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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1936

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VOLUME 48—=NUMBER 247

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EST YULETIDE d Christmas With Absorbing Toys Comes to Dionnes

IN YEARS HELD ASSURED HERE

Parties Held for Children:

Many Food Baskets Distributed.

SPECIAL CHURCH RITES

Dav Promises to Be Fair; Last-Minute Shoppers Crowd Stores.

eather, mixing a touch a benevolent sun, t Indianapolis in what the most jovous istmas in many

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Services in Churches

todav was ready to trim Christmas tree, place its gifts at the base of it, and a week-end of abundant enerosity and grateful worship. Services in the city's churches, with candle light and soothing in the harmony of religious musical masterpieces, will reach a climax al midnight The background for the special comfort holiday season enjovs has been told for weeks in financial statements of manufacturers and business in announcements ol bonuses and earnings, in stories ol

MCTreasSes Postofice Rushed

For the third consecutive day letters passing through the Indianpolis postoffice canceling machines | xceeded 1,000,000 pieces, Postmast- | Adolph Seidensticker said. It failed to equal the all-time record | set Tuesday, however. | The volume of parcel post han- | dled exceeded figures for the previous two days, Mr. Seidensticker said. | At 10 p. m. yesterday incoming mail | was 18 hours behind schedule, he | sala | More than 150,000 greeting cards mailed after 9 this morning will not | be delivered until Saturday in order | to give postal employes a holiday. Sibstitute and volunteer carriers ave to deliver parcel post packages entering the postoffice today.

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Veterans Are Remembered

Thouahtful gestures of Indiannolis citizens this season have touched the disablad War Veterans, who will be feted by members of the american Legion Auxiliaries; the ildren of veterans in the Indiana diers and Sailors’ Home, Knightstown: the Marion County Tuberculosis Hospital, and countless others Therewere this morning annual Christmas parties at the Statehouse, where 2500 children were given entertainment and Rifts; at City Hall, where about 400 were entertained Y.M A. had a party for children last night, Smaller organizations had parties in many sections of the city.

FRANK HAWKS SETS MARK TO SHOOT AT

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n | reese EAST HARTFORD. Conn, Dec 24 Frank Hawks, speed flier, today set a goal of 375 miles an hour for his new streamlined monoplane In an experimental flight late vesterday over Rentschler Field, Hawks made 311 miles an hour and said landing he had used only 65 per cent of the plane's available

horsepower

BOB BURNS

Says:

Time

after

THINK the most Aaggravatin® kind of fella in the world one of those men that jest won't admit when he's wrong. 1 believe a happy married life would be comparatively simple if the husband would jest admit when wrong about somethin’ and the wife would quit sayin’ “I told 1 so!'™ I have jest about decided that 2 man who'll admit when he's wrong to his wife has to be a purty strong character. That's what I always admired about my Uncle Fitchway. He would admit his mistake but he had to be sure about it. One night, he and my Aunt Biddy were woke up by a terrible noise He says “What in the world is that?” and she savs “It sounds like the wind.” He SAvS “No, it cant be the wind.” She savs “Oh, ves, it is” and he savs No, it ain't.” : Well, they argued back and forth and finally they both went back to sleep and the next mornin’ when Uncle Fitchway got up, he went to the window and looked out and he found that the house Was sittin’ up in the fork of a high tree Like the strong character he was, he tumed to Aunt Biddy |

he 's

Christmas!

is the climax of weeks of anxious waiting. And what a

ning to open their gifts.

tumble out with each exciting find. A jack-in-the box?

finds so absorbing? because Yvonne has neglected her »

FAMILY

QUINS' GUESTS In Clothe-A

Entire Group to Assemble

For First Time on Christmas Day.

By United Press

CALLANDER, Ont., Dec. 24. —The

| entire Dionne family is to meet for

the first time at the Dafoe nursery, home of the quintuplets, on Christmas Day. Since their birth May 28, 1934, the quins never have had their parents and all their brothers and sisters with them at the same time, They are to be hostesses to their family at a Christmas party. While the quins entertain their guests, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, their

physician and guardian, is to spend |

his first Christmas away from them. He is to make his morning call at the nursery, then remain away the rest of the day.

Dafoe to Broadcast

| Dr. Dafoe is to be featured tomorrow on an international radio network. He is to tell how the quins spent Christmas. to be from his Callander home, Christmas Dav also will be occasion of the first meeting between the fquins and their little brother, Oliva Jr., who was born last June. While their parents and five older brothers and sisters tackle a 20-1b. turkey the quins and Oliva Jr. will have to be content with their usual diet A huge Christmas tree has been set up in the nursery, with presents piled around it.

WHEELER RESIGNS STATE PLAN BOARD

Chairman Quits to Accept Railroad Post.

John W. Wheeler, Indiana State Planning Board chairman, resigned today as Republican member of the Indiana State Highway Commission to become an executive of the Burlington Railroad, with headquarters in Chicago. The resignation is to be effective Jan. 15 and a successor will not be appointed until Gov.-elect Townsend takes office, it was said. Mr. Wheeler is a director of the Chicago Regional Planning Association and a member of the Indiana Legislative Commission on Highway Survey and the Committee on Traffic Safety. Last

| year he was president of the In-

diana Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He lives at Crown Point.

COUNTY'S PRISONERS TO FEAST ON TURKEY

Prisoners in the Marion County Jail are to be served a turkey dinner with all the trimmings tomorrow noon. The menu, prepared

by Deputy Sheriff George Vlasses,

chef, follows: Roast turkey and dressing, eran-

| berry sauce, giblet gravy, candied

sweet potatoes, creamed peas and

and he says “Well, I guess you |carrots, creamed slaw, fruit salad,

was right, that musta been the wind you heard last night.”

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bread and coffee.

large Christmas tree has been in the jail corridor,

The broadcast is |

Governors’ |

[March and the

For the quintuplets, as for millions of voungsters, this

The quins have come runscene! Exclamations of jov What is this that Cecile, at left, It must be very interesting presents to have a look, too, Marie

(Ponors’ List, Page Three)

The Indianapolis Times' Clothe-

night when the last cash register in department stores is stilled and clerks put up their order books. Indianapolis residents have only a few hours in which to take a boy or girl and outfit him or her in new,

SITE FOR DETENTION HOME COSTS $9200

Commissioners Decide on E. Market Property.

Purchase of a lot in the 700 block | BE. Market-st,

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seems about ready to add to the happy confusion with some notes from

her gaily decorated accordion. And

with a baby grand piano in her lap,

Emilie bends over for a look into the picture-story hook which is get-

ting “oh's” and “ah's"”

from Annette,

Dr. Dafoe, right in the midst of

the fun. sends the spirit of this holiday festival in greetings to all the

quins' admirers.

- Child Drive

| warm apparel for Christmas and | the New Year. |

| |

{ |

. | Dimes | A-Child campaign for 1936, ends 10- |; 4iviqual donors boded a record-

The growing yardage at Mile-of-and the contributions of

breaking total for the 1936 campaign. A total of 1053 children had |

| been pledged clothing up to 8 a. m. |

| today.

The sidewalk cashier of the cam- |

| paign, Mile-of-Dimes, will be picked |

for $9200, as a site!

| for the proposed new county deten- |

| tion home and Juvenile Court. has been announced by County Commissioners,

| debated by the commissioners for | three months. Two weeks ago Com- | missioners decided upon purchase lof a lot at Ohio and East-sts, but a clear title to the land was not lavailable, they said. The Public Works Administration has approved a grant of $136,000 for the building. Architects estimated that the structure will not cost more than $80,000. The building is to be three stories

Site for the building has been |

up tonight, washed, and counted. | But long before scoops begin shoveling up the famous dime line the money will have been spent in be- | half of many of the city's underprivileged school children. Have vou shopped for the home folks? Has that last Christmas present been bought? Then there's one other present you can give vour-self--and a child—and that is the warmth, health and happiness that go with new clothing. i Children's needs are checked by Community Fund relief agencies and the school board If you're too busy Clothe-A-Child will shop for vou. Checks or cash can be brought or mailed to The Times at any time today or tonight, It's vour last chance to take a boy or girl and protect him or her from the elements. It's not too late

| put it will be too late if on Christ- | | mas morning there's a bare knee, a | shoe with no sole, and a child won-

wering why his or her plea was not

| answered.

DAN WHITE RENAMED

with an extra wing to house Juve-

nile Court

1.C. C. GRANTS RISE

IN LONG HAUL RATES

| Judge Dan V. White was announced

Ruy United P

ress

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. —The In- |

terstate Commerce Commission to-

day granted transcontinental rail- | {roads permission to increase long- |

haul rates to a point which virtu-

ally will offset the loss of emergency | | litical parties. |

surcharges, The tariff schedules were filed by the railroads a month ago. They became effective today.

| United States

The increases correspond roughly |

to tariff increases lines on intercoastal fall.

traffic

allowed ship- | last!

AS MUNICIPAL JUDGE Republican Reappointed for Four Years. The Stas of Municipal

today by Gov. McNutt. Judge White, a Republican, is to serve for four vears. Indiana law provides that the four municipal judgeships here be | divided between the two major po-|

| |

Judge White served as assistant | state employment director of the | Labor Department | from 1916 to 1922. He was depuly Marion County prosecutor from 1922 to 1926. when he was named Mu-

nicipal Judge.

Lindberghs Spending Second Christmas

By United Press SEVENOAKS, Kent, Dec. M4.— The Charles A. Lindberghs plan to

lease, the flving family likely would

Hon. Harold Nicolson,

spend Christmas at Long Barn, the |

rambling house in the English coun-

ago out of fear harm would come to their baby son, Jon. Ann Morrow Lindbergh has ordered Christmas “crackers” for the family festivities from her grocer in the village of Weald. Persons speculating on the length ‘of the Lindbergh's self-imposed exfle in Britain interpret their spend-

visit elsewhere during the holidays. The Lindberghs' landlord is the MP. but “Lindy” pays his monthly rent to

'a house agent's firm in Sevenoaks, tryside to which they fled a year!

driving there in his gray sedan. Mrs. Lindbergh seldom is seen away from the estate, but has occasionally attended the village | church, whose square white tower is a landmark for many miles across the countryside against the | green background of the wooded

"hills.

The Lindberghs could have |

‘ing Christmas here as added indica- | chosen no more typical English | tion they may return in a few village for peaceful retirement. It certain of their business and those months to make their home in the straggles around a big green and | who are admitted to see the politeUnited States. They point out that lies well off the nearest main road, ly non-informative secretary can their lease on Long Barn, about 50 the highway to Hastings and the learn nothing.

‘miles south of London, expires next assumption is that was _imgtended to renew the

' coast.

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T0BE Only Few Hours Remain REVOLTINCUBA

SEEN

Gomez’ OQuster by Batista Was Grandiose Farce, Writer Says.

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. —Christ-

mas Eve finds Cuba teetering between the devil of fascism and the

deep blue sea of civil war like that | hloody |

now turning Spain into a shambles. The ousting of the moderate President Miguel Mariano Gomez moves the final obstacle from Col. Fulgencio Batista's road to fullfledged military dictatorship. From

that to a new era oi terror is but a | , Step.

Federico Laredo Bru, 61-year-old vice president, was sworn in today as the fourteenth president of the island republic, succeeding Gomez, who had servea only seven months.

possibly could be notorious Gen. Machado stage a more grandiose farce,

“Coercion” Charged

Charged with having “committed a crime’ because he sugar-tax bill sponsored by Batista in the Cuban Congress, and because he “coerced” the legislature by threatening to veto the bill if passed, President Gomez was “tried” bv that Congress, handpicked by Batista and surrounded by his army. The “coercion,” of course, was on the other side. With the military, police and all the rest of the power in Cuba in the hands of the dictator, observers from the first foresaw the inevitable verdict. It was not altogether money Col. Batista wanted when he insisted on

the sugar-tax bill for the army has! | plenty,

Out of Cuba's $65,000,000 budget,

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RRA CHANGE HINTED

R. C. Smith, Rural Resettlement Administration regional director here, today received from Washing-

ton a statement that there is “pos- | be |

sibility the department will taken over by the Department of Agriculture on or about Jan. 1.”

by which all commerce was carried an between the coast and London for centuries. The route was a mere track through the dense forests of Kent and Sussex, only passable on foot or horseback. Goods were borne by packhorse train along this ancient way, not a little of it by

| smugglers.

In their quiet retreat the Lindberghs keep much to themselves and all inquiries at Long Barns about the colonel’'s movements vield the same reply: “We do not know.” The impassive, courteous butler keeps all callers at bay until he is

| Tt is from this atmosphere that | Lindbergh goes | aircraft

periodically to visit factories, flying

| Belmont-av

BY SIMMS

re- |

opposed a |

Batista and his men get

fields or

Admitting Car Struck |

Widow. BURIAL ON CHRISTMAS

Driver and Companion Say They Drank Heavily Before Accident.

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE

Accidents Injured Pead .... TRAFFIC ARRESTS December 23

Speeding Drunken driving Reckless driving Running red light .. Running preferential Street . .. Improper parking ......... ve Improper lights Improper license Others oa There will be funeral services

Christmas afternoon for 67-year-old Mrs. Dona Harbin, who died in

| City Hospital yesterday two hours

after being struck by an auto at and Howard-st. The services will be at her home, 1348 S. Sheffield-av. Today 21-vear-old James Nielsen, 368 Beauty-av, pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to manslaughter,

| Grunken driving and failure to stop |

| after an accident in connection | with the death. His bond was fixed at $12,500. | Prank Vancel, 18, of 2122 S | Pershing-av, said by police to have heen a passenger in the death car, | pleaded not guilty to the same charges. His bond was fixed at $11,- | 500. Reiterates His Plea | “Do vou realize what you are | pleading guilty to?” Judge Charles Karabell asked Nielsen. | Nielsen repeated slowly but dis- | tinetly word for word his previous statement: “1 will have to plead guilty.” “Do you know that you have killed a woman?” Judge Karabell asked. Nielsen, a tall and arrow-straight youth, bowed his head, passed his | hand over his forehead, raised his head again, but said nothing.

“Whisky.” “How much?” “About a quart.” “Do you mean a quart each?” “No, a quart betwesn us.” | Judge Karabell learned from Niel[sen that he had left high four years ago and that Vancel had quit during his sophomore year in Bloomington. None of Nielsen's relatives were in court, but a sister ot Vancel was there, Neither had lawyers, Accuses Companion All night at the police station the vouths were questioned and at 5

a. m, they each signed statements, |

police said, that they had been drinking, remembered the accident

was killed,

ment, Mrs. Harbin's death was Marion County's 159th in traffic this vear. Neither vouth would admit driving the car when first questioned. (Turn to Page Three)

SANTA'S HEAVY RED SUIT MAY BE WARM

Moderate Temperatures Are To Continue.

HOURLY TEMPERATURES

em... 1am. HH in... 36 Ham... 46 Mm... 3% 12 (Noon) 49 am... 9

| Santa may find his heavy red suit slightly uncomfortable tonight,

day. Moderate temperatures which have featured the holiday shopping season are to continue, and the mercury may linger in the 50s this afternoon and tomorrow. The lowest tonight will be about 36, the bureau said, with increasing cloudiness tomorrow,

Abroad;

Indications Are Seen of Return Early in Spring

business conferences in London. It was on such trips that he aided in designing and superintending the building of his new plane, called the “fastest light tourer ever built in | Britain.” He accepted delivery of the Miles “Mohawk” low-wing monoplane several weeks ago and was flying this ship when for almost 24 hours he was reported missing in fog on a flight from Dublin. Lindbergh has no chauffeur and (drives his car to the village garage {for petrol and servicing. He also goes to the village postoffice for ‘mail and to the little shop of the [village news agent for newspapers, where he has to duck his head to pass through a low doorway. The village tradespeople like the | colonel. “He's very mice to talk to,” (they say,

school |

in which it is alleged Mrs. Harbin | then drove to one of | their homes and hid in the base- |

the Weather Bureau indicated to- |

Has Overstepped in Aiding Spain.

AFFECTS MARKET

World Isolation for Nazis Is Seen by Diplomats.

by United Press) LONDON, Dec. 24. —A thrill of anxiety swept through Europe today lest the Christmas season be darkened by some event that would bring nearer the war which ‘every country dreads. Germany was the center fears. They were co strong that on the London Stock Exchange yesterday Dawes reparation loan bonds broke to the lowest price of 1936. Yet they were indefinite. There were rumors Fuehrer Adolf Hitler might some action as regards the civil war in Spain or as regards Czecho- | slovakia, which forms a corridor be- | tween Germany and Russia, the country Nazis hate. | It was reported from Paris thal the French government--and the

| British goverment as well—indirectly counseled prudence by Germany.

of the

here that

| ~ Well-informed sources in Berlin

| said that discussions of such prime [importance were going on among the German, British and French ‘governments that Hitler remained |in Berlin past the time of leaving for a Christmas holiday at his Bavarian retreat. The Berlin reports indicated that the discussions concerned a move toward peace, not toward further | turmoil—that Hitler might be con- | sidering a step toward acceptance lof a treaty of mutual guarantee | among the great powers.

Fear German Situation

But there were signs that Ger- { many faces a troubling situation

What had vou been drinking?” | and it was these signs that stimu- | “What 3 9

lated the fears of people in other countries, Diplomats saw Germany facing a | food shortage and general economic difficulties, they heard circumstantial reports that Germany was sending thousands of trained men to Spain to fight for the rebels. It was felt generally that Germany was so deeply committed in Spain that—with the rebel army she is backing held fast by the loyalists ~~ Hitler soon must begin sending aid on a great scale or must revise his policy, No graceful means of revision was foreseen, There was no doubt that Germany was arming on a gigantic scale. Food was being rationed so that there would be more money for armaments. Men of military age were being kept in the country. It seemed clear also that Germany was faced with the possibility of isolation again, such as she faced for years after the world

CHINESE SITUATION ALARMS JAPANESE

Nippon Fears Spread of Communism, Claim.

vear

By United Press SHANGHAI Dec. 24 Lieut. Gen Seiichi Kita, Japanese army attache at Shanghai, said today that |the Japanese army viewed with | grave concern the situation at SianPu where Generalissimo Chiang | Kai-shek is held captive by “Young | Marshal” Chang Hsueh-liang. Gen. Kita's statement was the {first in which Japan has taken an active interest in the situation | caused by the “Young Marshal's” | seizure of the generalissimo in an | effort to force a war against Japan land inclusion of Communists in the | Chinese government,

Rebel Artillery Shells Madrid

By United Press MADRID, Dec. 24. — The rebel forces besieging Madrid began shelling the center of the capital at 3:50 p. m. today, ending a pre-Christmas lull on this front in Spain's civil war, Two rebel shells fell in the Plaza Del Carmen, 500 yards from the | Telephone Building. Another struck in Toledo-st. Two hundred persons were reported killed in an initial clash at Burgos, rebel capital in the north. The rebels took the offensive, suddenly attacking Santanderian loyalist troops who have been quietly approaching the rebel capital for | several days, consolidating positions | and lines of communication as they | went, ’

take |

| In Indpls. ‘Jane

Powers Fear Germany Holy Father Appeals

For Peace Among All Peoples,

SPEAKS FROM BED

Wracked With Pain, He Is Exhausted At Conclusion.

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Buy United Press VATICAN CITY, Dec. 24. -—DPope Pius XI, deaf to pleas that he safeguard his failing strength, broadcast the world today a Christmas message appealing for peace and for a finish fight against the forces of Communism. Speaking over a microphone from his sick bed in the Vatican, the Pope, wracked by pain, mingled his | horror of Communism and of the forces which he linked with Com= munism as destructive with his hopes for peace, Intimates said that the Pope was completely exhausted at the end of | his address. He drank a cup of hot broth and fell into a heavy sleep at | once, they said, dropping back into | his bed from which he broadcast. He appealed to the Roman Catholic faithful and to the veople of all countries to work toward peace, and toward bringing to an end the Spanish civil war, Eloquent in Weakness His voice was eloquent of his weakness. He spoke slowly and haltingly with long pauses between phrases and toward the end his tired | voice broke, choking sobs. But, ill land weak, he spoke for 20 minutes | instead of the few to which his phy« | sician had hoped he would restrict { himself, | There was no mistaking the sufe fering which the Pope himself ene (Turn to Page Two)

STATE BOARD CUTS TAX EXEMPT LIST

Notices are to be served bv the State Board of Tax Commissioners on owners of all tax-exempt propers ties that beginning March 1, 1937, taxes must be paid on equipment used in selling intoxicating liquors, IL was announced today The commission ruled recently that the Elks, Eagles and Knights of Columbus in Washington, Ind. would not have to pay such taxes because if they did it would amount to discrimination,

"EDWARD AND WALLIS EXCHANGE GREETINGS

ENZESFELD, Austria, Dec. 24 Edward, Duke of Windsor, exe changed Christmas greetings with Mrs. Wallace Simpson at Cannes, on the French Riviera, by tele= phone from the Rothschild castle here todav. Although they would like to see each other especially during the holidays, thev still are not to meet, until April, when Mrs. Simpson's decree nisi becomes final.

SINGER SOON TO DIE, REPENTS KILLING GIRL

By United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. Dec 24, Harry Singer, 25, farm hand who confessed four slayings. but repented only one today, was promised an kta meal before he is electrocuted In the state prison here at of Chistes De h ay Vie end Singer is scheduled to die about 12:15 a. m. Dec. 26 for the killing of three members of a Wabash County farm family last August, Resigned to his fate, he repented only the fatal beating he gave 12« year-old Marjorie Caufman, whose parents he shot to death.

FIRE LOSS $700 A fire, believed to have started in overstuffed furniture, todav caused damage estimated at $700 to the home of Guy Blaine. 2465 Bond -st The fire damaged a living room,

front bedroom and burned the roof, "Tigh

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