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Toward the building up OF the
Army Air Corps to the maxi
mum standard of effectiveness
our ablest authorities agree that
three things are essential:
1. Authorization by Congress,
which is charged by the COnSti-
tuition with the obligation to
provide for the common de-
fenSe.
2, Appropriations by Congress
to organize, train, equip and
maintain a military air force Of
the strength authorized by Con-
greSS.
3, The most competent ad-
ministrati0n and command OF
this military air force which the
President as COmmander-1n-
Chief, with the assistance of his
Secretary of War and the Chief
of Staff of the Army, can pro-
vide.
President Roosevelt began his
effort to build up the Army Air
Corps early in the last session
of Congress by approving the
recommendation of the War
Department that ngress
authorize the expansion OF the
Air Corps by the addition OF a
GHQ Air Force to consist OF five
wings.
Congress Approves
This authorization, if fol-
lowed up by the necessary ap-
preparation, will permit the
President to increase the
strength of the Air Corps to ap'
proximately 1000 planes with
the personnel necessary to man
them.
This program was in accord
with the established military
policy approved by the Con-
gress. It carried forward the
recommendations of the Nor
row board, convened by former
President Coolidge in 1925.
upon which all subsequent leg
islation for the development OF
effective air forces for the
United States-military, naval
and commercially a S been
based.
In the belief that the House
Committee on Military Affairs
was attempting in good faith
to cooperate with the Presi-
dent in building up the Army
Air Corps, the Secretary Of
war approved the request OF
the committee that the Chief
of Staff prepare a bill en-
bodying the War Departments
recommendations for a CHG
air force.
This was done last February,
but this authorization bill was
buried in the House Committee
on Military Affairs. Every ef-
fort to bring it out was opposed
by the chairman Of that COM
mittee, Congressman McSwain
of South Carolina, and his op-
position to the President ap-
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House Committee Defeated
Army Air Corps Program
Bv James T. Williams, T.

pears to have been aided and
abetted by the Republican ex-
chairman of that committee,
Congressman James of Michi-
gan, and a majority Of the
committee.
Because of the opposition Of
the James-McSwain coalition
against the Roosevelt Air Corps
program, Congress adjourned
without any legislation to in
crease the efficiency of the
Army Air Corps. Meantime,
the President took steps last
April to find out what ought
to be done by the executive
branch to improve the admin
iStration and command of the
Army Air Corps, and what addi-
tional equipment would be re-
quired to bring it to the maxi
mum standard of effectiveness.
With the approva of the
President, Secretary Dern ap-
pointed a special air corps COM
mittee to make a comprehensive
study Of military aviation, re-
view the operation of the legis-
lation enacted upon the recon-
mendation of the Morrow
Board, and submit it's findings
for the guidance Of the Ad-
ministration.
This committee. headed by
President Wilson's Secretary of
War-Newton D. Baker of Ohio
has been hard at work since
last April. It is about to con-
clude its laborS. Not only the
chairman but a majority of
this committee consists of civil
ians of character, experience
and standing. The committee
has completed the taking t of
testimony. Officials of the Navy
Department, of the Post Office
Department and of the Depart
ments of Agriculture and Com
merce have been heard. So have
AAoAAAA0NUNACA CAoS OCSLSAICAoS GAL"
gineers and air line pilots.
Vital Matter
With the report of the Baker
committee and with the report
of the Aviation Commission ap-
pointed just before he started
for Hawaii to investigate other
aspects of aviation, in addition
to those considered by the Bakec
committee, President Roosevelt
will appeal to the new Congress
to authorize and appropriate for
the Air Corps program which
the House Committee on Mill
tary Affairs pigeonholed during
the last session Of Congress.
The American people can then
Judge for themselves whether
Congress ought to support the
leadership Of the President in
this vital matter of national de-
fense, or permit the House Com
mittee on Military Affairs, un-
der the domination Of the
James-McSwain coalition, again
to defeat that leadership.
Copyright, 1894, The Washington
Times) ~
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commodity, producers of the ra-
ton expected to receive Ameri-
can goods would protest. If
their protests were loud enough
it again delayed negotiations.
AS one official said:
ITO say that we would have
six treaties arranged with other
countries by January of next
year would be an optimistic pre-.
dictiOn."
Castigation Of the last Con-
greSs probably is justified but
there is one thing about the
boys on the Hill.
They did some work.
A check-up shows that 1906
bills, IA joint resolutions, "a
concurrent resolutions and 279
simple resolutions were intro
duced in the Senate.
Total laws Of the Congress
numbered 976. These were clas-
Sified as House bills, 533; House
joint resolutions, 33; Senate
bills, 388, and Senate joint reso.
tiOnS numbered 22.
The House passed $50 House
bills and AZ House joint resolu-
tions. The Senate, somewhat
more active, passed 808 Senate
bills and 38 Senate joint resolu-
tionS.
Senate committees submitted
1,458 reports. Petitions filed to-
tailed 5,201.
The President sent 88 mes
SageS to the House and Execu-
tive departments forwarded 5O4
communications.
All in all, it sounds as if the
legislators found time to do a
little work.
Many months ago it was said
that Mrs. Patrick Hurley, wife
of the former Secretary of War,
was keeping up with Virginia
tradition and becoming quite an
excellent horSewoman unbe-
knownst to her husband.
It seems that Pat also has
his secrets.
DR.. Hayden Johnson, chair.
man of the District Board Of
Education. paid a call on the
former Secretary of War re-
Gently.
1t is reported that he found
Pat busily engaged in chewing q
bit of Old Virginia tobacco.
Pat apologized profusely.
He said it was habit he had
acquired in his days in the
great Southwest.
Also, he said, that Mrs. Hur-
ley wasn't fond of such habits
and that he didn't engage in
1t when near her.
Copyright. 1894. The Washington Times .
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Frozen Money
Owners Demand Action

Owners Demand Action
With approximately twenty-one million dollars still tied up
in closed Washington banks depOtors Of those institutions
have right to look to the Reconstruction Finance Corpo
ration for speedy relief
UNDER THE LAW FORCED THROUGH THE LAST SEES
SION OF CONGRESS BY REPRESENTATIVE CLARENCE
J. MLEoD WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE WASHINGTON
TINES THE CORPORATION IS IN A POSITION TO Rem
DER EFFECTIVE AID IN CLEARING UP THE CLOSED
BANK SITUATION HERE AS WELL AS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
is imperative that immediate steps be taken under that
law.
This money has been tied up for more than year
During that year the rghtfu of the money have
been many Of them in distress and in downright
poverty.
They have been penazed because of the belief that they
held induced by governmental preachment that the local
banks perfectly sound.
THEY HAVE BEEN sKEPTICAL THROUGHOUT THE
YEAR AS TO THE MANNER IN WHICH THE BANKS
WERE BEING HANDLED AFTER THEY WERE CLOSED.
THEY ARE STILL sKEPTICAL.
They have little activity the part of those in charge
Of the institutions although that does that there
hasn't been any.
They have brought into Washington unfamiliar
with local conditions and placed in charge of numbers of
these banks
They haven't liked it and they don't like it,
But they demand action
They know that under the law the receivers can
take the of those banks and to the Recon
structon Finance Corporation They know that they can
borrow from the Corporation those assets.
And what is they know that the Reconstruction ri
Corporation does buy upon those
assets upon depression appraisal They know that the
corporation if follows the expressed wish Of Congress- will
deal with the receivers appras based normal values
taking cognzance of the increase prices which expected
the next few years.
Under the circumstances they have right expect prompt
and vigorous action the part Of the receivers and sympa
thec action the part Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration.
WITH SUCH ACTION ON BOTH SIDES THERE Is
EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THIS TWENTY ONE
MILLION DOLLARS WILL SOON BE RETURNED TO ITS
R1GHTFUL OWNERS AND WILL THEN FLOW INTO THE
CHANNELS OF NORMAL TRADE
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The Human Side of the News
Senator Borah Has Always Been "Lone Wolf"
By Edlpin C.. Hill

Mr.. Borah of Idaho doesn't
think much of the Wonder
Boys of Washington. The
Brain Trusters give him pain
in the neck. And he is able,
without too much strain, to
conceal his enthusiasm for the
New Dealers generally. Almost
as good at timing his political
strokes as the gentleman in
the White House, the Idaho
Senator waited until what he
senSed was the psychological
moment before casting Wreaths
of the wild raspberry around
the necks of the professors
who point the way to the
millennium.
He comes right out with
the blunt statement that they
aren't good Americans at all,
but a funny lot with quite
un-American notions. He sees
the traditional and constitu-
tional American liberties be-
ing undermined and broken
down, and, by inference, at
least, ignores the emphatic
statement made recently over
the radio by President RooSe-
velt that both the spirit and.
letter of democratic govern
ment and the Bill of Rights
will be preserved.
Now, Bill Bora h is not an
antagonist to despise or under
estimate. One doubts very much
If any man or any set of men
can accomplish much for months
to come, at least, toward dim
ming the star of Franklin D.
Roosevelt; but if anybody can"
dull even slightly the glamour
which surrounds the President,
like the aurae in medieval re.
ligions paintings, that somebody
would be the hard-hitting, bril-
liant-Spoken gentleman, from
Boise City, the second best
orator in the United States.
Harbinger of Trouble
The first best Gin the opinion
Of this writer) is the Chief JUS
tice of the United States Su-
preme Court, Charles Evans
Hughes, and it was largely by
the magic of their oratory that
Hoover won so handsomely in
1928. No, the Democratic politi-
cal chiefs may be quite un.
troubled by tlSe attacks made on
the new deal by such as Ogden
Mills and DR.. FesS and other
Republican wheelhorSeS.
The astute Charley Michael
son, publicity wizard for the
Democratic party, may grin tol-
erantly when Chairman Fletcher
rapS the Administration, and
Big Jim Farley may look panied
when wicked persons hint that
patronage is just as important
to him as purity. but when
Borah gets up on his hind legs
and howlS, they take notice. It
is a harhinger Of trouble to
come.
In one short address Borah
packed q bigger puI1ch than the
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regular Republicans had been
able to put into a hundred
speeches and articles for the
past six months. He attacked
the Administration in its weak
est spot-in its bureaucratic
appendix.
One phrase alone Of that ad-
dress of Borah's deserves preser-
vation: "It is simply that
meddlesome, irritating, confus-
ing, undermining, destructive
thing called bureaucracy" He
was describing broadly the pres
ent regime in Washington.
He is a bad man to go up
against, Borah, even though he
is a lone wolf. Always he has
been the lone wolf. He was
Theodore Roosevelt'S floor man.
ager in the 1912 Republican
convention. He battled for the
Lord, but he was late for Arma-
geddon. He spoke mildly for
Harding's election, but declined
to run on the same ticket with
Coolidge. He helped to put
Herbert Hoover in the White
House-and left him there at
the front door.
Distinctive
What manner of man is this
most interesting personality in
all Congress? No one could ever
mistake him for any person ex-
cept himself. His square head,
his dark eyebrows almost meet
ing above his short nose and
shading his keen but kindly
eyes; his long upper lip, firm
mouth, strong, clefted chin; his
thick hair parted in the middle
and growing rather long at the
back-all are peculiarly his. His
eyes are blue with black pupils
that give vividneSS and intensity
to his expression. His voice is
deep and mellow, and he gives
the right value to words, with a
shading of tone. He would have
made a first-rate actor or
minister. For the fanaticism Of
the evangelist is combined in
this remarkable man with the
emotionalism of the actor.
Happily established at Dork-
ing, England, the debonaire
Jimmy Walker shunS the night
life and is rarely seen III Lon
don. He works sporadically in
his cheerful, leisurely fashion,
but expresses fear that some
thing will turn up which will
compel him to return to a more
strenuous life. II feel that I
am just beginning to live" says
our erstwhile mayor, who GER
tainly gave no evidence of feel
ing otherwise while in New
York. Dispatches from Lon
don say he has gained ten
pounds.
One wonders if Jimmy, in a
reminiscent vein, doesn't philoS-
ophize on how deeply rooted he
is to the soil of New FORK, and
if a trace of nostalgia doesn't
creep into his moods at times.
Copyright, 1894, King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1934-07-11
MY UNTOLD STORY
By Robert BenchLeu

Inspired by Miss EUelyn Mes
bits current account of the
temptations uOhich beset a
pretty girl in NeuO York, Mr..
Benchley has undertaken to
shOD hOw he, on coming to the
Big City for the first time, w0s
unable to interest anyone in
his OwnfON.
In the last twO installments
he told of his unsuccessful at
tempts to be seduced into
drinking, or worse, in the gay
life among newsp0permen and
theGter folk. Today he tells,
uUith stark realism, of his Odr
experiences during 1Sl7-1s and
the temptations Ohich the lax
morale of the var time threW
his uUQy.
The Washington times., 1934-07-11

Articles By Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, WedneS.
day and Friday.
The Washington times., 1934-07-11
CHAPTER III.

AS I walked out of the Play
house that cold November night,
a discharged press-agent, I real
lied that 1 was not only broke,
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published 1l1
j. q odit0
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
Money and Exchange
INDIANAPOLIS STATEMENT
Treasury Statement
BY United Pressl

WASHINGTON. Sept. Government
expenses and receipts Of the current fiscal
wear 10 Sept 5. compared with the cor
responding period Of the previous fiscal
wear
This Year Last Year.
Expenses 81 oi9 OLA 777.7l S624 2O6. 500 40
Receipts SIS. 54e. o3o.2s 1872 4s4.s6l.9 81
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
u. S. SMELLING
DROPS 6 POINTS
ON N. Y. BOARD
Further Selling in Silver
Group Forces Whole
Market Lower.
BY ELMER c. WALLER
United Press Financial Editor

NEW YORK, Sept. Further
selling came into United States
smelling in the early afternoon
trading on the Stock Exchange. 1t
broke S points to 1872, bringing its
loss for two days to more than 20
points. Other silvers broke with it
and the whole market turned down
without pickup in volume.
Losses in the silver division out
side of United States Smelling
ranged to D. points in Howe Sound.
American Smelling dipped to 34i2,
of Is, and Cerro De Pasco 81, off
=. Alaska Juneau made a new low
for the year in the Colds at 1875,
of 3
United States Industrial Alcohol
was forced down more than points
TO 81 following word from Baltimore
that the United States district court
had overruled a demurrer in connec-
ton with the governments suit
against the company for S8,140,514
alleged to be due under the revenue
act of 1926. Other wet stocks we're
down with it. American Commercial
Alcohol losing 2il points to 26A
and Schenley ia to 20.
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Produce Markets

Delivered in indianapolis prices: Heavy
hens, lac; Leghorn hens, &c: 1884 broilers,
to lbs. and over 10c bareback broilers.
1Oc old ROSTERS. SC; ducks, &C; geese. SC;
young guineas, zoe; old guineas, 15c; No |
i9c Each fui case must Isf weight 1855 $ Ss
gross; a deduction of 10 cents a pound
for each pound under S. lbs. will be
made Butter-Nol, 29M SOC. Butterfat,
23c. Quoted by the Wadley Company.
(By United Press
steady; receipts, 5,1O1 cases extra firsts,
2212c; fresh graded frsts. 22c: current re-
espts 10 2QS dirties No No 11 1c R R0 2
Market, weak; receipts. 1874 tubs: ex-
ira frsts C9O-9lls score!. 1aM2434c: ex-
t1as l92 scorel, 25lac f Ir ssls score g3l
23c; special. 25l2@2614c; standards, Csc.
Poultry-Market, firm. receipts; ! car;
a. trucks. car due: fryers, 15la@ 17i3c:
turkeys, 1893 12c; old ROSTERS, lie; hens,
15@ l9c: Leghorn hens. 12c: black chicks;
1OG12c; barebacks. 13c; cocks. &c; old
Leghorns, 1914 2Oc; Rock springers, ,19la@
2o9 GheesemTwins 1S@ 131.c p daisies
l3e2 lac logghorns' ISsSM "a l4c Ca P toig
slow: market weaker on Cobblers. steady
on other stock; Wisconsin, CobbleTs, 81 20
@I25 L 5dah9 Russets sl55@ 80 New
Triqmphs, Sis; Minnesota Cobblers, Slip;
si.S5 !SG arrivals 81: on track, is9: snip
if NEW YORK. Sept. 7.-Potatoes-steady;
Long Island, 4oc@$l 50 bag; New Jersey,
sey basket. 75cM$1.75;. southern, barrel,
S2.75M3.75; southern. basket, 50cMS1 Is.
Dressed Poultry-Firm; turkeys, l1M32c;
chickens, 10a2@2 broileTsa $50 2Sc;
island ducks. i4d17c, Live Poultry-Firm;
geese. SM1oc: turkeys, 17@23c; rooSters,
12c: ducks. l2dl9c: fowls, 12m2lc; chick
ems 20-25c: broilers. 15-24c. Cheese-Un-
changed: state whole milk fancy TO spe-
Gals, 19M2Oc; Young America. l4l4M
1434c Butter-Receipts 10,l31 packages
tras, 26d26s4c; extra l92 score; 25s4e;
first (90-91 score. 25d25iac; first 1888
score) 1884 2414c: seconds, 23M % 14c;
centralized 80 scorel. Csc; centralized
1888 score, 2394M24l4c; centralized "a
81 score, 23@23l4c; Eggs.Receipts
including unusual hennery selections. 25d
28c: standards. 24624l2c: hrsts, PA 22!2c
seconds. 21G2112c: mediums. 2ld2l nc
dirties. 2IM211zc checks. ia l8c.
CLEVELAND. Sept. 7.--Butter. Market
weak; extras. 2ei2c; standards; 2ec Eggs
receipts BIC. Pouitry-Market firm; fowls;
colored AZ lbs. and up, 2oc Golorred
fowls. medium. flag: Leghorn fowls. ga
lbs and up. l0c. Leghorn fowls, &c;
springers, Rock. 3i2 lbs. and up. p 23c:
springers. Ieghorn. heaxf- 17c; springers,
Leghorn light. &c., broilsrs, colored. lS@
19c; old roosters. l2c: ducks, white. lbs.
and up, TIC; ducks, light. 13c. Potatoes
Idaho sisOa2 a 100 ID. bag; Ohio best.
s115d I20 100 ID. bag; Pennsylvania. sl25
n 30 100 ID. bag
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PORKER PRICES
REMAIN STEADY
AT CITY PENS
VeaIS Strong to so Cents
Higher at SO Down;
Cattle Even.

Porker prices were generally
steady with yesterdays average in
early trading at the local stock
yards this morning.
Receipts estimated at $500 showed
a sharp increase over yesterdays
figures, and initial demand con-
tinued weak. The bulk, 160 to 200
pounds, was salable at Sis to SIPS.
Weighty grades, scaling 200 to $50
pounds, sold at S725 TO $3.50, while
$50 to 300 Founders brought ST to
S7.20. Few choice were reported
salable at 1888.
Lightweights, ranging from 140 to
100 pounds, we're selling at S625 to
$3.50, with 100 to 140 pounds, SAL
able at $3.50 to Sc. Extremely small
weights scaling 100 to 100 pounds,
cashed in at S4.75 to S5.25. Hold
overs numbered 932.
Finished steers and good COWS
we're unchanged in the cattle mar
ket, with other grades mostly SAL
able at buyers prices. Few loads
of steers weighing 1888 pounds
sold at $1025, while other kinds
consisting mostly of common and
medium killers, were salable I'M
der 81.
Good and choice COWS ranged
from 81 to $3.50. Low cutters and
cutters cashed in at $3.50 to $2.75.
Receipts numbered 700. An ad-
vance of so cents featured veal
trading, with the general run SELL
ing at $3.50 to So. Receipts were
700.
Strong undertone was evident in
the lamb market and most prices
we're around 25 cents higher than
the previous close. Good eve and
wether grades sold at 81, while sew
eral brought $7.25. Wet feeces were
considered. Bucks we're 81 less.
ThrowoutS sold at 81 to $3.50, while
slaughter ewes ranged from $3.50 to
$3.50. Receipts were 1000.
Bidding was around 5 cents lower
than yesterdays average on hogs at
Chicago at $3.50 down. Receipts
were estimated at $4,000, including
5000 directs; holdovers, 1000. Cat
tie receipts were 5000, including
1000 government; veals, $500, in
Guiding 5000 government; market
steady. Sheep receipts 5000; mar
ket unchanged.
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COOL WEATHER CHECKS
STATE CROP GROWTHS
Light Frost Reported in Northern
Section During Week.

Cool temperatures and a light
frost IN the northern section ham
pered growth Of crops in Indiana
during the last week. according TO a
report by the United States depart
ment Of agriculture.
Recent rains have been light 10
moderate IN the southern half Of
the state. but rather heavy in some
OF the northern counties. The cool
weather has retarded the ripening
Of corn and tomatoes in the north
ern and central division, it was
stated.
With the exception Of SOY beans.
which have been reported favorably
from all sections. the condition Of
small crops generally Is fair TO
poor.
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Condition of us. Banks
Strong, Crowley Reports
SIS, 100000 More Could
Be Loaned to Speed
Recovery.
BvUnited Press

BIZ Hftfd Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. Banks
can lend s5,00OOOO,O00 more to
American business and industry to
speed recovery without endanger-
ing their financial structure, chair
man Leo T. Crowley, of the FEEDER
al Deposit Insurance Corporation,
believes.
Stressing what he termed "the
overliquidity of banks" Crowley
made public the first combined con-
dition statement as of June 80 of
the 1887 of the nations 1854 OPP
Grating banks, which are FDIC
members.
Crowley said combined deposits
Of member banks total S35, 766 ,394,-
900 against which are S19,660, 1884,
900 in cash and United States gov
eminent securities. This, he ex-
planned, gives the banks an average
liquidity of 81 per cent.
Cash and securities holdings, he
said, could be safely reduced to
1906, 100000, thus throwing the
remaining S5,OO0,O00,0O0 into bust
ness and industrial loans. This
would mean 40 per cent liquidity
average.
Banks are altogether too liquid
If they can find sound loans, they
should make them. We can't have
recovery unless loans are made,
the chairman explained.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
CHICAGO PRIMARY RECEIPTS
DEMAND DEPOSITS UP,
FEDERAL BOARD SAYS
Ninety One Cities Show Increases
for Week Ending Aug. 20.
BIZ Times SpccidI

By Times Special
CHICAGO, Sept. THE federal
reserve boards condition statement
of weekly reporting member banks
in ninety-one cities on Aug. %
shows increases for the week of
$108,000,000 in net demand deposits
and 500 1000 900 in reserve balances
with Federal Reserve banks, and
decreases of $17,0OO,000 in loans and
investments and $33,0OOOOO in gov
eminent deposits.
Loans on securities declined
$17000,000 at reporting member
banks in the New York district and
$24,0O0,000 at all reporting member
banks. "All other" loans increased
$9000,000 in the New York district,
$5000,000 in the San Francisco dis
trict and $12,OOO,OOO at all reporting
banks.
Holdings of United States gov
eminent securities declined $14,-
100000 in the New York district,
100000 in the Chicago area and
$240OO,000 at all reporting banks.