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Interesting Sidelights To Election Fraud Probe
Notable Legal Talent On Hand At Inquiry to Protect Rights of Republican Political Machine - - - Sherwood Blue’s Deputy Cause of Concern to Employer—Relieved When She Concluded Her testimony.
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During the primary election campaign, according to testimony brought out in the U. S. Senate subcommittee hearing on election irregularities in Indi-
U. S. HOSPITAL BOMBED. With U. S. Seventh Army, Wes tern Front.—Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers announced in a communique today that two German planes Tuesday night bombed and strafed a clearly marked American gen era! hospital, causing casualties. The attacked 23rd general hos pital was at Mirecourt, at least 40 miles from the nearest battlefront, the sixth army group report said. RETURNS TO LONDON. London—Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden arrived in England today, returning from Athens where they took part in Greek peace discussions.
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TO INVESTIGATE FIRE
Bunker Hill, Ind.—An investigation board appointed by Capt. D. D. Gurley, commandant, sought today to learn the cause of a fire which swept a wooden squadron building at the Bunker Hill naval
air station last night. j general election in which Emmert, former head Damage was extensive but was nominated in the state convention, unestimated by officials at the was a candidate, he gave to 91
county clerks an opinion
NEW MEANS OF SAVING LIVES
NAZIS STRUGGLE TO REFORM LINES
Americans Pound Flanks Of German Salient In Belgium
Democratic Officials To Assume Office Jan.l
War Produces Miracles To Combat Deadly
Diseases
Out of the worst war in the world’s history has come
London, Dec. 29. — American I forces pounded into the flanks of! the Qerman salient in Belgium I from north and south today, clos- j ing to within less than 15 miles of | a junction which would split the enemy in half and cut off all the troops in the western part of the
bulge.
,The Germans were under pressure
from three sides along the 150- i Mayor Robert some i mile perimeter of their corridor as ! keeps
WILL TEST G. I. BILL OF RIGHTS
Indianapolis Mayor’s Interests Solely In Repub-
lican Veterans
Old - Age Pension Checks Are Counter Signed By New Treasurer Friday—1944 Intangible Tax Stamps Remain On Sale Until January 10—Parkinson Sworn Into Office Last Tuesday.
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This week will wind up the official duties of five
Hte \ v y ^ lal t 1 he w | 1 n ° county officials and mark the beginning of terms for
ana Nov ~7 the Marion countv hoard of election com ! gOOCl f ° r the human race - Amid the |they fell back from the Meuse and j script ion. “General Robert H. Tyn-j nG y j 11 , ^ COUlthoilSe. The retiring ofana, Nov. I, the Mai ion county board ot election com-1 terrible slaughter new means 0 n faC ed the advance of First Army I din” m a conspicuous place officials include Ralph Rector, prosecutor, Lester E. missioneis leQuestecl an opinion^ on a legal Question i saV j n g jmman uves, as wen as de-jtroops from the Grandmenii-Man-i his desk; who loves to regale his ■ Holloway, treasurer, Lester Janney, surveyor, Orval
Ebrite, county commissioner, and Earl Parsons, coroner. The outgoing officials consist of three Repub-
licans and two Democrats.
from James A. Emmert, state attorney general. That Stroying them, have been devel-I^J area in the^ north and the
opinion was denied with the explanation that “the Attorney General cannot give opinions to any one other than a state official.” That was before the primary election. Mr. Emmert was not a candidate sub-
ject to the primary. But, on Nov. 6, the eve of the
station. Two trainees were overcome by smoke while aiding in fire fighting. No airplanes were destroyed or damaged, the Public Re
lations Office said.
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CREW MEMBERS KILLED Westhampton Beach, N. Y. — Eleven crew members who were killed when a B-24 bomber exploded
Morris D. Moss, Republican,
of the voters’ regis-
tration division, told of his diswhich ' m i ssa l in an entertaining manner.
they had not sought, concerning a legal question pertaining to the Nov. 7 election. To that opinion he added threat of investigation by the newly created state senate elections investigation committee and possible prosecution if the clerks did not follow his opinion —and in so doing, ignore the in-
an7 crashed* rTear MattiLclTLong j structions of the offical State Island, Wednesday night during a!® oaid Election Commissioners,
combat training mission from Westover Field, Mass., were identified by officials of the Suffolk army
base last night.
They included F|0 Clifford J. McElswee, 23, of Gary, Ind., navigator, and CpI. Roger Westervelt,
19, of Buda, 111.
Wreckage of the plane, which Witnesses said had exploded in midair, was strewn over a wooded area near Mattituck. Cause of the
oped and put into use.
These “miracles’' produced by military medical men and civilian scientists associated with the Office of Scientific Research and Development were spotlighted this week before a Senate committee which has been studying war-time health and education under the leadership of Senator Claude Pep-
per of Florida. Wonder Drugs
Foremost among the achieve-
Both Democrats and Republicans, attorneys and election officials, testifying at the hearing, declared or admitted they know of no authority under Indiana law for Emmert’s extra-legal act.
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A staff of notable legal talent was on hand to “protect” the interests of the Republican machine. T ’ by Joe Daniels, water
Led
area near maimucK. uause or inc y attorney; George R. Jeffrey, accident has not been determined. fori ^ er v s District Attorney, , A _ — 0 77— (the staff included Seth Ward, said JAP-AMERICAN HELD j to representing “Boss Jim”
United States I Bradford; Sherwood Blue, Marion
Indianapolis. —-
Commissioner Francis M. Hughes, at a hearing yesterday, ordered Masami Koga, 33, a JapansesAmerican, held for removal to Chicago where he was wanted for
draft evasion.
Koga was arrested here Dec. 18 by two Indianapolis policewomen. He said, he was born in Honolulu and that he was discharged recently from a Japanese relocation center in California. FULL WEEK OF BOMBING. . London — The United States eighth army air force rounded out a full week of unbroken daylight attacks on Germany today with a heavy bomber assault on military targets vital to the stalled Nazi
offensive.
The first announcement of the day’s aerial operations said merely that Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle’s heavies were “over Germany.” It was the seventh straight day of a bombing campaign which began with the first break of the weather after the Germans attacked.
CONDITION SERIOUS. Chicago—The condition of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, iRockford, III., newspaper publisher and Republican national committeewoman from New Mexico, was “slightly worse” today, her physicians reported. Mrs. Simms , underwent an abdominal operation three weeks ago and had shown improvement before taking a turn for the worse on Tuesday. 7—‘0 TO HEAR BROADCAST San Francisco—It iwas announced today that spectators at the Shrine East-West game Monday would hear a broadcast by Lt. Paul Moss, former Purdue football star, direct from a battleship “somewhere near Japan.” It will be received by radio and relayed through the stadium public broadcast system between halves.
BUZZ BOMB CASUALTIES London—German aerial and flying bombs killed 8,098 British civilians and wounded severely 21,137 other's in the first 11 months of this year, the Home Security Ministry announced today. The daylight attack was made in mostly favorable weather, enabling the Fortress and Liberator bombardiers to pinpoint their aiming visually. A Mustang pilot, First Lt. Richard Stevens of Ferris, II., who watchers the bombers hit Bingen, said he saw “10 square miles covered with explosives and incendiaries, with one huge column of black smoke coming up.” 0 SKIPPED TOP OF BALLOT Boston.—No fewer than 49,328 Massachusetts citizens who went to the polls last Nov. 7 filled out the rest of the ballot—but neglect ed to vote for anyone for Presi-
dent.
county prosecutor, and two deputies from Jim Emmert’s office staff. Jeffrey confided that they were there to defend A. Jack Tilson, Marion county clerk, in the event he needed legal aid.
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Albert Thompson, Republican, and chairman of the Marion County Board of Election Commissioners, admitted under prompting by Senator Tom Stewart, that he cast his first legal vote in the May, 1944, primary election—and his second legal vote Nov. 7. He said he had Voted in 1920—“before I knew that it was not legal. You see, I was born in Canada, and thought after I applied for my first papers I could legally vote.” He inferred he did not vote again until May, 1944, a few weeks after he became a naturalized citizen. In spite of these facts, the Marion county G.O.P. machine considered him qualified to direct the election in Marion county.
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Adding to the amazing story concerning Attorney General Jim Emmert’s action in sending an unsought opinion (with attached threat), to 91 of the 92 county clerks, was the statement of witnesses that the Marion county election commissioners had sought, but had not received, an opinion from the Attorney General, relative to the soldiers vote law.
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Cletus B. Seibert, Democrat, former chief deputy Marion county clerk, who was retained by A. Jack Tilson to help the Republicans run the clerk’s office, testified that on the day of Oct. 10 (a few days after Democrats charged that the “Boss Jim” Bradford political machine was preparing to steal the election in Marion county) he was ordered to stay out of the voters’ registration bureau (a division of the county clerk’s office). He said he was advised by Tilson that if he did not enter that division “it might be better for every one concerned.”
“1 went into the main office, where
Mr. Tilson was in conference, met j meats are the wonder drug, penisome newspaper men there, wholcillin, which has saved thousands asked me what job I was taking, j of the wounded ami aided treI told them none—that I had a I mendously in the fight against job. They told me my resignation j venereal disease; an insect killei had been accepted the day be-J known simply as DDT, which has f ore ” ^ ! all but wiped out the hazard of
! typhus fever, and a substitute foi
A few days later stories ap- j blood itself,
peared in the daily press report- j How valuable these are was ining that Moss had been “fired” as j by Brigadier Genefal
James S. Simmons of the Surgeon General’s office ,who declared that
head of the registration division I and Cletus Seibert had been re-1 moved as head of the voters’ bureau of the clerk’s office. The press also advised that George K. Johnson, Marion county G. O. P. committee Secretary, and Karrol Kramer, Republican ward chairman and insurance agent, hadi been named by Tilson as suc-j** 1 , 6 cessors to Seibert and Moss, re
spectively.
Reporters at the press table recalled that Tilson, under pressure, whined that “Boss Jim” Bradford and Marion county G.O.P. officials, forced him, under threat of loss of office fees and defeat at the polls, to transfer Seibert and fire Moss. * * * Moss, who described himself as “an investigator” denied any personal work in connection with the purge of the registration list. He admitted, however, that he had “personally supervised” the removal of names by his deputies— all Republicans. * * * Under questioning by committee couhsel, Robert Murphy, Cletus Seibert said that he had ordered from the printer, “65,000 notification form cards,” to be used in. notifying those whose names had been removed. “We ordered 50,000 at one time, and 15,000 later,” he explained. * * * Moss added the information that all except a very few of the cards had been used, indicating, he admitted, that at least 65,000 names had been stricken from the files—as “some, of course were probably inadvertently removed without being notified.” * * * Democrats had claimed only a little more than 40,000 names had been purged. * * * To this total of 65,000 names purged, must be added several thousand names of persons whose registration records admittedly did not reach the proper precinct election boards because “inexperienced and inefficient help, too dumb to read or write,” mixed up the registration cards in Tilson’s office. (The quotes are from Mr. Tilson’s published statement.) * * * Moss, who also described himself as “knowing more about registration work and activities than any other Republican in Marion county,” was asked why Albert Thompson changed the system, through George Johnson, when Johnson (Continued On Page Three)
One-Man Government? Republican publicists are working day and night to give the public the impression that Governor-elect, Ralph F. Gates, has no dictator inclinations. They can’t help but recall that Gates, as G.O.P. state chairman, dictated the acts of the 1941 and 1943 sessions of the General Assembly —-and the 1944 special session—via a direct wire from G. O. P. headquarters to the Assembly Chambers. One G. O. P. state paper devoted the greater part of a column, last week, to citing the fact that Gates had conferred with Rue J. Alexander, secretary of. state and Alvan V. Burch, auditor of state, concerning the appointment of the chief janitor of the state house. They cited this action as “concrete evidence’’ that Gates will “steer away from one-man government.’’ The answer is simple. Idle state law sets up a committee on buildings and grounds, composed of the Governor, Secretary of State and Auditor and vests the authority for the management of the state house property in that committee.
any one of them is worth many times the $17,000,000 appropriated for the various scientific investi-
gations.
Even more impressive is the
army’s excellent health record and
high percentage of fighters who survive their wounds.
Plagues Eliminated
New vaccines have virtually eliminated typhoid and cholera, which plagued armies of the past and there is hope that research now going on will knock out dysentery. Still another vaccine is being used to fight influenza, the unseen foe which took uuch a heavy toll of fighters and civilians
in the last war.
Further development of the sulfa drugs has provided more success ful treatment for burns, wounds and pneumonia. The respiratory diseases in fact have been cut to only a small fraction of the cases
in World War I.
Half the battle against malaria has been won with the powerful new insect sprays and powders and the search for drugs to treat this disease has turned up some "promising leads.” Atabrine war developed to meet the pinch on the
supply of quinine.
New Fields to Conquer Remarkable as the war-born gains have been, there is still a long way to go toward relieving and curing many of the serious afflictions and the experts who testified before the committee were unanimous in recommending that the research program not be allowed to fall apart after the war. Under this government-guided setup the research projects have been “contracted out” to various institutions with Uncle Sam foot-
ing the bill.
—i—i—i—o 1 Patrons Increase For Bell Telephone The great expansion of Indiana’s agricultural production for war is reflected in a recent report df the Indiana Bell Telephone Company Showing an increase of more than 5,000 rural telephones in service since Pearl Harbor, despite the acPte wartime shortage of telephone lines and equipment. In addition, the Comipany has on file 4,600 applications for rural telephones that are being installed as rapidly as facilities and materials become available. Commenting on the farm telephone situation, W. A. Hughes, general manager df the Indiana Bell, said: “Since 19®5 the number df rural telephones in this comipany increased more than 100
percent.
“For some years past, the growth in rural telephones has been proportionately greater than the growth in urban telephones. The proportionate increase of telephones in rural areas ranks next to the expansion of service for war plants. This is evidence of the important part the telephone plays in wartime farm production.” iHughes went on to say that “as soon as 'war demands for materials are reduced, we plan to further step up -the program for extending farm services. New technical developments and improvements that can be applied to rural telephone service give promise that the industry will make great strides in this field after the war.”
(Third Army from Bastogne in the
south.
Two Red armies in Hungary were moving toward the Austrian border on a 90-mile front on both sides of the Danube as a battle of annihilation continued inside Budapest. Berlin said massed Russian artillery and airplanes had opeijed a devastating bombardment of the capital. The trapped German garrison blew up all bridges over the Danube and w'hole sections of the city were in flames. The Italian front was reported quiet in all sectors. During a temporary lull in the battle of the Philippines, Tokyo reported that 30 American transports escorted by 20 or more warships were sighted sailing westward in the Mindanao sea, suggesting a possible new invasion operation. Field dispatches from the western front said the Germans had lost the initiative everywhere around their Belgian-Luxembourg corridor and were struggling to pull back into a better defensive
position.
Successes Revealed Official headquarters reports, still running behind developments, showed the following Allied successes 4n the 48 hours up to noon yesterday: 1. The relief of Bastogne and the Third Army’s expansion in the Bastogne area until it was less than 15 miles from the First Army forces in the north. 2. The repulse of the enemy’s deepest westward spearheads until they were nowhere closer than ten miles to the Meuse. 3. The elimination of a pocketed Nazi Panzer regiment of about 3,000 men east of Celles, with the loss of most of its armor and transport, More than 1,000 Germans surrendered and the greater part of the others were believed to have been killed. On the southern flank of the German salient, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army was attacking along a 35-mile front from Bastogne eastward across Luxembourg to the German border after the spectacular relief of the 101st airborne division and other First Army units surrounded at Bastogne. Field dispatches said Patton’s men were advancing at the rate of one to two miles a day along their section of the front. Headquarters revealed that the Third Army’s entry into the battle of the Ardennes was made at the cost of giving up its Saar river bridgehead at Dillingen, which was established after two weeks of bloody fighting. Away from the battle fronts, warfare continued in Athens as peace negotiations were interrupted while King George considered the demand that he consent to a regency to take over his powers. British and Greek government troops opened an attack in three columns in an effort to clear southeast Athens of Leftist ELAS forces, and brisk fighting was reported in progress. Sen. Willis Is In Campaigning Mood Senator Raymond E. Willis, Angola G. O. P. editor and publisher, appears to have reconsdd ered an earlier decision and to have decided to run tor re-election in two years—subject, of course, to the iwill of the G. 'O. P. state convention in 194'6. That Willis is in a campaigning mood is evident from his recent efforts to please the Indiana party leaders. He spoke out against the Senate probe of the Nov. 7 election in Indiana, and he is now giving evidence of interest in the aggricultural problems. He is said to plan to re-enter the hospital early in the new years (for removal of a cataract from one eye. He submitted to a similar operation on the other eye some time ago with pronounced success.
visitors with accounts of his military prowess and has them properly impressed by his assistants’ references to “The General,” has often loudly proclaimed his interest in the welfare of all war vet-
erans.
The five new officers whom are all Democrats include Guy Ogle,
But, it would seem from his j prosecutor, Herbert L. Parkinson, present attitude towards a recent- treasurer, Alfred Ellison, surveyor. ly returned veteran of World War L,, ,, „ ., . . . . , T . i Webb Pence, commissioner, and,
11, that his interest is only in Re- j
publican veterans or veterans who j E a il° n Stephens, coroner. EarL may be prospective Republican -Manor who has been employed with voters. : the state tax board during the past That he has no interest in I. J. | several years has been named Dienhart, a Democrat and former: deputy prosecutor to succeed Ernmanager of the Weir Cook Mu- e st Myers. The three deputies in nicipal Airport, has been made j the county treasurer’s office who quite plain—provisions of the G.I. j have served under Holloway will Bill of Rights to the contrary not-[be retained by the new treasurer, withstanding. jThey include Rita Carter, Odessa
Veteran Dienhart, who enlisted ( Smith and Pearle Sammons,
in the Seabees two and one-half : old age pension checks issued by years ago, decided to find out what | the county each month and dated his status might be under the G.I. j th e first of the ensuing month were Bill of Rights w h i c h General j being countersigned by the new Tyndall is now urging the civilian i treasurer on Friday so that they defense organization to support , may g Q into the mails on scheduled
returning veL tune. The state tax board delivered
Tatooing to hide facial scars of the wounded. 'How the ancient decorative art is being used today in medicine, from meding scarred parts of the fact to injecting pigments into the skin to prevent infections, will be told in an inter--esting article in The American Weekly, the magazine distributed with next week’s Sunday Chicago Herald-American.
and explain to
erans.
Throws “Hall” in Furor Calling at the city hall, Dienhart casually mentioned that he would like his old job back. That did it. The city hall was at once in a furor. The General referred Uienhart to Larry Parson’s, the General’s aide in charge of city hall area personnel mat-
ters.
After some study, “Colonel” Parsons came up with a “regulation” declaring that Dienhart had no status under the G.I. Bill of Rights because “the Democratic
city administration served ended Dec.
which time General Tyndall became commanding officer of the city hall “military area.” Tippecanoe county Selective Service Board No. 1, which processed Dienhart’s papers at the time of his enlistment, is reported to have disagreed with “Colonel” Parsons, advising that his reasons for refusing to reinstate Dienhart in his old job “are not applicable.”
Plans to Test Law
Veteran Dienhart, declaring that he would carry his case to Washington for consideration by “the general staff’ if necesary, said that he was not so much interested in his own case as he is in the cases of millions of others in the armed forces who are counting on getting their jobs back /when they return from service. “I intend to test the laws which are supposed to protect the returned veterans even if I have to appeal to Washington. If they are no good, we should know now, so we can get better laws,” Dienhart
added.
Dienhart’s case, if prosecuted by the former airport manager, may be filled with complications and military implications for General Tyndall and his staff. Winslow Holds Post Tyndall, upon activation of his commission as “Commanding General of Indianapolis” named Lieut. Col. Walker W. Winslow, a personal friend, as airport manager. Obviously, Colonel Winslow is in a position to be of far greater political assistance to General Tyndall than Petty Officer Dienhart, late of the U.S. Navy, would be if Dienhart were to be restored to the job.' Dienhart, of course, knows that if he should get his old job back, he would be personna non grata to the General and the General’s staff. And, he would expect, too, that his work under such condi(Continued On Page Three) Hutson Slated for High Appointment Thomas IR. Hutson, (State Labor Comtoissioner under the Democratic administration of Governor Henry F. Schrieker, is reported in dispatches ifrom Washington to he under consideration for an appointment to a high post In the Department of Labor. (Hutson has Ibeen extremely successful in his work as head of Indiana’s hard'hitting labor division and has attracted nation-wide attention by reason of the absence of serious ladhor disorders during his
tepure.
( Hutson was first appointed during the Townsend administration. His successor, it appears, may be a Lake county (Republican labor
leader,,
AVERY DENIES BACK PAYMENTS
400 U. S. Servicemen, Employees Of Ward And Co. Are Victims
the 1945 intangible tax stamps also Friday in the amount of $60,750. They were receipted into the treasurer’s office by Lester E. Holloway and will be turned over to Parkinson on Monday. The new stamps .will go on sale January 2nd instead of the 10th as usually done
each year.
The 1944 intangible tax stamps remain on sale until January 10th at which time they must be returned to the state tax board. Parkinson was sworn in office last TuesI day and filed his bond as both city
in which hel and count y treasurer in the amount 31 1942” at $100,000. The new prosecutor
and deputy was also sworn in office the first part of this week and ready to assume their duties on
January 1st.
The county commissioner’s board will retain the same political complexion as at present since both the retiring commissioner and the new official are Democrats while the other two members of the board are Republicans. Hugh Botkin who has served as president of the board during the past year has another year yet to serve and then will be replaced by Paul Aubrey, Democrat, at which time the majority members will be Democrats. The sheriff’s office will not change until another year when Sam Gray, former sheriff, will return to that office to succeed Charles Snodgrass. Gray was elected on the Democratic ticket last November but the office is a holdover and will not assume his duties until January 1, 1946. The 1946 session of the Indiana General Assembly which convenes next week at Indianapolis will have two new representatives from Delaware county but will retain the same senate membership. Marker Sunderland will begin his third four year term as state senator while the two new Democratic legislators include Claude Becktell and J. Erwin Walsh. It might be considered co-inci-dental that Lester E. Holloway Ivill check out January first as county treasurer to Hubert L. Parkinson. Ten years ago on that same date, Holloway checked out at the city controller’s office to Parkinson who succeeded him in that office. Holloway served five years as city controller and is completing six years as county treasurer, four of which have been successive during the past four years. —o—* — It is full of humor and drama in the period when railroads and industries first began appearing in the Midwest.
Four hundred members of the armed servioes are among the Detroit smployes of Montgomery Ward Company who are being denied back pay awarded the workers by the War Labor Board. The WLB decision has been upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court but Montgomery Ward ' and its president, Sewell Avery, continue in defiant refusal to comply. The United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employes Union, CIO, is the bargaining agent for the workers. The union, assisted by financial contributions from the UAW-CIO, the Steelworkers and other CIO unions, has been carrying on a vigorous organization drive. $500,000 Due in Back Pay Avery, who last year had to be carried out of his Chicago plant rather than admit his employes were protected by the same laws governing the rest of the citizens of the U. S., has refused since December, 1942, to grant wage increases of from $2 to $5 a week, as directed by the WLB. The total amount of back pay coming to the Detroit workers, including men now in service, is around $500,000. Avery puts his profits above his patriotism and refuses to pay a cent as directed by the Federal Government. After waiting around for two years, the Detroit employes finally walked out of the company’s four Detroit stores to try to get com pliance with the WLB order. The. WLB award, in addition to the wage increases, provided for a maintenance of membership provi sion, dues checkoff, seniority and arbitration grievances. George F. Addes, International (Continued On Page Three) —— o — FDR Approves Family Pensions Washington, D. C. — President Roosevelt has approved legislation providing pensions for widows and children of World War I veterans and who were not suffering a service connected disability at the time of death. Under a former law, only dependents of veterans with service connected deaths or disabilities were eligible for pensions. To be eligible under the new law, a widow must have an income less than $1,000, if childless and less than $2,500 if she has children. The law provides monthly pensions of $35 for a widow, $45 for a widow with one child and $5 for each additional child, $18 for one child and no widow, $27 for two children and no widow, $36 for three children and no widow and $4 for each additional child.
* Is Lauer On the Skids? Continuation of talk among Indiana Republicans that John Lauer, who was selected by Ralph Gates and Bob Lyons to succeed Gates as G.O.P. state chairman is being considered for the high office of Republican national chairman has brought repercussihns. The result of the talk, in the face of definite knowledge that no one outside Indiana thinks Lauer big enough for the national chairmanship, has created the belief in some quarters that Lauer is “being prepared for the grease skids.” Just who it is that wants to get him out of the office of the state chairman is not quite apparent. But it is a fact that some selfish interests in the party feel he must go to make way for someone more experienced. The name of James L. “Boss” Bradford, ruthless Eleventh district G.O.P. chairman, has been mentioned.