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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-30

Seml-Weekly press conferences,
where he does not banter and jest
as much as he used to. The
securities exchange commission is
taking no chances with the type
of men it is appointing as inves-
tigators. Out of 5000 applications
filed with it for such positions,
the commission chose 700 of the
best for examination, and after
they had been put through a
series of exhaustive tests, fifteen
were appointed. NebraSka's
hot senatorial battles is a real
old-faShioned political tussle. Ed
ward R. Burke, the Democratic
nominee, and Robert G. Simmons,
his Republican opponent, are
touring the state in a series of
joint debates, with large crowds
turning out to witness the rhet-
orical encounters.
EMIL HURJA, Jim Farley's
~ political Man Friday, quietly
has sent word to department
heads to ease up in making APP
pointments from North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Tennessee.
Hurja, who keeps a card index
record of every appointment
made, no matter how lowly, found
these three states have far eX-
ceeded their quota" He is out
to see that other states, partic-
ularly in the far west, receive
greater representation on the pay
roll The senate must be ex-
pecting trouble next session. 1t
has established first aid clinic
in its Office building, manned by
a doctor and several nurses e.
There is one Republican house
member whom many administra-
ton leaders will welcome back to
Washington next session despite
her attacks against the New Deal.
She is San FranciSco'S congress-
woman, Mrs. Florence Kahn, whose
ready wit, long service, and abil-
ity have made her a great favor
tie in administration circles.
THE fact was largely over
Il looked. but in his st. Paul
postoffice dedication speech, Post
master General Jim Farley sat
hard on hopes for a postage cut
at the next session of congress.
Said jim: 4 am strongly of the
opinion that the present Scent
rate Of postage should be retained,
otherwise our postal revenues will
be decreased approximately S75,-
100000. Politics makes strange
bed-fellows. Robert F. Wagner Jr.,
son of New York's liberal Demo-
cratic senator, and John @. Tilson
Jr.. son Of Connecticut's former
Tory-Repubican house leader,
are stumping New England to-
gether on behalf of the natioial
law reform movement of the Yale
Legislative Society. One of the
leading platforms of the move
ment is drastic revision Of the
pure food and drug act :. Since
1923, when congress authorized the
granting of military awards for
acts Of heroism in the World war,
the war and navy departments
have bestowed more than $1,000
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-30
II Seems nM
BY
Haywood BROUN

NE American Indian and the American liberal
seem to be members OF tribes which are vanish
Ing The Redskin IS said to have been ravaged by
frewater but his pale pink brother suffers from the
facilitating effects of milk and water. It has been
said on several occasions recently that George Cree
is courageous liberal" That should serve to give
you a rough idea about the rest.
However I have no desire to bring a blanket in
dictment against all liberals. Some of the charges
levelled against them wholly without warrant
One of the favorite accusations is that liberal
is a man who sits upon the fence and can not make
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
SHUT TBANKSCU7 I
j. s. REVENUE
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
Heavy losses in income taxes
will be felt by the Government
on the March IS returns by rea'
son of the write-off of losses re,
sulting from the closing of banks
Officials said today that an es,
innate of these deductions for
closed bank losses could not he
made accurately. About $500
million dollars is tied up in closed
banks, with the probability That
about half of that sum will be
liquidated and repaid to deposi'
tors.
The net loss of 1850 million
dollars could be deducted from
incomes provided all depoSitors
had sufficient income to have taX
liability.
Some experts thought that
possibly one-fourth of those with
money in closed banks are Fed
eral income taxpayers. That would
give a deduction from gross in.
come of $12,5OO.OOO in the prep
aration of income tax returns.
Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue Guy 4. Helvering has ruled
that losses to depositors in closed
banks may be deducted from gross
income for the purpose of prepar
ing Federal returns.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
POSTAL SUBS
FEEL BLOW Of
ECONOMY Ak
Railway Mail Service Center
of Hardship in 49, 100000
Slash by Farley

The economy ak recently ap-
piled by Postmaster General Far
ley to lop off $6,ooO,0OO to So
10000 in expenditures in the
Post Office Department between
now and July /, is working great
hardships on substitutes in the
railway mail service, it wa S
learned yesterday.
Postal substitutes are prohib-
tied by law from engaging in
any other line of work, which
means that between now and
July / they will remain idle
with the exception Of few
days work resulting from the
payless furlough Of regular en-
ployes.
The Postmaster Generals or
der. issued this week, prohibits
annual leave for regular en-
ployes until after July l. Since
postal substitutes are given work
mostly through annual leave,
they are now deprived of that
source of revenue.
There are about 5000 railway
mail service employees throughout
the country. approximately 200 of
which are in the District of Co.
lumbia. They are usually given
nine months works in the year
and are paid on a basis of $3.50
a year for the days they work.
A group Of the workers today
pointed out that the Government
will not save money by the recent
order prohibiting annual leave
until after July l, since this time
must be credited to the employees
anyhow,
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
WOLMAN URGES
EMPLOYMENT
INSURANCE
Presents Plan as Offering Sta
biIity to Labor and as Aid
To Employers
BY DUNCAN FORSYTH

Social insurance, on q contrac-
tual basis, offers the most effec-
tive means Of achieving stability
in labor relations in this country
at present, according to DR.. Leo
s. Wolman, chairman Of the La
Dor Advisory Board of the NRA.
DR.. Wolman, in an address at
Constitution Hall during the Con.
ference of Code Authorities,
sounded a warning that there
would be no way to avoid wide
spread labor strife unless preju
dices were abandoned and labor
and industry gave due recognition
to each others rights and their
own responsibilities. Discussing
present tendencies in labor rela'
tions, he said today:
Perhaps the most dangerous
situation at the moment is in
the automobile industry. Pro-
ductiOn has been held up by
recent strikes in plants manu-
featuring accessories and parts,
and has consequently by no
means attained its full volume.
several plants are closed, and
trouble is brewing in others.
1929 LEVEL SEEN
81 am confident that when
full production is attained the
wages in the automobile indus
try will be at 1929 levels. NRA
experience has been that rates
are increased under the codes,
but of course NRA cannot con-
troll volume of production. The
result is that while hourly rates
may rise, weekly pay envelopes
may not be all they should be.
"UniOn recognition is now
among the foremost occasions
for labor disputes. All the tradi-
tiOnal and time-hOnOred causes
are also in evidence. The lag of
incomes as compared to prices
is, of course, an important item,
where it has not been corrected
by operation of the codes. But
in the Cotton Textile industry,
weekly wages under a 4O-hOur
week are now approximately 81
per cent more than they were
for q 54-hOur week before the
code began to operate"
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
NATIONAL MILK
PROBE ASKED

Armed with recommendations
from both the Secretary of Agri-
culture and the Senate District
Committee, Senator Pat McCar-
ran CD of Nevada will ask the
Senate Committee on Agriculture
next. week to report his resolu-
ton calling for nationwide in
vestigation of the milk industry.
The recommendations for such
q probe were made by the Senate
District Committee in a report
which Senator William H. King
CD of Utah, chairman of the
committee, prepared to file in
the Senate today, as instructed
by the committee.
Senator McCarran made it
known only today that he has
received a letter from the Secre-
tary of Agriculture approving
the proposal for the investiga-
tion. He pointed out that the
secretary previously has criticized
monopolistic practices carried on
in the milk industry throughout
the country.
The Nevada Senator was led
to propose the national probe as
q result of testimony given dur
ing the Senate District Com
mitee investigation into the local
milk industry.
He said that Senator Ellison
D. Smith DD Of South Caro-
lima, chairman of the Senate
Agricultural Committee. will re-
turn to his office on Monday,
and that he will ask the chair
man to call the committee early
next week to act on the probe
proposal.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
D. {. OFFICIALS:
To SEE SPANS

Members of the Senate Dis
trict Committee and District Of
ficials will be conducted on a
bridge inspection tour by George
C. Shinn, chairman of the bridge
committee of the Washington
Board of Trade, at 2 o'clock to-
morrow, and will be shown the
deficiency of the chain bridge
and the Pennsylvania Avenue
bridge.
The committee has condemned
the chain bridge and urged its
replacement, and has asked for
an egineering study of the ave-
nue. span. A meeting will be
held by the committee this aft
ernoon to consider the recently
announced six-year bridge con-
struction program for the Dis
trict.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09

ADOLPH SINSHEIMER
MERCHANDISE manager of
S. Kann Sons Company, who
will be the guest of honor at
a dinner and business meeting
of the Kann'S Cornerstone
Club of MasonS to be held
Thursday, at 7 p. M, in the
HARRINGTON Hotel,
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
81 AYERS IN RICHMOND EOLDUP BELIEVED HEADED HERE|
AIRPORT DRIVE IS MAPPED

= arging that recent aviation
projects have been frustrated by
commercial and~real estate inter-
ests, the aviation committee of the
Washington Chamber of Com
merce adopted a five-point pro-
gram last night, which, If success
full, will establish Gravelly Point
a. the municipal airport. bring
several new aviation lines to serve
the city, and stimulate private fly
ing in the District.
Drive Planned
To remedy alleged "setbacks" to
aviation, the committee proposed
to enlist all civic and business or
ganizations in a drive for the new
airport site and better passenger
and express airplane service.
Chester H. Warrington, chair
man, announced that the commit
tee will cooperate with all aero
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
ROADS |NTOD.C.
UNDER GUARD
BY POLICE
Thugs Got Only Worthless
Mail and Cancelled Checks
in Virginia Robbery

All roads into the District were
being guarded by police today in
an attempt to trap four gunner
who yesterday held up a Federal
Reserve Bank truck in Richmond,
killed the driver and fled with
several sacks of cancelled checks.
The killers were reported head
ed toward Washington in a car
with New Jersey tags, after
changing from the cars they used
In staging the robbery.
Shot without Warning
E. M. Huband, As, driver of the
truck, was shot down in cold blood
by the gangsters who opened fire
without warning.
The robbery was staged near
the Union railroad station. the
gangsters placing two cars to
block a bridged roadway across
the tracks.
Change Their Cars
AS the bank truck was halted
by the cars the gangsters leaped
out with blazing guns. After
shooting down the driver they
seized the mail sacks and drove
off in one of the cars, leaving
the other. Later they changed
to the car with Jersey tags, wit
neSSeS said.
The stolen sacks contained
only cancelled checks and mail
Of no value, bank officials said.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09

nautic organizations in stimulat.
ing interest in flying.
The committee voted to support
the Aerial Defense League, now in
formation, which would act as an
auxiliary to national defense units
in case Of war or national emer.
gency, such as floods or epidemics.
Committees Named
subcommittee on the airport
problem were appointed and will
ask for public hearings by both
the Senate and House Dtatnc,
committees on the Gravelly Point
site.
The committee indorsed a bill
appropriating 80 million dollars 10
aid private flying. The bill is sc.
signed as an incentive to private
flying and presses fliers into ser.
vice in case of a national emer,
gency.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
DR.. Irmen Files Suit
To AnnUL Marriage

DR.. Felix A. Irmen, physician at
the Laurel sanitarium, yesterday
began suit for annulment of his
marriage to Lora v. 1rmen, now in
North Carolina, in the Prince
Georges County Circuit Court at
Upper Marlboro.
DR.. Ir1nen charged that his wife
was married previously to George
William Bunney, of Olympia,
Wash, and had not been divorced
when they were married in Alex
andria in December, 1882. Attor-
ney John F.. Mudd, of La Plata,
filed the bill of complaint.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
Holy Name Society
Elects HenrU Batch

Henry Batch of Ballston has
been elected president of the
Northern Virginia Section of the
Holy Name Society, 1t was an
nounced today. other officers
are:
Ray Grammar, Alexandria, vice
president; j. A. Delaney, Ma.
nassaS, secretary; F. P. Quinn,
Alexandria, treasurer, and Rush
Buckley, Clifton Station, marshal.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
TlUO Thug Fares Bind
And Rob Taxi DriUer

Two thugs last night held up
Richard F. Mcdaniel, a taxlcab
driver of the 1400 block Twenty
Sixth ST., N. w.. and robbed him
of $1.50. They then asked him to
drive to Tenth and Monroe streets
where they tied his hands to the
steering wheel. He was released an
hour later by a passerby.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
County SnOlU PlOWs
Go in Action AGAIN

State and county road Off
cials in the eastern section of
Montgomery county had to dig
the snow plows out of storage
again yesterday, stored few
days ago, it was hoped, for the
last time this year.
Fourteen snow plows using %
men were hard at work late yes
terday evening, with the prospects
of having to work all night to
keep the main thoroughfares
open,
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
81 CWA MEN TO GO

The Alexandria CWA office will
lay off 81 workmen, the majority
laborerS, over the weekend, reduc.
ing the ofrce in the Virginia city
to 239. Although work was re-
sumed on outdoor projects Tues
day, it stopped yesterday due to
bad weather.
The Washington times., 1934-03-09

Mmm%mRR 9th St. Between ID o e
GEM NAL Streets N. w.
Douhie Feature: Today - William
Garran in -Four frightened People"
ana "Eight Girls in a Boat" Car
toon Tomorrow. Robert Armstrong
in "Son OF Kong" Paul Lukas IN
'.Rv Candlelisht." Silly symphony,
China Shop
The Washington times., 1934-03-09
Warner BROS. THEATERS
18th st. Below r
St. n. W.
EARLE

Screen-Ruth Chatterton in journal
of Crime" with Aholphe Menjou.
Stage-Singin Sam in Person and
Other Acts
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-02
REPUBLICANS MAY
BLOW UP SYSTEM,
SECY. ICKES WARNS
Indicates Revolution VIII
Come if They Don't Leave
Roosevelt Alone
(See EditoriaIO

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-"They are
laying a lighted match to keg of
powder when they raise difficulties
in the way of President RooseveIt's
program" Secretary of the Interior
Ickes warned those "who were
swept from power with the Roose-
welt election" in an address de-
livered to a meeting of the League
of Women Voters here.
"They run the risk of blowing
themselves up along with all the
rest of US" he said after having
outlined the. whole situation and
the role of Roosevelt's program.
He virtually admitted that the
rehabilitation of the entire Amer
lean working class had progressed
to such an extent that it would
need only little to blow up the
whole system. He warned rugged
"individualists," as he called them
not to be the cause Of this since
they would elbow up themselves
alone with the rest of U.S.
Ickes then continued, saying that
we had already social revolution
Nov. 8, 1892" and that we did mo-
need another one.
my conviction" said Ickes, 'i
that it was more than a politica
election which occurred in tn
United States on Nov. 8, 1882. 1
was a social revolution"
! "I believe that as a people W
have definitely entered upon
new path and that if we follow
confidently (He put great emphasi
on this WORLDLY and resolutel
it will mean a happier and riche
life for the average man, woma
and child in our country. be
lieve these things, because be
lieve in President Roosevelt anC
his social purposes"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-02
HOPPER PEST MAY
BE ATTACKED WITH
2 MILLION DOLLARS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-An
appropriation Of 100000 for
grasshopper control in eight mid
dlewest and western states was in
cluded in the agricultural bill by
the house appropriation commit
tee.
The money will be used for an
eradication program in Montana,
Fofih Dakota, South Dakota, Min
ae9o;a. Wyoming, IGahc and Ne
braska.
The bureau OF chronology pre-
diets, after extensive surveys have
been made, that the year 1884 will
5 e tbs worst grasshopp5r outbreak
in the history Of American, agri.
culture. Montana viii be th5
state hit worst.
II congress and the president
nae the sum available, it will bt
used to III ance spreading Of The
F.. poison on approximately 10000
acfes of land in the eight states.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-02
$4,000 Newsies
Exploited in U.S..
as Child Labor

There are $4,000 newspaper
carrier boys, under Is years Of
age, running around in the streets
of the big cities of this country,
trying to make a living.
The New York Publishers Asso-
citation has just adopted a resolu-
ton urging the New York legisla-
ture to vote against the child la
Der amendment to the constitution.
This follows the action of the
Bronx Home News in dismissing
100 carries boys following their
efforts to organize a union.
The record of the newspapers CT
this country in exploiting child
labor and opposing even the most
miserable provision made to pro
tect children and fighting the right
of newspaper workers to organize
is certainly the most Cirty ore.
The attempt TO make this fight
by hiding behind the freedom q
the press" is net only hypocritica'
but also absolutely dishonest.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-02
BIG BUSINESSMAN
APPOINTED COMM.
OF AGRICULTURE
Cooney Elects A. P. Bruce,
Chamber Of Commerce
Director

HELENA, Mont.-The Chamber
of Commerce is also running agri-
culture In the state of Montana.
This was made known when Gov
ernor Cooney announced that he
had appointed A. P. Bruce, Kali
spell, Commissioner of Agricul-
ture.
Bruce is presented by the news
papers as one of the states best
known farmers. The fact is Mr.,
Bruce has been engaged in big
business all his life.
In Kalispell he cosducted a hard
ware business together with the
"wheat speculator of Chicago
Bruce is now a director of the
Chamber of Commerce.
AS the governors right hanS
man in agriculture he will faith
fully perform his duties as an
agent of Big Business as long a
the farmers and workers of thu
state will tolerate him.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-02
UFL MEETING HELD
AT M'ELROY SAT.
Discuss Demands of More
Feed and Seed

Saturday evening a meeting of
the McElroy local of. the UFL was
reid in the school house, where
Mr.. and Mrs. Odin Lutnes and
Hairs Henderson reported on the
Farmers National Conference.
A resolution protesting againss
the arrest of Harry JUL and the
others for protecting the interest
of farmers and workers were also
drawn up and ordered sent to the
proper parties by the secretary.
The urgent need of more feed
and seed was also discussed.
On account Of the extreme cold
weather. this meeting was not so
well attended, and it was decided
to call another meeting in the near
future.
All farmers are urged to be
present so that united action may
be taken towards securing the
amount of seed and feed needed in
the community.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-02
Falls Mayor Emasculates
City Employees Politically
Promises to Prosecute En-
plOyees Taking Part
In Politics

TREAT FALLS, Mont.-City
employees in every department
mere have. received strict orders
nom Mayor Martin c. Grinde to
.I ,i'. fran taking active part in
politics.
lne orders came in letters adj
dressed to the heads of the de-
garments, including those of the
Tuce' fire, boulevard, street, etc.
a these letters the mayor pointed
Sss mat there is a law against
-. employees taking part in poll
asking the heads of the depart
fs;s 'S 70 give their employees a
NIL, warning, the mayor wrote, al
a ~usa state that so far as / am
ssoos! | am ready to prosecute
H. Oiulng to law any member of
~, paftnnent I may find taking
ny part in city politics"
wit With two city elections eOminp
Ia ala the primary and the regu-
T. "a s siecdOns, the mayor accordinp
the 4 n own words was reminding
Get ~ SOp ~, that he was "going t
NuS CITY ont 10 yoolsIsS,
os ~ course course. all employees are no.
@aS s allowed y but they are being
dutv' - 20 l Understand that It is thei'
hi 'y Ito 70 VOTE for Mr.. M a % ' an,
! Political friends. 'Of A''
Sov this s. mayor aye. really has go
SsS i violating the most s eIsU"ant ina
6v '' of Of the citizens Of ' this oo,',,
win n But !. he is the Mayor sycS 'OI II
10 S Sisng part in po SItSses or tina
and especially against stem en-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-02
For "Obstructng Legal Justice Circuit Court in Days
Trial Sentenced ITALIA to Months and $500;
Ham to so Days in Jail, $500
UFL APPEALSFOR DEFENSE FUNDS
VIII Continue to Protest Against Foreclosures as Long
as Live and Breathe ITALIA Answers
Prosecutor

written in the interests of the
bankers, had been broken and they
used every legal loophole to con-
vict the farm leaders who had
acted solely to save a farmers
home.
Tie defense lawyers, David Ben
tall Of Chicago, Paul Chaser and
Albert NJ. Block of Gary who rep
resented the International Labor
Defense and the United Farmers
League, pointed out that the rights
Of farmers and workers to have a
roof over their heads and food for
their families-such human rights
as these-should come ahead of
the property rights which the bank
use against the farmers.
The defense lawyers pointed out
tLat even President Roosevelt and
the judges of the U. S. Supreme
Court have been forced by mass
! re-entment against foreclosures to
advise the hating of farm fore
closures under present conditions.
During the whole course of the
trial the two sentenced farm lead
ers were calm and unruffled. On
the witness stand Alfred Tiala
showed a splendid example of
courage and defiance in the face
of master-class vengeance. At
one time when the prosecutor
asked him if he thought it was
right to protest against this fore
closure, ITALIA declared, "Why, of
course-I think it was right.
protested then and l protest now,
and l will continue to protest as
long as I live and breathe. What
, is more, the farmers who are in
this courtroom are by their very
presence protesting against fore
closures"
: The United Farmers League and
4 the International Labor Defense
{ announce that they will appeal the
: decisions to the Indiana Supreme
, Court. This appeal will involve
tremendous expenses, but it is
n more than ever necessary that Al
e fred ITALIA be freed to continue the
), work of organizing the farmers
1 against these onslaughts of the
o banks.
s All farm organizations and indi
d vidual farmers and workers can
e help greatly by sending generou:
d contributions to the United Farm
! ers League, 1917 South LOOMS st
;. Chicago, ILL.,. for the Tiala-Hann
', Defense Fund.