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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-07
Shouse and Lobby Probers
Battle Over Investigation

brings into the open the fact that
the opposition to the committee
comes from the Liberty League"
Mr.. Shouse charged that
either committee investigators or
Federal Communications Com
mission agents had examined
every telegram sent to Washing
ton by every citizen in the coun-
try from Feb. ! to Dec. /, 1885,
regardless of whether the mes
Sages pertained to personal or
private business.
IF your kilograms can be
paved over at will by agents of
a partisan political group,
Shouse asked. What assurance
have you that your mail may not
be tempered with? What assur-
ance have you that your tele-
phone wires may not be tapped
and your conversations reported?
What assurance have you that
dlctaphones may not be placed in
your offices or your homes?"
Il
THAT is a fabrication of the
Il whole plot" said Senator
Sherman Minton 3D., Ind. 1--WE
have examined only the telegram
and correspondence of organiza-
tions that have been known to
have been active in opposition to
or in favor of legislation.
The committee has not the
slightest interest in anybody's
private kilograms"
Mr.. Shouse urged his listeners
to write to the league to protest
against the committees activities.
"Or I might suggest even that
If possible you telegraph" he said.
because we know that wire at
least, especially if addressed to
the American Liberty League, will
not only come to the attention of
the Administration and the Black
investigating committee, but will
have the most alert consideration
of both"
Meanwhile. the committee
planned to move forward with its
inquiry. 1t tentatively scheduled
an examination of alleged lobby
ing against the Agricultural Adj
justment Act as the next on its
program. 1t was expected repre-
Sentatives of the National Can
ners Association would be called
Monday.
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BIZ limited Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, March THE
American Liberty League and the
Senate Lobby Committee were en-
gagged today in blistering eX-
change of charges and counter
charges over the committees
method of conducting it's nation
wide investigation.
Jouett Shouse, league president,
charged in a radio speech that the
Senate group had gone beyond its
authority, and appealed to follow
ers of his organization to join in
mammoth petition of protest
against this monstrous invasion of
our fundamental rights"
Shouse vigorously criticised the
committees tactics, and said its
practice of subpenaing copies of
kilograms sent or received by COM
panies and individuals was indi-
rect violation of the rights and
liberties" of the American people.
Committee Chairman Hugo L.
Black Cd, Ala.) replied immedi-
ately with a statement that
Shouse and his supporters were
simply spokesman for the inter-
ests that don't want to be investi-
gated"
He added that the committee
probably would seek radio time to
answer the leagues charges.
"THE American Liberty League
i is one of the group whose
kilograms have been turned over
to the Black committee without
notification" Shouse asserted.
quite by accident we learned
that this had been done.
ITO any information that the
committee can get it is more
than welcome, but it will be dis
appointed at the result. The
League has done its work in pub
lie There are no skeletons
in it's closet" /.
Senator Lewis B. Schellenbach
3D., Wash.) commented that If
the League had nothing to con-
ceal," it is peculiar that it is so
vigorously objecting to our peru
sal of its kilograms"
Il am delighted" Senator Shell
lenbach said, that Mr.. Shouse.
the mouthpiece for the du Points.
has attacked the committee, this
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
by DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN.

N7ASHINGTON, March 7. =
w Wall Street already is fig
uring out ways of juggling Roose-
velt's new tax on undivided cor
poration SURPRISES. The idea is
to issue dividends, but in the
same envelope ask shareholders
to reinvest in a new issue. This
avoids taxes and at the same time
means more stock-issuing commits
sions for Wall Street. Keep
an eye on Gen. Hagood and the
Senatorial situation in South
Carolina. His friends are urging
him to run against Senator Jim
Byrnes, close friend of the Presi-
dent. The March issue of
the United Mine Workers Jour-
nal carries a signed article by Mrs.
Roosevelt urging the wives of
mine workers to organize in or
der to do away with what is or
dinarily known as the company
town ana the company store"
A prominent speakers bu-
reau is distributing advertising
literature listing outstanding
members of Congress available for
lecture engagements. Among
them are Senators Gerald P. Nye,
Pat Harrison, Royal S. Copeland,
Alben Barley, Rush Holt, Thorn
as Gore, Burton K. Wheeler and
Representatives Henry B. Steagall,
Hamilton Fish and Mary T. Nor
ton. Col. D. j. Sawyer, who
was Gen. Hugh Johnson's candi-
date for Public Works Admins
traitor when that agency was first
created in 1888, has been named
to new post just established by
the Treasury. Sawyer is head of
the Section of Space Control in
the Procurement Division, which
has charge of handling the many
millions of dollars OF government
rental leases outside of Washing
ton.
Republican member; of Con-
gress are being circuIar4.ed by
Maine printing firm to purchase
quantities of satirical New Deal"
money for distribution as cam
paign propaganda among their
constituents.
~ q
N7ORD is going the rounds of
wv inner Republican circles TO
watch Congressman Chester c..
Bolton. The Hilles- Roraback-
Fletcher group of Old Guard
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tween Saskatchewan to the east
and British Columbia to the west.
Drop plumbline along the Hath
parallel of latitude southwark from
Edmonton through Calgary and it
would pass Missoula, Mont. Twin
Falls, Idaho, coincide with the
boundary between Utah and Ne
vada and reach salt water in the
Gulf of California.
But psychologically, Alberta, the
last boom country, lies in the land
of tomorrow
I'VE thought we'd have a mil
lion people here by now. But
they'll come" the booster added
quickly.
From the sun garden atop the
luxury hotel the lower mountains
appeared as huge white rectangu-
lar blocks. Forty miles distant, in
the foreground somewhere, lay the
Kings ranch.
Back in the mountains 90 miles
Banff and Lake Louise, swank re-
sorts, compete with Jasper Park.
200 miles north. for the summer
patronage of tired Fasteners who
wish to play at roughing it, with
guides and hot meal at the
days end.
n Il n
COWBOYS, dude ranches, mil
~ lionaires' resorts in the
mountains-gold and silver pros
pectors fitting out fer Great
Bear, Great Slave Lake and Atha-
basca in the north.
And, in between, dotted here
and there, out of sight in the
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day. It's the chinook-it sucks
up the snow. Up North, it's diff
ferent. The weather changes at
Red Deer, 100 miles north. It's
probably 20 below in Edmonton,
the provincial capital, right to-
day."
The stranger was requested to
admire the smokeless sky. Call
gary burns naught but natural
gas from nearby, and, to hear
it told, inexhaustible, field. Fuel
from the same field is introduced
directly into automobile engines
without refining.
The stranger listened to the
wonders of the Peace River Val
ley, 500 miles northward, with
its worlds best wheat, it's prize
winning vegetables of all the
sorts grown in the temperate
zone.
"A LONG Eighth-av, Calgary's
1 n main street, the visitor was
shown a parking space leased by
the Hudson Bay, but the property
OF Harrod's, tbs great London
(England department. store.
Harrod's bought the site from
the Ranchers' Club for $350,OO0,
expecting to plant branch in
this outpost of empire.
That" said our booster, "was
in the boom of '09.. Land on
Elghth-av sold for $4,000 a front
foot-more than in Regent-st,
London"
Geographically, Alberta lies be-
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leaders views the wealthy young
Clevelander with much favor, and
in case the G.. o. P. convention is
deadlocked they may trot him out
as a dark horse. Soviet AM
hassador Troyanovsky piled his
family into a car the other night
and drove to Baltimore to see
Charlie Chaplin. He could not
wait for the show to come to
washington For the first
time in history, the government is
quizzing home owners of the $1O,-
600 class as part of a survey on
how families spend their money.
1t is a Department of Labor prof.
ect with WPA money. Next
month CCC boys will celebrate
the third anniversary of the found
ing of the Civilian Conservation
Corps. . Working day of pres
ldential aspirant Landon is from
a. m. to 2 p. M, without inter-
ruption. At 2 he quits his office
Tor the day. England's King
Edward VIII is a wheat farmer,
with lands of his own in Alberta,
Canada. Of the six newly
appointed governors of the Fed
eral Reserve System, three are in
their fortieS:. Eccles, As; Sym
czak, Al, and Mckee, 40. Oldest
members are only 54. Big
time artists, hired to decorate the
walls of new government build
lngs, are paid on strictly a piece
work basis. The wage is liked at
$40 a square foot, regardless of
whether it is square foot of in
trlcate painting or just a patch of
blue sky.
Guards in public taildings wear
guns twice month-the first and
the fifteenth. These are pay days.
A L SMITHS election as a dele
4 A gate to the Democratic con-
vention in Philadelphia may be
contested from within the Tam
many organization, despite the
Wlgwam's official Endorsement of
him. Albert Marinelli, young
Tammany leader of the district AL
was nominated to represent, is an
ardent New Dealer and is threat
enlng to oppose Smith in a
"write-in" campaign. Some
members of the House Ways and
Means Committee, now framing
the new tax bill, have conferred
privately with Secretary of State
Hull on the legislation. AS a
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BY FORREST DAVIS
Scripps-Howard STAFF Writer.


CALGARY, Alta, March
Here in the foot
hills, gratifyingly warmed
by a chinook from the coast
slope of the Rockies, AL
berta appears less a prov
ince than a paradox. The
land over which that stern
ly prophetic man of God,
William Aberhart, was
called to rule last August on
his promise of milk and
honey at S25 monthly to
adults, lesser doles to mi
nors, seems, at first glance,
to be an economic headache
and a sum of contradictions
climatic, economic, of be-
havior and vegetation.
A giant land, immense as
Texas, Alberta, in truth. flows
with milk and honey.
Nature willing, it produces
meat, milk, poultry, grain, wool.
hides boundlessly. It contains
more coal than Germany and
France put together
Yet, on the post-election word
OF Premier Aberhart, Albertans
starve; farm women dare TEMPER
atures OF so below in gunny sack
ing, and their infants lack milk
upon that broad paradox, ia
mlilar elsewhere, of want and
plenty, other contradictions
sprout like eyes on an old DO
tato. In depressed Alberta. for
example, farmers have come to
believe the better the crop the
poorer the farmer"
n u n
A ND those are broad reasons
4 n why, Albertans explain TODAY
the bouncy, ruggedly individual
lStlc baggage Alberta went philan-
derlng. after Social Credit last
summer, throwing herself whole
heartedly into the arms of a dour
preacher of Old Testament Justice
who, paradoxically also, offered
her $25 a month without toll in a.
post-Adam Garden of Eden in the
Canadian Northwest.
An odd mating of frontier and
Genesis.
The paradoxes pyramid bewil-
derlngly. Yet those are bv no
means the end of it.
Calgary, a cosmopolitan settle
ment of 10000 souls, one-tenth
the provinces population, is a COW
town-and proud of it.
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Patrons Might Vote

nNE might think, at the very least, the owners
" of such resorts would permit plebiscite be-
fore any old walters fired After all, since the
bosses don't pay the men, why shouldn't the patrons
who bear the freight have the right of hiring and
of firing?
1t is assumed that in apartment houses the ele-5
vator operators paid in part by the management
and in part by tips. Some day associations of ten
ants will organize and say to landlords, you pay
your employees decent wages and quit trying to
shift the burden to US. Our obligation should end
after we have paid the rent"
surprised to find realistic newspaper
the New York Times dealing with current situa-
ton in terms of Utopian economics refer. to the
following lines in editorial called THE Strike
THE men who operate the small number of abso-
utely indispensable services in modern metropolis
special responsibility to the community to
keep these services functioning. They fairly
ask in turn, that the community itself show spe-
cal interest in the conditions under which they
work. They have right to ask the city to help
them establish closed shop and labor monopoly.
But they can fairly raise the question of hours and
wages. BY carrying their demands to the strike
stage the union leaders have jeopardzed the safety
of the city,
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Smiling Face, Happy Heart

DLEASE assume for the moment that you an
J. underpaid elevator operator and then read the
advice given in the Times and see what comfort you
get out of it.
Your services Indispensable and therefore you
must accept low wages You ask for higher pay
and shorter hours, but it must be understood that
the employer says, Certainly not and don't have
the sudacity to bother again, you return to your
job with smiling face and happy heart.
According to the Times yot and your fellows can't
strike, but probably it would not object if the ten
ants pcketed a building with signs saying I'VE will
take walk until decent wages paid to the oper-
atorS in this building.
I gratified TO learn that such great paper
purposes to take up the fight Cor the under
privileged, and 1 waiting for the happy morning
when eight-column line streams across the first
page proclammg: Tenants, Fight for Your Rights
Get Out on the Picket Line and Join the Elevator
Operatorsl"
Copyright 1885,
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member of the House manv years
ago, Hull drafted the first income
tax bill after adoption of the
constitutional amendment making
such legislation valid. Secretary
Hull says there are only four
members of Congress capable of
writing a tax bill-but he refuses
TO name them. :. Rep. Wesley E.
Disney, Oklahoma Democrat, wants
to establish a new kind of West
Point. He has introduced bill to
create an Academy of Public
Affairs" for the training, at gov
eminent expense, of young men
and women who would enter the
diplomatic and civil service.
Union seamen have submitted a
proposal to the President to estab-
lish National Maritime Board
as a means of bringing end main
tanning peace in the shipping in
dustry. Their plan is modelled
after the Railroad Labor Board,
which for years acted as impartial
arbiter between rail executives
and workers.
Each month during the last
eight has established a new record
of air-mail volume. If this rate
continues, postal authorities say
that in another year government
subsidies can be abolished and the
service put on straight paying
basis.
DOLITICAL pamphlet e ering
L has undergone a real revival
in the U. S. A. New Dealers and
Observation-Disclosures grind out
new ones almost daily. Received
during one day only: Lets Tax
the Tax-Eater," by ex-Gov. AL
falfa Bill' Murray: "a Labor
Party for the United States is
sued by the United Textile Work
ers, and From Rags to Riches, a
la Alfred E. Smith," by Henry E.
Klein. Senator O'Mahoney
was doing some legal research on
his bill to require all corporations
doing interstate commerce to OBJ
tain Federal charters. He was
surprised to discover that sim
liar measure was sponsored in
1910 by Senator Clarence C.
Clark, his Republican predecessor
from Wyoming. O'Mahoney was
campaign manager for the late
Senator Kendrick. who defeated
Clark in 1916.
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II Congress didn't Ike the sur
plus tax there still were three
other ways to raise the money.
First, a general manufacturers
sales tax. Second. higher income
taxes in the lower brackets.
Third, lower exemption on the
alter and admission taxes.
1t wasn't even necessary for
Mr.. Roosevelt to remind Con-
gress that any of these three al
ternatives would step on the toes
of far more voters than the cor
>poration surplus tax. Every one
in Congress knows what year
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SAN 4

Alberta, with its Social Credit gov
eminent pledged six months ago to pay
each adult citizen s25 monthly merely
for being citizen, is proving ground
for the Townsend plan and other eco
nomic nostrums being currently offered
TO Americans. For that reason the
Scripns- Howard Newspapers sent For
rest Davis. staff writer. to Alberta
half year after the Social Credit cleo
ton to study how it came into being and
what progress has been made toward
paying the peoples pension. His second
article follows.
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There Are Plenty of LatCs

WE have laws against smoking in the subwaya,
W clutterng fire escapes, impeding sidewalks
lettering littering and walking the grass in the
parks, and clever cop, if he wants to- usually can
draw into argument and then charge him
with conduct calculated to draw crowd.
This would be petty way to act, to be sure but
the Germans are enforcing petty laws against Amer
leans, and the penalties too serious to be ac-
copied in fun This Nisselback was held for four
months without charges. whereas can't even pick
up man without telling him why. He was held
10 months before he got trial, and in the long
run they gave him two years for having in his pos
session newspaper which they considered seditious
because it criticised the Nazi form of government.
But tbs almost impossible to avoid sedtous con-
duct in Germany under their laws. If you were to
nave among your papers a copy of Winston
Churchilrs article Analysing Htlers character they
could give you much as 10 years under their law
or even shoot you
:, on the other hand, the Nazis proceed in the be-
heI that they can get away with murder in other
countries, and when l mention murder l am NOT
using figure of speech for the assassination OF
Engeloert Dollfuss, dictator of Austria was planned
ana directed by the German government
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Ezu ZnouAh
by
WESTBRO0K PEGLER

VIENNA March Karl Nisselback, a naturalized
American who has been sentenced to German
prison for two years, may not be very good citizen
of the United States. but nevertheless our govern
ment ought to make the Nazis let him go. We could
do this by arresting 10 German Nazis in New York
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IIIVVCUIy UIIUCI pdIU, dIIU IIIE dII-
ference between starvation pay
and something approaching a liv-
in wage we make up out of our
own pockets. And yet if large
section of the taxi drivers struck,
demanding guaranteed living
wage instead of tips, number of
New Workers would insist that
their rights were being violated
ard would proceed to ride with
strike breakers and put their
weight to the perpetuation of the
tips.
This has happened in a score
of hotel and restaurant strikes.
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70 >seve|t Squeeze
May Get Results
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

TXTASHINGTON, March Thanks to neat
w squeeze play. President Roosevelt is likely
to get his corporate surplus tax through Congress
After sending the proposal to Congress earlier
this week. Mr.. Roosevelt waited for the first out
cries of pain to subsde. Then he applied the
soueezer He sent his Treasury experts to say that
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OF t1OUUhtIl OH long IlSt OF
charges and giving them every
thing that the book calls for-sen-
fences to run consecutively, not
concurrently, and without option
of fine.
Our police are very good piling
up complaints when they really
put their hearts into their work,
and it would be no problem at all
to retaliate at the rate of 10 to
one for every American who is
slammed into prison for violation
of the trick laws they enforce
against our people.
For example, Nazi driving an
olltnn1nkile raainht he fnllnu,nd
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charge enough to afford decent wage scale walk
gayly through picket lines to illustrate their good
old American right TO be fimfammed by paying
the proprietor, the waiter and whatever company
mas the hat check privilege.
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Diplomatic Outcast

must be kept in mind constantly that the Nad
= government is rule of hoodums and grafters
whose murderous character has been demonstrated
not only in the Dollfuss case but in their own his
toric blood purge.
Here in Vienna, Won Papen, their ambassador is
an absolute outcast far as the diplomatic circle
is concerned for everybody remembers his record as
military attache of the German embassy in Wash
ington up to 1916 Nobody wants anything to do with
him. The Austrians, of course want no part of his
country, because the only the Nazis keep an
ambassador here is to organize a traitorous move
ment and deliver the country to Germany
This is the sort of racket the American govern
ment is dealing with in Germany and it is useless to
expect that American passports will be respected
unless the Nazis understand that we will treat their
people as badly as they treat ours.
Nisselback personally isn't very important but
two years in prison is too much for the posses
sion of paper which the Germans considered to be
Seditious. If we need definition of seditious con-
duct every Nazi in the United States should be in
prison
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Haywood BR0UN

an number of editorial pages have read today
~ that the public has rights. 1 don't how
anybody can deny that And yet 1 remain puzzled
as to why the public should almost invariably shout
for them at the last minute and up the wrong alley
before discussing the elevator strike let me point
oua some of the familiar ways in which Mr.. and
Mrs. Manhattan allow themselves to be played for
suckers.
We ride in taxicabs in which the drivers are adj
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through the streets for few hours and pulled up
on enough charges to keep him under glass as long
Nisselback if really set out to get rough about
the matter.