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TUESDAY, OCT. 31, 1939 _

* FLINT TAKES ON SUPPLY OF FOOD INNORWAY STOP

Ship Faces Triple Danger—

Battle, Mine or Bomb— In North Sea.

BY UNITED PRESS

The U. S. Government expressed Britain and Germany its expectation that all belligerents will guard against ex-

posing the 41 Americghs on the to unnecessary

today to Great

City of Flint dangers.

"The Government is also express-

ing to Britain and Germany its concern for the safety of the Flint’s

“American crew. Instructions have been forwarded to the London and Berlin Embassies to make representations to that effect. . ‘The U. S. representations emphasized the grave concern that officials feel for the safety ofthe Americans. There was no official explanation of the term ‘expectation’ to the Americans will be avoided but it carried the implied feeling that the U. S. would look > seriously’ on any action endangering ihe Amerjcans.

Expect Prompt {action

There was no fuither official news from the Flint, although Norwegian news dispatches said the . vessel had left Tromsoe, Norway. headed for the open sea with the convoy of two armed German merchantmen. Reports that the American crew was threatened by the 18-man German prize crew, that the prize crew planned to blow up the Flint in case the British were about to take it, that tHe, vessel was headed’ through waters infested with “wild” mines, served to accentuate concern felt here. _It' was expected that the State Department tructions to Berlin and London | would be promptly carried out in view of the fact that the Flint is somewhere in the North Sea, ready to risk the dou- ' ble jeopardy. of mines - and the British blockade. :

“Take Food and Water

Reports from Tromsoe, where the ship put in/ yeste , Were conflicting. At first it Was indicated that the ship was short of supplies because No ian authorities refused to permit it to load there. Later telephonic conversations between Oslo, the Norwegian capital, and Tromsoe—indicated that the ship had been permitted to take on food and water and that therefore it might have a wide cruising radius, so that it might even delay its attempt to break through the blockade to reach Germany. These later reports said that after leaving the fjord at Oslo, the freighter steamed out to open sea, preceded and followed by armed German merchantmen.

Consul Boards Ship

The German Consul at TromSsoe boarded the ship, possibly with instructions from the German Government for the prize crew. Officials refused to say whether the prize crew made any attempt to land any = or all of the City of Flint's American crew. British sailors from the sunken Stonegate, put off at Tromsoe last week, asserted that the German seamen had placed a bomb in the engine room to sink the ship if it were about to be taken by the British. Members of the Stonegate crew, who arrived in Britain yesterday, said that Capt. Joseph A. Gainard of the City of Flint, defied the Nazis who confronted. him with drawn pistols and refused to take aboard part of the crew of the British . Irelayter and leave the captain and Siilef engineer hostages in German

Yankee Stubbornness

The . German pocket battleship Deutschland had. sunk the Stonegate and taken its crew aboard. Then the warship fired across the City of Flint’s bow and told Capt. Gainard he must/ take aboard the Stonegate crew and the prize crew and proceed to a German port.

that |!

of the crew was wounded.

DUCE SHAKES UP ITALIAN REGIME

Believed Seeking Stronger Neutrality Policy by

Promoting Friends.

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Minister, succeeded by Host Venturi, former under-secretary. Ferfuccio Lantini, Corporations

Minister, succeeded by Renato Ricci. Cobolli Gigli, Public Works Minister, succeeded by Adelchi Serena. Gen. Attilio Terruzzi, who had been Colonial Undersecretary, was named Colonel Minister, a post Sig. Mussolini had held himself. Politically, the most important change was that in the secretary generalship of the Fascist Party, a post which entails the active command of the party throughout Italy. ' The official announcement concerning this shift said: “Starace asked to be relieved of the post of secretary of the’ party which he had held for eight years and he has been appointed chief of staff of the Fascist Militia. Blackshirt Gen. Ettore Muti was appointed secretary of the party.” Drastic as was Sig. Mussolini's shake-up, it was received here with

ithe recollection that it has been his

custom on occasion to take new blood into the Cabinet. However, Sig. Starace, particularly, was shifted from a post which he had long held and which politically is most important. A pioneer Fascist, he took part in the March on Rome, became Lieutenant General of the Sixth Fascist Zone, was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and then in 1932 became party secretary general. Informants, describing the shakeup as the biggest in the history of fascism, said that it was completely unexpected. Only on Saturday, Sig. Starace took ‘a leading part in the Fascist anniversary ceremonies.

‘Means Nothing,’

Germans Hope BERLIN, Oct. 31 (U. P). — A Propaganda Ministry spokesman said today that the shake-up in Italy did not in the opinion of Nazis mean a. change in: fundamental Italian policy. Foreign Office sources said that the return to Berlin of Hans Georg von Mackensen, the German Ambassador at Rome, was not connected with the shakeup.

LONDON, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—Unofficial sources expressed gratification today at the Italian Cabinet changes which they believed . removed pro-German elements. Achille Starace and Dino Alfieri were placed in that category. Appointment of Gen. Ettore Muti was considered especially important since he is regarded as an outspoken anti- Bolshevik.

Nazi Hone Shot Down, Two Die in Scotland

Interpret Lewis Move as 1 940 Backing of Wheeler

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—John L. Lewis has blacklisted, as far as C. 1. O. participation is concerned, a proposed conference of Western Progressives apparently projected for January. He said it had been called, among other reasons, to launch a third-term boom for President Roosevelt.

With the apparent weakening of the Roosevelt-Lewis political partnership it was suggested that the labor leader may be think of Senator Burton K.’Wheeler (D. Mont.), as his best Presidential bet for 1940. Mr. Lewis gave as one of his reasons for the blacklisting of the proposed conference, its alleged exclusion of “Senator Wheeler and other great Liberals of the West.” Recent rumors of plans for the Progressives meeting were brought into ‘the open by ‘the C. I. O. leader in a letter to Governor Culbert L. Olson of California. “During our personal conference in San Francisco on Oct. 15,” Mr. Lewis wrote Governor Olson, “we discussed the proposed conference of Progressive leaders of 11 Western states, then being organized by Norman H. Littell, assistant to the Attorney General in chdrge of the lands division, and Marshall E. Dimock, second assistant to the Secretary of Labor.

Littell and Dimock Silent

“You will ‘recall that we were in substantial agreement that these gentlemen were pursuing an unwise course by their secret methods of organization and their exclusion of labor - participation.” He said he had instructed state chairmen of labor's Non-Partisan League, the C. I. O. political organization, not to participate . Neither Mr. Littell nor Mr. Dimock would discuss the Lewis letter or the conference. ' The C. I. O. leader wrote that since his talk with Governor Olson the two Washington officials “have continued their work in secret and are prepared to issue the call and assemble the conference for some

‘date in January, in Salt Lake City

or some other convenient city.” Third-Term Angle Stressed

In listing the reasons why labor’s Non-Partisan League is. opposed to the: conference, Mr. Lewis included “the secret plans to use the conference to launch a thirditerm boom.” This was what excited Washington. "The first question here, was, ‘Does this mean that John L. Lewis is going to fight a third term?” Inquirers at C. I. O. headquarters were cautioned not’ to put too much emphasis on this section of the Lewis letter in drawing inferences. It was pointed out that laboi’s NonPartisan League has constantly .supported New Deal labor and social objectives. Another reason Mr. Lewis gave for boycotting the conference—his as-

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

County City PRANAB tNerean 9 58 . 79 57 —Oct. 30—

Injured ...... 1] Arrests ....... 49 Dead ........ 0 Accidents .... 10

MONDAY TRAFFIC COURT

Cases Convic- Fines|m Tried tions Paid . Speeding ....... u 12 $161 Reckless driving. 2 7 Failing to stop at through street. . Disobeying traffic Drunken - driving All others ......

Sesasssssssnnnnase

Violations

12 8 23

: 7 2 10

MEETINGS TODA Rotary Club, luncheon, Clayppol Hotel,

os Club, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel, Mercator Club. 3 “niversal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, 7 hts of Columbus, luncheon, K. of

“ec. clubrooms, noon a_ Lutheran Service ‘Club, luncheon, Canary

tta no: co a RARE Club luncheon. Y. M. C. A, noon. or per Credit Group Men's Grilles the wm. H. Block

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indiana State Conference on Social Werk. convent: Claypool Hotel all day. pc wank s Club, Cjuncheon, Columbia Club,

RC ions Club, luncheon. Hotel Washington,

Tong Men’s Discussion Club, dinner, ¥. MC

36 55 20

$302

luncheon, Co., nuon.

Board of Tra oon Indiana Soc Sons of the Americ Boon. ethicon, Spink ATH Heap LEAN A. Camera Club. mon Y. M

Indianapolis,

avelis Real Estate Board, luncheon, an ottage. na Motor Traffic Association, lunch-

eon, Hotel Antlers, moon. ana

apoli a Ca Chamber of Com merce, lunc . Canar ottage, noon. 'orty-Plus In ¢ commer, 7:30 p

b. meeting, Chamber of m.

BIRTHS

: Girls 8, Tina Jes Oliver, at Methodist

Misdie States, at city. Methuiat,

: a luncheon, Hotel Lincoln,

12th District A: American Legion, luncheon, de, n m

Re Manageme: Division Indian- s

Allgodd, at 2063 Winter, Chartes. EHith Se tien, at 1121 N. Ala-

berta Rogers, at 355 W. 14th. “hie A Alvera Burnell. at 1081 S.

Pershing. Mary Fitch, at 33 E. 37th. Boys

ys Walter, Mary Elizabeth Ray, at Meth-

George. Josephine Cox, at 5 Francis. arold, Joan Niberger. at gh Fah cis. 1 ichard Sertfude Tiaisha 11 ary Daly. at 738 N. po ersey. Richard. Melvina a at 426 'W. Ver-

Frederic. Dorothy Reffitt, at 626%

t ib og Helen LaChar, at 1109 St. Peter,

DEATHS . Burrin, 42, at 461 Congress, car-

dis

Ali cinoma. Jéica an Smith, 78, at Central, arterio-

Selene iin. 55, at 826 W. 27th, chronic i William Branham, 88.3 at on W. Vermont, ca ascular r Irvin Kirschbaum, aa at 435 Harvard,

“liver Wright, 62, at City, cerebral hem-

orr ’ Miller, 47. at Long. generalized se tisaemis a. ant Jackson, 3 days, at City, cerebral hemorrhage. is Petrie, 39. at Central, general pars . illiam 8. Martin, 73. at 1052 River, arteriosclerosis ndrew 3 * Cooksey, 83, at 1641 Alvord, carcinoma. Loechle. 70 at 124 W. 27th, cor-

n onary th ais. ous Devaar. 84, at St. Vincenf's,

. Eise b: ronchoppeymonis. 79, at 2035 Winter, arteriosclerosis. MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are {rom official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore. is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.

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FIRES

Monday 2:15 M.—Rader and 25th, malicious false I rm.

tove. 4:20 P. M.—1648 Georgetown Road, residence, short circuit. :03 P. M.—702 Lord, auto, short circuit,

$10. 6:45 P. Mun E. 26th, trash. 6: M.—Davidson and Georgia, malicious false alarm. 7:40 P. M.

false alarm. 5 P. M.—Trowbridge and Southeastoe Jaaliious false alarm. 10:18 P/M. —N. Miley and Big Four RailElicious £

MS sheen New Seon resi ioky fireplace, ! AW

Tuesday 7 A. M.—2310 College, barn, cause uni S20; 2:07 A. M.—2304 Gollege. garage, comication from 2310 2. 2:07 A. M.—2309 Broadway. ication from 2310 College,

garage. com-

3:39 P. M.—1723 N. Meridian, leaking gas |]

OFFICIAL WEATHER

wee. United States Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS ‘ FORECAST — Mostly oyercast and somewhat warmer with possible light rains early tonight, becoming fair and slightly colder tomorrow.

Sunrise ...... 6:13 | Sunset ...... 4:44

TEMPERATURE

BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m....30.02

Preciitation 24 hrs. end Total precipitation since Excess since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Mostly oyercast, some sprinkling or light rain early tonight; not quite so cold in southeast portion tonight; tomorrow generally fair, slightly colder. Illinois—Partly cloudy, not quite so cold in southwest portion tonigh tomorrow generally fair, ‘slightly colder. Lower Michigan=-Occasional light rain or snow flurries toni ne; tomorrow mostly cloudv, slightly colder, snow flurries in north and extreme pi portion. Ohio—Fair, slightly colder in east portion tonight; tomorrow fair. ghtly colder In with light to heavy frost, slighily colder in extreme east portion tonight; tomorrow fair, slightly warmer in south portion.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Weather

incinnati

Denv Dodge city, Helena,

Little

Miami .e . Mpls.-St. paul * eran Mobile, Ala. .......... Clear New Orleans

O —Paris and 24th malicious Omaha

Ore. 3an Antonio, Tex. san Francisco t. Louis

sertion that labor had been excluded from “the privilege of making suggestions for a legitimate program”—was stressed with the explanation that labor always insists on a voice in formulating programs in which it participates. Other reasons his letter cited for non-participation were the source of the conference’s conception and “the surreptitious manner in which its organizers "have worked,” the “doubtful source of its finances,” the “questionable legality ugder .the Hatch Act of the activities of Littell and Dimock” and “the slight to Senator Wheeler and other great liberals in the West who have not been consulted and who are slated to be excluded from the conference.”

HALLOWEEN HA'NTS HOVER OVER CIRCLE

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out of bounds and their “pranks” are not in taste, if not actually harmful. In order to keep property damage down as much as possible; police and deputy sheriffs have been ordered to pay special attention to what goes on tonight and to pick up rowdys guilty of lawless activities.

Property Damage Reported Already some property damage has been reported to police, and already, some persons have been charged with violating laws. Police Chief Michael F. Morrissey urged persons not to drive their cars downtown tonight for the sole purpose of watching the celebration and warned them to allow no masked person in their homes unless they were absolutely sure of his identity. He urged also that persons put their cars in garages tonight, instead of park them on streets. These precautions, he said, probably will keep down the property loss to a minimum.

Bus Routes Changed

Owing, to the Circle party, the routes of all downtown bus lines will be changed between 7 p. m. and 10 p. m., Indianapolis Railways, Inc., reported. The changes are: Central Ave. busses will turn east on Ohio from Meridian to Pennsylvania, south to Market and east over the regular route. Madison and English busses will go south on Pennsylvania to Maryland, west to Meridian and south over the regular route. Busses coming inbound from Madison will reverse this route. Mars Hill and Millersville busses

will go south on Pennsylvania tof}

Maryland, west on Maryland to Kentucky, then southwest over the regular route. From Mars Hill they will reverse this route. Meridian busses will turn west on Ohio from Meridian’ to Illinois, north to New York and east to Meridian and the regular route. After 8:20 p. m.,, when the Meridian and E..New York lines are combined, Meridian busses will turn east on Ohio from Meridian to Pennsylvania, south to Market and east over the E. New York route. Inbound E. New York busses will reverse this route. E. Tenth, Riverside, E. New York, 16th-Emerson and 21st-Ritter busses will go north from Market on Pennsylvania to Ohio, east on Ohio to Delaware, south to Market and east over the regular route. Speedway busses will turn west on Ohio from Meridian ‘to Illinojs, north on Ilinois to New York, then west over the regular route.

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Despite Britain's losses at sea and France’s withdrawal on the Western Front, experts here think the Allies are winning the war so far by decisive diplomatic victories. In evaluating these victories, naturally they put American public opinion and Roosevel tian pro-Ally neutrality at the top of the list. They assume that the House will follow the Senate in voting

arms embargo, in refusing to ban belligerent armed merchant

ships from unMr. Denny restricted use of American ports, and otherwise making the United States safe for Allied supplies. They point out that the. Allies do

@ ers to f

not need “sons of American moth-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES :

5 U. S. WARNS NAZIS AND BRITISH TO PROTECT SHIP'S CRE TOWNS BEHIND

Times-NEA. Radiophioto,

Bullet-riddled and two of its crew dead, this Nazi scouting plane crashed near East Dalkieth in the north of Scotland after an aerial “dogfight” with British planes. The pilot, uninjured, tried to get his plane back in the air after being shot down, but failed. A fourth member

HINT ARMY VETO OF HITLER PLAN

Cog Slipped Somewhere, War Reporters Sure, When All Is Calm.

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Chancellery, and” the next day launched his famous ultimatum. “Let those who consider war to be the best solution,” he thundered, “reject my outstretched hand.” He was ready to make “war in earnest,” he said, and the world would see a “blood bath” such as it had never beheld before. Probably Too Late Now

Promptly both Britain and France rejected Hitler’s peace and the world sat back and waited for the blow to fall. Today-:the world is still waiting. it would be foolish to predict what may be in Herr Hitlers mind, the best informed experts now on the job in' Europe are well nigh unanimous that the chances against a major offensive this year are very slight. The ground is already like a sponge and bad weather has only just commenced. Reports are that Herr Hitler favors putting everything he has into a colossal smash against the Maginot Line. ‘The World War lasted more than four years. It cost Germany, on an average, nearly 10 billion dollars a year, or approximately 39 billion dollars. One and three-quarter million Germans died in that war and some four million others were wounded. Despite all of which, Germany was defeated. Generals Think Othenwise

In comparison, if she could smash the Maginot Line and win the war in 60 days, such a victory would be cheap even if it cost two million men. Germany's economic losses in so short a war would be comparatively small—so’ small, in fact, that Britain and France could be made to foot the entire bill. Such, it is said, may be Herr Hitler’s reasoning. But his generals are thought to be less sanguine. They: remember Verdun, where, in 1916, 300,000 Germans laid down their lives in a vain effort to get past one fortress. What, they may reas snably ask, would happen if they risked everything against the much stronger Maginot Line only to be stopped as at Verdun? The answer, of course, is the defeat of Germany. It has now been verified by eyewitnesses that the Germans are still pouring concrete in certain parts of the Siegfried Line, notably in the region of the Saar. And concrete

requires months to harden sufficient-

ly to make it proof against high explosives. As for Russia, Nazi leaders are reliably reported to have no confidence whatever in Herr Hitler's friend Stalin. They fear that once Germany became locked in a life-or-death struggle with the Allies, Russia would obtain a stranglehold on the rest of Europe to the undoing of Nazidom.

LOCAL GRADUATE NURSE AT FRANKLIN

FRANKLIN, Ind. N, Ind., Oct. 31 (U.P). —Miss Alice Campbell, formerly of the Methodist. Hospital at Indianapolis, became Franklin College nurse today. Miss Campbell, who formerly lived at Butler, Ind., and graduated from the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in 1937, arrived yesterday to take her new position, to which she was appointed by Dr. William Gear

fields”—that the Western Front is

repeal of thel|Ally.

Spencer, president of the college.

too crowded already despite French demobilization of some classes. Secondly, the Allies have won “world opinion,” which is such an important factor in th

are beasing Hitler at his own game, despite his jeers about amateurs who should: learn from him as a propaganda master. The extent of this Allied victory in the war of words is illustrated by Holland, which has some reason to be pro-German in sympathy as she was in the last war, but which is now reported overwhelmingly pro-

Even more tangible is the Allied success—at least to date—in keeping neutral the friends Hitler counted on: Italy, Spain, Turkey and Russia. By thus isolating Germany as a belligerent, even if only temporarily, the Allies have prevented the blitzkrieg or lightning war which they most feared. Now Gen. Mud

LINES SHELLED BY BOTH SIDES

General Offensive Waits As Diplomatic Front Rules Europe.

(Continued from Page One)

[Berlin to report on the Italian

position. In London, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who in his last

1 speech sought to win Soviet favor

by inferentially recognizing Russia’s right to invade Poland “as protection against Germany,” made a similar gesture toward Italy, which seems in a more receptive mood. He revealed in Commons that ‘| Great Britain intends to send a new ‘Consul General to Albania, which would be the first step toward British recognition of Italian annexation of the formerly independent kingdom. In the Balkans, there were indications of a plan for a strong bloc of smaller nations under possible Italian dominance. London diplomatic sources reported that Italy and Greece were planning to strengthen their ‘bonds and Rumania’s semi-official newspapers advocated Balkan solidarity under Mussolini's leadership. The allied powers obviously were hoping that such tendencies could be encouraged as a bar to German and Russian expansion in southeastern Europe.

Nazis Whistle Bravely Nazis—still seeking to keep close ties with both Italy and Russia— expressed = confidence that Mussolini’s “changing of the guard” would not affect the Rome-Berlin axis. At the same moment V. M. Molotov was addressing the Supreme Soviet. The British considered that the Molotov speech might be a signal for a big-scale attack by Germany against the Allies. London sources pointed out that the Supreme

Soviet’s ratification of the GermanRussian friendship accord was the signal for Herr Hitler to attack Poland. The Finish mission returns to Moscow tonight with a written reply to Russia’s demands on the only ‘InnereBaltic state that has not fallen under the Soviet spell. Neither

‘| the demands or the reply have been

revealed, 'but Paris = diplomatic sources said Finland would insist on settling the differences within the framework of the 1932. non-aggres-sion treaty. The most important development in the Italian shakeup probably was negative. Count Galeazzo Ciano, the Premier’s son-in-law and his agent in frequent negotiations with

“|Herr Hitler, remained as Foreign

Minister. This indicated that Sig. Mussolini wanted to emphasize there would be no foreign policy change although it has been observed frequently that Rome—and even the Premier—has avoided any repetition of the solidarity of the axis powers in recent weeks.

Job for Otto Rumored From Brussels there came strong rumors of a post-war creation of a Danubian Federation, possibly under Prince Otto of Hapsburg, who is now in Belgium and was in Paris conferring with Premier Edouard Daladier a few days ago. It was said that the federation might include Hungary, Rumania, Jogoslavia and a reconstructed Austria and Czechoslovakia. : Germany and England, meanwhile, were engaged in a duel of words that could come only under the heading of propaganda. "The British - Government released a series of factual stories designed to recall as vividly as possible the Nazi brutalities toward Jews and some others in the years of Hitler's regime. =

Three More Ships Sunk About the same thing was. happening in Germany, where the Nazi radio and newspapers told the German people that there was chaos in Great Britain and France because the Alliéd blockade of the Reich had backfired. "Fhe Nazi said that only the British Jews wanted to continue the war. In. that connection, there had been intense submarine activity in the last few days, three British ships being sunk by “enemy action” and the crew of the Swedish steamer Bardaland telling how five ships in a British convoy from Gibraltar had been sunk by U-boats a week ago. The British steamer Cairnmona also was sunk by a mysterious explosion. On the Western Front, there was’ heavy artillery fire by both the Ger-

man and Allied forces.

Allied Diplomatic Victories Counteract German Military Gains, Observers Feel|

the air and on the all-important blockade front. Most authorities agree that time wages war against Herr Hitler. Most authorities agree that if Italy and Spain had marched with Germany against France, it would have been a Nazi-Fascist victory and a NaziFascist Europe. The danger was two-fold, It was not only Germany's military superiority in mobilized men, mecha-

which melts away month by month under the Allies’ high speed production and supplies. . It was also the danger that the Balkan states, along with Italy and Spain and Turkey, would climb aboard the Hitler bandwagon. Nazi victory was in the air, and the speed with which Poland fell almost sucked in the many little states which must play with the winner

stampede just as it was starting. are not so sure Herr Hitler is

ht on Europefh

battle-| will

and King Winter for several months

winner. Each week

nization and planes—a superiority}

But Allied diplomacy, luck and| fear of Hitler, have stopped that)

|New Work at 68

* Times Photo.

Miss Alice McFarland . . . “laziness is Witerly abominable”

EX-TEACHER IS NOW A LAWYER

Expects to Reach 100 hut She Doesn’t Waste Time.

By EARL RICHERT Miss Alice McFarland, a retired school teacher, is so certain that she will live to be 100 that today at 68 she began the practice of law. “I don’t want to waste a precious moment in these next 32 years,” she said, after being admitted to the practice of law by the Indiana Supreme Court yesterday. She was the only woman among the 34 admitted. “lI adopted. Browning’s motto, ‘man is made to grow,’ years ago and I have been following it since. I just know I will live to 00, and I may even live to be 110.” Miss McFarland lives alone in a six-room modern bungalow in Ridgeville. She hopes to become associated with a well-established law firm in Winchester, Randoph County seat, and if unable will remain in her home town of Ridgeville.

She’s Thrilled

She is as thrilled as any young barrister over the possibility of being counsel in a murder case. “But I just know I will start off with divorce suits. “We all do, they say,” she commented dryly. Miss McFarland started teaching in a one-room school near

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TEST IN HOUSE

AWAITED TAY ON NEUTRALITY

Bills Foes Oppose Sending

Roosevelt Measure to Conference.

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two members sought speaking‘ time in advance of the neutrality debate. Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.),

charged that the proposed law would

permit Germany to buy bombers in the United States and fly them, by way of the Azores and Portugal to Germany. Mr. Halleck said that fliers were waiting to fly American planes to England and France as soon as the embargo was lifted here. | “What will the American people 4 say,” Mr. Halleck asked, “after American-made war planes have |

{blasted and devastated Paris and:

London? How long would the people of this country stand for that?” | The Administration seemed to be getting the “breaks” on the first test. The death Sunday of ‘ Chester C. Bolton (R. O.) not only cost the opposition one vote, ‘but sb: members, five of whom were expected to vote against the Administration if present, were in Cleveland to attend his funeral.

Three Lines of Attack

Embargo repeal opponents mapped ou fhise three secondary lines on which to continue the attack a the Senate bill: Sathst 1. A motion by Hamilton Fish (R. N. Y.) to instruct House ‘conferees to insist upon dropping the Senate’s embargn repeal section and retention of the House-approved modified arms enibargo, prohibiting export of arms, ammunition, poisonous gas, liquid fire and flame throwers. This would permit a roll call test on the identical issue on which the House voted against the Administration, 213 to 173, last June 30. 2. A motion by Rep. Jesse: P. Wolcott (R. Mich.) to plug alleged “loopholes” in the bill’s ban on loans to belligerents. Opponents of the bill said they feared present wording of the Senate bill might permit extension of loans through the RFC, the Export-Import Bank, or the sta bilization fund. ‘ : 3. A motion, probably by Rep. John M. Vorys (R. O.). to insist on elimination of the Senate provision giving President Roosevelt authority to define “combat zones” inside which it would be unlawful for American ships or aircraft to travel. Chairman Key Pittman (D. Nev.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee defended the Senate’s bill as “the first step away from war” in a radio address last night. Senator Rush -Holt (D. W., Va.) attacked the bill in another radio speech, centering fis fire on provisions for ‘“cash-and-carry” sales

Ridgeville, and during the succeeding 31 ‘years taught nearly every subject in a modern curriculum, both in elementary and: high schools. She taught in high schools at Huntington, Marion, Muncie and at Huntington College, specializing in English, Latin and Greek. She retired 1« years ago Biter her mother’s death to care for her father at’ his Ridgeville home. He died about seven years ago at 92. Since then she has been studying and tutoring neighbors’ ch One of the young men who tutored was studying law and he left his law books around the house. She started reading them and became interested.

Studied Languages

Two years ago she took the State Bar examination after about only a month’s study and failed. e intensified her study during tk e last year and passed last month’s‘examinations with good grades. She had no instruction whatsoever. During the same period she took correspondence courses in German, Italian, French and Spanish, acquiring a reading knowledge of all of them. “Laziness is utterly abominable to me,” she declared. “My idea of heaven is some place to continue service and growth in some form of useful work. Idleness is my idea of

the nether regions.”

she

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On a rack

of poison gasses. Mr. Holt urged his listeners to bring pressure on the House to eliminate this section.

POLICE LODGE UNDER SAFETY BOARD FIRE

The Safety Board Today recom mended that all policemen who are members of the Fraternal Order of Police resign from that organization unless the order decides to do away with its associate members who are civilians. Police Chief Michael F. Morrissey charged that associate meme bers were receiving favors from police. The Board also warned that any policeman refusing to arrest a traffic violator because he is an associate member will be charged with misconduct.

MOTORIST HAS LUCK A LA WOUNDED DUCK

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—During the duck hunting sea< son Mack Cupples of Oklahoma City recommends that drivers leave their car windows" open. While driving last night near Lake Overholser Mr. Cupples heard a shot. Within a few seconds a duck zoomed through an open side wine dow. ‘It had been shot. Todays

Duck dinner.

fila

5 ’

easy to get at...

Misses’ COATS

Grouped at

$15

Tireods: Fleeces, Cul.” 7. A special clearance (some were a lot lies

Now southern and eastern Europe|

No C. O.D.'s or exchanges. All sales must be final.