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~ Griffin’s -300 Await Rush For ‘Black Gold” After

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* 3000-t0-5000-Barrel “Flow Predicted; Land Owned ‘By indianapolis | Heirs.

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I Times Sprit [ E | GRIFFIN, Ind, Dec. 15.-~This town, population 300, - visualized ‘boom days today, with one: of the | biggest oil wells ever drilled in In- ~ diana on a nearby farm. -

The well was brought in last night |’

and is 25 miles from any. other. It 1s on a 1600-acre Gibson County farm. owned by Indianapolis persons and under lease. to independent Texas oil men. | 3 When it. was brought in, a stream . of oil seven inches in diameter spouted 140 feet in the‘air. Oilmen ‘estimated it would produce between 3000 and 5000 barrels a day. 2

: ; ~ Called ‘Ne ‘Panhandle’

nly one majo company holds a lease in the. vicinity. Oil men estiated that within 90 days - there ~ Will be at least 20 more Wells drilled Hi the area, which they said prom- ~ ised to be one if: the richest pools in the entire Ind -Illinois-Ken-tucky field that has been acclaimed ~ by oil men as anew Panhandle. ' | The well was ught {i 5 by Jack itzpatrick and Granville Hayes, | who were - given a 40-a nd Kernel They and W. O. Allen, Tulsa, OKla., " Jeased the whole farm from the estate of John C. Cooper. ' The ooper heirs live in - Indianapolis. he farm is situated nea¥ here on the banks. of the Wabash River. |: Two other | large | producers, neither .as large as the: new well, were brought inin Henderson County, Ky., across the Ohio River from - Evansville, recently. | So great was the excitement among oil men 'that twi more der- ~ ricks were on their way to the area : to begin drilling operations. ~~ About 40 persons were on hand : when the well was brought in last night and a cheer went up-as it spouted 50 feet over the 90-foot derrick.

PRIMARY E ELECTION CASE HEARING IS UP

| Te firs testimony in open court about ‘operations at the polls in the primary election, which resulted in the indictment of 92 election workers on charges of violating the In- ~ diana vote laws, was expected to be ~ heard in formes Court this afternoon.

Witnesses ere “ex d to. be) © called in a cheduled h a on the

defendants’ plea abatement that & minal Court. * Judge Frank P. Baker ‘coerced the ‘Grand Jury 3 to retyrning indictments.” Se ctments| were returned by the| Grand Jury last September after ~ three months’ investigation of dis- ~ crepancies in ballot totals in the May 3 primary election. During the investigation Judge ~ Baker made several publc state- . ments to the jury. The judge’s re- _ marks were described as “inflam._matory” by defense ‘attorneys.

STATE SCHOOL TEXTS

_The State Board of School Book. Commissionets today studied 50 bids °_ submitted by| publishers for reading, writing and arithmetic texts for elementary grades and a safety text for the eighth grade. Commissioners said that contracts probably 3 fem be let tomorrow. A total of 18 firms submitted bids on / the arithmetic texts, four on the 5 safety texts, five on the writing : Fd and 23 bots the reading texts.

~ WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U. P.) — "The Treasury announced today that Government spending this fiscal year has passed the four -Billion gollar mark,

Shopping Days Till Christmas

[AAMERICA WAS GREETING Ref, RELATIVITY" EINSTEIN UPRPARIOUSLY

OOKING Back to Christmas Eight Years Ago — Young Judge William Clark of New - Jersey startled country by declaring adoption of the - 18th Amendment invalid. . , . Santa was bringing Sinclair Lewis a Nobel Prize. . . , Companionate marriage topic of discussion... . Christmas ‘merriment dampened by epidemic of bank failures. .. . ‘King Alfonso of Spain preparing - to vacate throne. . America

Roper ‘Resigns

BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—The White House today announced the resignation of Secretary of

i URGES JOBLESS LAW CHANGES

Friiz: Tells Compensation Board All Employers, Should Bé Included.

Amendment of the State Unemployment Compensation law to make it apply to all employers and to provide greater benefits was suggested by Adolph: Fritz, State’ Federation of Labor secretary, in a hearing today before the State Un- |? employment Compensation Board. The Federation was the first of several organizations scheduled to confer with the. Board today and ‘tomorrow. Benefits should be increased, Mr. Fritz.said, from a maximum of $15 a week to $18 and extended to a period of 20. rather than 15 weeks of total unemployment. The maximum total¥f benefits should be increased from $225 to $360 to conform with these provisions, he said. The law_now applies only to employers lhiring eight or more workers. Other organizations which were to confer with the compensation board are the C. 1.4. United Automobile Workers, A United Mine Workers, Indiana Mahufacturers Association, State Chamber of Commerce, Inter-Organization Council and the Indiana Farm Bureau. The Compensatio®-Board is composed of two employers, wo representatives of labor and one representative of the public.

KILLS MAN, WOUNDS OFFICER IN HOSPITAL

SAN FRANCISCO, | Dec. 15 «(U. P.).—A yomth forced his way into San Francisco Hospital today, shot and killed Morris Cornpropst,- 24, a patient’ and critically wounded a policeman. An orderly overpowered the youth, identified as George Dally, 21, and held him and a woman companion, identified 4s Mrs. Cornpropst, for police. The youth said he was a brother of Cornpropst’s wife. Police quoted Dally as saying: “I wanted to get even with that guy for stabbing all my family.” Cornpropst was in the hospital recovering from two hullet wounds inflicted, police said, when his wife, Mrs. Sue Dally Cornpropst, shot him after allegedly knifed Mrs. Cornpropsf’'s mother, a sister and a frienfl last month. He was under police guard on charges resulting from} the stabbing. The policeman, Walter Salisbury, was in riticai condition.

FREAK MISHAP INJURES 2 CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 15 (U. P.). —Esther Frayer, 17, carrying 16-month-old ‘Cecil Williams, caught her heel in street car tracks. Struck by the fender of a car, the girl was knocked down, the baby thrown from he r arms: The child’s right leg was! red the girl bruised. |

Finland Pays (Editorial, Page 22)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—Thirteén nations, owing the United States more than 11 billion dollars, wére scheduled today to make another installment payment on their war debt, but little Finland, as usual, was the only nation to pay up. Finland .forwarded $232,935 as a semi-annual payment. ~The installment due teday amounted to $160,217,334.37, and the previously due and unpaid installments amounted to $1,891,489,906.73, bringing the total arrears of debtor nations to $2,051,707,241.10. The total unpaid principal amounts to $11,231,000,000. Hungary informed the State Department that it was depositing $9828.16 in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on account of her postwar indebt‘edness to this government, The deposit amounted to partial payment of the installment which fell due today, to-

was greeting Prof. : Einstein upriously,

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WPA OFFICIALS PUSH $145,000 TRAFFIC STUDY

Plan to Confer With New - Administration on Hiring Of Engineers.

79 ARRESTED BY POLICE

Woman, 32, Hurt; Deputies Investigate Conflicting Accident Stories.

Conferences with newly elected a $145,000 traffic accident rsurvey were planned today by WPA officials. Meanwhile, the City’s safety drive

" |gained momentum with the arrest

of 79 more motorists and the appointment of civic safety subcommittees to concentrate on the group’s 22-point ‘reform’ program. In the county, a 32-year-old Indianapolis woman was seriously injured. Deputy sheriffs investigated conflicting stories concerning the accident. % The WPA survey will begin between Feb. 1 and March 1, Karl Kortepeter, Marion County WPA director, announced. The exact date depends on the selection by Mayorelect Sullivan of a traffic engineering firm to conduct it. The City wl has appropriated $10,000 to pay for the survey. WPA has allotted $135,000 to be added to the City’s $10,000 appropri-

“|ation for the survey.

- Action Up to City The engineering firm then would turn the survey over to City officials for action on the recommenda-

tions it would contain, according to Mr. Kortepeter. “That would almost necessitate the hiring of a permanent engineering staff to make the best use of the survey,” Mr. Kortepeter said. Included in the 22 points of the Civic Safety Committee report made yesterday was a recommendation that a prrmancdt engineer be appointed. The WPA Toes would include recommendations on widening cer‘tain thoroughfares; removal of “dangerous corners” at intersections where police records show fatalities, and the rerouting of traffic in other places. “I was assured the co-operation of Mayor Boetcher on this project, and

1 I understand Mr. Sullivan is just as! .

favorable toward it,” Mr. Kortepeter said. The injured woman is Mrs. Pauline Krapes, 1048 Haugh St. She told deputies she was struck as she (Continued on Page Three)

SMOG SCREEN LIFTS AS MERCURY RISES

Femperature , at 20 From 6to 8 A. M.

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With the mercury standing at 20 from 6 to 8 a. m, today, a heavy| blanket of smog curtained the downtown section of Indianapolis. It was the worst smoke screen of the month and one of the few ex‘perienced so far this winter. It lifted within an hour.

THREE-CAR GARAGE DESTROYED BY FIRE

Fire early today destroyed a threecar garage at 3787 Creston Drive with a loss estimated at $1400. The garage was owned by Chester Weedon, contractor and coal dealer. A truck in the garage was bady damaged, The cause was not discovered. Cigarets were blamed by firemen for two other fires overnight. At the home of Turner Silcox, 517 Kentucky Ave., a loss estimated at $100 resulted, while a $75 loss was reported in an apartment at the Lockefield Gardens Apartments.

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: ay Funeral Services - Saturday For City Business and Civic Leader. (Photo, Page Five)

Funeral services will be held Saturday for William J. Mooney Sr. Indianapolis business, political and civic leader, who died yesterday in his home, 1210 N. Pennsylvania St., after an illness of two days. He was T5. ©

The. services will be at 9:30 a. m. in the residence and at 10 a. m. in SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Burial will be at Holy Cross.

Mooney-Mueller Ward Ce., whole-

sale drug firm, which he organized

in 1902. He was a resident of Indianapolis for more than 50 years.

Was Active in Politics

Never a candidate for elective office, he was active in Democratic politics for many ears, and in 1932 served as 12th District Democratic chairman. He was presidert of the board of trustees of the Irdianapolis Utility District, and also served as director of the Indiarapolis Sixth District Home Loan Board. Mr. Mooney was; a member of SS. Peter and Paul Cethedral and of the Knights of Columbus, the, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Indianapolis Chamber of Cormerce and the Highland Golf and Country Club. In 1913, he served as chairman of the flood relief. committee of Indianapolis. : Born at Washington, Ind.

He formerly was a director of the American National Bank, the State Life Insurance Co., the Public Welfare Loan Association, the Merchants and Manufacturers Insurance Bureau, Indianapolis ‘Board of Trade, the Gibault Home for Boys, Indianapolis Community Fund, In-

dianapolis Red Cross and ithe nop :

anapolis Foundation. At the age of 18, Mr. Mooney entered the employ of the A. Kiefer wholessale drug company. He was appointed. manager in 1892, retaining that position until 1902 when he organized the Mooney-Mueller Drug Co., which later became the Mooney=Mueller-Ward Co. "He was born in Washington, Ind., on April 17, 1863, and attended public and parochial schools. He is survived by a son, William J. Mooney Jr., and a brother, Lawrence J. Mooney, hoth of Indianapolis, and four grandchildren.

Never Had ToDo This

Times Special NORTE MANCHESTER, - <4 Ind. Dec. 15.—A Santa Claus, pound from Ft. Wayne to this city by. airplane today made an unscheduled landing just before arriving here. He told the pilot, Brush Kramer, Ft. Wayne, that he “needed a little time on the ground to regain his composure before greeting the children.” . After a few moments on the grédund he said he felt better, and they took off again and

landed triumphantly ' a few minutes later.

| WOODPECKERS, which for years were so unobtrusive that even bird lovers thought they ‘were on their way out, have in the last- yar made bold and unwarranted attacks on utility poles with a resultant property loss of thousands of dollars. This became known today through a survey of the Public Service Co. of Indiana, which admits it doesn’t know what to do and also admits it will do nothing at all for a year or so except : : | think it over. A specialist in woodpeckers came all the way from Texas last week to look over the corporation’s problem, sadly shook his head, said it is worse in some places, and went back

This expert said there is nothing a woodpecker won't peck on if he takes a notion, even metals; there is nothing that smells bad enough to make a woodpecker change his mind; there is nothing that can be applied practically to a pole that will reduce the destroyer’s effi-

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ticularly care for the creosote with which modern poles are treated, but said they merely leave their operations when it gets too strong, wipe their bills on some grass, and return to

During the years 1930 to about 1934, the corporation toh wood_peckers bored into poles in certain sections in Southern Indiana, but: they invariably picked poles already rotten-in the ogre. 7

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Not Too Cold for You, Eh? But Your Shoes Don’t Leak And Your Coat Isn’t Thin

“Fair tonight and tomorrow; with the lowest temperature about 20.”

THATS what the Weather Man said yesterday. that’s not too cold. Not too cold for most\ of us,

colder toni

clothes are warm.

so to er But even so, the last few mornings found us turning on the heaters in our automobiles full blast, just enough to take the chill out of the air.

Yes, it is mice weather. And perhaps that’s why it’s hard for us to realize that there are a lot of people for "whom this weather isn’t all right. The worst of it is

they are little people. They are boys and girls whose families haven't fared so well these last few years of economic troubles. Their shoes aren't so seaworthy. To them every damp spot is like stepping into a water puddle. And what to us is sort of pleasant weather ‘has their teeth chattering. 8 ”® ” HOSE are the boys and girls for whom The Indianapolis Times Clothe-A- Child campaign is intended: ; We'd like to see every Indianapolis child in warm clothes this winter. There are going to be bitter cold days.

The number of appeals from poor children to Times Clothe-A-Child has mounted so high, there is urgent need for more donors. Even assuming as we do an increase in the number of donors to take care of the hundreds of needy children now on the waiting list, Clothe-A-Child is unable to accept any more applications,

Those are the days that are going ‘to find the poor children really suffering. - It's going to be an unhappy Christmas for many children in Indianapolis. But Clothe-A-Child 4s going to try to make it a happy one for as many as it can, 2 » PF you'd like to help, here are the ways you can do it: 1.If you wish to shop with a child personally, call RI-5551 and maké an appointment to meet a child at Clothe-A-Child headguarters, 206 W. Maryland St. 2. If you want The Times to act for you, mail a check to “Clothe-A-Child, The Indianapolis Times.” Experienced shoppers will do the rest. 3. Or you can join with others in your office, plant, club, church, sports team, fraternity or sorority. Select a committee, let us know how ‘many children you desire to clothe, The Social Service Department of the Public Schools checks the list to determine the neediest children and to eliminate the pos--sible duplication of clothing gifts. The cost of outfitting a boy or girl depends on their individual needs. The average is from $8 to $12. Clothe-A-Child headquarters is open from 8 a. m. until 6 p. m. Call RI-5551 now. Just ok for “Clothe-A-Child.”

HURT, 5 ESCAPE AS SEWER DITGH GAVES

sired Man fe £ Is Buried ‘Up . To Chin in Gravel, Dirt.

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One man was seriously injured and five others escaped fbday in a

.| sewer ditchcave-in at 6268 Carroll-

ton Ave. “The victim was Cecil Trotter, 21, of 2328 N. Capitol Ave., who was buried up to his chin in gravel and loose dirt. The other five, who were digging the ditch preparatory to installing sewer pipe, scrambled out of the seven-foot hole to safety," Immediately they started to dig Mr. Trotter out. A police rescue squad worked on the victim 15 minutes, then took him to City Hospital. His chest was crushed and left arm broken, physicians said.

LIMA ACCORDS ON TRADE AND DEFENSE NEAR

THE FOREIGN SITUATION

LIMA—U. S. projects win LatinAmerican favor. QUITO—Rebels against “dictatorship” threaten Ecuadorean capital. WASHINGTON — Finland pays debt installment; U.S. sends Nazis new note on Jews.

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LONDON — Baldwin reported backing Eden against Chamberlain, BERLIN—Jews pay first installment of 400-million-dollar fine. PARIS—France to spend billion dollars for defense in 1939. HENDAYE—Franco hints at possibility of peace in Spain.

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MOSCOW—Russia firm on fishing treaty; Japan expected to yield. . SHANGHAI — City reported headquarters of Chinese guerrilla army.

BULLETIN

QUITO, Ecuador, Dec. 135 (U. P.).—A temporary truce in the Army revolt here was reached today when President Mosquera called Congressional elections for Jan. 15 and 16 and the revolting troops returned to their barracks.

“Peso Politics,” Page 21)

LIMA, Peru, Dec. 15 (U. P.).— United States projects for a united

point trade program were. studied today by delegations at the eighth Pan-American conference. +The final draft of the hemisphere defense, plan—revised to meet the objections of Argentina—was almost certain to represent the final declaration by the conference. The program to bolster trade in the Western world and emphasize Secretary of State Hull's argument that freer commerce is the key to world peace, has already been ap-

|proved by 17 nations and probably

will be accepted unanimously. Seek ‘Reasonable’ Duties

Tt reaffirms the action of conferences at Buenos Aires and Montevideo urging removal of trade restrictions and recommends: 1. That the American governments adopt as soon as possible “reasonable” duties “instead of other forms of restriction on commerce.” 2. A mutual agreement for reduction to the minimum of technical barriers retarding imports. 3. Negotiations for commercial conventions on the principle of “no discrimination” in trade relations. 4. Efforts by “appropriate methods” to get other nations to 2dop? the above principles.

Alliance Avoided

Changes in Secretary Hull's original draft of the project for an American front against foreign po-

signed to: 1. Meet Argentina's opposition to any accord that might be interpreted as a treaty or alliance. Thus the project will be a declaration by the conference instead of a binding accord. 2. Avoid language that might be considered a direct affront to any European power. United States delegates were pleased with the revised version of the defense project, which met all

provide machinery for regular periodical meetings of foreign ministers. It was understood that such meetings might be provided, however, through an amendment which Colombia is expected to submit.

delegates assigned to revise the Hull suggestions and, after meeting the requirements of Argentine foreign policy, the authors began submitting it to the various delegations for final agreement. ~ Authorities said a fe > changes might be made before final adoption of the project Hut it was generally believed the draft would be virtually "the same as the final (Continued on Page Five)

-.SCHOOL LOCKER RIFLED

St. Catherine’s Catholi¢ Church, 1109 E. Tabor St., and rifled \@, steel locker, police Teported today.

Power Firm Finds No Utility in Woodpecker's Peck; Doesn't Intend to Do Anything, It's All So Boring

By JOE COLLIER

T that time, the corporafion officials sort of sat back smugly and

figured the woodpeckers:were

doing them a favor by locating the

unsound poles and saving man hours. These poles were replaced ‘with sound, treated, new poles and the

corporation supposed that the birds would give them no more

tentative peck and let them alone.

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But the woodpeckers avent right on and bored into the new poles; making nests, so the corporation was very unhappy.

Corporation engineers have a

lot of theories. One of them is

that woodpeckers are attracted to the poles by the hum of the wires

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Another is that having become used to the clean poles as nesting places—near food supplies and yet in the open from where a. sharp watch can be kept—they will have none of the old trees. Still another is that the woodpeckers peck, not only for food, but also as a sort of signal and the signals are louder when Tapped out on

the poles than they are on trees.

These and others are the things the corporation is going to think over for a year or so, and make notes, before it does anything. : Meantime, woodpeckers take about half the life expectancy off poles they choose to work out on, which is a serious item in the main-

tenance department. uiilities problem.

But nobody yet has solved the woodpecker-

Some places in the South woodpeckers will cut. a new pole off clean in a day’s time, the Texas expert told the local officials as he

hopped a train for home.

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LEAVENWORTH

Citizens Hear Officials Who Made Possible New FloodSafe Town.

By SAM TYNDALL Times Staff Writer LEAVENWORTH, Dec. 15.—This

tiny Ohio. River town, whose church steeples - alone -protruded above muddy flood waters in 1937 while its citizenry stood marooned on a hill, came into its own on that hill today. Dedication ceremonies today marking the reconstruction of the community mean a lot to these folk, because they know that floods cannot make them homeless again. Governor Townsend and other

State and Federal officials arrived to inspect and hail the new town completely rebuilt on the bluff by WPA and the Red Cross. Even the road, along which Red Cross workers and National Guardsmen made their treacherous way through mud to .the flood-stricken people, ‘has been rerouted and now is considered one of the most beautiful in the State. So today Leavenworth’s 500 citizens, housed in a new $130,000 town, gathered at the new Presbyterian Church to hear the officials who helped make it all possible.

Officials Inspect Site

Those who were to speak, besides the Governor, included Col. F. C. Harrington, assistant national WPA administrator; John K. Jennings, Indiana WPA administrator, and William Fortune, Indiana Red Cross president.

inspecting the town’s new sidewalks, streets, water supply and sewer sys--tem and City Building. The water and sewer systems were constructed under supervision of the State Health Board. Other officials who were to extend greeting to ‘new” Leavenworth were Judge John M. Paris, New Albany; John Weathers, New Albany; Lew M. O'Bannon, Corydon;- Lester Miller of the State Board of Health; Floyd I. McMurray, State Superintendent of Public Instruction; T. A. Dicus, State Highway Commission chairman; Col. J. Ford Abell, of the Disaster Loan Corp; -Roger Philip, State Senator-elect, and U. S. Rep. John W. Boehne. ‘The invocation was to be read by the Rev. Ralph O’Dell and music was to be furnished by the Leavenworth High School orchestra.

ICKES TURNS DOWN CHICAGO MAYOR BID

Says Refusal Is Based on Presidential Request.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (IJ. P). —Interior Secretary Ickes, declining to run for Mayor of Chicago, said today he believed President Roosévelt can be renominated and reelected for a third term. His third term comment, he said, was on the basis of reports from many sections of the country which convinced him that “the reactionaries in his (the President's) own party are likely to make his reelection inevitable.” A The Interior Secretary, ‘explaining his refusal to run for mayor was based on a Presidential request, asserted that a reactionary Democrat, if elected in 1940, could tear down the structure of liberal government reared by Mr. Roosevelt.

JEFFERSON PRAISED

1S DEDICATED

The officials spent the morning

BALL TESTIFIES NTRACT BARS NEW JAR FIRMS

Muncie Capitalist on Stand in Probe Of Monopoly.

1932 AGREEMENT

Limitation Placed On Production of

Other Makers. |

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U. P.) =e

Frank C. Ball, white-haired fruit jar manufacturer of Muncie, Ind., testified in the Government moe nopoly 'inyestigation today that his contract Tor patented glass-making machinery prevents issuancé of licenses to new fruit jar manuface turers. The contract, witi the Hartford Empire Co., owner of vital glass

making .machinery patents, was aken out in 1932 carrying a provi sion that Hartford would grant no

further licenses for domestic fruit

jar manufacture. beyond those then in effect. He said it was also specified that companies previously licensed should limit production. “Did you understand that after the execution of that license Harte ford-Empire was not free to grant any licenses for fruit jar manuface ture?” asked Hugh B. Cox, special assistant attorney general. “Yes, sir,” said Mr. Ball, “that was our understanding.” :

Provision Required

“Was the inclusion of that pro= vision required by you? “Yes,” Mr. Ball said.. Recalling to the stand the presie dents of two other glass container companies, Owens-Illinois and J. H. McNash of Hazel-Atlas, Mr. Cox read a graph from a letter Mr. wrote to Mr. Levis in December, 1932, in which he advised that Mr, Ball be “given what he wants (in connection with negotiations for a license) as long as that won't ace tually cramp our style.” “Was it your understanding,” Mr, Cox asked Mr. McNash, Ball wished to make some agreement to restrict Hazel-Atlas production of fruit jars?” Mr. McNash said “yes,” and Mr, Cox asked Mr. Ball the same ques tion. = Mr. Ball réplied that he had asked F. Goodwin Smith, president ° of Hartford, for such an agreement.

Limitation Agreeable

Mr. McMash, “to make such an ay limiting our production to 300,000 gross.” . He added the limitation “was of no particular moment for our oute put did not reach that point.” Mr. Cox introduced a memorane dum taken from Hartford files dee scribing conferences with Mr. Ball, his brother, G. A. Ball, and Mr, Smith. “Does that refresh your recollece tion as to whether an agreement was made?” Mr. Cox asked Mr, McNash, “It does not,” said Mr. McNash, “Did you find a contract?” he shot back at Mr. Cox. “No,” said Mr. Cox. Mr. Cox asked Mr Ball whether he had an - understanding tha#. Hazel-Atlas: and Owens- Illinois would restrict production. Mr. Ball said he had, that Hazel-Atlas would be limited to 300,000 gross and Owens to 100,000 gross. Mr. Cox brought out that Ball (Continued on Page Three)

TWO TEST SUITSON TAX SALES ARE FILED

Two suits seeking to force the

County Treasurer to sell delinglient

tax. 'sproperty for less thafi the amount of taxes due on it were filed. in Circuit Court today. : Cyril J. VanMeter and Claude J, Hornz, who filed the actions, claimed they offered from $2 to $10 each for more than 20 pieces .of property on the delinquent tax lists and that the Treasurer refused to give them receipts.

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Kinney said he was prohibited by a recent.court order from selling any property for less than the amount of taxes due on it.The suits were described as a- test of the court order.

AVIATION AT BEST LEVEL

NEW YORK, Dec. 15 (U. P.).~= Stocks advanced fractions to more than 2 points today on the Stock Exchange. _Aviation issues reached the best level of the year)

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IN ROOSEVELT TALK

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt speaking at ground breaking ceremonies for the three million dollar Thomas -Jefferson memorial today paid tribute to Jefferson’s service in establishing the United States “as a democracy and not an autocracy.” Mr. Roosevelt spoke at the site of the Jefferson memorial on Washington’s tidal basin which has been

the subject of a wide contrquersy.

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