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Second Section
9 TO 5 POLL
FAVORS SOVIET
RECOGNITION
Seven Other Members of
Senate Committee Are
in Doubt.
BORAH WANTS ACTION
Robinson of Indiana One of
Minority Group in Check
by United Press.
BY LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
(OoovriKht, 1932. bv United Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The
senate foreign relations committee
today stands nine to five in favor of
diplomatic recognition of Soviet
Russia.
Seven other committee members,
questioned in a United%Press poll,
qualified their answers or said they
had not made up their minds. Some
of these indicated they were sympa
, thetic toward recognition.
Senators definitely favoring rec
ognition urged it as a means of in
creasing the dwindling Soviet-
American trade. They expect Presi
dent-Elect Roosevelt to act on the
question when he takes office.
Senator Joseph Robinson (Dem.,
Ark.) said:
"The time has come when we
should recognize and begin trading
with Russia for the purpose of im
proving our business condition.” ’
Borah Asks Action
Chairman William A. Borah of the
committee has pending a resolution
asking the President to extend un
qualified diplomatic recognition to
Russia. He said he had not decided
Whether to seek action on the reso
lution or wait for Mr. Roosevelt’s
program to be revealed.
Borah believes diplomatic recogni
tion should be extended before the
United States undertakes to negoti
ate any commercial treaty with
Russia. Some others believe a trade
pact should come first, with diplo
matic recognition to be extended
automatically upon ratification of
the treaty.
The poll showed the following
alignment:
For Recognition (9)—Borah, John
, son, La Follette, Cutting (all Repub
licans): Robinson (Ark.), Walsh
<Mont.), Wagner and Black (all
Democrats); Shipstead (Farmer-
Labor).
Against Recognition (s)—Moses,
Reed. Fess, Glenn, Robinspn (Ind.),
(Republicans).
Answers Are Qualified
Two Republicans qualified then
answers:
Capper—The question should have
serious consideration.
Vandenberg—l would favor recog
nition if there were adequate assur
ance, dependably supported, that
propaganda for destruction of the
institutions of the American govern
ment shall cease.
Five Democrats also qualified
their replies:
Swanson —Noncommittal.
Pittmfen—'The only object would
be to benefit the United States. The
first thing to do is try to negotiate
a commercial treaty.
Harrison—l am inclined to oppose
recognition at this time, but my at
titude would depend on conditions.
George—Noncommittal and de
sires to examine all facts before de
ciding.
Connally—Noncommittal but open
minded on the subject.
One committee member. Senator
Lewis (Dem., 111.) is hi Chicago and
could not be reached.
FLU KILLS CITY MAN
Illness of Two Weeks Is Fatal to
Frank Bauman.
Influenza with which he had been
ill two weeks caused the death
Tuesday night of Frank Bauman,
who had been sleeping in a garage
at 517 North East street.
Thomas Wliiteford. 1528 South
Belmont avenue, employed at the
garage, told police that Bauman
appeared at the place shortly before
6, saying he was ill. Whileford took
him into the office, where he died
shortly afterward. Police learned
he had been under treatment.
He leaves a sister, Mrs. Pearl
Dodge, Hudson, Mich. He was a
member of Prospect Mascnic lodge
and the Grotto.
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Harmony Plea
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Huey Long
By Bcripps-Haward "Newspaper Alliance j
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Demo
cratic peacemakers have failed in
their attempt to corral and muzzle
Senator Huey P. Long.
Louisiana's "kingfish” is on the
warpath, and he wants scalps for
his belt—conservative Democratic
scalps, principally the thatch of Joe
Robinson, senate leader.
Into Huey’s ears Democratic
pacifists dinned a plea for party
harmony.
"You’re right,” said Huey, "what
we need is harmony.”
And Tuesday on the senate floor
he gave to his Democratic col
leagues, his own definition of ’ har
mony!”
Huey’s “harmony speech” was
made over the protest of the peace
loving partisan colleagues who but
ton-holed the irrepressible Louisi
anan and pleaded with him to lay
off Robinson.
Harmony is a fine thing, said Huey,
but it should be harmony for The
right thing. It should be harmony
in carrying out the pledges of the
Democratic party, in carrying out
the principles and the campaign
doctrines of President-Elect Roose
velt.
GRANT EINSTEIN
11. S. PASSPORT
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Questioning of Scientist Is
Dropped by Council.
By titcil Press
CAPUTH, Germany, Dec. 7.
Professor Albert Einstein, whose
mind wrestles with problems far be
yond the ken of most of his fellow
humans, was granted a visa tp enter
the United States late Tuesday after
he had threatened to call off his
projected visit because he had been
questioned closely on his political
beliefs.
The world’s most famous physicist,
indignant when an American con
sular officer sought his views on
Communism, rallied his sense of hu
mor today and let the whole matter
pass as a joke.
He actually, Frau Einstein told
this correspondent, thought for a
while that George S. Messersmith,
the consular officer, was playing a
sort of prank when he began plying
the professor with “schoolboy”
questions. *
Einstein was subjected to ques
tioning after the Woman’s Patriot
Corporation in the United States
had decided that the state depart
ment bar the scientist on the
grounds he has Communist leanings.
FIRE VICTIM DIES
Woman Trapped in Burning
Shack Succumbs.
Mrs. Grace Fallow, 44, an invalid,
died of burns in city hospital Tues
day, after she iiad been rescued by
Everett Ray, 62, from a flaming
shack on the city dumping ground
in the 1200 block West Washington
street.
Ray incurred severe burns as he
dragged the invalid from the shack,
which for the last year apd a half
had been the home of tne couple.
Fire is believed to have been caused
by an overheated stove.
After fueling the stove early
Tuesday, Ray said he fell asleep and
was awakened when smoke chocked
him. He tried to carry Mrs. Far
low out, but, his strength failing,
was forced to drag her.
Mrs. Farlow’s only relative is her
father, an inmate of the county in
firmary. She was gifen a home by
Ray, a friend of her father, when
the father no longer was able to
support her.
Farmers in Washington
to Battle for Relief
BY FREDERICK C. OTHM^N
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Three
hundred farmers who rolled into
Washington on anew kind cf
“hunger march" settled down today
to draft urgent orders to their con
gressmen for a moratorium on
mortgages and other relief meas
ures.
They were sober, conscientious
tenants and land owners from all
ends of the country. They carried
no red flags. The only red about
them was on the backs of their
necks, colored from months of labor
under the sun, raising crops they
couldn't sell at a profit.
Neither were they in tatters like
the Communist-sponsored marchers
who preceded them. They wore
overalls or corduroy trousers, and
clean shirty. Their hands were
scrubbed and their faces shaven.
As the farmers began their three
day farmers’ national relief confer
ence, the last of the 3,000 “hunger
marchers" were being started out
of tpwn. The main eastern column*
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QUICK CHANGE
OR NONE, PLEA
ON DRY LAWS
Attorney-General Mitchell
Asks Speedy Action by
Congress.
DISRESPECT IS FEARED
Legal Chief, Long Staunch
Prohibitionist, Warns
Against ‘Scuttling.’
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Attor
ney-General Mitchell today exhort
ed congress to change the national
prohibition laws "as quickly as pos
sible,” if it is going to change them
at all.
He said speedy action was neces
sary to prevent increased public
disrespect lor law.
Mitchell also recommended in his
annual report that "changes should
be made through amendment or
.substantive law and not by leaving
laws on the statute books and scut
tling them by refusal to appropriate
money for iheir enforcement.”
Switch is Significant
The recommendations were con
sidered especially significant since
the attorney-general long has been
a stanch prohibitionist. He was one
of the last members of the Hoo
ver cabinet won over to the Repub
lican platform for resubmission of
the prohibition issue.
Mitchell also recommended
changes in anti-trust and national
bankruptcy laws as essential to
business recovery. He advanced the
suggestion that some # liberalized
anti-trust measure could be adopted
as a temporary expedient in the
present economic emergency.
He said .the present cumbersome
process of equity receiverships and
mortgage foreclosures affords no
hopeful opportunity in many cases
for speedy reorganization of going
concerns, embarrassed by debt, even
through agreement of large ma
jorities of their creditors.
Thousands Are Arrested
Mitchell reported that the bureau
of prohibition, with a force of 2,000
field agents and 185 special agents,
made 73,883 arrests during the fiscal
year, resulting in fines totalling $6,-
469,746.
The agents seized 11,833 automo
biles, valued at $3,298,386: 61 boats,
valued at $139,795; 23,165 stills, 15,-
244 beer fermenters, 3,261,746 gal
lons of beer and 1,655,677 gallons of
spirts.
Nine agents of the bureau were
killed on duty and 58 were removed
from service because of infractions
of rules.
BUYER TO GO ON TRIAL
Former Grocery Employe to Face
Court on Embezzling Count.
Trial of Harry Hessler, 43, former
grocery buyer, on charge of embez
zling more than $500,000 from local
grocers, will be held Friday before
Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker.
Arrested last August in Glendale,
0., after he is alleged to have gone
to the west coast from Indianapolis
and returned, Hessler was indicted
on charges of embezzlement and
grand larceny, in connection with
an alle ed canned goods sales
scheme.
DEAN IS COUNCIL HEAD
Blanchard of De Pauw Chairman
of Nursing School Board.
Dr. W. M. Blanchard, dean of De
Pauw university, is chairman of the
newly formed council of the Metho
dist hospital school of nursing.
Council members are Miss Maude
Herman, president of the alumnae
Association of the school; Dr. E. D.
Clark, Dr. John G. Benson, super
intendent of the hospital; Miss
Grace*G. Gray, principal of the
school of nursing; Milo H. Stuart,
Mrs. Henry Ostrem, the Rev. Jean
S. Milner, Arthur Wolf and Dr.
Goethe Link.
KIWANIS WILL" ELECT
Four Are Candidates for President
of Indianapolis Unit.
Members of the Indianapolis Ki
wanis club will elect officers tonight
in the Columbia club.
The four candidates for president
are: Robert H. Bryson, Joseph
Kebler, W. L. Snodgrass and J. R.
Townsend. First and second vice
presidents, treasurer and three
directors will be selected. A pro
gram! of entertainment will follow
the dinner. Asa E. Chambers,
president of the clul6, will preside.
left at dusk Tuesday and spent the
night in Baltimore. Western and
southern contingents promised to
be on their way by noon.
Among the farmers was Andrew
Oja. a blond giant who runs a
f 1,600-acre farm at Geyser, Mont.
He declared the conference would
not be content with sending plain
spoken resolutions to congress.
“We’re all going to see our con
gressmen,” he said. “We elected ’em
and we know most of ’em person
ally. We’re not going to ask any
thing—we’re going to tell 'em what's
what.”
The day Oja left home, he sold
some wheat for 18 cents a bushel.
He estimated it cost him $1.25 a
bushel to raise it.
• “But we’re not nearly so bad off as
city folks,”” he said. “I drove
through Chicago on my way and
dropped in on a relief station. What
do you think I saw?
“Well, sir, they were dishing out
skimmed milk to a lot of poo/ little,
white-faced kids. Out in Geyser we
give the milk to our hogs."
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INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7,1932
Terry Reaches Trail’s End; Leaves Hobo
Army of Defeat to Fight Way Up Again
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Terry Donoghue, educated New York
er, wandered west In search of work.
In a series of articles, of Which this is
the last, he tells of his drifting to Los
Angeles, from which he fled to escape
BY TERRY DONOGHUE
(Copyright, 1932. bv the New York World-
Telegram Corporation)
WE were the army of defeat.
Aimless, homeless, had hit
the coast. Deflected by nature
and man, we had joined the end
less circle of starvation. We were
back in the box cars again, whim
pering at back doors, pleading in
the streets. Male and female,
young and old, thousands and niy.-
self.
We were sifted and strained at
almost every stop. In the jun
gles of Colton we lost two men —
one for murder, one for robbery.
In Idaho a government officer
clambered over our tangle of
bodies in the bottom of a South
ern Pacific gondola.
His light flashed'in each face;
he took four men wfth him. In
Niland and Yuma the bulls came
again, prying into our sleep, bat
tering questions into our dazed
heads. ,
Days and nights, mile posts and'
stations passed. Sometimes there
were stops long enough to allow
us to beg a meal; sometimes there
were not.
For a day and a half a bony
Texan and I went without food;
at last he could stand it no longer
and ripped a board from a reefer
ceiling and we ate pears, tart and
griping.
At Tucson we loafed beside the
tracks. A woman drove up in an
automobile.
“Are you men hungry?” she
asked.
Almost unbelieving, we looked
into her face.
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“'T'AKE this,” she said. “I went
A hungry for three days in
this town, and nobody fed me.
Now I have my own business, and
every night I bring food down
here.”
There were seventeen buttered
rolls. Texas and I ate them, split
ting the odd one.
“Take the Texas Pacific out of
El Paso,” said the grapevine, the
the vast reporting service that
links up every jungle. “Don’t
make San An tone; it’s hostile.
Make Ft. Worth and grab the
MOP East.”
So we swung to the north. The
faces about me changed from stop
to stop. Ours was an endless,
muddy stream of life flowing
across the continent and back. It
mattered not where orie clambered
or where one joined the flow
again.
One man made an impression
on me before he left us. Another
fellow and ,1 had boarded a train
and were Working our way along
it looking for an open reefer. A
car ahead I saw a head bob and
, disappear. The man with me
froze.
“What’s the matter?” I asked.
“Fat,” he said. “Fat just fell
between the cars.”
It occurred to me that it was a
curious incident, not a tragedy.
One man less on the road, that
was all. He had slipped pulling
open the top of a reefer.
“Let’s get in before someone
else grabs it,” my companion said.
In a broad Texas stretch a well
dressed fellow showed us a tel
egram stating his mother was
dying in Cleveland.
"Tough,” we said.
We were beyond al emotions —
all save hunger and fear.
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IN Longview, Tex., we met Texas
Slim. The grapevine said he
had killed many hoboes.
At gun points he emptied the
train. A score of us were lined
up along the tracks.
"Why didn't you fellows run up
as soon as'you got into the
yards?” he demanded. "Didn’t
you know you might get shot up?”
No one answered.
“Weil, i’ll give you something
to remember it by.”
Then I spoke up. I thought it
might be one last feeble struggle
against the jungle IKe that held
like an endless breadline across the country . . .
me to match wits with another
man again.
“Well, I’ll tell the truth, Texas.
We heard you were away.”
“You did, huh? Where did you
hear that?”
“In Frisco.”
His eyes lighted up. I had
touched his ego. “In Frisco,
huh?”
San Francisqo is a long way for
a man’s reputation to travel.
“Well, w'ell; that’s good! Away
up in Frisco. Well, I w r as away for
a while; but that was weeks ago.”
The tension was eased. Texas
Slim, the terrible, was getting
mellow.
“All right, boys; I’m going to.let
you ride this time. Remember,
next time you get it.”
Chuckling, he walked away.
The next day, in the jungles of
Texarkana, a strange hobo looked
into my face.
“Ain’t you the red-headed guy
that kidded Texas Slim?”
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THE news had gone out over
the grapevine. Then it be
came my turn to feel the warmth
of pride. That afternoon I made
for a manifest. It roared by
faster than any train I’d tried be
fore.
But I was the guy that talked
up to Texas Slim; I grabbed for
the rungs. My body slammed
against the side of the car, but my
hands held tight and I was able to
look back to fellows who had not
dared to try it. 9
I passed through Little Rock. I
know it because I woke up there,
Let’s Explore Your Mind
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view. Not all moral questions can be answered with absolute scientific ac
curacy, but qo decision as to wbat is right conduct or sound morals is possible
without science. Science puts the rights of organized society above the rights
of individuals.
1— In a strict moral sense de
ceit is never justified. The
answer is therefor no. The
best solutions to life’s prob
lems are almost always found
in a courageous facing of the
facts, to withhold such infor
mation is to leave the husband
unprepared for the issue.
2 The contacts that a
mother has with her children
are vastly greater than that
of her husband. To form their
character is both her duty and
Dr. Wiggam will be glad to answer questions dealing with problems of
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in the field of human relationships. Questions of general interest will be
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hungry, and looked out upon a
forbidding town.
Memphis was ahead. I tried
hard to go back to sleep, although
it was daylight, hoping that I
could forget the coiling hunger in
my st#mach.
There were other stops, other
trains. There were a few lumps
from back doors, but never enough.
There was always the hope that
the next tow r n would provide a
generous meal.
I got to thinking about a flat in
New York, a yellow bridge lafnp, a
green rag rug and a wfife hum
ming in the kitchen.
“What xvas that, Red?”
Through the smoke of a jungle
fire I made out a man sitting op
posite me.
‘(■Talking to myself, I*guess,” I
said.
“Going bugs like the rest?”
There was a throaty chuckle.
The man was unshaven. His
gray-streaked hair was long. His
army shirt was torn and greasy.
His pants were concessions to de
cency.’ His shoes were split.
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“T KNOW horn you leei,” he
a said. “I’ve been on the road
two years. I used to be the best
auto salesman in the country.
Then the breaks went against me.
Jails, flop houses, breadlines and
jungles. I chased jobs, then food,
then heat. Now I’m chasing my
self.”
His laugh left me shuddering,
thinking.
Thinking of how I had left New
York with high hopes of finding
a glorious opportunity. No
sculptor ever moulded clay half
so fine. The answer is yes.
The husband should, of course,
co-operate.
- 3—The right man in the
right job is an inexorable law
of life. Length of service can
not be considered as the de
cisive factor for promotion in
this competitive world unless
ability is also equal. The
answer to the question must,
therefore, be no.
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work; how my first rebuff in Chi
cago had shaken me; how I had
struck out, first asking lor work,
then only for food.
I thought of my steps westward
—how at each stop I had had a
little less hope, a little less con
fidence. How I thought anew
suit of clothes would lift me out
of the jungles in San Francisco;
how I had realized I needed new
insides, not outsides a short time
later.
I thought of how I had been
shunted out of Los Angles like a
leprous being, how I had, been
drifting since'then more of a
creature of hunger than a man.
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1 tried to peer into the future. I
tried to see the Terry Dono
ghue of tomorrow.
Though I strained my eyes, all
I could see was the wild, haggard
face across the fire.
"Hell!” I almost shouted. “I'm
not going to stay on the bum.”
My companion was startled.
Then he laughed.
"Yes —I used to say that. Just
before I went on the heat.”
"I mean it!” I said. "I'm6an
it!”
I had stood up. I grabbed the
old bum by the shoulders.
“Do you hear that?” I demand
ed. "I mean it!”
A whistle sounded in the dis
tance.
“That’s the manifest,” I said. I
was cool now. "I’m catching it.
Fast freights for me from now
on, 80. I’ll be in New York in
three days. Back on Broadway—
no! Back on Avenue B. I’m go
ing to take up where I left off.
“I’m going co stick to the old
place. If I’m going to lick the
country I’m going to do it a small
piece at a time. I’m starting with
the old home town.”
I let go of my companion and
ran off toward the tracks. As I
ran I heard again the cackling,
mocking laugh.
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Terry donoghue is back
in New York. He's living in
an apartment in Avenue B. It is
not expensively furnished, but it
is clean and neat.
Tlyfe food his wife cooks is inex
pensive, but it is tasty. He has
sold a number of articles, he has
signed a few contracts and some
fiction is coming out of his type
writer.
His health is excellent, and
his literary career is more promis
ing than it has ever been.
But the thousands of men that
'Donoghue knew in the jungles,
hundreds of thousands he did not
know —all are still on the bum, a
vast army scattered over the
country.
They ask for "lumps” and “set
ups” at millions of doors. They
stretch like an endless breadline
across the nation.
They want food, they want shel
ter, they want work. Sustenance is
their greatest need; the restora
tion of their confidence and self
respect is a need almost as great.
The closing of eyes will not re
move these thousands from the
scenes any more than sleep could
remove Donoghue’s hunger.
Donoghue’s series has not been
conceived to aid any particular
charity drive; it has not been
published to advance any partic
ular economic reform.
It is simply a graphic picture of
a huge wound. On the treatment
of this wound will depend whether
the country will bear a scar that
may take a generation to outgrow.
—EDITOR.
LIEBER EXHIBIT HEAD
Named With Four to Plan
World Fair Display.
Richard Lieber, director of the
state conservation department, will
be director of exhibits for the Indi
ana world s fair commission, it was
announced today.
Aided by a committee of four,
Lieber will, plan what Indiana ex
hibits will be featured at Chicago.
The prospectus of features will be
submitted to Governor Harry G.
Leslie and Governor-Elect Paul V.
McNutt for approval and then will
be placed before the personnel of
the state commission.
Those serving with Lieber cn (he
executive committee are: A. M.
Turner of Hammond, president;
E. J. Barker of Thorntown, secre
tary; Perry McCart of West Baden
and W. H. O’Brien of Lawrenceburg.
heads" goat raisers
Mrs. James A. Patten Selected as
Association Chief.
By United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—A hobby of
Mrs. James A. Patten of Evanston,
socially prominent widow of the
“wheat king,” is the herd of goats
on her farm near Des Plaines. She
sells their mils to the Evanston
hospital and private individuals.
Tire hobby won Mrs. Patten elec
tion as president of the American
Goat Record Association Tuesday.
Will L. Te Walt, Vincennes, Ind.,
was named secretary. The associa
tion was meeting in annual con
vention.
Delegates were entertained by
Frank J. Helm. Grass Lake, Mich.,
who told of educating his herd of
105 animals in arithmetic.
Makes Gain in Vote Recount
By L nited Press
WARSAW, Ind., Dec. 7.—A six
vote margin accorded Robert Pfleid
erer, Republican, over Walter J.
Irich, Democrat, in the November 8
election for Kosciusko county sur
veyor, was increased eighteen votes
HOOVER URGES
DRASTIC CUTS
FOR BUREAUS
Many of Proposals Similar
to Ideas Rejected by
Last Congress.
SPURS DRIVE ON ALIENS
Asks $1,450,000 Increase
for Deportation of
Foreign ‘Menaces.’
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Presi
dent Hoover in his budget message
to congress today recommended
economy cuts in appropriations,
some of them similar to the Hoover
proposals rejected by the last ses
sion, and many of w’hich would
hamper or reduce drastically the
regulatory work of government de
partments.
Mr. Hoover recommends sharp
cuts in appropriations for the fed
eral trade commission and the val
uation bureau of the interstate com
merce commission. He made simi
lar recommendations last year and
they were rejected by congress.
This year, he recommends also
that the funds of the bureau of ani
mal industry, w’hose task it is to in
spect meats, be cut. He suggests
reducing drastically the appropira
tion of the bureau of minutes for
investigtaion of mine accidents and
safety work.*
Sharp Contrast Seen
These cuts, nevertheless, are in
sharp contrast with recommenda
tions submitted to congress by Mr,
Hoover for increase in the appro
priation for deportation of aliens.
The President also recommends
increase in air mail subsidies, and
an increase in ocean mail subsidiy
rates, although the total to be paid
out is less, due to increase in volume
of mail,
Mr. Hoover’s economy recommen
dations in regard to veterans re
sult in a proposed net savings of
only $82,750,000.
Public works, undertaken in re
cent years to provide work for un
employed, would be reduced drastic
ally under the Hoover fiscal plan,
with the single exception of naval
construction which Hoover suggests
continuing. He recommends that the
federal aid for highway construc
tion be discontinued entirely.
Urges Cut in Personnel
The budget message suggests cut
ing a quarter of a million dollars
from the allotment of the federal
trade commisson. by a sharp reduc
tion personnel. Mr. Hoover explains
this by saying that “certain major
investigations” should be finished
by the end of the present fiscal
year. The biggest investigation now
in progress by the commission is
that of power utilities.
A cut twice as large is recom
mended for the valuation bureau of
the interstate commerce ccfnmission.
which liberals consider the heart of
railroad regulation. In this case
also Mr. Hoover suggests dismissing
personnel.
Indian wards of the government
come in lor a sharp cut. The Presi
dent proposes cutting appropria
tions in this bureau for industrial
assistance, development of water
supply, irrigation and drainage, ed
ucation, conservation of health and
roads and bridges, a total slash of
$1,214,797.
He proposes cutting funds for pro
tection of national forests by $131,-
244. This is in part offset by an
increase of $125,800 in funds for
planting work in the forests.
Wants $1,450,000 Increase
Mr. Hoover wants to increase de
portation funds by $1,450,000 be
cause presence of deportable aliens
“is undesirable and a social and
economic menace to the nation.”
Cuts in the veterans’ administra
tion are to be made by rewording
the law to make benefits apply only
to those who received injury in
service, or who served under fire,
or in a zone of actual hostilities,
and who now have incomes of $1,500
if single, or $3,500 if married.
This is a modification of the de
mand of citizen economy groups
that non-service connected disabil
ities be disregarded in paying vet
erans’ benefits.
While he recommends an 11 per
cent pay cut for federal workers
getting more than SI,OOO a year, he
provides funds for each department
to do away with the “administrative
furlough” which has made the in
come of workers extremely uncer-*
tain during the last year.
This furlough was administered
by the department heads in addi
tion to the general legislative fur
; lough. Employes were laid off ior
periods ranging from a month to
the entire year under this plan, if
department funds ran short. It was
considered susceptible to abuse.
Evansville Gets R. F. C. Loan
By L nited Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—The Re
construction Finance Corporation
today advanced relief loan for $Bl,-
428 to be spent in Vanderburg
county, Indiana. The area includes
the, city of Evansville and Knox
county, including Vincennes.
Chocolate Nut
By United Press
WABASH, Ind., Dec. 7—A
Manchester college fjeshman
with a sweet tooth was under
arrest today on charges of
robbing a North Manchester
restaurant of three suitcases
full of candy bars.
Officers said that Galen Ek\
19, of Granville. 0., confedsai
breaking into the store. They
said he filled two suitcases on
the first trip and then went
back for more.
“I like candy better than
anything else in the world,”
police quoted the youth as
saying.
Times are hard and I didn't
have any money, so I broke in
the restaurant to get some
candy.”