The
Pan American highway from Mon
terey TO Mexico City will be impass-
able TO motor traffic until the rainy
season ends mex. Hovember or De-
cember, according to observers who
have inspected the road recently. 1t
had been hoped to put it in satisfac-
tory shape for American automobile
tourists use this summer.
Under the handicap which the
rain imposes, construction work is
proceeding steadily Approximately
10000 men are employed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
SAVES 100 IN 10 YEARS
Rescues Are Just an Old Story To
Kansas Lifeguard.

WICHITA, Kan. July 22.-George
Mccormick. who has been a life
guard at the municipal pool for
eleven years. has rescued more than
100 persons in that ime.
Most of his rescues. he said.
were men. and due TO over-confi-
oence. or "grandStanding." He has
rescued large number of women.
but he said that women, as a rule,
are afraid of deep water.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22

guards slipped hams in their cars
that they were not paid for, or a
requisition obtained for the ham
from Wissel." swears Lucas.
During my term there in April
1882, was in the office and chief
bookkeeper. --. was talk
ing 20 WiSSel He said, in my pres
ence. Can this be right? We show a
$4,000 loss this month";" charges
the affidavit of the choir singer and
vocal teacher.
"Wissel said, If that's what it
shows, guess that's what it is.
Things are in such a muddle that
we'll just have TO charge it off. i"
declares the sworn statement of
Lucas.
Alleges Envelope Sales
Things are guarded loosely. The
inmate who had the job just before
I did told me he sold more than
5000 in stamped envelopes that were
in the office. He said he sold them
to inmates for tobacco" charges
Lucas under oath.
Il have heard Craig and Arment
get in at least a dozen arguments
about the discipline and work on the
farm" accused Lucas in his state
ment.
ON one occasion I heard Arment
talking TO WisSel They were talk
ing about a bridge that was being
built on the place and Arment
wanted another fifty bags of cement.
WiSsel said to him. This is the sixth
time you've been after fifty bags of
cement for this bridge and the origi-
nal requisition called for only fifty
bags That's 300 bags you've gotten
so far" relates Lucas in his sworn
statement.
Lucas in his affidavit says Arment
replied BY God. we're using it
down there"
Barred From Library
The wife of Mr. Arment used
to purchase her groceries in Put
namville and the bills were sent to
the farm for payment Many times
this included green vegetables that
were already available on the farm, y
asserts Lucas in his sworn state
ment.
Lucas. in his affidavit. says the farm
has a library, but that prisoners
can't use it.
Sometimes Christian Science
practitioners would tell prisoners
they could get Science and Health
IN the library and when the prisoner
would go to the library they'd laugh
at him. The prisoner could not get
a book out of the library. Guards
use it for a loafing ROOM, declares
Lucas under oath.
Sent to State Prison
On a count similar to the one
for which he was sent TO the farm.
Lucas was taken to the state prison
at Michigan City TO serve one to
flve-year sentence.
On Junue %. 1888 he was released
from Michigan City. after serving
the minimum of his sentence.
AS far as the treatment is con-
cerned,' concludes Lucas in his af-
fidavit. I'D rather do a year at
Michigan City than six months on
the state farm. That is. if I had to
take the regular line of labor"
tNext-The Farm Versus the
PrisOner.l
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
The Universe

How far the from the
light
what made
why does eclipse of
the stars made Of how far
what causes their different colors; what
the largest constellation in the sky; how
the
How many planets there the
panods what the of the latest
HE on planets; old
is sphere is the earth nearer the sun in
what causes the
travel in its orbit around the of the
earth?
How earth is land and how much
the deepest oceans: how deep the deepest?
All these the SIM moon
earth
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
DROUGHT CAUSED BY
PLANETS, Is ASSERTION
Forecaster Says Clash of Bodies to
Bring Dry Spell.

rorecdster says ClaSn OF b0dieS 10
Bring Dry Spell.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, July 22.-This old
world may look for another drought
this summer-and it's all on ac-
count of a planetary quarrel be-
tween our neighbors, Mars and Ju-
piter.
The celebrated alteration oc-
CURED last March, according to an
astrologer and amateur weather
forecaster. who predicted the 1880
drought.
AS result. Mars will raise mis-
cradle hot weather" Schimmack
said. Il have only four heavy rains
before Aug. 2l-July Is, Il and 10
and Aug. 1e"
Mars and Jupiter came to-
gether with Neptune in the sign of
Virgo last March 7. parted and again
met in June. Schimmack said. 1t was
a bad combination, as a weather
sign. he believes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
BY ARCH STEINEL
Times stan Writer

softly Voices
on the
They The Indiana
state penal
Voice, life. Violence!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
Hanover Trustee Is Buried

~ nff0 FTfss
FRANKLIN. Ind, July 22.-Fu-
neral services were held here today
for j. w Lagrange. ST, trustee OF
Hanover college for many years. He
died Thursday near Madison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
FLY BUGS ACROSS U. S
Thousands of EN- Are Shipped to
Seattle: Bound for Orient.

BIZ nIffH Press
SEATTLE, July 22-When the
airmail pilot handled a person wait
ing for a package from the cast,
all he said was bugs"
And bugs they were-thousands Of
them. A large box of bugs from the
laboratories in Moorestown, n. j.,
designated for Japan.
The bugs were beneficial" ones
sent 10 the Orient in return for a
number of beneficial bugs sent here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
Heard Bitter Arguments


charge Of discipline was Just across
the hall from WiSSel'S office. have
heard curSing and loud noises in
his Office ,Arment's Office - declares
Lucas in his affidavit.
Il have heard Arment. standing
at the window in WiSSel's Office. re-
ceive an order to 90 something from
Craig. and have seen him tear the
paper up and throw il away. saw
ing. He'll. he doesn't know anything
about a place like this" asserts Lu-
cas- IN his affidavit
i have been in WiSSel's Office. -
he continues. and the man from
the Storeroom. an inmate. would re-
port 10 WiSSel that hams were miss
ing and there was no order for
them. WiSSel would say. I told
every one 10 get an order. A guard
was over the inmate al the store
room. Lucas charges in his sworn
statement
Bride Charges Made
In other affidavits to The Times.
charges have been made by former
prisoners that guards bribed in
mates TO slip them meat and pro-
visions that they could take home.
Subsistence is furnished 10 the
superintendent. assistant superin-
tendent and chief clerk. according
TO Wissel.
Wissel denies any improper issu-
ance OF food.
i have heard inmates say that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22

Women of ancient Egypt had
their hair dressed about every ten
days. very much as modern women
are accustomed TO do.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22

1HE PRESIDENT hos proclaimed q
"blonket code" dealing with WAGES and
hours of employment to be effective
Sept ], 1888. This code is intended to
bring about more employment at better
wages pending the adoption of specific
codes by the notions voryinq bust.
nesses and industries
We intend to support the President
and the National Recovery Admins
trotion to the best of our ability. We
shall sign the Presidents Agreement
when offered and when the Code for
Retail Business is completed and &C.
copied, we shall comply with the pro-
visions of that Code in the spirit of the
Presidents Proclamation of July 20.
L. S.AYres &Co.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
M|SMANAGEMENT, REIGN OF
CRUELTY AND TERROR LAID
TO PENAL FARM OFFICIALS
Former Choir Singer Paints Appalling
Picture Of Life at Putnamville
Institution for Petty Offenders

$ a conditions the Indiana
Evening star., 1933-10-13
NEED OF NATIONAL
JOB SERVICE SEEN
Government Should Clear Employ
ment Information, Chicago
Meeting Told.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSs
CHICAGO, october 13.-Along with
the immediate prospect of unemploy-
ment insurance, William H. Stead, as
sociated director of the United States
Public Employment Service, today said
vas appearing the necessity for a well
organized public employment service IN
the country.
He told the National Rehabilitation
Conference the N. R. A. had pointed
to the lack of machinery for bringing
the worker and the job together
Besides assisting employers and be-
coming a factor in balancing the de-
mand and supply of labor, he said such
q service would become an authorita-
tive source of information on employ
ment.
s'The Federal Government he said
sshould deal with the national aspects
of the employment problem, co-ordinat-
ing and providing leadership for State
employment services, clearing labor be-
tween States, clearing employment in
formation and conducting only such
direct placement as may be required by
legislative enactment"
Evening star., 1933-10-13
ADVISERS SCRAP n.
| MARK-UP oN''F|OOD
Wallace, Johnson and Peek
Claim Code Will Curb '
BeI0W.C0st Sales.

BY the Associated Press
Governmental influence against price
cutting instead Of formal approval by
the President of minimum price mark.
ups, as proposed in pending retail dis-
tribution codes, will be recommended
by the industrial and farm recovery ad-
ministrators
This decision was reached yesterday
after lengthy conference between Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson, Secretary Wallace
and Farm Administrator George N.
Peek. The three leaders will suggest
that the Government class as an unfair
trade practice the sale of merchandise
below the invoice cost to the retailer
The conference also decided to har-
monize fully the fundamental policies
OF the two emergency agencies.
Would Scrap MAKEUP.
If approval is given at the White
House, and this appeared certain last
night, it would mean rejection of
minimum retail mark-up by the food
and grocery industry Of TX per cent
| over delivered cost and a 10 per cent
minimum mark-up by other retail
groups.
Farm Administration officials yester-
day completed a four-day hearing on
the master food code. Besides calling
for the 712 per cent mark-up by re-
tailers, it proposed a minimum mark-up
of 212 per cent for wholesalers.
The remaining distribution groups,
with their proposal for a minimum of
10 per cent, come under the jurisdic-
tion of the N. r. A., which hopes to
| complete action on the code within
few days.
Peek has been an outspoken opponent
OF the mark-up in the food code and
recently authorized DR.. Frederick c.
Howe, consumers counsel for the Farm
| Administration, to make public attack
on the minimum markup plan.
Enforcement Difficult.
conference between Wallace, johnson
and Peek, it was agreed that the task
of enforcing the minimum mark-up pro-
visions would be difficult and that the
administrations principal interest,"
stopping the sale of loss leaders
could be served without authorizing the
minimum mark-upS.
Peek and johnson were represented as
hopeful that the sale -below-cost prohi-
bition will be sufficient to insure elimi.
nation of loss leaders" in retail dis
ITlDuIlOQ.
The practice of selling articles below
their cost in order to stimulate trade
| is blamed by Peek for having depress-
ing effect on prices of raw materials
sold by farmers.
Parity Is Aim.
He believes that losses resulting from
| this competitive practice should not be
reflected in the prices paid farmers and
| that they need not be if retailers agree
| in the codes not to sell below cost.
/ Peek recently asserted that the pur-
/ pose of the farm act and his efforts
| in the recovery program center about
| increasing prices to farmers.
THE agricultural adjustment act" he
said, lis designed primarily 20 obtain
parity prices for farmers. 1t does not
/ provide for the guaranty Of profits to
any distributing agency"
Evening star., 1933-10-13
RAIL HEADS HEAR
n. R. A. IS MIRACLE
Attorney Calls Program "ln'
spring Spectacle at
Ohio Meeting.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated FlesS. -
CINCINNATI, Ohio, OCTOBER IL a.
Donald Richberg, counsel Ior Ine Wa IVA
tionaI Recovery Administration, tola
the National Association OF Railroad
and Utilities Commissioners last nlgnt
that the N. r. A. program IS either al
"inspiring spectacle or miracle requlr-
ing a belief in fairies-it depends on
the way you look at It,
"It is an inspiring spectacle" ne salo'
off YOU see the American people mo mo
biIized to preserve and to ADVANCE ssu- SCI!
Government in the face OF world
wide despair of Democratic institutions.
"It REQUIRES belief in fairies II you
demand the miracle of the complete
annihilation in few months OF all tne
destructive forces that have been &C
cumulating in decades Of planless, anaf-
chistic, industrial development.
ANY one who believed the Recovery
Administration could wave wand over
the battlefield of industrial relatlonS
and Immediately bring about an arm. ;,
istice was doomed to disappointment,
he Added. s
"The recovery act has not changed
human nature or destroyed traditional
habits and deep-rooted prejudlces.
Richherg continued. "The employer
who has fought labor unions all his lie
and the labor leader who had to fight
for even the right to a meeting with
such employers find it equally hard 70
smile at each other across the confer
ence table"
He asserted "it is not the fault of
the Government or the tnadequacy OF
the law which makes every effort 70
promote human cooperation on large
scale a task calling for the exercise OF
infinite patience and tact