Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1937 — Page 3

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15, 1937

PANAY FOUGHT BACK TO END,

SURVIVORS SAY

Eye-Witness Accounts Relate of Repeated Attacks By Planes.

SHANGHAI, Dec. 15 (U.P.).—The U. S. gunboat Panay met a warrior’s death in a Japanese airplane attack on her and three -merchantmen, three survivors disclosed today on their arrival here in a Japanese rescue plane. With the departure 3% the rescue fleet today, all those aboard the Panay and the Standard Oil ships except Chinese members of the Standard vessels were accounted for. Standard officials believed that many of the Chinese perished. Three Japanese planes swept down on the little Panay and the Standard Oil ships. The first bomb struck the Panay. Another struck the. Meiping, one of the Standard Oil ships. The Panay’s gun crew, as if in drill, went to their stations: at those of the 10 machine guns that remained in action, They opened up their blasts on the Japanese plants Eleven times more the Japan swept down— hardly 100 yards above the ships— and machine guns opened up from the shore. It was a hopeless fight. But the witnesses said, the Panay’s guns

stayed in action to the end. Lieut.|

Comm. James J. Hughes of Washington, gave the order to abandon ship. The gun crew stayed to the end and went ashore only when, at 3:34 p. m., the little ship—an Amerjcan warship that never saw its homeland, for it was built on the Yangtse—went down. The three survivors who arrived here are Jim Marshall, Seattle, Collier’'s writer, wounded in the neck and shoulder; John L. Hodge, Siluria, Ala., machinist’s mate second class, of the Panay, and C. C. Vines, Roanoke, Va. employed by the British American Tobacco Co. Both Mr. Hodge and . Vines suffered slight wounds. |

As these three arrived, a little fleet of warships [of three nations, United States, Great Britain and Japan, started down the winding Yangtse on a Sshgerons, dramatic race through a -mile war zone. Two of the ships bore the survivors of the Japanese attack, including 14 men wounded, and believed to bear: also the bodie the three killed—Charles L. minger, Ocean Beach, Cal., storekeeper of the Panay; Capt. C. H. Carlsen, Waterbury, Conn., master of one of the three Standard Oil ships attacked, and Sandro Sandri, Italian war correspondent, who was aboard the Panay.

Jap Craft Leads Way

First in the {fleet that started down the river toward Shanghai were Japanese minesweepers, delegated to bear the first shock of any possible attack from shore. Next were the U. S. Gunboat Oahu, sister ship to the Panay, and a British gunboat, The Bee—with the survivors. : Two Japanese Army surgeons, according to the Japanese Navy authorities, were aboard the Oahu to tend the wounded, and one was aboard the British gunboat. With the rescue ships were a Japanese gunboat and a Japanese destroyer, to- back up the minesweepers in any fight. The fleet was expected here late Friday. It was planned to steam slowly because of the dangers from blockading booms, mines, and possible attack from shore or air. There was general agreement among survivors, apparently, that machine gun fire directed at the Panay came from two Japanese landing party craft at the river bank, and continued until the Panay sank—her American flag plainly visible. This belief caused fresh indignation among Americans here at the attack. alg It was noted that in an official casualty list three of the Panay’s

crew suffered machine gun bullet wounds. . However, these might have been fired from the planes. Apparently, as the Panay’s gun crew left the stricken ship a few minutes before she Pactual sank, the Japanese boarded her, to inspect the work of their Paes

Five Leave Nanking

Japanese authorities American Navy officials here today that four Americans and one Briton who had remained at Nanking when the Panay left seeking safety

up the river—had boarded the Japanese gunboat Seta at Nanking and asked transportation to Shanghai. They were A. T. Steele, Chicago Daily News; Tilman Durdin, New York Times: Charles Yates McDaniels, Associated | Press; Leslie Smith, of Reuter’s | (British) News Agency, and a ramount news reel cameraman who wes believed to be Arthur Menken. The Americans told the Japanese that they had been living at the United States embassy. Japanese navy men believed that, because of the difficulty of transportation down the war-torn Yangtse, the five men would be picked up by the Panay rescue fleet as it passed Nanking tonight.

All Suffering From Shock, Says Writer

The following dispatch by Weldon James, sent in co-operation with British, Italian and Chinese newspaper men aboard the United Stales gunboat Oahu, is the first by an Frid direct from the scene of the Japanese airplane attack on the gunboat Panay and three Standard Oil steamships.

By WELDON JAMES (Copyright, 1937, by United Press) ABOARD U. S. GUNBOAT OAHU, Yangtse River, Dec. 15.— Survivors of the Japanese airplane attack on the Gunboat Panay and three Standard Oil steamships are aboard this warship and the British gunboat Bee- today, and ready to leave for Shanghai. Fourteen wounded, all Americans, were taken aboard the rescue ships. All but one were of the crew of the Panay. . Many of us have injuries insufficiently severe to be called wounds. All, however, are suffering from shock and exposure. But it seems miraculous us all that we are alive. All Accounied For We hope to send the complete

story of our almast incredible ex-

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periences as we sieam the 200 miles down river to Shanghai. All of those gboard the Panay, and the American and European personnel of the Standard Oil ships, are accounted for. The Panay, aboard whose sister ship this dispatch is written, was struck by a Japanese air bomb, dropped from a high altitude, ‘at about 1:30 p. m. Sunday. Lieut. Comdr. Hughes gave the order to abandon ship at 2:05 and the little ship sank at 3:34 p. m. Two Japanese Navy landing craft fired their machine guns at fhe Panay after the bombing. The U. S. flag was plainly visible on the ship.

Land on River Bank

Those of the survivors who landed on the north bank of the river, at Hohsien—including the members of the Panay’s crew and the newspaper

correspondents—made their way inland but came back to the river when they learned that the Bee, first of the 1escue ships, had arrived. We were scheduled, at first, to board the Bee a 4:30 p. m. yesterday. But our embarkation was delayed for hours by the activities of little Japanese armored boats operating near Fohsien. They made it impracticable for the Bee and the Oahu to contact those ashore. But the Bee and Oahu made good their rescue at 10 o'clock last night. We were taken dboard and received by Rear Admiral Reginald V. Holt, a British World War hero, and the commanding officer of the Oahu.

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American Flags Plain, Declares Marshall

* Two of three survivors of the bombing of the Panay and three merchantmen told their story io Fanya Graham, of the United Press staff, on their arrival today at Shanghai. The stories as they were fold to Miss Graham follow:

. By JIM MARSHALL (Copyright 197 by United Press) ‘The boys on the Panay trained their machine giins on the Japanese planes that atticked us and they continued fighting until the ship went down. They fought practically to their last bullet, firirig at the planes as they dived on us—12 times in all. The American flag was painted plainly on the Panay, and the ship flew American flags as well. Three of the planes dived down to what seemed t¢ be within 300 feet of the river. They came down like

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nd Township Officials’ ] Jgdiana Coupty A Convention, headquar- | ters Claypool Hotel, all day. Indianapolis Amateur Movie Club, meet- | ing, Claypool Hotel, 8 p. m.

Electrie and Appliance Credit Group, |-

luncheon, Athenaeum, noon. Beverage Credit Group, luncheon, Hotel Antlers, noon. _° Lions Club,

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MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indiana County and Township Officials’ Association, sta convention, headquarters Claypool Hotel, ail day. Ali lunch In Hote a ference of Bank Audidinner, Hotel Washington. 6:30 Doli

luncheon, Hotel Washing- | Wint

Epsilon, luncheon, Board |

Advertising Club of [Indianapulis, luncheon. Columbia Club, noon. Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade,

American | Business Club, lunchepn, Columbia Club, noon : Acacia, luncheon, Bpard of Trade, npon. Sigma Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington,

noon. Caravan Club, luncheon, Murat Temple, hoon.

ana _ Motor raffic luncheon, Hotel Antlers, noon. Oil Club, luncheon, [Severin Hotel, noon. Construction League luncheon, Architects and ing, noon.

Association,

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MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official records at the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in aames or addresses.)

. George A. Bodette,| 54, of 2153 Ashland Avs Toledo; Goldie Morris, 41, of Indian. apolis. ! Ralph Waldo Conaway, 18, of 4102 Spann Ave.; Mary Jane Benson, 15, of 2730 N. Adams St. Calvin C. Simmons, 49, of 1721 N. Alabama St.; Helen Ethel Verd Myers, 43, of 223 E. 17th St. Everett Edward Harvey Jr., 19, of 530 4 rs Leslie, 17, of t

Orville Crawley, 32| of Danville; Mingle Hurst, 25, of 1229 N.| Pennsylvania St

Benard Salkawsky, 25, of 3850 E. 38th St. Zillak Clark, 23, of Indianapolis. BIRTHS

Bays

Leslie, Bertha Roach, at 121 N. , Jesse, Flossie Herald, at 3318 wag:

Clair. - r Reve, Betty Goodpaster, at 766 N.

0 . - Lawrence, Mary Bollman, at 735 N. Arnold. Norman, Sidrad” rates of SAH . I alley, a . Felix, Dora - Wright, - 326 Minerva.

Girls

Lory, Anna Hankins, at Coleman. Leroy, Maryetta Branch, at Coleman. Floyd, Edna Dune , at 1901 S. Pershing. Leroy, Lucille rry, at 1747 W. New ork. Marshall, Mary Ellis, at 2425 Harlan. Clarence, Catherine Beggs, at 2155

i ts DEATHS

August F. Wieneke, 68, at City. uremia. Lillian Lucille Flynn, 48, at Methodist, lobar pneumonia. : enry W. Osseniorth, 75, at 626 N. Pine, carcinoma. : e; binson, 46, at 1612 8S, Sherman Drive, carcinoma Charles Goepper, chronic nephritis James . Middleton, 66, Beecher, influenza Fred, Henry myocarditis. illiam Yount, 73, ton, coronary occlusic James Harry Drew, diabetes mellitus. | Eva Wilkes, 69, at City, hypostatic

F. Repp, 65, at 1045 N. Warman, cerebral hemorrhag r e C. M fellana, 66, at City, broncho pneumonia.

at 820 E.

a Place, chronic myocarditis. Theodore Richard Strate, 16, at City,

leitis ; SIA us

, at Central Indiana, | Bosto Bowers, 67, at Methodist, |;

Jat 30 W. Washing- | 57, at St. Vincent's, |}

Ray ster, 33, at 249 N. Bellevieu

APpena Grace Lee, 56, at City. appen- |

Ella E. Kane, 74, ; a E. Ka e, 74, at 137 E. 17th, broncho

John B. Simmons, 79, - cinoln ons, 79, at Methodist, car

Hal Zcacham, G4, cardiac SiataLion, a. at 2401 N. New JerEe iis SoaTee | 172 South eastern, Chronic myocarditis. Ist broncng, pneumonia, + °° Me hed chionic myocaraite; © 0 PM Sehr oma, Eira i at 3027 . oe So arteriosclerosis. | + Capitol, r ies, 68, ab 815 Church,

at Community, acute

artha C. Jeff: cardio vascular renal disea

OFFICIAL WEATHER

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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Rain tonight and possibly tomorrow morning: lowest temperature tonight about 34; somewhat warmer tomorrow. Sunrise ":00 | Sunset ...... 4:21

TEMPERATURE —Des. 15, 1936— 1p Mmooooso. 51

BAROMETER 7 a m.......50,22 Precipitation 24 hr Total precipitation enaing 7 a. Br EXCESS .....c... dsesvecesssasssssecnns 2.70

MIDWEST WEATHER

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Illinois—Mostly' cloudy, rain Dossy 3 along coast of oS north portions tomorrow" Seni] and

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ADMINISTRATION

11S OPPOSED TO

LUDLOW'S BILL

Rayburn to Fight Against Consideration in House, He Announces.

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Reps. Voorhis (D. Cal) and Brewster (R. Me.), were waiting in the committee room when Mr. Sumners called off the hearings. They were prepared to testify had hearings been called. Majority Leader Rayburn (D. Tex.) announced that he would exert every effort to prevent consideration of the Indiana Democrat’s war referendum resolution despite completion of the petition. The petition is technically a motion to discharge the Rules Committee, but actually it would relieve the Judiciary body of further consideration of a proposal on which it has withheld action for three years. It provides for six hours of debate before a final vote. By weaning a few signers when the motion comes to a vote the

from debate and kill it temporarily. There was the possibility also that signers, while voting to bring the resolution to the floor, might with-

call.

wild geese. They dropped bombs, but they did not fire machine guns. The sound of those planes diving down is something I never want to hear again. 5 A huge hole was torn in the steel decks of the Panay. Blood and debris were everywhere. Wild rumors spread that the Japanese intended to exterminate the entire group of foreigners to cover up, but most of the men refused to believe it and kept their nerve to the end: :

Gun Crews Stay at Posts

The uninjured helped to dress the wounds of the injured. Sandri was mortally wounded while I was dressing a sailor's wounds. The Panay’s gun crew fired furiously at the Japanese planes until the finish, when the ship was sinking. Lieut. Anders (executive officer), who was too hoarse to talk, wrote orders on the bulkheads to abandon ship, get into lifeboats, jump overboard or save ourselves somehow. Meanwhile the Meian was having anchor trouble because the capstan wouldn't work. The Meian’s stern finally touched the Panay’s forecastle. Capt Carlsen ¥elled to me to come aboard, which I\did. 3

and picked up the Meian’s Ci crew, many of whem had been blasted into the water by the bomb-

‘| ings.

Planes Ignore Soldiers

Carlson then brought the Meian alongside the Meiping which was tied up to a pontoon anchored to the shore. Soon the Japanese planes returned and again commenced to bomb us. A contingent of Japanese troops nearby frantically waved Japanese flags but the planes ignored them. ; It was then that I was hit al-

Hodge probed the wound. When we got ashore we decided to walk to Wuhu. Vines speaks Chinese and knew the countryside. He offered to guide us. As we started Japanese soldiers approached and began firing on us. I fell flat in a ditch and the others sought to protect themselves in the same way. The soldiers approached and rounded us up. “We were taken before a Japanese officer who proved to be a good fellow. He fed and rested us and arranged transportation to Wuhu by truck.

By JOHN L. HODGE I left the Panay at 1 o'clock Sunda yafternoon on liberty and went to the Meiping for recreation. I was sitting on the fo’c’s’le talking to another man when I heard a strange noise. I said: “Do you hear that? ‘Those are planes.” I went to the bridge with Capt. Jorgensen of the Meiping to get glasses and see what was happening. Then all hell broke loose. Three planes came down by us,

ly toward the Panay. They hit the Panay and then hit the bridge of the Meiping. There were four of us on the bridge—Capt. Jorgensen, I and two others. We all fell to the deck. When I got up I found my head gashed. Then a direct hit set the ship afire. The crew got out hoses. The captain gave me the wheel and told me to beach the ship. I tried to go

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Official Lists

SHANGHAI, Dec. 15 .(U, P.).— An official casualty list of the Japanese attack on the U. S. gunboat Panay and three merchantmen was released today by naval officials attached to the U. S. cruiser Augusta. The entire personnel aboard ihe Panay, including Americans, Europeans and Chinese, was accounted

| for, but the casualties among the

Chinese personnel aboard the Standard Oil vessels was not available. Standard Oil officials said that many of the Chinese probably were killed. The official list: IWILLED

Charles Lee Ensminger, storekeeper first class, gunboat Panay. Next of kin, wife, Lucille O. Ensminger, Ocean Beach, Cal Sandro Sandri, Italian war correspondent. Capt. C. H. Carlsen, Waterbury, Conn., master of the Standard Oil steamship Meiping. (A survivor of the attack, arriving at Shanghai today, said that Capt. Carlsen accompanied him ashore, and expressed belief that he might be alive.)

SERIOUSLY INJURED

Carl Henry Birk, ship’s cook third clads, gunboat Panay, Philadelphia. Edgar W. G. Hulsebus, seaman first class, gunboat Panay, Canton,

0. Kenneth J. Rice, electrician’s mate third class, gunboat Panay, 111 N. Indiana Ave. Mishawaka, Ind. Peres Dix Ziegler, ship’s cook third class, gunboat Panay, Delaware, O.

INJURED

Lieut. Comm. James L, Hughes, Washington, commanding officer of the Panay. Broken leg. Lieut. Arthur F. Anders, executive officer, Weimar, Tex. Lieut. John W. Giest, watch officer, Altoona, Pa. Raymond Leroy Browning, electrician’s mate third class, Los Angeles. Newton Lewis Davis, class, Shreveport, La. F. Hayden Hines, Roanoke, Va., employee of the American-British Tobacco . Co. \ Cecil Bernard Green, seaman first class, West Tulsa, Okla. Alex Kozak, machinist mate second class, Ansonia, Conn. John Henry Lang, chief quartermaster, Long Beach, Cal. Charles ' Scott Schroyer, seaman first class, Baxter, Iowa. E. P. Gassie, clerk in the American Embassy.

UNINJURED CIVILIANS George Atcheson Jr, American Embassy secretary. J. Hall Paxton, American Embassecretary. Seay Aller, Universal News Reel cameraman, Hollywood. Weldon James, chief of the United Press Bureau at Nanking. Norman Soong, Honolulu, employed by the New York Times. Luigi Barzini, Italian war correspondent. G. M. McDonald, London Times war correspondent. Eric Mayell, Fox Movietone cameraman, Hollywood. : Roy Squires, Seattle, former captain of the Washington U. football team. Albert Ross, clerk in the Italian embassy. J. V. Pickering, Cadiz, O., Nanking manager for the Standard Oil Co. John B. Sherwood, McGraw, N. Y. Capt. Jorgensen, a Norwegian. P. Mender, Estonian, of the Meip-

fireman first

g. \ — Blasini, address unknown. D. S. Golding, address unknown. Capt. F. N. Roberts, assistant U. S. military attache.

to the north bank. But somebody— I do not know who—was machine gunning us from the bank. I turned the ship around and at last we reached the south side. The Japanese planes could not have been more than 100 yards above us. I do not see how they could have helped to see and recognize our flags. The Standard ships, like the Panay, flew flags plainly. But the planes attacked again and again. They attacked us while we were afire and even after we put out the fire. For a long time we had no chance to escape. Finally I dashed to a cabin, grabbed first aid equipment and went over the side. After I got ashore, Vines and I walked inland until we met some Japanese soldiers shooting on Chinese. We yelled: “Quit shooting! We are Americans.” But apparently they did not un-

Finally we reached a mission and got something to eat and a place ‘o rest. Yesterday Japanese officers arrived and apologized profusely for the attack on us. They offered to see that all survivors were well fed pending their evacuation to Shanghai :

That fellow Marshall is a real hero. He was trying to launch a lifeboat until a little time before the Panay went down.

anticipations ‘of

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Bring the Children ~ Downtown After School—

—Have Family Dinner at the Russet!

Let the youngsters revel in joyous them see the holiday displays in the stores—many times—and then dine

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they continued shoot-. then turned around and went direct- Serstand and they

IGE THAWS AS

MERCURY HERE HEADS UPWARD

Glaze Melts Slowly and - Motorists Are Warned By Bureau Again.

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day when struck by an automobile al Noble St. and Massachusetts Ave.

He was 78. :

Dr. Davis was taken home by th

believing he was not injured badly. When he was unable to rise Monday, he called police, who sent him to City Hospital. At that time, Mr. Davis told poiice he aig the driver’s name. Eliza Silcox, 30, of 530 Abbot St.; died in City Hospital from- injuries received Saturday when she walked into the side of a moving automobile at West and McCarty Sts. Bernard Edwards, 24, of 618 S. West St., was the car driver. Patrolman Harry O'Mara was the only person injured overnight. He was hurt when a car he had directed to stop at 28th St. and Capitol ave. skidded on the ice and struck ‘him. kilt Harry L. Rawles, 54, of Romney, Ind., the driver; was not held.

Two Killed as.Ice | Covers Highways

By United Press A huge sheet of gleaming ice, caused by mingled rain and sleet which froze as it fell, covered most of Indiana today, crippling vehicular traffic, causing schools to close and bringing death to at least two persons. State Highway Commission work crews scattered sand and ashes on most treacherous sections of the highway and warned motorists not to use the roads except in emergencies. Temperatures remained at a low level, although the Weather Bureau said they might average slightly higher today than yesterday. There was no prospect of immediate relief, however. Country schools throughout central and southern areas were closed because students were unable to travel the icy and snow-filled roads. School busses in many sections were unable to make their rounds.

Ball Games Postponed

Most of the high school basketball games scheduled in the state last night were postponed because of the roads. Traffic deaths blamed directly on the slippery highways were those of Virgil Henley, 27, Terre Haute, and Mrs. Edith Brumfield, 56, Lizton. A bus, en route from St. Louis to Louisville, skidded off U. S. 150 near Shoals but on one was injured.

Minor accidents were numerous in all sections of the state.

Fire Damages’ Garage

A $30,000 fire at a Hagerstown automobile garage and agency resulted in the loss of three new cars, 10 used or stored automobiles and some refrigerators and office equipment. Ten-year-old George Schwier was killed instantly yesterday when crushed beneath a falling limb on his father’s farm near Greensburg.

car driver following the accident,|

BOB BURNS Sr a

here in Hollywood not long ago, & lady divorced her husband so she. could marry a rich man and the rich man gave the husband a hundred thousand dollars to mend his broken heart. It reminds me a lot of the time my Cousin Orchie met a married lady and they fell in love. She told Orchie if he could get her husband to divorce her, she'd marry him. So Orchie went like a man and spoke to the husband sbout it. When he came back to her, she says “Well, did my husband carry on much?” and Orchie says “Yes—

"| he said he was gonna feel the loss

terribly, but I squared it with a

good cigar!” y (Copyright, 1937)

428 Clothed

Herff-Jones Workers Give Money for 100 Children,

_ They liked it so well they came back for more. Last year the Herfl-Jones Employees’ Guild furnished money to clothe 35 Indianapolis school children in The Indianapolis Times Clothe-A-Child campaign. So enthusiastic were they over the results—knowing that 35 children were adequately protected against the winter while they went about the youthful business of learning to be good citizens in the schools that this year they have furnished money to clothe 100. ; : One hundred school children within the next few days will be wearing clothes, warm clothes, bought them by the Herfi-Jones employees, whose Christmas this year is nearly twothirds larger than last. That's the big news today in the Clothe-A-Child, Mile - Of - Dimes campaign. Here's the rest of the score for. today: : Clothed directly by donors..288 children Clothed by donors’ cash ($1,317.24) eeveeesracess.140 children Total ....... dessrsirasians 428 children Mile-Qf-Dimes . (estimated)

+ TODAYS DONORS

Herff-Jones Co. Employees’ i Guild 100 children Monday Bridge Club . 8 children Louis McCormick 1 ¢hild Past Presidents Leagine of Maj. Robert Anderson Relief Corps No. 44..1 boy Tuesday Quest Club L. M. Brown Abstract Co. Employees 2 chiidren Jane Holt Shook ...:c.c000000 ess:14 Henrietta and William ........... 1 child Circulation Supervisors and Station Managers of The Indianapolis Times / 2 children Small Wares Department, Wasson’s - _ Basement ...... ivesenseassaslens 1 boy Edward Poole and Family...1 boy, 1 girl Mu Chapter, Alpha Omega Alpha, | boy Delta Chapter Xi Delta Xi. 1 girl M.-G.-M. Inspection Department..l girl H. P. Wasson & Co., Jewelry Department ccocesoscvcscavans. ¥ girl Danner Bros. ...... sees.1 hoy and 1 girl Cash Donors: Edgewood Get-Together Club, $3; No. name, $5; Charles F. Efroymson Jr., $2; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Adams, $1; Bob Smiley, 25 cents; Robert Bowen, 50 cents; M; I. H., $3; Ka-Ma-Ce Club, $2; Joanna Beasley, $2; Nathan Morris Kindergarten Mothers’ Club, $1;

E. W., $1; Happy Builders, $1.

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RELIEF ROLL

GAIN REPORTED

Three-Fold Increase Since Nov. 1 Attributed to Business Slump.

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convinced myself that direct relief can be more economically or humanely administered through a State agency removed from the scenes of need than by local officials who have personal knowledge of their own relief problems. “Our Department does have many close contacts with direct.relief situations, and we all recognize that perhaps some SPYOveInents could be made in mutual understandings, administration, services and laws which provide money for poor re= lief financing. “I for one, am in favor of seeking Federal grants-in-aid for direct relief in Indiana, to be matched by State and County dollars in the same manner in which we have carried the welfare program along. It may- be possible to further dey velop work relief along such chane nels and finally have a general coordination of the three-way financing and administrative scheme. By all odds, I believe that work relief should be continued and that Federal and State aid should be given for direct relief financing in the townships. a “ .. I am convinced that due to the fundamental changes in® our economic and industrial set-up dure ing the last.two decades we must settle down now to do some very constructive thinking even if we are able to maintain a status quo in our relief load. Charles M. Dawsén, township association secretary-treasurer, said that augmented direct relief, administered in Indiana by Township Trustees, will call for spendings over and above hudgets recently whittled by various tax adjustment boards. No Mr. Dawson predicted that the ase sociation will go on record as opposing Federal aid for schools, on the theory that Federal aid would mean Federal control.

limitation, he said, because property valuations are different in each unit, but it favors rigid budget con= ‘trol. 1t is opposed, too, to the removal of all welfare levies from property on the ground that citizens of local units then would lose interest in relief expenses snd that they would rise “by leaps and bounds.”

MALADY KILLS 12TH BABY,

CHICAGO, Dec. 15 (U. P.)—The

disease that attacked 20 babies in the St. Elizabeth Hospital nursery died last night, Dr. Herman N. Bun-

Health, announced today. There still are three babies under treat ment at the hospital for the malady. The latest viciim was Carl Palmer,

24 days old.

ROBBED BY STYLISH THUGS

SHELBYVILLE, Dec. 15 (U. P.).~ “Fashion plate” robberies are in style among criminals these days. James Downey, 83-year-old invalid recluse, described {wo men who bound him, ransacked his home and took $6.82, as being ‘good looking

and well dressed.”

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