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BUSINESS CUT FORFAVORITE * RELIEF STORES

Quinn Says He’s Carrying Out Pledge for Fairer Distribution.

By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM

Several of the top-heavy favorites in the distribution of Center Township's relief patronage were cut sub-

stantially during the last half of October, claims on file in the office of Trustee Thomas M. Quinn indicated today. Claims for the period have not been submitted by Martindale and Anderson Markets, Ben Siegel and Frank Bluestein, but a comparison of the claims of 40 less-favored grocers revealed that all had been given more business in the last half than in the first half of the month. The increases ranged from a few dollars to as much as $675. The highest gain among grocers was in the case of the Drake Market. ‘In the first half of the month, this store’s claims totaled $278.55. For the last half, the store submitted claims for $953.50.

New Groceries Added

. Several new groceries were added = to the approved list during the half month. The only two groceries in the “big. favorite” class filing claims thus far showed losses in business for the last half of the month. One, McCaslin Bros., showed a loss of $541.60, while the Park Food Market dropped $242.45. Mr. Quinn, in admitting last month that political and family favoritism ruled his distribution of the township’s business, promised he would begin apportioning the busihess on a fairer basis. “We made a big step toward achieving this during October,” Mr. Quinn said today, “and we are not done. We are still transferring orders from some --of the bigger favorites, but it takes time.”

New Name Appears

He indicated that Martindale Market, operated by Dan R. Anderson, his 1938 campaign manager, and the Model Creamery, for which his son-in-law, John Barton Griffin, operates several routes, would show heavy losses in relief business when their claims are filed. Both stores have been among the top-heavy favorites. Mr. Anderson and Mr, Griffin are under arrest on charges of filing,/false claims, as a result of ‘the Grand Jury's relief “probe. : One new name appeared on the approved list of groceries in the first half of October. , This was the Lexington Market. The Indianapolis Times, on Oct. 19, revealed that this was the former Joseph Bros. market, and that it had been taken over and the name changed about Sept. 15 by Clarence I Wheatley, _ Democratic politician. Mr. Wheatley is a former City Councilman and former County Commissioner,

Jury Reconvened Monday

The South Side Baking Co., which has been receiving more than half of the township's bread business, was cut one-third in the last half of October, and has been ' reduced further since then, Mr. Quinn said. The business taken from South Side was distributed among the six other bakeries on the list. Meanwhile, Prosecutor David M. Lewis and his deputies took a weekend rest from their investigation of the relief situation. The Grand Jury, which recessed at noon Thursday, will reconvene Monday to hear additional relief witnesses. Samuel E. Garrison, Grand Jury deputy prosecutor, announced that officers of 18 fuel companies on the trustee's list have been subpenaed to appear before the jury next week, starting. Monday afternoon.

BUREAU FORECASTS AN IDEAL WEEK-END

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a. m. .... 31 10 a.m. a.m .... 30 Ham 8a.m. ....30 12 (noon) . Sam .... 32 1p.m.-.... 45

The Weatherman had to be on the job today, despite the holiday, but he was in a pleasant mood and forecast some ideal weather for the week-end. He said it will bg generally fair and somewhat warmer tonight and tomorrow when motorists no doubt will want to take to the highways for a look at the late foliage.

38 DIE IN SULPHUR MINE TOKYO, Nov. 11 (U.P.).—The toll in yesterday's disaster in a sulphur mine near Morioka stood today at 38 dead, 62 injured and 26

miners missing.

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British poppies were on

The famous hour—11 a.

The work had to go on. in the new war.

UNREST IN U.S. GRIEVES POPE

Solution of Capital-Labor And Divorce Problems Called For.

VATICAN CITY, Nov. 11 (U.P). —His Holiness Pope Pius XII called for a solution of problems involving American capital and labor today in an encyclical letter which deplored the lack of religious instruction in American schools and described the Holy See’s grief over the spread of divorce and birth control. The encyclical was addressed .to Roman Catholic bishops in the United States on the 150th anniversary "of the founding of the Catholic hierarchy in America. “We are grieved that in so many schools in the United States Christian religion is ignored. ... This

cannot continue without dread consequences,” the Pontiff wrote.

Stresses Social Question

He said that the social question, which ‘even in the United States “is a cause of disturbance and unrest,” is of supreme importance. “The principles of Christian ethics must be practiced if the conflict between capital and labor and rich and poor is to be solved with justice,” the Pope wrote, He urged that the salary of thé working be just and “sufficient to. maigtain family in decent comfort sked that all be given opportunity to work. The encyclical approved the right of labor and employers to organize. The Pope was especially bitter in his condemnation of divorce and he called for its “extirpation.” He linked divorce, birth control and the breakdown in family life as tremendous evils.

Calls Marriage Sacred

“Let those who have the care of souls be earnest in preaching the sanctity of the Christian marriage, the one and indissoluble and the strongest barrier against the evils and dangers of mixed marriages and the disastrous results of the practice of divorce,” the Pope wrote. “The most far reaching and bitter source of evils today almost everywhere is the ignorance of God and the disregard of his commandments, hence exaggerated egoism, thirst for pleasure, immodesty in dress, avarice for power, the breaking down of family life, levity regarding marriage, birth control and neglect of duty to one's country. . .

BARGE WITH PLANES FOR ENGLAND SINKS

FBI

Investigates Accident In New York Harbor,

NEW YORK, Nov. 11 (U. P.).—A lighter barge, loaded with two disassembled Lockheed bombers purchased recently by Great Britain, capsized at its pier in the foreign trade zone at Stapleton, Staten Island today and Federal agents were called in to investigate the possibility of sabotage. Agents of the FBI were summoned after police, who investigated for several hours, reported that the barge had sprung a leak. Two of four crates containing the engines and fuselages sank, while the other two containing the wings remained afloat. The capsized lighter was one of two on which crated bombers were loaded. One or more of the crates later were recovered. Lockheed officials in the” foreign trade zone said they did not believe sabotage was involved.. They added their belief that the planes would

suffer little damage since all parts:

were wrapped in waterproof coverings. The foreign trade zone was under heavy guard.

REDS’ OWNER IN HOSPITAL CINCINNATI, O., Nov. 11 (U. P.). —Powel Crosley Jr., president of the Cincinnati Baseball Club, was confined to a hospital today suffering from a sinus infection. Mr. Crosley’s physician said the sinus

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trouble followed the contracting of 8 seyere cold

cornflowers were sold in Britain. London’s Cenotaph and Paris’ Arc de Triomphe. knots of soldiers stood in a few French graveyards and : old people streamed to church. This is Armistice Day in Europe—the 21st anniversary of the end of the war to end war. :

BY UNITED PRESS

sale in France today; French Wreaths were laid at Little

m.—passed almost unheeded.

The signal for the customary two minutes’ silence and pause in traffic could not bé given in Paris or London. It might have been mistaken for the air raid alarm. There wasn’t any celebration. Materials and men were needed

It wasn’t a holiday.

‘Signs’ Di Mag

|tion in a reverent but joyful ob-

: | men advancing ‘to face shot and i shell, but the march of war vet-

Dorothy Olson . . . went to the Municipal Building with a “i “sheepish t looking guy.”

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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11 (U. P.).—A guy with a sheepish look and a very pretty girl went to the Municip: Building, and the guy signed this name on a document: Joseph Paul DiMaggio Jr. In a space below went the girl's name: Dorothy Arnoldine Olson. Joe is 24, Dorothy -21. They’ll be married a week from tomorrow. Joe plays baseball. Dorothy, very, very pretty, indeed, lends her beauty to the stage, screen and to radic.

RAPS JENNINGS ON TRAVEL FUND

Bobbitt Wants Congress Notified of WPA Leader’s Expense Vouchers.

Arch N. Bobbitt, State Republican chairman, today asked the Indiana Republican Congressional delegation to draw the attention of the House to claims that State WPA Administrator John K., Jennings misused $3000 of WPA funds. The charges that Mr. Jennings misused WPA funds were made by Geprge R. Jeffrey, Indianapolis at-

for Governor, in a recent address at Nashville, Ind. Mr. Jeffrey claimed that the WPA

administrator filed 83 vouchers for expenses incurred in traveling from his office here to: Evansville, his home, and to French Lick, Ind.

Calls Explanation Weak

Nearly all trips to Evansville were over week-ends, he claimed, and those to French Lick while Democratic meetings were being held. “It seems to me that Mr. Jennings’ explanation| of the expenditures was, to say the least. weak,” Mr. Bobbitt said in his letters to the Congressmen. “Mr. Jennings said, according to newspaper reports, that he made the journeys from Indianapolis; where his office is located, to Evansville, his home, because the relief loads of that city were heavy. “It seems to me to be very singular that the necessity for these trips (and there were 83 of them) always, ‘or nearly always, was at week-ends.”

The Chrysanthemum Show went on at the Murat Temple today, but the dean' of America’s chrysanthemum growers, the man who developed the flower from a scrawny bloom into a thing of magnificence, was absent. That 83-year-old man, Elmer D. Smith, of Adrian, Mich. died last night - while sitting amidst thousands of the species he had grown and developed for 50 years. Seated beside his Indianapolis

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friend, A. F. J. Baur, 444 W. 38th 8 florisiggand exhibitor, Mr.

torney and Republican candidate]

Even before dawn in Paris there was an air raid alarm and the sirens drowned out the church bells. The proceeds from ihe poppies and cornflowers— artificial -ones made by soldiers maimed in the last war—

are being diverted this year.

‘Some will go, as usual, to

disabled veterans, but some will be used to buy gifts for the soldiers at the front, and some goes to a fund for wives and children made destitute by the new war.

On the other side of the

war frontier, 11 o'clock was

chosen gs the hour for the funeral at Munich, Germany, of the seven Nazis killed by Wednesday night's beer cellar bombing—the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler. On the old battlefields of France there were a few simple ceremonies, mostly conducted by senior officers who

had fought in the last war, a

new. On and around these battlefields now, over the bones

CITY PAUSES AS CLOCK TOLLS 11

‘Taps’ Stills Marching Feet Of Thousands Taking Part in Parade.

; . Indianapolis™ today joined with every city and hamlet in the na-

servance of Armistice Day—a day which 21 years ago marked ‘the signing of a pact to end all wars. While thousands marched to battle stations in Europe, Indianapolis also heard the sound of marching feet. But that sound marked, not

erans, oldsters, youngsters and every-day citizens in a salute to peace. Almost 5000 persons walked in order between flag studded downtown buildings with sidewalks crowded to overflowing with speetators.

Heads Bow in Tribute

At 11 a. m, the moment when the Armistice began more than two decades ago, a hush fell over the crowd, heads were bared, the parade halted, and the downtown buildings echoed the sound of taps. Bugle answered bugle along the “line of march.

throats tightened and for a moment the Joyfulness of the celebration was lost in the remembrance of those thousands of men and boys who didn’t come back.” Gold Star Mothers, some smiling and some who could not hide their sorrow, rode behind the young, smartly marching R. O. T. C. units which led the parade. Police Chief Michael Morrissey estimated that more than 50,000 people lined the parade’s route.

Programs Arranged

Sponsored by the 12th District American Legion’ the parade was composed of legionnaires, women’s auxiliaries, high school bands, naval and marine units, R. O. T. C. boys and reprefentatives of patriotic organizations. The parade started at Pennsylvania and Michigan Sts., marched through the downtown section amd disbanded at Meridian and St. Clair Sts. Among the special programs of the day were open houses at V. F. W,; posts. Members of the Tilman Harpole Post 249, American Legion, went to Muncie, Ind, to participate in the Legion competitive drill being held there. , The Broad Ripple American Legion post is to hold an Armistice supper at its headquarters tomorrow evening. The supper prepared by the post auxiliary, will be followed by community singing. A wreath from Indiana was (Continued on Page Three)

BOYS ESCAPE, LEAVE POLICE CHIEF DEAD

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis., Nov. 11 (U. P.).—State Police set up a radio blockade of Wisconsin highways today for two teen-age automobile theft suspects who overpowered Police Chief Roland S. Payne last night and left him dead, handcuffed to another officer, on a highway. Coroner Robert Roseberry said Mr. Payne, who was 65, apparently had died from a heart attack induced by excitement. The fugitives are Robert Noel, 17, Dearborn, Mich? and Nelson Pascha, 17, Mosinee, Wis.

Dean of Chrysanthemum

The youths escaped while being returned here to face charges.

Growers Dies Among Them

Smith slumped in his chair. A heart attack caused instant death. His wife was at the Baur home| visiting with Mrs. Baur, “That’s just where he would. have wanted to die,” Mrs. Baur -said today. “Flowers were his life’s work and he died among them.” Mr. Smith was known throughout the world as a hybridizer of chrysanthemums and was credited with developing more varieties than any other grower in the world. “The elderly culturist and his wife

came here Thursday and had been

guests at the Baur home,

nd were back fighting in the

‘Cannon Fodder

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military Order of the. Purpie Heart.

are wounded.”

WE PRAY AND ARM, FD. R. DECLARES

Leads Nation in Tribute at Unknown’s Tomb.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (U. P.) — President Roosevelt declared today

that he is seeking the road to a peace better than that brought by the Armistice of 1918. Mr. Roosevelt delivered his Armis-tice-Day message in a telephoned address to Lexingion, Va. where centennial ceremonies for the Virginia Military Institute were in progress. He spoke a few minutes after placing a wreath at the tomb of America’s Unknown Soldier of the World War at Arlington Cemetery. Mr. Roosevelt declared that the only legitimate aim of armed force was the restoration of civil peace.

Gives U. S. Peace Role

The United States, he said, working “for peace.” “We pray for peace, and we arm for peace,” he declared. ‘ “The only object of arms is to pring about a condition in which quiet peace under liberty can endure,” Mr. Roosevelt said. “It is fitting to remember this today,” said Mr. Roosevelt. “In this season we have been used to celebrating the anniversary of the Armistice ot the World War. Now we need a new. and better peace: A peace which shall cause men at length to lay down weapons of hatred which have been used to divide them; and to forego purposeless ambitions which have created (Continued on Page Three)

|Heil! Heil | Heil! Heil! and Heil!

Beech Grove communique: A Dachshund named “Hitler,” owned by Frederick Oelschlager, 2600 S. Emerson Ave., today

is

gave birth to five pups.

| 21 Years After—7 Million March Over Graves of 10 Million

of 10,000,000 dead of the last war, 7,000,000 men are Under

arms again.

The earth in places is still dertugated with old shell

holes.

First arrivals for an Armistice ‘Day memorial - service in Oxford, England, found smeared on the war memorial in big black letters, “If you fight now, these have

died in vain.” service began.

The letters were scrubbed off T betas the

At the Cenotaph in London, wreaths were laid in the King’s name and in the names of Cabinet ministers, but

there were no ceremonies.

Bobbies, stationed to keep the

people moving, had-to take away an old woman who, just at 11 a. m,, broke the silence by crying:

“Hypocrites!

With Dog Tags’

Ered K. Myles veo “We need a strong Army ane Navy.”

Purple Heart Chief Asks Preparedness for Peace

By JOE COLLIER “cannon fodder,” said Fred K. Myles, national chief of staff of the

“Just cannon - fodder with dog fags on you. “Proof of that is how quickly someone else takes your place when you

Mr. Myles, wounded veteran of the World War, now employed in

the Indiana Public Health Department, doesn’t want to go back to Europe to fight. He explained about the dog tagé to illustrate why. “They gave you two of them. Each had the same number on it. That was your number. “Back in Washington, when your number came in, they looked it up in a catalog of such numbers. That was the roster of the United States Army in France. Your name was opposite it. : In Hospital in 1919 “If you were killed in action, and lucky ‘enough to be buried, they would hang one of the dog tags to

the cross. write the number of the dog tag on a piece of paper and

bury it in a bottle with your body,

and send the other tag to headquarters. “That's the way your family found out you had been killed in action, somewhere in France. And long before they knew, another number was in your place.” Mr. Myles, who lives at 1534 N. LaSalle St., spent the first armistice Day in 'a base hospital at Souilly, France, and did no celebrating whatever. “I guess maybe it was 4 o ‘clock in the afternoon before our ward knew that the war was over,” he said. “It was a rainy and muggy day and (Continued on Page Three)

K. C. CAB DRIVERS’ STRIKE KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 11 (U. P.).—Taxicab drivers here went out on strike today. More than 500 drivers were affected’ and all but about 35 of the city’s 400 cabs.

| Ultimatum Rumors

Hypocrites!”

NONAZI THREAT YET, DUTCH SAY

Are ‘Pure Nonsense,’ Says Holland.

THE WAR IN BRIEF Berlin—“Sword may strike at any time,” warns Hitler's own newspaper. : Munich—Attempt to kill Hitler “has taught German people how ~to hate,” says Deputy Fuehrer. Amsterdam — Officials warn against false rumors but speed defense preparations. Paris—French report . greatly increased German air activity at front. London—Papers predict German invasion of Holland and report ultimatum expires Monday. : Brussels—Dutch Minister confers with Premier and Cabinet with King. Zurich — Swiss report German troops moving to Italian border.

By UNITED PRESS, “The sword of decision may strike

“lat any time,” Adelf Hitler's Berlin

newspaper proclaimed today. The war of nerves fell with full force on Holland and she took more

‘land more precautions and stood

firm. But still the long-awaited German blow in the West did not fall, nor was there any certainty where and when it would. The Hitler paper, Voelkischer Boebdachter, said the Fuehrer himself would decide. Romanticists who had suggested Fuehrer Hitler might choose the exact hour of the World War armistice—11 a. m.'today—for the beginning of the big drive, were proved wrong.

Allies Apparent Almost Eager

Yet the Netherlands, and Belgium, too, ‘continued to prepare for the peril—real or phantom—that they feel. Authoritative information still was lacking as to the precise cause of alarm in the Netherlands. German troops were massed on her border; the German press was saying that neutrals which didn’t resist Britain’s blockade were negli- |< gent. British and French experts freely predicted that she would be invaded. = They even charted the routes the: German troops would take. And one’ British newspaper reported that Germany had served

a virtual ultimatum demanding air

and naval bases in her territory before Monday. At The Hague, however, an authoritative source said the report of the “virtual ultimatum” was “absolute: nonsense.” Nevertheless, armed constabulary were posted to (Continued on Page Three)

‘FLYING FORTRESSES’ ARRIVE AT PANAMA

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (U., P.). —The War Department was advised today that the seven “flying fortresses’’ en route to Rio De Janeiro arrived at Albrook ‘Field, Canal Zone, at 11:30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). : The ships left Miami, Fla., at 5: 20 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) on the second leg of a goodwill flight to Brazil.

GERMANS REPORTED FORTIFYING BRENNER

ZURICH, Switzerland, Nov. 11 (U. P.).—Reliable reports from the border said German troops: were. moving from the Western Front to Austria and fortifying Brenner Pass,

leading into aly.

Girl Is Cri tically Burned On Bi rthday o of Bro ther

The. home of Mrs. Gertrude Sinclair, 1935 Ruckle St., was to have been the scene of & happy occasion today. Instead it became a

‘saddened household.

This is Ronald Sinclair's ninth birthday and his mother planned a birthday cake surprise. But as Roland played in the yard

this morning hi. 10-year-old sister,

Elaine, stepped too close to a Bgitted

“stove in the kitchen

Her clothing caught fire. She and her sister, Colleen, 7, who was standing nearby screamed. Mrs. Sinclair rushed from another room

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laced and will join in,

ALLIES EXPECT BLOW IN WEST BY ‘NECESSITY

Stalin and Duce Block Nazi Balkan Aims So Eyes Turn to Holland.

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Cable Editor

Adolf Hitler had Europe in a state of high nervous ten-. sion today, the 21st anniversary of the Armistice which halted the war which was to assure the triumph of democracy over aggression. Europe was like a man with tightened nerves, waiting for that other shoe to drop on

the floor above. Rightly or wrongly, the bulk of opinion in Britain and France was that Herr Hitler intends to strike at any time now. ; It was based in the two explosions in Germany, one in the Munich beer cellar and the other stimultaneously in the German press; Herr Hitler's “language she can understand” threat agaihst Britain; his own assertion that the

sword may strike “at any time;” and the . concentration of troops along the Netherlands border. There is another important factor which at the moment is not being given much prominence in the news dispatches. Herr Hitler’s long-range program, which was predicted on a sweeping expansion southeastward into the Balkans, has gone askew,

Plans Didn’t Work Out

Fuehrer Hitler, being a dictator, his osition based on expansion and reseated conquests, must go ahead. His original plan seems to have been to establish Germany as the dominant power in the Balkans,

those countries. If the Allies took up arms, he would hold them off with a stale-. mate in:the west and continue his’ southeastern expansion, while they stood helpless. It didn’t work out that way. Rus-. sia, slicing off the eastern part of Poland and casting a covetous eye on the Balkans, stood in his path. Italy backed hastily away. Turkey and other Balkan states began, working up an alliance to keep Communists and Nazis, alike from their doors. Must Do Something

Evidence that the Balkans are no longer much worried was given today when Bulgaria announced that it would send home reservists it has had under arms for the past 75 days. : It looks as though the odds right now are greatly against Herr Hitler in the east. + So he must do something in the west. The possibilities have been thoroughly aired for days and they stand the same: Invasion of Holland and a drive through Belgium to get behind the Maginot. Line, at the same time establishing air and submarine bases on the Dutch Coast; or, alternatively, a smashing air [rT tack on the British fleet and industrial centers of the British Isles. ’ If Hitler does striker through Holland, as so many seem to expect, it will be a departure from the usual strategy. Such blows are ordinarily struck suddenly, warning.

Dutch Try to Be Calm

This has been too well advertised. [A fighter in the ring who telegraphs

gets into trouble. Hence it is not safe to do any heavy betting on exactly what Herr Hitler will do. = Although Holland protests that there is too much wild talk abroad about the imminent invasion, the Dutch are obviously not istopniing its possibility and -are prepared to the limit to meet it. They hope with their flooded lowlands and their other defenses to hold the invader off until the Belgians, British and French come to the rescue. = : The set-up is this: Holland, invaded, is no longer neutral; Bélgium will consider herself men-<

absence of a formal mutual defense treaty; Britain and ance are ready to march and will do so, with the consent of Begum} and “Hol. land. One thing seems sure— Holland, : invaded, will not be left ; her fate to be made a base ag Britain It must be part of gen western action, not an isolated front,

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