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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-30
Washington Merry-Go-Round


to the President, one to the Lii
brary of Congress.
Reason: The scandal caused
when Jim Farley gave away some
first-run postage stamps has sent
filters down New Deal spines. Of
ficials were afraid first copies of
The Official Register might
bring fabulous sums.
president ROOSEVELT Is
n having a quiet check made
of government broadcasting. Car
rying out his personal instruction,
the National Emergency Council
has sent a confidential question
naire to all department and bureau
heads requesting information on
the number, nature and cost of
radio programs sponsored by the
government during the past year.
Inside word is that these broad
casts have become so numerous
that politicians complain they
can not obtain desirable time on
the air. It's an i'll. wind that
blows no good. Before the recent
floods, the House cut the Soil
Erosion Services 1887 appropria-
ton from 27,50O,0O0 to $500, 900.
After the floods, the Senate APP
preparations Committee upped the
grant to $32500,000. One of
the facts suppressed by Secretary
Dan Roper, concerning incompe-
tence in the maritime agencies of
his department, is the reason why
the S. S. Iowa went down off the
Pacific Coast recently with all
hands on board. The ship found
cred on a shoal which was sup
posed to be marked with a gas
buoy. After the tragedy the buoy
was found on the beach four miles
from the danger point. d. The
success of walnut growers in OBJ
tanning an export subsidy from
the Agriculture Department, de-
spite the vehement protest of Sec
rotary of State Cordell Hull, has
inspired citrus fruit raisers to
demand a similar handout. Their
plan calls for a government grant
of S1,000,000 to substitute the ship
ment abroad of 100000 boxes of
oranges and grapefruit. Rex
Tugwell has employed Pare Lo-
rentz, well-known movie critic, to
put his Resettlement Administra-
ton in the films. Suggested title:
1T Never Happened Here"
Copyright. 1886. by United Feature
Syndicate, Incl
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put through Senate resolution calling for list of
Hole regional employees. One of these innocuous-
looking little resolutions which you would think
would bring sharp-eyed opposition senators to their
feet with a barrage of questions.
But no Republican rose to ask if this list was de-
sired for the use of campaign fund collectors Or if
1t was preliminary to an attempt to knock out the
regional collection agencies of HOLC and substitute
for them state agencies stated with patronage COL
lectors who would be more easy-going.
Not one on the Republican side asked Mcclellan
what he was driving at They haven't even the Curl
osity OF man whose wife hears a noise in the
cellar. They must even have forgotten that Nickel
lars fame rests on the famous patronage guide
book, special compilation of every appointive Job
in the Federal government, which he engineered in
1888 just before the hungry Democrats moved UP to
the pie counter.
No doubt Mcclellan had prepared himself to
answer all searching questions If so, it was
superf1uous precaution
CENATOR VANDENBERG is the only Republican
- who seems unaffected by the spring fever Al
most singe-handed he checked the debatabe Florida
Ship Canal, which was undertaken without con-
gresSional authorization After AAA officials on
the ground that it would be too much trouble al
most escaped having to report on farmers who re-
ceived benefit payments in excess of $4,000 Van
denberg forced action. If this be the restless toss
ing Of the presidential fever, the affection doesn't
appear TO be contagious.
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EUen Farley Wouldn't Approve

THERE are said to be not few Americans who
disagree with the policies and the performances
OF the New Deal and the present British govern
ment not elected without struggle But the
ballot which was used in the German plebiscite is
document the like of which not even Tammany
Hall nor even the Southern Democracy has ever
had the gall to offer the voters and there were also
methods of terrorism to complement the absurd
sham OF the voting system which never have been
seen in any American precinct
doubt that Mr.. James Farley practical
as he is in the operation of his machine would an
prove ballot Of the kind which Hitler used to OBJ
tain his expression of the united will of the German
nation. After all, politics is game to Mr. Farley
and although he spent enough time in the prize
light business to learn that contest which is in the
Dag is well worth winning, he does like to see some
one coming out OF the opposite corner even though
1t be only Diving Dan" ODowd.
Hitler, however, would not even take a chance
on dry tank man, so he won a Sashng victory over
nobody. The Nazi ballot on which the 81 million
Germans expressed the united will of an emanci-
pated race yesterday contained a list of candidates
selected by Adolf Hitler and the word ia" or yes
There was only way to vote this ballot You
voted ia thereby indorsing Hitlers entire list and
Hitler himself and everything he stands for in
cuong the assassination of his personal friends in
a midnight massacre, the reputation of learning
and pogrom on thought, or your vote didn't count
There was no place the ballot in which the Ger
man citizen could vote "nein" and if ANYBODY did
write the word "nen" on a ballot that ballot was
automatically invalidated
Moreover, to vote against the ticket and thus
against Hitler was to vote against the state and to
vote against the state Is reason crime which msy
be punished by long imprisonment or even bv execI
ton under the medieval battleaX in the hands Of
the gentleman in the dress suit
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Italy Would Fight

TIME fleet mobilization in those perious waters in
n the first place am told here, was largely due to
the sensitiveness of Capt Anthony Eden now Brit
ish foreign minister. At 38, in high diplomacy he is
something like boy of II in lovesecrety sensitive
about his age and ineXperience.
The story goes that Mussolini was not especially
fattered to have this bosh secretary for League of
Nations affairs sent to talk with him at Rome in
stead of foreign secretary premier both of which
he himself is Thus, after Edens first interview
with II Duce, it seems gradually to have dawned on
him that Mussolini had not been smiling with him so
much as quietly laughing at him. Whereupon, in a
huff, he Cancelled his next scheduled meeting with
the Duce and took the first train for home.
The official reason for the mobilizaton-the Ital-
ian newspaper campaign telling how easy it would
be TO bomb British ships in the Mediterranean
scarcely any one here takes seriously Italy was in
no position to fight Britain foreign experts say.
The use of force military sanctions to change
the situation in Italy would, am convinced, toss
all the fat into the fire.
1t is believed that if Italy encircled by mill
tary sanctions she would try to fight her way out
cost what it might
TOMORROW-The Plot (?) to Let Mussolini Win.
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NTAsHINGToN, March 30
w The attitude of the New
Deal toward agricultural labor and
tenant farmers has changed. Both
are now recognized as among the
most important agricultural prob
lens confronting the Administra-
ton.
One year ago, Victor Christgau,
assistant administrator of the
AAA, was dismissed by Henry
Wallace for meeting with tenant
farmers and agricultural laborers
at the home of Gardner Jackson,
also dismissed from the AAA.
Last week, Henry Wallace and
other high AAA Officials re-
ceived a delegation from the rad
ical Southern Tenant Farmers
Union to discuss the plight of
thousands of dispossessed farmers.
Gardner Jackson, previously dis
missed, arranged the conference.
What the share choppers pro-
pose is an amendment to the
Wagner Labor Disputes Act, en-
larging it's scope to include agri-
cultural labor disputes.
Rex Tugwell and his Resettle-
ment officials also favor this. The
plan, if adopted, would create a
new division in the Labor Depart
ment to handle farm labor.
Note-Miss Perkins, incidentally
has been lukewarm about getting
mixed up in farm labor rows. She
was pushed into the plan of send
ing an arbitrator to adjust the
share cropper war in Arkansas,
shed no tears when Vice President
Garner blocked the plan as be-
ing against the interests of SEN
ator Robinson of Arkansas.
TINE President was discussing
l. his Canadian treaty at din
ner the other night with Owen D.
Young, chairman of the giant
General Electric Co.
II certainly stuck my neck out
on cream and milk in that
Canadian Treaty, didn't I,
Owen?" the President remarked,
especially in st. Lawrence
County"
st. Lawrence County, New York,
happens to be the birthplace of
Mr.. Young. Also it is a heavy pro-
Queer of milk and cream, on
which the tariff is lowered for
competing Canadian dairy pro-
ducts.
YES" Mr.. Young replied, land
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New Alien Bill
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, March 3d.
A modified deportation bill will
be presented to the Senate to-
day by its immigration COM
mittee, together with a plea
for speedy consideration.
In its new form the bill still
saves from deportation the 1862
aliens of good character for
whom the Labor Department
has urged leniency.
However, it limits to three
years the discretionary power
of a proposed inter depart
mental committee to pass on
these cases and provides that
only aliens in the United States
before the bill becomes law
may be granted leniency.
For the future the new
measure provides that the COM
missioner of immigration,
rather than committee, shall
exercise the few discretionary
powers allowed.
Commissioner D. w. Mac
Cormack believes the modified
measure will enable his Depart
ment to solve at least 80 per
cent of its deportation prob
lens. Opponents of the bill,
however. intend to fight it on
the Senate floor. Senator Rob
ert r. Reynolds Cd, N. Co. will
continue to argue that it is too
liberal and to urge that his bill
cutting immigration quotas 80
per cent be substituted.
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Solution to Previous Contract
Problem
BY w. E. M'KENNEY

BY w. T.. MkENNEY
Secretary American Bridge League
NF all the interesting features
~ of the game that the bridge
writer may select, probably the
most interesting from the view
point of the writer and that of his
readers is the squeeze in its many
varied forms.
Therefore, I am selecting for
today'S hand one that I was for
tunate to see played in recent
bridge game.
Before dec1arer could perfect
the squeeze that enabled him to
make his contract, it was neces-
sary for him to employ that I'M
usual variation known as trans
ferring the squeeze from one op-
ponent's hand to the other.
After the opening lead was won
with the king of diamonds, West
continued with the queen and
then the ace. His partner dis
carded the seven of spades and
the deuce of clubs on the second
and third diamond tricks.
West shifted to the ten of
spades, which was won in dummy
with the ace. Declarer now real
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in all three of those northern
New York counties"
But" laughed the President,
there's hardly Democratic vote
up there"
YES" replied Mr.. Young, 81
was about to remark that you
would lose about seven votes in
northern New York as result of
that treaty"
Il n u
XKTHEN the initial issue of the
w governments first news
paper, The Official Register, was
published, only SO copies were run
off the press.
Of these, As were destroyed. Of
the two remaining, one was given
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prevail Hitler, in his negotiations
with other countries, will repre-
sent himself as the spokesman of
the united will of 81 million Ger
mans. AS shrewd and practical a
politician as Anthony Eden, the
handsome and precocious young
statesman who handles foreign
relations for young King Edward
VIII, will not be kidded, of course,
and it is hardly likely that our
Mr.. Cordell Hull will be swept
away on tide of statistics. either.
But the Nazis are great be-
levers in newspaper headlines
and text, and judging other peo-
pie by their own thew exnect To
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listlessly by While Black pushed
him back on the ropes. From the
gallery. it is hard to figure out
whether the Republicans are too
proud to fight, or just too tired.
Not even one Republican rose
TO challenge what looked like
preparations for a political raid
on Hole, one of the best run of
the government lending agencies
since it was taken out of the
hands Of lame duck politician
and turned over to a business
man.
Without a dissenting vote,
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Senate Democrats
Having Easy Time
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

TXTASHINGTON, March 5O.-Its an easy life for
w the Senate Democrats these days They must
be amazed at how much the Republicans let them
get away with
Even when belgerent Republican summons
enough to start a fight, he must go it alone
Senator Steiwer of Oregon did the other day when
he took on Senator Black and the dragnet tactics
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DUT experts agree that the presence of a fraction
ID of a fleet of 1000 bombers would prove too big
risk for battleship to run in narrow waters or
near hostile shores.
From Gibraltar to the Indian Ocean, Brtain's
all-important line of empire communications runs
through very narrow waters-the Mediterranean,
Suez Canal, Red Sea, Strait of Bah -el-Mandeb and
Gulf of Eden. Almost anywhere along that 200
mile line British vessels would be within bombing
distance of Italy.
Britain, therefore, not afford halfway meas
ures in dealing with this country. She must be
1talys friend or her enemy She must have Italy on
her side or crush Italy in the long
Britain, according to of the most far
sighted diplomats in Europe can not afford to thrust
Italy into the arms of Germany and a possible
coalition as powerful as Europe has ever seen.
British policy must follow one of two courses:
Either cooperate with increasingly strong
Italy, or prevent Italy from becoming strong The
alternative is to put control of Britains Mediter-
ranean short cut in the hands of potential enemy
in the next war
So British mobilization in the Mediterranean is
called blunder of the first magnitude 1t con-
stitutes constant threat of accidental" and I'M
wanted war as long as it is there.
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r ONE, March 30.-Britain's fleet con-
centration in the Mediterranean,
against Italy, is characterized by diplomats
here as probably her greatest blunder since
the American Revolution.
Many believe the move may mark
turning point in the empires history as important
in some respects as Englands stand against the
American colonies.
Italy, of course, is not british possession. But
the Mediterranean, since Nelson at Trafalgar has
been a British lake-a lake which the fate of
the empire has rested and may rest again Since
the digging of the Suez Canal especially it has been
a sort of jugular vein, the most important part of
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the empires lifeline.
When Britain modified ev-
cry available ton of her mighty
fleet in those waters, therefore,
some IL days before the League
of Nations met at Geneva to
discuss Italy's war in Ethiopia,
Italy regarded it as a hostile
British move-not a League
move-against her.
Today Italy is determined to
make herself the strongest air
power in the Mediterranean if
not in the world. She is con-
vinced this will give her COM
mand of that sea.
Such an air feet is within
1talV'S means. She MANS to
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EhZnouAh
by
WESTBRO0K PEGLER

T ONDON, March 30.-This morning the
papers reported an overwhelming tri-
umph at the polls for Adolf Hitler and the
Nazi regime, but there are certain little
considerations which ought to be under
stood.
The election was national in scope and gave Hit
Ter and his ticket and all his works and methods
tremendous Endorsement. On the basis of this ap-
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create among the American and British citizens an
impression that the Endorsement of Der Fuehrer was
the free expression of the choice of German voters
Imposing on this pretense, they will not fail to
point out that Hters will is that of the entire Ger
man nation without the slightest reservation or dis
sent, whereas the American and British govern-
ments represent no such unanimity
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have more than 5000 war planes before the end
of this year. She can't match batteships with Brit
ain. But she feels she doesn't have to- Where
battleship costs $4000O000 monster bomber, built
in series, costs only $4,000 The price of a single
dreadnaught would build 1000 bombers.
True, nobody today can say with exacttude what
the outcome of battle between dreadnaught and
feet of aerial bombers would be-
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II Seems hM
\hy
Haywood BR0UN

Haywood Broun is vacation. William Philip
smms, Scripps-Howa foreign editor. bats for him
today)
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Staying
CONFESSED

CL1NTONvnLE, Wis, July 20
O.N.S0.-A sheriff's posse today
hunted for the body Of Robert
Bernstein. 20, reported murdered
by his best friend and buried in
the underground on the banks Of
the Embarrass River north Of here.
The solution Of Bernstein's mys-
FERROUS disappearance on July -.
came with startling suddenneSS
last night in q telegram from Ia
coma, Wash, when authorities
stated that Laverne Marks, 10,
held as q robbery suspect there,
had confessed the Staying.
Marks, the son OF an evangelical
minister, left town the afternoon
that Bernstein vanished, with the
announced intention Of going on
a fishing trip with the youth. The
two were inseparable companions
and had been together the last day
that either were seen.
It therefore went without CON-
ment when young Marks drove
into town late in the afternoon in
Bernstein'S car and told friends
Of the proposed trip, explaining
he had left his friend at the river
north Of town.
No word was heard from either
Of the boys until the news from
Tacoma last night.
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MADRID DEATH
T0LLHIGH
CONTINUED from Page ~

tous defeat Of government forces
was registered by Moorish invad-
ers almost within sight Of Brit
aims Gibraltar.
Gen. Francisco Franco, ferrying
foreign legionnaires and native
MoorS from Africa by airplane and
ship, maSSed an army Of around
5000 for a drive against Malaga.
Marching northeastward from
Gibraltar the insurgents encoun-
tered the radicals near EStepona,
midway between Gibraltar and
Malaga, killing 400 loyalists and
wounding 1900, while the 1nSur.
gents lost 200 dead.
so Radicals Executed
A cleanup drive was then staged
in the town Of San Rogue, near La
Linea, and go loyalistS were re-
ported executed in the public plaza
in groups Of 10.
Arrangements for a special for
eigners' train to run to Valencia
Thursday, with 100 Americans and
many other foreigners aboard,
were made by the diplomatic corps
today in q special meeting at the
Chilean embassy. At Valencia the
stranded foreigners will be taken
aboard warships.
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More British Ships
Rushed 10 Spain

LONDON, July 2S U.N.sO.
More British ships were rushed
to danger spots in the Spanish
war zone today as the destroyer
Verify landed 174 refugees from
Santander and Bilbao.
The cruiser Ajax went to
Gibraltor and the destroyer
Grafton sailed for Barcelona
from Malta.
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SEC INQUIRY
SCORED AS
ILLEGAL
Witness in Investment
Trust Hearing Hits
ConstitutionaIity
BY ERIC FREEDMEN
International News Service

The Securities and Exchange
Commission today was accused Of
violating the Constitution in its
inquiry into the affairs Of invest
ment trusts in a statement at the
commission hearings by Wallace
Groves, former New York invest.
ment company operator.
Although agreeing to testify,
Groves contended the commission
is entirely without power or
authority to proceed with public
hearings into the activities Of
these organizations.
He commended that the sub
poena under which his appear
ance was demanded is illegal and
void"
Through questioning of Wallace
Groves, former Baltimore business
man, who gained control of Chain
and General Equities, Inc, in 1881,
SEC Counsel David Schenker
sought to show that Groves
realized large profits by selling
stock to his own firm.
Edward r. Tinker, former
president Of the Interstate Com.
pany, admitted that his firm had
borrowed $1,00O,OO from the Ne.
tional City Bank in order to loan
Groves the money with which the
latter purchased the Chain and
General stock.
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Tropical Storm TO Hit
Florida Coast Line

MIAMI, Fla, July 90 G.N.SJ.
With storm warnings hoisted from
Fort Pierce, Fla, to Key West,
residents of the East Coast Of Flor
ida today were preparing to
weather a tropical disturbance
moving in from the Bahamas.
Latest Weather Bureau advices
put the storm approximately 40
miles east-Southwest Of the Florida
coast. The storm, moving in a
west-northwesterly direction, is
reported to be slowly gathering in
tensity. vessels in the vicinity of
the storm have been advised to
proceed with caution.
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Teacher Applications
Due by September 5

Candidates for the position of
teacher in the primary depart
ment Of the practice school of
Miner Teachers College must
make application by September
S, Garnet wilkinson, first assist
ant superintendent Of colored
schools, announced today.
Application blanks may be OBJ
tanned at the Franklin Admins
tration Building, he said. They
must be accompanied by certified
and other documentary evidence
as to the applicants teaching
qualifications, including q mas
ter's degree for specialization and
preparation for teaching primary
work in a practice school and at
least three years Of teaching ex-
perirence in the elementary
schools,
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NEW YORK, July % GN.SO.
II H. s. Pretty's banshee shows up
tomorrow night, it will be q $4,000
appearance for Pretty.
Because Joseph Dunninger. who
has never seen q ghost, and does
not believe he will see one this
time, prepared today to visit an
old East Side tenement on the
East River waterfront, outgrowth
of his offer Of $4,000 to anyone
who could lead him to q real
haunted house.
Dunninger, leader Of the Uni
versa Council for Psychic Re
search, issued his challenge two
weeks ago. Today, Pretty snapped
it up. He said there's q banshee
at the tenement because he lived
there from 1924 to 1882 and saw
her with his own two eyes. Dun
ringer said:
am going in this house with
an open mind. All this talk
about haunted houses Il getting
to be . distinct menace"
Pretty's letter said the house,
untenanted now, was the scene Of
Q domestic tragedy about 20 years
ago, when q man shot his wife to
death in a fit Of jealousy. His flat
was directly underneath the muir
der apartment. He continued:
"GOing downstairs after dark
one evening, I saw . woman Gid
ing before US into the entry, but,
evidently to avoid me, she
vanished into the wall"
On another occasion, said Pretty,
when he entered the house with
his 17.year-old son and the latter's
chun. this incident occurred:
~ unlocked the door and
stepped into the kitchen and
nearly In the center Of the
room, which was In total dark.
ness, stood the figure Of .
woman, my own height, draped
In white that chung closely to
her. I advanced toward her