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School's out and Mis. Lucille Bunn of Kentland, left, and Miss: Phyllis Merrill of Ade, grade school teachers: here for the state convention, set out en a iii trip. :
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‘Commonwea To Prom ole
lth of World , Peace Urged |
Dr. Hart of Duke Asks Delegates to Take Lead
Struggle for Revitalized League.
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By JOE COLLIER
Indiana's public school teachers were called upon today to lead a fight for a world-wide commonwealth to steer the world from “dark
centuries of ‘horror.”,
Dr. Hornell Hart of Duke University told the classroom| teachers group of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association that “the question of whether the youth of today will leave their bodies on Doody battlefields
lies with the adults of today and particularly the teachers.” The group, meeting iii Cadle Tabernacle, was one of a score or more which the 17,000 delegates to the two-day session attended. Dr. Hart traced the efforts of man through history to create a ‘commonwealth of people and said “that
the League.of Nations was the fruit,
of that effort.” “We are not going to give it ‘up, -after trying it for only 20 years. Already we hear cries for a revitalized league. We must go and fight for a world-wide commonwealth, if
we have courage. If we are cowards)
we will leave dark centuries: of
“horror for our children. “The present war in Europe is not a sign that we are headed again for the Dark Ages, because -the | world cultural curve is steadily up.”
Dr. Barnes to Speak.
The convention program contains a number of speakers who will place 2n emphasis on world affairs and how they affect teachers and teaching. Dr. Hairy Elmer Barnes, New York, author, will address the general session tonight and special sessions this afternoon. His subject tonight will be “Perpetuation of Democracy Through Education.” Dr. Andrew, Cordier, Manchester College social science professor, also will address the general session tonight on “The’ German ‘Shadow Over Europe.” Tomorrow night Rabbi A. H. Silver, Cleveland, and Dr. Charles L. Gilkey, speak for 30 minutes each on the subject, “What Can Religion Offer a War Torn Civilization?” :
Attempt to Improve Lot
. At the morning meeting of the Social Studies group in the Rob-
L. Albjerg, Purdue University, said that “the most important reason for the chaos the world now finds (Continued on Page Five)
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Johnson Movies ....20, 21 Mrs. Ferguson 18 Obituaries. ... 16
€urious World 27 Editorials »... 18 Questions ... Fashions ;-15| Radio Financial .... 2 Mrs. Roosevelt 17 Flynn’ Scherrer 17
Serial Story .. 27 Grin, Bear It. 27
: Society - 14 Lan. Indpls.;. 3|8ports. 23,23, 24
BOTH SIDES THIEVES, AUTHOR'S W WAR VIEW
Dr. Barnes s Sees Logic in .Claims of Germany.
““The war in Europe is a war of the new thieves against the old and the new thieves seem to| have the {better case,” Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, noted author and lecturer, (said here today. , Dr. Barnes came here to give two addresses in connection with the lannual State Teachers’ Association convention. He addressed a grade schodl teachers” group at the Indianapolis Athletic Club| at noon and is to address the convention general session tonight at Cadle Tabernacle: “There is real logic and justification in the demands of Germany, Italy and Japan for space for their excess population and .access to the world’s raw materials,” he said.
HALF-ASLEEP SCOUT ‘REMAINS THE SAME’
. James Lee Frye, 13-year-old Boy Scout, of 642 Eugene St, who has been in a half-sleep for 75 days, was reported “in the same .condition,” at ity Hospital today. The boy lapsed into semi-con-Scigusness Aug. 13, after he had
Physicians said James has “meningo encephalopathy.” City Hospital authorities said that they will continued to give the bo blood transfusions."
STOCK PRICES EVEN AS BONDS TAKE DIP
By UNITED PRESS Gains balanced losses in the New York stock list today as an early attempt to bring the market into new high ground for the year failed. U. S. Government bonds weakened and the general market turned lower. Wheat dropped ‘2 to % cent at Chicago, while corn held about steady. The London Stock Exchange was firm.
HINT -3000 NAZI CASUALTIES PARIS, Oct. 26 (U, P.).—The French Agence Radiq today estimated ‘the’ number of German casualties in the German Western
complained of a “terrific headache. 2]
TEACHERS PLAY HOOKEY WELL!
Pupils, but the Lobbies Were Crowded.
on. » zn Shortly after 9 a. m. there were several traffic jams at downtown corners by the scores of teachers arriving in town. Three trackless trolleys ‘and two - busses were caught in one jam on Capitol Ave. 2 -n-8
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tures that were averaging 20 -degrees or more above normal for this time of tthe year. Bringing any coats at all appeared to be a-funda-mental error, because the Weather Bureau forecasts more of the same fcr tomorrow. . » ” As usual, it was difficult to‘get a cab downtown between 9 a. m. and 10 a. m. when most of the group sessions were getting under way. The teachers had ‘em all. o ” z Miss Anna Lewis, Dean of Girls at Central = High School, Ft. Wayne, was elected president of the Indiana Association of Deans and Advisers of Women and Girls. Miss Helen Reeve, assistant Dean of Women, Indiana State Normal College, Terre Haute, was elected secretary. Mrs. Susan B. Nay of {Contiined on Page Five)
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It would be too bad if this ever got back to the pupils, but judging from the number of teachers still in hotel lobbies after all ‘the programs had started today, there was a good deal of class skipping going
A great many of the teachers were carrying heavy coats in tempera-
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1939
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COAL TO COME WITHIN SCOPE OF RELIEF QUIZ
state Employee Defends His Part-Time Job With Firm Selling to Township.
The Grand Jury will extend its Center Township relief probe next week to include coal purchases, it was learned today following the admission that a State House official represents a local coal company in the sale of relief fuel to the township. The official, John F. Noonan,
executive secreiary of the State Alcoholic Beverage Commission, said he has been employed as a part-time sales representative by
West St., since last December. The amount of commission re-
to the’ township was not learned. The company, one of the “favorites” on the list of Trustee Thomas M. Quinn, also received a substantial share of the business under Mr. Quinn’s predecessor as trustee, Miss Hannah Noone. |
Confirms Coal Firm Job
Mr. Noonan, a former City Hall employee -and formerly secretary of the Marion County Democratic Central Committee, was considered a likely candidate for the trusteeship before the 1938 primary election, but failed to announce his ‘candidacy when Mr, Quinn was ‘given the nod” by the party or-
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the Barrett Coal & Fuel Co. 230 S.|
ceived by Mr. Noonan for coal sold |
Can I Hel
Taxi Driver Does and Shoves Gasless Car Into Ambulance.
LAST NIGHT THE C in which John Lyons, 2135 N. Pennsylvania St. and Miss Josephine Riley, 410 N. Meridian St., were riding, ran out of gas at 16th and Pennsylvania Sts. : Mr. Lyons, who was driving, left Miss Riley, who can’t drive, in the car-and went for gas. cap driven by Delbert 42 W. Georgia St., came [up in back of the car. He blew the horn, but the stranded car did not move. Miss Riley motioned him to go arouiid. He misinterpreted the signal and decided Miss Riley wanted the car pushed. 8 » ” HE PUSHED THE ol and it rolled out of control, hearing a frightened Miss Bileys down 15th St. There it bumped into an ambulance. The ambulance was slightly damaged, but the patient, Mrs. Elizabeth Riley, no relative of Miss Riley's, was uninjured. se lives at 4737 English Ave, a was bound for Methodist Hospital. Eventually Mr. Lyons, aring gasoline, found his car and things were straightened out. Mr. Mickler . ‘was cparged with free driving.
ganization. Mr. Noonan, readily confirming his connection with the fuel company, . said he cal on Trustee Quinn last January and asked that the company be continued on the list of firms receiving relief orders by the township. The township business is only one of many accounts he handles for the company, Mr. Noonan said. “I have about 20 good accounts with business firms having no connection. with. relief,” Mr. Noonan said. “I never used my connection with the State to sell fuel to ABC || permittees.
‘My Record Is Wide Open’
“My record is wide open. I have not permitted my part-time work to interfere with my work for: the State and I had permission from my superior, Hugh A. Barnhart (State ABC director), to take the selling job on the side. I work at it only in my spare time—evenings, and week-ends.” Mr. Noonan is married and has five children. Mr. Barnhart declined to comment on Mr. Noonan’s part-time work. Edward J. Barrett, manager of the Barrett firm, said Mr. Noonan had been a sales representative for the firm “something less than a year,” adding that “everything we've done has been on the ‘up and up,’ and our record is an open book.”
Welcomes Investigation
“We never have filed a false claim and welcome any investigation which may be made,” Mr. Barrett seid. “In sdveral instances, our men were unable to deliver coal ordered by ‘the trustee, because the familyy had moved, but these order slips always were returned to. the trustee for cancellation.” Announcement that the Grand Jury would inv-stigate coal claims against the township was made by Samuel: E. Garrison, -deputy. prosecutor in charg= of the Grand Jury probe. The Grand Jury recessed last night until Monday, after devoting yesterday to hearing testimony on milk claims and the quality of milk furnished to relief clients. Records of the County Auditor's {Continue on Page Five)
FUND WORKE s
IN FINAL SPURT
Banquet Tonight (Closes Drive; $69,994 oo To Beach Goal,
86 3 710 .00 Total raised to date .. 613,715.16 Amount needed
Campaign ends tonight. |
Personal business was | dropped today by. 3500 in Fund campaign workers as they crisscrossed Indianapolis in ‘search of $69,994.84 which is needed for the goal. Tonight at a banquet, in the Claypool Hotel, the final report will be made and wherever the account then stands, the campaign will close. Only three times in history, under two general chairmen, has the goal been reached. Walter C.| Marmon was chairman in 1928, the eighth year of the drive. and subscriptions (Continued on Page Three)
WITH SPRING IN AIR, CITY WAITS SHOWER
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a. m. .... 68 10 a. m. . Ta.m.... 68. 11 a. ml... S8a.m.....69 12 (noon) . 9a. m..... 69 1pm .... >
With temperatures about 24 above normal | for this time of the year and with a spring tang in the air, : Indianapolis watched out for an -occassional shower today and tomorrow, as promised by the Weather Bureau. Mild temperatures will continue tomorrow and the skies will be mostly overcast, the Bureau said.
INJURED IN FALL AT NEW ALLISON PLANT
Pierce Runyan, nyan, 46, East Gate Hotel, received a tay when he fel
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of the right leg today when he fell 10. feet from a platform construction at the new Allison Engineering plant, Grande Ave. and 10th St. Charles Funk, 53, of 214 N. Oakland Ave., who also fell when the board they were standing on broke, was reported uninjured. Both were taken to Methodist Hospital.
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BRITAIN TAKES NAZI DARE FOR WAR TO FINISH
Soviets to Give U. S. Ship Back to Nazis; New Sea “Raider Confirmed.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
Great Britain accepted, the Nazi
but maintained a tolerant attitude
toward Soviet Russia's aid to Ger-
many.
that the American freighter City of Flint would be given back to a German warship prize crew at Murmansk, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain reviewed developments in the last week of Europe's war with a confident attitude in a report to the House of Commons,
Scorn Ribbentrop
The speedy 10,000-ton Nazi pocket battleship Deutschland is free as a sea raider in the Atlantic, he admitted, but said the Allied blockade against Germany is effective and the British counter-attacks on Nazi Uboats and bombing planes have inflicted a severe toll. Mr. Chamberlain and other British speakers scornfully denounced the Danzig speech of Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, charging Britain with responsibility for the European war, and pointed out that the formerly anti-Soviet minister is now “inviting” Russia to join in a crusade against the British Empire.
Stay Technically Neutral
But the Prime Minister and his Foreign Minister, Viscount Halifax,
4drew cheers when they made a
friendly reference to the Soviets, stating that the British Government believed the Red Army nvessaryly occupied part of Poland as measure of self-protection against the Nazis. This stand bolstered indications that Britain and: France would avoid any effort to restore a Polish regime in that part of the dismembered nation—an area which Moscow said was jubilantly approving its own “Sovietization.” The ‘Soviets, however, moved steadily ahead in their policy of bolstering Germany for the war against Britain and France, although at the same time it was understood that (Continued on Page Three)
BYRD SNOW CRUISER IS CROSSING INDIANA
Ft..Wayne Among Stops on ‘Eight-Day Trek.
LIGONIER, Ind., Oct. 26 (U. P)). —State Police reported today the snow cruiser being shipped from Chicago to Boston for Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Antarctic expedition had completed its tests at the Dunes State Park and left Gary shortly before noon. Earlier, it lumbered through the South Chicago industrial district like a grotesque prehistoric monster, on the first leg of an eight-day trek. Admiral Byrd will take it with him when he leaves Boston about Nov. 1 on an expedition to Antarctica to explore and - establish the United States’ claims to Antarctic regions. The cruiser was designed by the Research Foundation of Armour Institute to carry members of Admiral Byrd's staff across treacherous, icy wastes with ease and comfort. It is 55 feet long, 15 feet wide, weighs 35 tons and has wheels 10 feet in diameter, each separately powered. . - The cruiser will follow a surveyed
route, including a stop at Ft. Wayne.
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 26 (U. P.).— A] Jolson, a sadder man than ever he was while singing a mammy ‘song: in blackface, said today his attempts “to bring ‘a reconciliation with Ruby Keeler have failed and that ; she was determined to ‘end their marriage. “It just seems to happen to people out here,” he said ruefully. “They called ours a. perfect marriage, and I never thought it would happen to us. But it did. “There is no other max ‘or woman involved, and there’s never been a breath of scandal. I love her and I'm still hoping shell. change. her mind, but. you can’t argue with a woman. “Yes, I guess she's going through with it. She's. going to -file for divorce, or whatever it is. I don’t know what it’s, all about. But it's sure awfully lonesome. out here.” Mr. Jolson talked like a man dog-tired, ‘and friends said -he was “all broken up.” ‘Miss Keeler, film
dancer 21 years his junior, left] Front attacks of ‘Oct, 16 and 17 at] to he a: ad
Tt Just Seems to Happen to the People Out Here,’ Al Jolson Says as Ruby Moves to Obtain Divorce
plots ‘for reconciliation, but she re-|
Hees nade up her’ mind,”
challenge of war to a finish today,| #8
Soon after the Soviets indicated
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Up Smilin’
| Times Photo. Andrew ‘Thomas Henry, 2, figured in a simultaneous auto accident and fall today and came up smiling, merely scratched on face and chest. Andrew was playing with a toy auto at an open, second-floor window at his home| at 134 W. Vermont St. His mother, Bernice, stood nearby. | The auto slippel from Andrew's hand. He grabbed for it, slipped and rolled down the roof and then to the ground 15 feet below. Fearfully, Andrew’s ther raced down stairs to his side. Andrew smiled and asked for his auto.
HULL ORDERS PROTESTS T0
Crew and Let Them Go, “Moscow Is Told.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (U. P.).—Secretary of State Cordell Hull disclosed today that the United States had
Government freighter City of Flint and its cargo to its American crew, Secretary Hull indicated that similar strong representations are being made in Berlin as a result of the Flint's seizure by a German
Russian Arctic port of Murmansk, The reveiation of the American’ demand came after it had been ine dicated both at Moscow and Bere lin that the ship would be released to its German prize crew. State U. S. Postion Mr. Hull disclosed that Ambagsador Laurence Steinhardt in Mos»
cow has been authorized to send one or more officials to Murmansk
what has been transpiring. Secretary Hull did not indicate
FEAR MRS. JUDD
MAY KILL AGAIN
torical via: Spurs Ex-
tensive Search for ‘Tiger Woman.’ By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent
PHOENIX, Ariz, Oct. homicidal mania which
efforts to recapture her.
Mrs. Judd escaped from the Arizona State Hospital for the Insane Tuesday night and, as police looked for her throughout the Southwest, Governor Robert T. Jones: revealed that she is now more insane than when insanity saved her from pays. ing the extreme penalty for murder.
Governor Shows Note
Governor Jones revealed the contents of a note which the blond
murderess left with her mother, Mrs. H. J. McKinnel],
the Rev. Mr. McKinnell moved here Ind. She said she only wanted to see here bedridden father and her husband, Dr. William C.. Judd, who is a patient in the Veterans’ . Hospital in Los
from Darlington,
Angeles.
She had seen her father, going she walked out of the hospital, leaving a cunningly contrived dummy in her bed. Presumably, she would now
to him immediately after
seek to see her husband.
From the Los Angeles ‘hospital, he appealed. to her either to surrender to authorities or. communi-
cate with him at once. Stopped ‘Yard Privileges’
They were estranged in 1931 when | she killed Agnes Anne Le Roi and Hedvig Samuelson in a cottage they shared here. Miss Leroi’s body was packed in a big wardrobe trunk and Miss Samuelson’s body was .dismembered and packed in a smaller steamer trunk. Both were shipped
to Los Angeles.
- Her note, which was addressed to no one but which her parents believed was intended for Governor
Jones, revealed delusions of perse-
eution and hinted at months, . per | introspective an
belhad been circulated after this
26.—The impelled “Tiger Weman” Winnie Ruth Judd, formerly of Darlington and Evansville, Ind., to murder her two ‘best friends” eight years ago, has grown steadily worse, it was revealed today, and this added urgency to frenzied
who with
whether the representations to Russia were verbal or written. Secretary Hull said that if the vessel and its cargo were returned to the American crew, they would be free and footloose to proceed in sueh manner as they saw fit. ;
resentations to the Russian Govern ment for return of the vessel the United. States Ambassador was ad= vised to state the American concep= tion of maritime law, and demand
vessel be freed. No reply to this communication had been received shortly after noon.
Clarification May Come
In stating that return of the ves=' sel also would apply to the cargo, Secretary Hull reiterated his state= ment of three days ago that more’ than half of the cargo doubtless comprised conditional contraband. The Germans seized the ship while it was bound for England
was mainly contraband. Secretary Hull's disclosure that our views of international law were put squarely to the Soviet Govern ment raised the possibility that the Soviet neutrality position: will be finally and definitely clarified.
Cite Treaty and Precedent
Mr. Steinhardt, Secretary Hull disclosed, called to Russia's atten= tion the 1917 case of the British
German raider and conducted into the port at Norfolk, Va. A claim was filed for the ship by its original owners and the case resulted in a
vessel,
Hague Convention of 1907 which specified that prizes of war should be conducted into neutral ports only temporarily under stress of storm, lack of - supplies, unseaworthiness and similar causes. : The United States position, as Mr. Hull pointed out, has long been that neutral ports could not be used as refuges for prizes of war except under those specific conditions. ' ‘When those conditions cease to exist the prizes would be required to leave under penalty of interment of
gondidions. Crew Found Safe
ing, another article 23, which pro-
neutral ports pending prize court decisions. The United States specifically refused to approve this ariicle when it ratified the conven= on.
that Russian reports that the
“| Flint’s machinery was damaged,
‘| necessitating the’ call at Murmansk, Gov|ernment’s position regarding the use
JLof euifal ports-had been made 10 TI Russia. :
demanded ‘that the Russian release ‘the
warship which took it into the ,
He said that in making the Tepe :
that under international law the :
ship Appan which was seized by &
Supreme Court decision freeing the :
Mr. Steinherdt also called tc ther Soviets’ attention Article.21 of‘the.
the prize crew for violation of the
Russia ratified the treaty, includ« vided for sequestration of prizes in
Questioning developed indications 2
to determine first hand exactly i
with a cargo which they contended * |
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