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CRIME PARLEY HEARS ATTACK ON POLITICIANS Efforts of Law Enforcement Agents Often Hampered, Hoover Says. SLAIN OFFICERS LAUDED Dillinger and His Kind Are Vermin of Worst Type, He Asserts. B>t t nitrtl Print WASHINGTON. Dec. 11.—Law enforcement agencies in their drive to eradicate potential John Dillingers and Baby Face Nelsons are hampered by political pressure, J. Edgar Hoover, chief of Justice Department investigators, told the National Crime Conference this afternoon. “Until political pressure is doomed and until there arrives a continual state of co-operation between all arms of law enforcement,” Mr. Hoover said, “we must regard eradication of gangs like those of Dillinger and others as transitory phases of a condition which can change overnight.”
Lauds Average Officer Mr. Hoover heads the Federal forces that killed Dillinger, Nelson, and other public enemies. He was the first speaker at today’s sessions of the conference called to bring Federal, state and local agencies into close co-operation and establish a national institute of criminology requested by President Roosevelt. Desperadoes like Dillinger. said Mr. Hoover, "did not spring fullfledged into the ranks of big-time criminals. Their beginnings were lowly. They were vermin of the worst types." He said officers should be able to arrest a man without having their arm stayed by the more powerful hand of some politician. He paid tribute, none the less, to the average American law officer, saying that he usually was honest, rarely yielded to temptation and nearly always was courageous even to death. Eulogizes Slain Agents “No man can give more," Mr. Hoover continued, eulogizing Federal agents who have been slain this year in battles with public enemies. “There was no furling of flags when they died, no pomp and ceremony. No riderless horse followed by star-spangled caissons as they pursued their course to their final resting place. Yet they had died in the service of their country, died in warfare, to the spurt of flame and the whine of deadly bullets.” Previously America's leading crime experts had laid the groundwork for a National Institute of Criminology, dedicated to pursuing President Roosevelt's ideal of a crimeless Nation. President's Hope Outlined The President indicated by inference in an address before the Attorney Generals Conference on crime that such an ideal perhaps was impossible of attainment, but said: “During the past two years there have been uppermost in our minds the problems of feeding and clothing the destitute, making secure the foundations of our agricultural, industrial and financial structures, and releasing and directing the vital forces that make for a healthy national life. Asa component part of the large objective we include our constant struggle to safeguard ourselves against the attacks of the lawless and the criminal elements of our population." Directing his remarks to the 600 law officers, judges, and attorneys assembled in Constitutional Hall last night Mr. Roosevelt urged them to create an anti-crime organization composed of Federal, state and municipal law enforcement agencies.
SAFETY BOARD NAMES TWO NEW POLICEMEN Four Officer* Get Promotions to Higher Ranks. The Board of Safety today appointed two new men to the police force and conferred promotions on several members of force. Two men were retired because of illness. The new policemen are Raymond T. Porter. 27, of 747 N. Emerson-av, and Spurgeon Davenport. 23. Negro. 1318 N. Capitol-av. Retired,'effective Saturday, were Patrolmen William Roeder and John Mosley. Dennis Reilly and E. J. McCormick were promoted from first class patrolmen to detective sergeants; Charles R. Teak from a first class patrolman to a uniform sergeant, and Sergeant Pat McMahon to a lieutenancy. Times Index Page Bridge 8 Broun 13 Business News 15 Comic* 21 Crossword Puzzle 21 Curious World 21 Drawing Lesson 17 Editorial 14 Financial 20 Hickman—Theaters 17 Pegler 13 Radio 15 Sports 18-17 State News 12 Woman's Pages 8-9 Purdue Professor Dies By t’nlted Preti LAFAYETTE. Ind.. Dec. 11 Professor George E. Reed, 31, of the physics department at Purdue University, died late yesterday from pneumonia.
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With the spectacular ‘‘public enemies” on the run as a consequence of the shoot-to-kill policy. Federal authorities have turned their attention to the even more vicious drug traffic. Harry J. Anslinger, Narcotics Bureau Director, and Louis Ruppel, Assistant Narcotics Commissioner, who directed raids that caused the arrest of hundreds of suspects and the seizure of large quantities of drugs from coast to coast, are pictured in Washington as they studied reports from raiding agents.
NEW YORK TO OPEN ARMORIES TO IDLE DURING COLD SNAP
By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 11.—New York planned to open its armories to the destitute this afternoon as the city entered its fifth day of below freezing weather. A heavy snow fall tonight was predicted and gales at sea delayed arrival of Transatlantic liners. Mayor F. H. La Guardia announced that stations will be opened in all parts of the city within two weeks where coffee and doughnuts will be given free to all who apply.
80 POLICE DETAILED TO GUARD^HOPPERS Pickpockets and Shoplifters to Be Watched. To protect shoppers from pickpockets and merchants from shoplifters, Police Chief Mike Morrissey today assigned 80 policemen and policewomen to the downtown area. They were instructed to keep a sharp watch for any irregularities. Thirty-eight of them are in uniform and others in plain clothes. Downtown merchants have lost thousands of dollars worth of merchandise through the activities of shoplifters who work under the cover of large crowds. ChierMorrissey reiterated that he has instructed his men to be lenient with shoppers who may park overtime through an error in calculation. giving them an overtime allowance, but that there would be no cases of a 11-day parking without being tagged. College President Is Dead. R>j United Press BALTIMORE. Dec. 11.—Dr. P. C. Ricketts, 78. president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and nationally known educator, died here yesterday after an illness of .hree weeks.
Legion Head Sees Bonus Pay men t as Good Banking Financier Himself, Commander Belgrano Speaks Frankly of His Dual Position. BY VINCENT LYONS Times Financial Editor Being a banker and a bonus advocate at one and the same time may infer chameleon characteristics to some people, but to Frank N. Belgrano Jr., American Legion National Commander, who is both, the job is not the least bit embarrassing. Seated at his desk in Legion Headquarters here. Banker-Command-er Belgrano spoke frankly of his dual position of banker and bonus
advocate. In the silent company of George Washington, the leader of America’s first army who also had a bonus problem, and the 19 past commanders of the American Legion, whose portraits adorned the wall. Mr. Belgrano reiterated his position on the bonus question. “I am a business man,” he says, "and I can’t speak any language but the language of business. I have said it before, and I repeat it now. I stand squarely behind the resolution adopted by the American Legion convention at Miami for the payment of the adjusted service certificates, ancl in doing so I do I
Think Today of Those Little Ones—Shivering —in Rags
HERE is a challenge to folk of Indianapolis. It is something we have never seen in Clothe-A-Child of The Indianapolis Times in four yearly campaigns. It happens this way— A shopper for Clothe-A-Child was sent to a West Side home with instructions to bring in three children to clothe. The shoppe- followed instructions. He brought them in—but not until he had made a house-to-house canvass in that poor district for clothing sufficient to keep the iced sidewalks from freezing their feet. They had no stockings, no shoes. A pair of neighbor’s galoshes served as foot gear for one boy. A feminine reporter of The Times V *
LEAGUE QUELLS BALKANFEARS Yugoslavia, Hungary Accept Plan; War Fright Leaves Europe. By United Press GENEVA, Dec. 11, —An international crisis that had been growing graver and graver for nine weeks since a Croatian terrorist shot King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseille was liquidated today and European fears of an imminent war were dispelled for the moment. A Yugoslavian charge that Hungary was morally responsible for Alexander’s murder was placed in the realm of diplomacy as opposed to the challenge of battle after a brief, strained session of the League Council. Both the Yugoslavian and Hungarian delegates expressed satisfaction with terms of a resolution adopted by the Council in which Hungary is asked to “take immediate and appropriate punitive action against any of its authorities whose guilt may be established” as regards the harboring of Croatian terrorists on Hungarian soil or the issue of Hungarian passports to some of the terrorist gang which, it is charged, plotted Alexander’s murder. BOGUSI/lONEY WARNING SOUNDED BY FEDERALS 12 Counterfeit SI Bills Found Here, Secret Service Says. Christmas shoppers this afternoon were warned by United States Secret Service operatives to be on the watcn for counterfeit $1 bills. The agents said that a dozen such bogiis bills have been turned in during the last two weeks. They said the bills are fair counterfeits but may be ascertained by their faded and washed look.
not have to compromise with my business conscience, "The press has been filled with offers of a compromise. My answer to than is short and brief. There is no compromise to make. I have a mandate from the organization I lead. I shall follow it to the letter. It is not the side which feels that its cause is righteous that comes forward with offers of an armistice. It invariably is the side that knows its cause is lost.” “Our position is that the payment (Turn to Page Three)
provided another pair of galoshes. Clothing hung upon them like dishrags. One boy wore a coat hacked to ribbons and the ribbons showed that the coat was too large for him in its more plutocratic days. Coal-dust, blotted out their expressions. They tried smiling through the soot. Somehow the smiles did come through and why or how they came through was beyond understanding. a m u “T’VE seen a lot of them m my 1 time.” said the hardened shopper. "but this beats me. I've taken them out of families where perhaps only one needed stockings and shoes, but three of them barefooted—l That's one for the boot”
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1934
NRA IS ‘DEADER THAN A DODO,’ ASSERTS GEN. HUGH JOHNSON
By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 11. —The NRA is “as dead as a dodo,” Gen. Hugh Johnson, former NRA administrator, said today. Gen. Johnson admitted that business was better, but said he did not think the NRA was responsible. An interviewer in a department store where Gen. Johnson was autographing copies of boys’ books he wrote years ago asked whether he meant the NRA was “as dead as a doornail.” “I said,” Gen. Johnson explained with a smile, “it was as dead as a dodo and that is extinct and deader than any doornail.”
INDIANA OBSERVES 118TH ANNIVERSARY Programs Held in Every State Community. One hundred and eighteen years ago today, Dec. 11, President James Madison approved a congressional act providing that Indiana oecome the 19th state in the United States. Every community in Indiana is celebrating the event with appropriate programs. In a proclamation Gov. Paul V. McNutt said that statehood, which came only after a five-year fight for recognition, “marked the end of two centuries and more of strife and uncertainty in the Indiana region w r hich Indians had made a hunting grounds and battlefield, “The building of the state has been the work of generations of men and women, worthy of being remembered,” he said, “who opened the wilderness to settlement, established means of travel and transportation with the rest of the world, developed diversified cultivation of the earth, built factories and made memorable contributions to science, to the arts and to letters.” right"turn on "red - LIGHT TO GET TRIAL New Signs to Authorize Traffic Experiment by City. Signs authorizing motorists to turn right on red traffic lights at certain corners will be placed within the next few days as result of action taken by the Board of Safety today. Right turns, as an experiment, will be permitted at only intersections where the signs are mounted on the traffic signals. wageTTncrease given New York Firm Raises Employes' Pay 20 Per Cent. By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 11.—The 120, employes of the D. A. Schulte, Inc., received a Christmas surprise today —A 20 per cent ttage increase, effective immediately, ancl retroactive to Dec, 1. The wage advance will apply to all classes of employes it was announced. Federal Employes to Elect Officers will be elected at the meeting of Local No. 78, National Federation of Federal Employes, at 7:30 Friday in the Lincoln.
A few hours later those children were bom again—in Clothe-A-Child. They were dressed in warm garb. Feet that had not knowm shoes for more than a month were upon them. Stockings encased those legs chapped into red cracked lines. This and many other surprises are awaiting you in Clothe-A-Child. The campaign has curlyheads. freckled-faced youngsters. The chords of poverty and unemployment are played in all the scales from North Side homes that never felt want before, to other homes that hardly have known a meal, a piece of clothing, that has not had charity indelibly printed upon it,
SCORES FEARED DEAD IN HOTEL FIRE AT LANSING
Mercury Hits Toboggan, Skids to 6 Above; Needy Families Are Hard Hit Near-Zero Weather Brings Suffering to Scores of Poor; Motoring Hazardous, Many Take to Busses and Street Cars; Rising Temperature Forecast. Indianapolis shivered today in the coldest weather the city has experienced thus far this year, the mercury slumping to 6 degrees above zero at 6 and 7 a. m. today. The near-zero snap came unexpectedly, resulting from the clearing skies yesterday, according to J. H. Armington, local meteorologist, who
FEENEY SLATED FOR MELOY JOB Morrissey May Replace Safety Director, Is Indication. A1 G. Feeney, state safety director, will be appointed United States Marshal and be succeeded by Police Chief Mike Morrisey in the state post, according to reports gaining credence this afternoon. Mr. Feeney, at odds for some time with Pleas Greenlee, the State Administration Patronage Chief, gained his appointment through the influence of United States Senator Frederick Van Nuys. The last two days fight in Washington between Senator Van Nuys and Governor Paul V. McNutt over the latter’s alleged grab at congressional patronage, is said to have brought the Feeney situation to a head. The term of Alf Meloy, Republican and present marshal, expires early next year. Senator Van Nuys had designated Omer S. Jackson, now Democratic state chairman, for the post. However, Mr. Jackson has not been mentioned since his selectiev* a? state chairman. Mayor-Elect John W. Kern has recommended to the city Safety Board the retention of Chief Morrissey. If he should take over the state safety directorship, as rumors persist, it is reported Capt. John Mullen will be appointed city police chief.
TODAY’S WEATHER
Hourly Temperatures 6a, m 6 10 a. m 13 7a. m 6 11 a. m 16 Ba. m 7 12 (noon).. 18 9 a. m 11 1 p. m 20 Tomorrow’s sunrise, 6:58 a. m.; sunset, 4:20 p. m. f In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: North-northwest wind, eight miles an hour: barometric pressure, 30.42 at sea level; temperature, 11; general conditions, overcast; ceiling, estimated 3000; visibility, seven miles. CITY LAD LOSES FINGER Catches Digit in Washing Machine; Taken to Hospital. Playing about his mother’s washing machine this afternoon. Donald Wolfla, 3, of 1050 Chadwick-st, caught his left index finger in the swirling machine and the digit was smashed off, according to police. Donald was taken to City Hospital where his condition was described as fair.
21 Are Named to Prosecutor’s Staff; Helen Stockton Designated Secretary
Appointment of twenty-one additional members of his official staff today was announced by Herbert M. Spencer, Prosecutor-elect. The list included designation of Miss Helen B. Stockton as a Deputy Prosecutor and Mr. Spencer’s secretary. and the appointment of Miss Lucille A. Smith, now grand jury stenographer, as a Deputy Prosecutor and secretary to Henry O. Goett, who had been appointed grand jury deputy on Mr. Spencer’s staff. Last night Mr. Spencer announced eight appointments of deputies, in-
IT is the surprise of Christmas with its giving of one’s self to a boy or girl of the city who is in need. Community Fund relief agencies and the social service department of the Indianapolis public schools assure you of their need through The Times. If you want a boy or girl to clothe just call Riley 5551. If you haven't the time, then The Times will clothe the child for you. You send the cash and the child will be dressad'-aT your request and his name furnished to you after he or she is clothed. You too can go into city homes and see today what The Times shopper saw. You can watch smiles grow as garment after gar-
forecast continued fair weather, with slowly rising temperature tonight and tomorrow. At 1 p. m. the mercury had risen 14 degrees, to 20. The lowest temperature expected tonight is 10 above zero. The frigid weather brought suffering to hundreds of poor families, welfare organizations being flooded with requests for fuel and warmer clothing. Scores of motorists were unprepared for the sudden drop in temperature and steaming automobile radiators were numerous. Motoring continued hazardous, pavements being glazed with ice as result of the week-end's heavy snowfall. Increased business was reported on street cars and busses as result of motorists leaving their cars in their garages. The lowest official reading in the State was at Marion, where the Government thermometer registered 1 below early today. Ft. Wayne reported 4 above, and Terre Haute and Evansville 12 above. Transportation service was slowed up but not enough to create any particular hardships. All State highways are open for traffic, the highway commission reported, although many of them have been made hazardous by ice. The worst conditions prevail in the northwest and southwest sections. La Porte reported ice on the highways north of Road 30. The Ft. Wayne district reported roads clear with the exception of icy stretches in the vicinity of Goshen and South Bend. Ice and three inches of snow were reported from the Vincennes district.
Blizzard Hits Chicago By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—Winter made a freakish checkerboard of the United States today. A blizzard 20 miles square struck Chicago, ocean liners plowed into New York hours late in mountainous seas, snow flew over the southland and temperatures plummeted as far west as the Rockies. Twenty snowplows and 2.000 men had made only slight impression this morning on 12 inches of snow which tied Chicago traffic into knots while suburbs on three sides of the city basked in sunlight. Three men died and a policeman lost both legs in a traffic accident in the storm, which the weather bureau characterized as the most severe in six years. Snow drifted four feet deep on Michigan-blvd, Lake Shore-dr, Sheridan-rd and South Shore-dr at the height of the rush hour last night. Thousands of motor cars, wheels spinning helplessly or sparks weakened by snow sifting through radiators, stalled on arterial highways. The blizzard centered on the Loop and extended no more than 15 miles in any direction except the South. Thermometer readings fell steadily, while in states all around Weather Bureau forecasters predicted a rise. The temperature this morning was 10 above zero, a drop of eight degrees in 12 hours.
cluding that of Edward H. Kruse, a sergeant in the Indianapolis Police Department. Mr. Spencer’s latest appointments are: Louis P. M. Adams to be deputy in charge of general court proecutors. John M. Kelley, now deputy clerk in Superior Court, room 5, to be deputy prosecutor in Criminal Court. Louis M. Murchie to be general courts deputy. Edward H. Kruse, to be a deputy prosecutor.
ment is fitted to little bodies that know how cold winter can really get. Donors to the campaign, bringing the total up to 72 children warm outfits, follow: Theta Phi Sorority, riri. Golden Link Sunday School clays, Capitol Arenue Methodist Church, three children. Indianapolis Naval Recruit Station. Officers and Ensisted Men, *irl. In Memory ol Father Gavisk, two children.* Indianapolis Times carriers, sub-sta-tion 3-C, boy. Delta Phi Theta Fraternity, boy. Pennhoff Grille, Patrons and Employe*, boy and firL Three Girls ta Stats Gross Incense Tax Office, Ctrl. , lOttar Peaor* a rift Sfc
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Seven Bodies Recovered, Police and Fire Officials Say Many More Victims May Be Found in Search of Ruins. TWENTY LEAP INTO ICY RIVER Five Legislators Lose Their Lives in Blaze; Confusion and Panic Add Greatly to Cost in Life, Officers Fear. By United Press LANSING, Mich., Dec. 11.—In the smoldering ruins of the Hotel Kerns, police and fire officials this afternoon sought to learn the enormity of the death toll in the conflagration which destroyed Lansing’s third largest hotel early today. From guests who escaped they learned of the utter confusion which existed when 200 men and women were awakened to find their hotel a raging inferno. Confusion and panic, they are convinced, add&i greatly to the cost in life. At noon the list of identified dead was only six and only one other body had been recovered, but fear was expressed that when the debris is thorouhgly explored the toll will mount to half a hundred.
SLAIN MINISTER STILLJNBURIED The Rev. Gaylord Saunders’ Body Kept in Receiving Vault Here. The body of the Rev. Gaylord V. Saunders, for whose murder his wife, Mrs. Neoma Saunders, is on trial for her life in Lebanon, never has been buried, it was learned this afternoon. Since Mrs. Saunders went to the mortuary of Royster & Askin, 1902 N. Meridian street, shortly after the murder and left funds for the burial, the body has remained in a sealed receiving vault. According to Clifford G. Askin, funeral director, the slain minister’s body has not been buried because of instructions received by him from Coroner William E. Arbuckle. Today Coroner Arbuckle said he had presumed the body had been buried at Wabash, Ind., where Mr. Saunders had been pastor of the Wabash M. E. church. Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson, whose office is prosecuting Mrs. Saunders and Theodore (Ted) Mathers, on charges of murder, said he understood that for a short time after the murder, the body had been held by the police authorities pending investigations to determine whether or not the minister had beer poisoned and then shot. According to Mr Askin, the minister’s body was brought to his Meridian-st mortuary by police. Mrs. Saunders called, he said, and left the money. While she was in the mortuary arranging for the burial, he said, detectives took her to police headquarter for questioning. Originally, according to Mr. Askin, plans had been made for cremation of the body. This, according to the funeral director, was not permitted by Chief Mike Morrisey and Coroner Arbuckle, who directed retention of the body in the sealed receiving vault. Prosecutor Wilson agreed with the coroner that as far as their offices are concerned there is no necessity for holding the body in connection with the prosecution of Mrs. Saunders.
Other deputies appointed are: William C. Kern, Ferd Bom, Humphrey C. Harrington, R. H. B. Smith, Negro, a deputy in charge of divorce prosecutions: Harry B. Perkins, son of Edgar A. Perkins, State Industrial Board member; Joseph N. Howard, Leo O’Connor, Francis E. Thomason, now secretary to Appellate Judge William Bridewell; David Lewis, Lawrence; John G. McNutt, Peter Cancilla and Louis Smith. Miss Rose Brennan and Elva Bowers were named record clerks at police headquarters. Also included in the appointments was the selection of Marie Lienhart as stenographer. Miss Stockton will succeed Miss Bertha Furstenberg. who has been secretary to Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson, who will become Superior Judge, Room 5. Mr. Kern. Mr. Bom and Mr. Harrington will be prosecutors in Superior, Circuit and Probate Courts, Mr. Spencer announced. Today’s appointments are in ad- ! dition to these announced a short ; time after election, when Mr. SpenI cer named Oscar C. Hagemier, now grand jury deputy, to the position of chief deputy prosecutor in place of Floyd J. Mattiee, who will become city attorney; Edward C. Brennan, assistant prosecutor, and James A. Watson, commercial cases deputy. City Clerk Henry O. Goett then was named grand jury deputy prosecutor. V
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At noon the United Press had tabulated a list of little more than a hundred persons known to have been registered last night. The remaining hundred were taken into other hotels, cases and private homes and could not be counted. Police issued a city-wide appeal for survivors to report to assist in tabulating the loss of fire. The fire was discovered at about 5:15 a. m. and the stiucture was I already flaming out of control. Firemen directed their first efforts toward rescue rather than combating the blaze.
Rescues Pitifully Few Compared with the size of ths death list, rescues were pitifully few. Those on the streets saw desperate faces appear at windows and then . disappear in the flames and smoke. Perhaps a score leaped into the icy waters of the Grand River as the flames trapped them. Three of these were rescued, according to police reports, and two bodies were recovered. Others leaped from windows on to the icy rvivement to meet injury or death. The disaster cast a pall upon the State Legislature, convening in special session. Four members of the House of Representatives are listed as identified dead and at least one State Senator is believed to have died in his room. 1' was the legislative session which resulted in the crowded condition o J . the hotel which was filled to the capacity of its 219 rooms last night when prospective guests were turned away. The evening had been spent in revelry which lasted almost to the hour the flames were discovered. Survivors said they had little chance of escape. Almost unanimously they said that they opened the doors of their rooms to face a wall of flame. Ruins Still Smoldering The fire started in the front of the hotel and was swept toward the rear by a brisk wind. Those living in the rear were forced to flee to windows and doors overlooking the Grand River into which many of them leaped. At noon the ruins still were smoldering, but firemen said they hoped to begin their grewsome search later in the day. William Redhed. assistant fire chief, was in command of the first detachment to reach the scene. He said that the screams of the trapped guests were "horrifying.” Eight perrons jumped to safety into nets while others were rescued with ladders. Lansing doctors responded to calls for emergency aid for the dozens who were rushed to hospitals. The Red Cross broadcast an appeal for the assistance of nurses. Senator Believed Victim In addition to the knowm victims, it was felt certain that State Senator John Leidlein of Saginaw had lost his life. Senator Charles B. Asselin of Bay City told of attempting to awaken him and of being forced to flee himself before being able to do so. Os the bodies recovered, the following were identified: State Rep. John W. Good wine of Marlette, whose body was taken from the Grand River. State Rep. Don E. Sias of Midland. State Rep. Henry M. Howlett of Gregory. Israel Wishneff of Los Angeles. McFarland, Battle Creek, salesman. The missing and believed dead are: David Monroe, her-’ manager. State Senator J m Leidlein of Saginaw.
STORES OPEN UNTIL 6 A majority of the downtown retail stores this afternoon announced that beginning J Saturday they will remain open until 6 p. m. instead ' 5:30 p. m., in order to * care of the Christmas ping throngs.