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PRESS FLAILS CLERIC ATTACK ON. EX-RULER:
Archbishop's Ser Sermon Over Radio Is Subject of Caustic Comment.
AMERICAN GROUP IRKED
Court Circles Worry Over Possibility of Bowing to Wallis.
Life of George VI, Page 3; Princess Elizabeth, Born Ruler, Page 17.
By United Press LONDON, Dec. 15.—Edward, Duke
of Windsor, continued today to overshadow the brother who replaced him on the throne.
People who had accepted -Edward's abdication as perhaps best for all concerned, both himself and his subjects, rose stoutly to his deiense against his detractors, The venerable Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church ot England, was the principal object of attack for his broadcast attacking Edwardvand his Anglo-American circle .of friends. “The clergy should specify the persons they accuse—or else show some restraint they preach about,” said the Independent Daily Express, chief organ of the powerful Beaverbrook chain of newspapers.
Paper Quotes Mail
“Our post bag contains many letters protesting that the Archbishop’s broadcast criticising King Edward was untimely and even unChristian,” commented the News Chronicle, organ of the Liberal party. “We are certain the country would not wish Edward VIII to be judged on the basis of whispered slander which can not be stated in a form in which the man most concerned ean answer it, Edward VIII has gone. To pursue the campaign can bring no benefit to the cause of monarchy or to Christian charity.” The Daily Mirror, of the Rothermere newspaper - chain,. said of broadcasts such as the Archbishop's: “Solemnity of utterance, pompous moralizing, heavy warnings—do you want more of them?” Members of the American colony were thoroughly an that some of their number should hitve been included—as known members of - Edward's circle of friends—in the Archbishop's rebuke.
Court Circles Disturbed
As perturbed as the Archbishop and Edward's defenders, were some people in court circles who wondered if at some future time they might have to give place to: Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson as Duchess of Windsor. There is no precedent for Edward's abdication, and his place as a royal duke will have to be fixed—but certainly it will be ahead of all non-royal dukes. Whatever the position may be, for many it will be hard to face.
GROCERY FIRE LEAVES MATCHES UNDAMAGED
A fire, believed to have started from an overheated refrigeration motor, destroyed a quantity of canned goods in a frame storeroom in the rear of Shad's Grocery, 3408 N. Capitol-av, early today. The damage was unestimated. Fifteen cases of matches in the room were the only merchandise undamaged by the fire.
PROMOTIONS URGED BY CHIEF MORRISSEY
Chief Morrissey . today recommended that the Safety Board advance Patrolmen John E. Ambuhl, James a Senteney and Joseph G. Commisky to the rank of sergeant. He recommended that Patrolmen Thomas A. Aulls, Clifford F. Beeker, Howard L. Sanders, Paul A. Tay- |. lor, Oren L. Mangus and Willis Thompson be advanced to acting detective sergeants. He also recommended that Acting Sergeants George Baker and Edward E. Miers be reduced to patrolmen.
Discusses Wedding a
Makes | Plans . for F ~ Future|
Edward Emphatic in His Reactions to Sermon By Archbishop. .
By United Press - ENZESFELD, Austria, Dec. 18.— The Duke of Windsor, happier than he ever was as Prince of Wales or King Edward VIII, discussed with friends at Enzesfeld Castle today his plans to marry Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson and his hopes for the future. He telephoned Mrs. Simpson just after midnight this morning, and went to bed to rise at noon. Today was spring-liker and the Duke planned to play nine holes of golf this afternoon. His mood was an exuberant one after reading a bundle of letters from Mrs. Simpson, brought to him from Cannes by his gentleman-in-waiting, Lord Brownlow, and an evening in the tastle library answering them. He may have known that, according to tradition, whatever is done in the library of the ancient castle is bound to succeed.
Answers Church Attacks
The Duke has learned of the attacks made on his manner of life by the Archbishop of Canterbury and other British notables, and has been emphatic in ‘his reaction. He believes, it was learned, that future generations—even if not his own, will agree that he did the right and manly thing in abdicating lis throne to marry Mrs. Simpson—*“the woman I love.” His view is that his alternative fo seeking Mrs. Simpson’s hand when she obtains her final divorce decree would have been a loveless marriage which he angrily compares to the breedihg of pedigreed animals. He argues that such marriages are ‘immoral, unnatural and disastrous .to the dynasties which insist on them as well as to the individuals concerned. He feels that his romance with Mrs. 8i on is a proper one and that his love for her is hardly less sublime than his love for his mother as a child; that frankness and honesty in high places are much to be preferred than hypocrisy for the sake of appearances, as he put it. Ee considers divorce in loveiess marriages to be a natural escaps {rom a situation he regards as both
{immoral and degrading, 8H eS
Spirits Hit New High "Already. buoyant from -his Jetti-
sohing of the cares and strain. 0d.
royal ‘position, Edward's spirits’ hit a new high today after his pe= rusal of the létters: which Iord Brownlow brought from Mrs. Simpson. The former monarch radiated good will toward every one. He was up late last night writing his answers and Lord Brownlow was expected to leave for Cannes with them today. It is learned that he ’ likes to discuss plans for his ‘marriage with his hosts, Baron and Baroness
‘Eugene De Rothschild, who know
Mrs. Simpson well. Ad ieaiions are that the wedding: w a private one at a ace t to be selected. ® ye
SLAYER OF FRIEND ENDSLIFE IN CELL
Jealousy Was Motive, Notes Left by Girl Say.
By United Press MASON, Mich., Dec. 15.—Suicide notes found in her Ingham County Jail cell shortly after Hope Morgan, 25, hanged: herself today explained that “jealousy” prompted her to kill her life long chum, Elizabeth Ann Giltner, a week ago. The notes written on torn 'magazine covers in pencil were found shortly after jail attendants had cut down the body of the brownhaired slayer from a shower pipe in the cell
“Forgive me for what I did in’ ‘a one of them said.
jealous mood,” “May God forgive other. “I really thi going to have some would have.”
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‘Couple Holds Lor Xong. Phone Conversation; Map Their Program.
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By United Press
CANNES, Dec. 15.—Mrs. Wallis Simpson and the Duke of Windsor —Edward VII1 of Great Britain— talked at length on the telephone today and drafted their programs for the next few weeks, It was understood that the programs provided not only for separate Christmas celebrations but for a -continued separation for many weeks. It was disclosed also that Mrs. Simpson's refusal fo make statements or give interviews was the result of firm advice from Lord Brownlow, gentleman in waiting to Edward, who brought her ‘here and took to Edward a batch of correspondepce from her. : Angry at Attacks Edward's chauffeur, who drove Mrs. Simpson to Cannes, is returning.to London and Mrs. Simpson's
Mrs. Simpson and others at the villa, of Herman L. Rogers of New York, where she is a guest, are angry at the attacks of the Archbishop of Canterbury and other British’ clergymen on the former King’s. friends: Mrs. Simpson motored to: Nice this afternoon and visited the United States consulate in connection with the renewal of her passport. She abandoned her English chauf-
an unsuccessful effort to shake off reporters, A column of 10 automobiles frailed her to Nice.
Wallis Reported Unhappy
Over Abdication
* BY HELEN WORDEN Times Special Writer CANNES, Dec. 15.—Wallis Simpson is not happy, by ,any means, over: the abdication “of a British King who loves her. In my point of fact she feels that “even my own people: have let me down,” according to one of her close friends. She spent all of Sunday in the living room of the Rogers villa here, examining the flood of mail and.
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FIRE DAMAGES STRIP MINE By United Press SULLIVAN, Ind. Dec. 14.—Damage estimated at $50,000 was caused last night by fire of undetermined origin at the Minnehaha strip mine near Dugger.
BOB BURNS: | Says; «me LOST evry
letters from friends of mine sayin’ they hope I won’t change. I jest want to say, you don't have to worry about that. I see ‘nuff silly examples of people who have * changed to make me keep my feet on the ground. There ~used to be a rh that used to live in- the same flat buildin’ with us and I thought she
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Estimated 1428 Pounds of Choking ‘Dust Falls on Downtown Area.
HELD PERIL TO HEALTH
Aggravates Membranes, Dr. Morgan Says; Lack of Wind Blamed.
HOURLY TEMPERATURES ... 33 10a. m... 39 35 ‘11a. m... 48 35 12 (Noon). 50 a6 1pm... §
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-- Approximately 1428 pounds of soot, adulterated with sulphur and other minerals and buoyed by noxious gases, settled down over two square miles of downtown Indianapolis today and remained from 5:30 a. m. to 9:55 a. m.
It was so. dense that visibility around 7 a. m. was :less than a block, and it excluded the sun to all on the street. The sun beat upon roofs of taMest buildings, however, because the layer of smoke was about 160 feet deep. Every December, approximately 21,540 pounds of soot falls on the downtown mile square. Other square miles in the city each get almost as much.
December Worst Month
These statistics were compiled by ‘George Popp Jr., city building com= missioner and head of city smoke abatement activities. His calculations were made a year ago and showed that December was the worst soot month of the year. The smoke was particularly heavy today. There was no fog. When most industrial furnaces were being fired there was only a two-mile-an-hour wind blowing. When it freshened to six miles ‘an hour, shortly after 9:30 a. m., it began to blow the pall away to the residential sections.
AL Smoke Hed Injurious
gans or all" : “Such soot,” “Sggravates membranes that already are unhealthy: attacks those which have been healthy; and tends to push over into pneumonia those persons who have been lingering on the border of. it. »
BUILDING PERMITS | GO UP BY $18,796,
George R. Popp Jr., city puilding commissioner, today reported that permits for improvements issued last week topped, by $18,790 the number issued for the Same week last year. Total permits last week were 186 for a valuation of $119,026 and for the corresponding week last year were 136 for a valuation of $100,230. So far this year, the valuagions are. $3,232,128 greater than for the same period last year. Total this
Max Es Top 1935by - $1,385,000
|| 589 was in delinquent taxes.
| 548079 to the civil city; $2,-
1,385,567 the i 1935, County Auditor Charles A. Grossart. reported Jay, Total collections for 1935 ‘were $15088,825 and for 1936
said. Of the 1936 total, $1,208.
“The fall collection, just completed, brought $7,882931 to the county treasury. Main dis- + tributions of this are to be $1,-
296,014 ~ to ' the school city; $810,308 to’ the county, and $522,944 to the state.
was one of the finest girls I ever saw. Her sweetheart was a chauffeur ; and he used to call on her on his days off and she'd sit up in.the
" front seat with him and honk the
horn loudly and all the kids in the - neighborhood = would run down and git in this big car and
or maybe out in the country. Well, one day this chauffeur in-* troduced her to his boss. His boss liked her and married her and the chauffeur not only lost his girl, but he lost his job, too. I didn’t see her agin ’til jest the other day at the Automobile Show and she was buyin’ a car. She said “I want a ‘town car’ with a partition that shuts you of completely from the chaufeur.” . And she says “Please don't give me one of those loud, vulgar horns.” ¥ : The salesman said “What particular kind of horn would you like?” and she said “Can't you git
| year to date is $7,870,238.
APPEAL VERDICT ON SYNDICALISM
Attorneys for Paul Butash To Test State Actin Supreme Court.
An appeal. testing the constitu-:
tionality of Indiana's 18-year-old criminal syndicalism law was filed in the State Supreme Court today by attorneys for Paul Butash, Hun-garian-born American. Butash, a magazine salesman, was convicted in Steuben Circuit Court, Angola, and sentenced to” one : to five years in he Indiana State Prison. The state chatusd ‘he advocated the overthrow of government by force at a meeting May 19, 1936, the Tri-State College gymnasium. Butash testified at the trial that he urged the people to “force Congress to pass the Lundeen Social Se-
cuity Bill” by. lobbying for its en
actment. He also charged he was beaten and threatened wth “tar and feathers” by several persons ‘who arranged the meeting. rR Referred to Revolution State Bele testified Butash referred to the “1936 revolution” and advocated the use of force. The appeal was filed by John
Kingsbury, Indianapolis attorney for |
the American Civil Liberties Union. The Supreme court never has on She ‘law since its enactment, °
sn Morgan, City Health | 2} ke - screen - as today’s - was L OB the respiratory, Akwta
Dr. Morgan “said, | Bk
publish, sell a ment, book; circular, paper,’ Journal or ‘other written or printed com munication in or by which there advocated or incited the overthrow by force or violence, or by: physics] injury to personal property, or the general cessation of indus the government of the United : of the State. of Indiana; or Ie “The eainbic of the: Soi mentions the R on. ;
MARKETS AT A GLANCE By United Press Stocks higher in moderate trading. Bonds irregularly higher: United States government issues lower. Curb stocks irregularly higher. Chicago stocks irregularly higher. Cotton easy after early firmness. Grains lower,” wheat and corn more than a cent a She lower.
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Mary and May, Twin Girls, Seek-Aid of Clothe-A- Child
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‘We have twins! —And “we” in this case is “The
Baitaral,
Indianapolis Times Clothe-A-Child{ ¥Y
telling the world that the Christmas campaign has two curlyhéaded girls. They are named Mary and. May. Clothe-A-Child hopes that Mary and May wiil join other underprivil-
eged children - in receiving warm |!
wearing apparel for the New Year.
1936 |
One visit to Clothe-A-Child be-|
comes a novel come to life. Besides |
the twins there's - Marjorie,
(Coovright. 1936)
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the word “un
little girl who doesn’t know -what 1 derwear” Meaps-ghe's
CONFINED T0 HOME
were $16,474,392, Mr. Grossart ||
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Assembly ‘May ‘Be: Asked to A Amend Act, |
Is Report. COURT TEST 1s sTuoiep
Lawyer. in $15,000 Local Afienations Suit May Appeal Ruling.
BY ARCH. STEINEL ‘Repeal of Indiana's anti-“heart-balm” law ‘may be attempted at the 1937 session of the General Assembly in January, it was learned today. A move, according to some attorneys, is under way either to amend the act; so its effect is deadened, or Tepehl : it. The. measure was passed 1 a
preme Court is Seen a5 an alternative. ‘The test may “be based on a $15,000° suit now pending in: Superior Court 5, Marion County. Julian Bamberger, attorhey for the plaintiff, a man, said he may take the case to the ‘high court because of its broadness in covering the situation upon which he sued. The possible test case is redress sought by a. divorced husband who charges parents of: his former wife with alienating her affections. ‘New York Case Pending “The law was not intended to cover g situation like this,” Mr. Bamberger said. “If it: does ban the rights of persons who believe they're wronged from obtaining relief from courts, then itis my opinion the. law is unconstitutional.” . Superior Judge Herbert Wilson
he upheld the law as’ a defense | counsel demurred to the suit’s phraseology ‘and ‘contents in naming parties as defendénts to an alienation suit.
of reconsideration of the ruling.
New York, which pelterned its anti- Theariain* act after. Indi-
Los Angeles-Chicago Plane May Be Down § in utah.
Western Afr. ‘Express plane, carrys ing four passengers and a crew of three is missing between Salt Lake City and Milford, Utah, the air company reported today. Included in {he personnel of the craft is Gladys Witt, pretty air hostess,” who recently crashed front page headlines when she was unable to decide which of iwo men she would marry. Officials said no word had been received of the plane since 2:17
> |5. mn. They said if .was possils a
forced landing. had been made in the rough; thinly populated section and that the pilot had been unable to locate a telephone ‘and report ‘ his whereabouts,
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| Merry-Go- Ria. 18 Movies 6
| Possibility of a constitutional test | of ‘the law before" the Indiana Su-
dealt Mr. Bamberger a blow when |
Mr. Bamberger said he has. hope
THREE CENTS
Simms Says War With Japan Would Mean Chinese Doom.
SEES NIPPON GAIN
Writer Thinks Island Country Wants Foe To Be Aggressor.
(Editorial, Page 18)
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS © Times Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.— War between China and Japan —which “Young Marshal” Chang Hsueh-liang is trying to force his superior and captive, Kai-shek, to declare—would
| almost certainly doom China.
That is the real secret of the generalissimo’s steady retreat before Japan's persistent advance. Were China to declare war against
A Nippon. that would make the con-
flict. official. The advantages then would be all on the side of Japan. She has a rowerful, modern navy. China has not. She could blockade China dnd ‘shut’ her off from the rest of the world. She could occupy
the principal towns, whether treaty
ports ‘or. not. : Then, when China lay defeated— as she would unless Russia or some other great power came to her aid —Japan would dictate whatever terms of pesce she pleased. These almost certainly would spell the end .of Chinese sovereignty. Whatever territory Japan wanted, she would take, A maximum indemnity would be levied and the Chinese would be busy paying on it for a century to come. And w
cult to" move without stepping on the toes 6f the British or some other zealously: watching power. Thus far, Japan has ed she was merely ting’ interests.
Jujitsu. Jujitsu is the Japanese art of overcom by appearing fo yield.. This throws him off his balance, whereupon ‘a well-directed effort flattens him out. Japan Was Ready China’s strong man has been playing that sort of game with Japan for several years. He yielded in Manch , Jehol, Shanghai and elsewhfre, Japan was ready and
China was not;- ‘He has been play-
ing for time. To defeat Jap n he must have unity. He m have money. He must have oe have
tanks, modern munitions of all
kinds. He must: have a well-trained,
"| well-équipped army. Courage ‘the
Chinese have.” But they have-not yet been taught to kill with civilized precision and dispatch
lieved—perhaps too much—that the foreign situation might play into his hands. Everywhere there is talk
| of the inevitability of conflict be- {th tween Japan and the Soviet Union |c
Generalissimo Chiang
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foreign interests, . It has been diffi-
* her, own ‘nationals and:
Nobody knows. these jnings better ‘than Chiang. - Accordingly he long ago’ decided to. try to. beat Padh bythe: tq one of her own gamés— |" Fore
ing a stronger opponent |
from Shanghai that General issimo Chiang Kai-shek has been executed by Marshal Chang Hseuh-liang, former Manchurian dictator, because of Chiang’s refusal to declare immediate war on Japan. :
The Japanese agency said the “young general” broadcast the ans nouncement of his execution: of The generalissimo from Sian-Fu, in the mountain fastnesses of Shens} province in China's Far West. : Domei reported from Shanghal that Marshal Chang also announced he had killed Chiang’s bodyguard and accompanying officials, ‘include ing Chang. Too-pin former Chin amb: dor to Japan, Fear for Australian : Marshal Chang earlier had ‘been report; ; Kai-sh sonally would be responsible for or the safety of the generalissimo, hon he made prisoner in a bewil revolt at Sian-Fu last Saturdan: i Other Nanking . officers = | mei from Shanghai to executed at Bian. Py Incl
‘newspaper served. as al ng yo contidentinl: adviser : én, flew to Sian-<Fu as’ ‘Nane
=
he Nanking leaders a con= cerned now also about the saféty ald . They had expected word
was onjectural. He said, a any Chinese already believed
marked time pending de tails on the doubtful developments at Sian-Fu, where Marshal Chang demanded immediate war with Japan and the readmittance of the Chinese Communists into the Kuo= ‘mintang (Pecple’s Party) ’ and China's armies. None knew whether Moscow: was ed, as alleged indirectly. in
advices from Nanking on the re generals” rebellion and seizure
~~Chiang has also hoped and 'be- | been