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Gunmen Carry Off 7 Pouches From Railway Station; Value Undetermined.

MONROE. CITY, Mo., Nov. 18 (U.

P.).—Masked bandits with sawedOff - shotguns and side arms held up the Burlington Railway station today, and escaped with seven U. S. mail pouches.

In a style made notorious! by Jesse James in.the same section of notheastern Missouri a half century

, the bandits swooped down on|'

the station apparently advised in advance that two tr€ins -which preceded them by an hour had left valuable pouches. Among their loot were three leath‘er bags which might have contained some cash and negotiable securities.

“Put Up Your Hands”

Two of the three bandits entered Station Master A. G. Squire’s office at 3 a. m., one held 'a sawed off shotgun and the other two revolvers. “Put up your hands, brother, and keep your mouth shut,” one ordered. “And turn your back—now!” Mr. Squires complied. In three minutes, he said, they had what they had come for, the entire mail deposit of two Burlington trains— one that reached here at 1:30 a. m. and the other at 2 a. m. Four of the pouches seized were of the ordinary rip-cord variety, containing first class mail. The men left Mr. Squires without another word, ran down the station tram and apparently took the stairs down to the street. The station master ran out on the platform but: saw no trace of the bandits. - - - ‘Roads Guarded

‘He was certain they fled in an automobile, with the aid of an accomplice.: He summoned the State Highway patrol which immediately teletyped - :a warning throughout the state. ; Patrolmen were dispatched east and west along Highway 36, and south on: Highway 24 which leads to Kansas City, about 200 miles southwest. Mr. Squires said it would be almost: impossible to immediately determine the value of the mail pouches, Monroe City is a “town of 1800, a regular stop on'both the Burlington and Wabash lines. It is situated in the northeastern Section of the state 150 miles due east of Kearney, the little farm community from which Jesse James led his train-robbing and despoiling gang in. raids over several states.

YOUR JOB, SHIRLEY IF TOMMY FINDS YOU

NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (U. P.).— Tommy Manville appealed today for someone to tell Shirley Bryson that

. he, wants to pay her $200 a week

to be his secretary. The playboy asbestos heir was having difficulty locating Shirley at Dallas, Tex. Tommy telephoned the Dallas police last night and was surprised to learn that they neyer heard of her. “She probably hasn't got a ‘phone in her own name,” Tommy told a detective. “She's not rich; she lives in a boarding house. “She works for an oil company and she says in her telegram that she’s very popular in Dallas,” he said

GIFT TO SCULPTRESS

PREVENTS EVICTION

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (U. P.). —Rep. Sol Bloom (D. N. Y.), today gave Mrs. Adelaide Johnson a $1000 cashier's check from an unnamed New York nurse. He told the famous sculptress who earlier this week destroyed a half dozen valuable marbles that he had arrangements for her to continue living in her studio home from which she was to have been Mrs. Johnson gratefully accepted the check. There were other smaller contributions.

DEPAUW’S REVENGE MAKES HIS FACE RED

GREENCASTLE, Ind, Nov. 18 (U.. P.).—DePauw University freshmen didn’t paint the town red last night but they found a better

subject. “A Wabash College sophomore

came from Crawfordsville to print

a few red “W” emblems about the DePauw campus before the WabashDePauw game today. Vigilant freshmen, however, had been posted

for such possible visitors. Today the Wabash rooter will

‘appear at the game—if he can scrub

his own red paint off his face in time. .

2 COLLEGE STUDENTS

DIE IN PLANE CRASH

SHABBONA, Ill, Nov. 18 (U. P). —Two Wheaton College students

- were killed and the pilot was in-

jured today when their small airplane crashed and burned in a cornfield near here. ‘Pilot Russell Wright, 30, Wheaton,

Fo $Loshid ane of hie Passengers was

Draws, Duluth, Minn,

$25 000 Pa rty

Doris Duke Cromwell ... ‘Hamburger joint’ hostess.

Debutante Leaves Sickbed To Attend Cromwells’ Fete for Her.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18 (U. P.). —A hamburger joint in the roof-top oak room of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel early today fed 250 socialites attending a birthday dinner dance for a debutante who left a sick bed to go to the party. James H. R. Cromwell “and his] wife, the former Doris Duke, “the world’s richest girl,” reportedly spent more than $25,000—$100 per guest—on the affair in honor of Peggy Anne Huber, daughter of :Mr. and Mrs. Joel C. Huber of Bryn Mawr, who made her debut at a, fea last month. The hamburger joint was a replica of a raeadside diner, complete. with hedges, trees, flowers and a short-order cook. There were hamburgers aplenty, but those with more delicate tastes were served turkey, pheasant, .salmon, virginia ham, tongue ‘and lobster. Miss Huber was injured two weeks 0. in. an automobile accident. Ordinarily the party might have been postponed until she had recovered, but the Cromwells had made the most elaborate preparations for any Philadelphia society affair since the Peter A. B. Widener’'s $100,000 party for -Joan Peabody two years ago which . 1500 guests attended. The decorations and Peggy Anne’s dress were white and silver. The tables were decorated elaborately with crystal bowl centerpieces. Music for the all-night dancing was played by two orchesiras.

BIDS ON GASOLINE REJECTED BY CITY,

Act Is in Compliance With Central Buying Plan.

Bids on 10,000 gallons of gas for the use of the Park Board for the remainder of this year have been rejected in compliance with Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan’s proposed centralized purchasing system. It was announced yesterday that a centralized bidding system under which City Departments purchasing the same commodities will advertise for bids jointly will be instituted Jan. 1. A. C. Sallee, Park Board superintendent said that the Board will continue to purchase its gasoline under a previous contract. The Board had advertised for bids on he 10,000 gallons and decided to reject them when it was discovered that the lowest bid did not cut the price set in the present contract. According to the Board's tabulation figures the low bidder who was rejected is the Associated Service Co., of Indianapolis. Their bid was 132 cents a gallon for regular gasoline. The contract now in effect has identical prices. Under the purchasing plan all City departments will present the Mayor with monthly financial reports and all commodities in one department which are similar to another will be purchased at one hid

letting.

— NEW YORK STOCKS

By UNITED PRESS

ly irregular and commodity prices remained steady. 2?

issues made fractional gains.

i Library’ in Hyde Park tomorrow.

i | paign. This is predicated on the sym-

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1S WPNUTT BID TO FDR LIBRARY 1940 BLESSING?

Ex- Governor Is Or Is Only oficial To Receive Invitation to Cornerstone Laying.

By DANIEL M.- KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18—The capital is buzzing with speculation pecause Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt is the sole New Deal official invited by President Roosevelt to the cornerstone laying

Some believe it may mean Mr. McNutt is to receive the president’s blessing ‘tor his presidential cam-

bolism that Mr. Roosevelt is laying the cornerstone of the building to which he has anhounced he intends to retire, study and write. But he has never said when.

Trip - Given Page One Space

“I place no store in such stories,” Mr. McNutt said today. “I see no significance whatever in my being invited, much as I appreciate the invitation.” Nevertheless the Hyde Park trip was given a page one headline in the Washington Post today reading: “McNutt Gets Trappings of New Deal for '40 Race.” . The story also referred to the dinner which Fowler Harper, Federal Security Agency legal counsel and former Indiana University law professor, gave at the Cosmos Club Wednesday night at which such New Dealers as Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black and Thomas G. Corcoran were present. Mr. McNutt insists that President Herman B Wells of‘ Indiana University, and not himself, was the guest of honor, however. Another New Deal economic philosopher present was David Cushman Coyle, who has been doing some research and writing for Mr. McNutt, as also _has the liberal journalist, Ernest Lindley, who is the Roosevelt biographer.

Keeps to Middle of Road

But if Mr. McNutt has one foot in the New Deal camp, he also is keeping the other on the conservative side and his speeches reflect the middle-of-the-road philosophy just as - Frank M, McHale said: -they

Discussing the Two Per Cent

Cent Club.

a surprise reerganization move last

GIRL, 7,IS 88TH TRAFFIC VICTIM

Runs Against Auto While Going. to Mail Box; “7 Z Hart Critically,

(Photo, Page 11)

Presidential manager. r One unconfirmed report here is that while the New Dealers age appearing friendly, they also are looking over the tax returns of Mr. McHale and other Indians McNutt boosters with the possibility of ferreting out any irregularities. While in New York, Mr. McNutt will confer with his eastern campaign manager, Jack” Ewing, native Hoosier and prominent New York attorney.

Plans to Dine With Parents

Marion County traffic today claimed its 88th victim of the year, a T-year-old girl. Two men. were in hospitals in critical condition and an 89-year-old man was hurt in other accidents. Rosemary Schanke, daughter. of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schanke, 4001

Mr. and Mrs. McNutt and their |S. Harding St., died at St. Francis daughter, Louise, an Indiana Uni- [Hospital of injuries received Thursversity coed, will have their Thanks- | day. giving: dinner with Mr. McNutt's| As the child and her sister Jo parents at Martinsville. He also will| Ann, 5, were crossing the road to join Oscar Powell, Social Security |the mail box, Rosemary ran into Board director, in a conference with |the rear fender of an automobile American Legion national officials and received internal injuries. Jo in Indianapolis to deal with the|Ann fell down, but was not hurt, problem of veterans’ unemployment | Sheriff's deputies said. and job placements, he said. William Yantis, 64, 5812 E. 38th On the night of Nov. 24, he will| St, was critically injured ‘when

Believed I Attempt i to Take Heat Off McNu McNutt i in 1940

Frank Finney Re- Elected President i President i in Surprise Reorganization at Biennial Frolic.

By. NOBLE REED The. McNutt-for-Eresident organization has severed its official connections. with the nationally known Indiana Democratic Two Per

Bowman Elder, close personal friend and adviser of Federal Security Adminjstrator Paul V. McNutt, stepped out as treasurer of the: club in

| per cent. of their monthly income.

FIRM; TRADING DULL |

New York stocks wire Sdn dull trading today. Bonds were narrow-|

Chrysler, General Motors and steel | ;

address the Louisville Teachers Association at Louisville, Ky., and on Nov. 28 a public meeting arranged by the American Legion at Columbia, S. C. Mr. McNutt will be back at his desk here Nov. 29, after an absence of 10 days, he said. The McNutts will arrive at Indianapolis at 7:50 a. m. Thursday.

MRS. LYMAN LEAVES SON $46,000 ESTATE

The will of Mrs. Netta V. Lyman, who died recently, was filed in Probate. Court today. She was the widow of William H. Lyman, founder of Lyman Bros. art store. The estate, consisting of $46,000 in cash and property, was left to Mrs. Lyman’s. son, Damien J. Lyman. who also was named executor.

CHRYSLER ACCORD NEAR DETROIT, Nov. 18 (U. P.).—Federal Labor Conciliator James F. Dewey said that a settlement “is possible today” in the Chrysler production strike. At conclusion of morning conferences Mr. Dewey said a tentative agreement had been reached on most of the terms of the contract, including arbitration.

at ‘Methodist Hospital. He jured when his car colli with an interurban on Ave. yes-

tercay. * Thomas ° Essig, Beville St. stepped into the path of an auto in Brookside Ave. police said, He was treated by a physician. 2 Six persons were injured in a twocar collision at Sumner Ave. and the Bluff Road last night. : They were Lawrence Dugan, 26, of 26 E. Sumner Ave, and Ralph LaFara, 21, 444 Virginia Ave. the drivers and Mrs. Juanita Cape, 27 of 1822 Madison Ave. and her three children, Dickie, 5, Roxie Lynn, 3, and Frances, 2. All were treated at St. Francis Hospital and released.

TURKS SEIZE 7 GERMANS

ISTANBUL, Nov. 18 (U.P.).—Seyen Germans, one a woman, were arrested by Turkish police today and charged with espionage.

struck by a car while walking along 38th) St., 5400 block. Deputies said he was thrown 21 feet. He was taken to City Hospital. Julius T. Zufall, 61, of R.. R. 1, Box 265, was in critical condition

in-

89, of 1519 N. was hurt when he

2211 block,

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1939

‘Elder, McHale Quit 2% Club Posts

Club’s

Entered

Times Photo.

activities are (leff to right) Hallie Myers, chairman of the Nominating Committee; Frank Finney, who was re-elected president of the club for his third term and George H. Newbauer, State Insurancé Commissioner, who was re-elected vice president.

: night, At the same time, Frank M. McHale, McNutt - for - President campaign manager, left the club's board of directors of which he had been a member for several years. Both explained that pressure of other duties prevented them from continuing active participation in the club, whose huge campaign revenues are collected from the wages of several ‘thousand State employees at the rate of about 2

Frank. Finney, State. ‘Motor.

“een club presidefit for Tour: years was re-elected by acclamation at the biennial {rolic_of the organization at the State Fair Grounds. George H. Newbauer, State Insurance Commissioner, was re-elected vice president. Clarence U. Gramelspacher, of Jasper, treasurer of the State Democratic Committee, was elected to succeed Mr. Elder. Miss Marie Dolan: of the State Motor License staff, was elected club secretary, succeeding Mrs. Maxine Foust. Weber of the Attorney General's office. Meanwhile, more than 1000 State employees who comprise the membership of the Two Per Cent Club, listed officially as the Hoosier Democratic Club, got a chance to see a sample of how their money is being spent at the meeting last night. They saw eight acts of top ranking vaudeville . staged by troupes kept ‘on the payroll of the State Democratic Committee for cam-

by the club’s funds. They also got plenty of

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FUTURE IS GLOOMY, SAYS WEATHERMAN

Change in Temperature.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ....53 10am... 057 7am. ....54 1lla.m. ....56 8a.m. ....55 12 (noon) .. 55 9a.m .... 5 1p. m. . 55

normal for this time of the year

14 to 16 Segrees above normal.

milk industry’s own figu that more milk is being produced this year than last year.

paign meetings which are financed

“free” food, paid for out .of their club

He Expects Rain, but Little

The weatherman today predicted a rather gloomy week-end. He said it will be mostly cloudy and that there will be occasional rains. There

will be little change in the temperature, which is running far above

The temperature this morning was

JOINS FIGHT ON

MILK PRICE RISE

Members of East 21st St.

Civic League to Add Their Protest; Racket Charged

An Indianapolis Federation of

Community Civic Clubs committee organized to protest the 1-cent price increase in bottled milk will be enlarged at a meeting next week, Paul C. Wetter, Federation President, said today.

Members of the East 21st St.

Civic League have joined other organizations in the protest and will send representatives to the public hearing before the State Milk Control Board Nov. 27. protest was drafted at a meeting last night at the home of Mrs. Regina Kramer, 4400 E. 21st St.

The leagug’s

At the same time, Henry A. Rob-

erts, a member of the federation

tee. which has investigated “law and

‘its-admin= istration, termed the law “nothing more than a racket,” and said there is no reason for a price increase.

Claim Rise Unjustified The increase in the milk price

became effective Wednesday.

“This rise in price in unjustified

and wrong,” Mr. Wetter said, “and the committee is being enlarged so that more people from our clubs can become active in fighting this important issue.

“There is no shortage in feed this

year and, as a matter of fact, farmers tell me that this has been one of the best years for stock feed they have had in several years.”

Mr, Wetter asserted that the

He said that before the State

Milk Control Board ordered a 1-cent increase it had raised the price paid to producers from $2.18 to $2.46 pér hundredweight.

“There are 44 quarts of milk to the 100 pounds. This means the consumer is paying 44 cents a hundred more and the farmer is getting only 28 cents a hundred more.” Fight Price Ihcrease “Why is it that the consumer must always pay. I can see no reason for the increase, and we in the Federation intend to fight this price increase through our committee until something definite has been accomplished.” Mr. Roberts said that the investigation revealed that much of the expense of administering the (Continued on Page Three)

2D EASTERN QUAKE SHAKES BALTIMORE

BALTIMORE, Nov. 1 18 (U. P).— A slight earthquake rattled windows in Baltimore and several suburbs at 8:34 o'clock (Indianapolis Time) last night. The temblor lasted about 10 seconds, approximately the length of a similar earthquake which shook. parts of Maryland, Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey last Tuesday night. The shock was felt as far away as Bel Air, 35 miles

* | northeast of Baltimore.

pers and rails were stronger but tilities barely changed. Curb stocks

A. E. Baker, Indianapolis insurance man, has begun an investigation of the heroic act and plans to call it to the attention of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, in Pittsburgh. + It was Mr. Baker who’ last year 3 took steps which led to a Carnegie award being 16-year-old Betty Berwyck Ave: who rescued two Jounger children from in Big Eagle Creek last year. Donald's rescue of his brother, becam

2 uck,

years of age run across the track in front of the engine, then another little fellow about 5 or 6 years old that followed fell across

the track right in front of the

train” 3

| Seek Medal for Boy Who Sted Brother Fre rom Train

A Carnegie Hero medal is being sought for '1l-year-old Donald Little, of Cumberland, who risked : his own life to save his 3-year-old brother from the path of a fast passenger train last month.

“He made no effort to get up

and had no chance to get away at the speed we were running,” Mr. Koehl

hs boy that ahead at ran over "of ‘us -ran-back in front of our

627 ‘train, threw the little Tellow ‘off : the track and then jumped right | ~ out from under the eng "Every case

e known several days

Jack, after the incident when a Pennsylvania Railroad Charles H. Koehl, Columbus, 0, wrote a friend here to la me of the

engineer,

: said, “and here is where the bravest act I ever saw

as Second-Class at Postoffice. Indianapolis, -

Mater

NAZIS EX

ALLIES EXPECT ECONOMIC WAR

Experts Believe Pooling of Resources Will Strangle Germany Eventually.

to lash out savagly when his wi thwarted.

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By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Cable Editor Britain and France have taken a long step toward winning the war by deciding to pool their economic

resources. : : Allied opinion is tending strongly to the belief that Adolf Hitler cannot win by force of arms. They do not discount Herr Hitler's eccentricities and overwhelming impulse is

At the same time, they believe his generals will not permit him to expose the Reich’s powerful, rebuilt Army to annihilation. Without the Army, Germany would be as helpless as Poland was and would enter any peace conference a weak suppliant to accept whatever terms her foes might impose. : Even if economic pressure forced Germany to sue for peace, there would still be the Army to assert the Reich’s right to consideration as a major power,

Last War Taught Lesson

On that basis, the Allies, while not neglecting the steady development of their armed strength, are concentrating heavily on moulding an economic juggernaut that will overwhelm Germany, even if it takes a long time. Britain and France this * time have quickly profited from, the lesson of the World War. n, it was nearly three years ‘they | discovered their folly in scrambling independently for available world resources, bidding in “competition against each other. : The fight for supplies in: the United States, South America, Spain and other neutral countries was almost ruinous. It was costly and slowed up the terials. : , . Pool All Resources

This time, in ‘less than three months, the Allies have pooled all their resources under a: Supreme Economic Council. The Council will have six committees to: deal with aviation, armaments, raw materials, oil, food, sea transport: and economic warfare. The committees will estimate the resources and needs of both countries and pool them. Some of the results will be: The home output of both countries will complement each other. That is, production of different types of supplies will be alloted. England will concentrate on turning out the material she is best equipped to pysduce, and vice versa

for France. remarkable speedup should result. *

- In the foreign field, purchases will be harmonized and thrown into the common pool, without competition or lost motion.

Discuss U. S. of Europe

In getting the supplies to the Allied countries, naval and air force conveys will be pooled. Transports, whether British or French, will be guarded by either power or by both together. : The working out of the system provide valuable experience for

MASTERY WITH

flow. of ma-,

Rule City; 1200 Are : Under Arrest.

PRAHA, Nov. 18 (U. P. —Execution today of three more Czechs, two of them policemen, brought to 13 those shot by Nazi firing squads in two days for “acts

of resistance” in Praha. = «= Nine Czech students were exee

cuted yesterday and 1200 others were arrested for acts of resistance, The additional executions were announced as 10,000 imported Géte man Storm Troopers ruled this cape ital of the Nazi's Bohemia-Moravig} protectorate.

In Berlin the Piopaalida Minise : 2

try announced that Emil Ha

former president of Gaschesiovakias | had appealed by radio to the Czech people to preserve order. :

Before announcement of the ade >

ditional executions, an authorized source in Berlin had said that the protectorate was calm but that-“in

wartime we do not stand. for pecs

ple i... who cause disturbances,” is “Hacha ‘Warns Nation

A spokesman ‘at the office’ of Baron Konstantin von Neath, 4 Nazi protector of Bohemia-Mora referred all inquiries for details: ¢

executions to the Propaganda Mine dis

istry in Berlin. Today's executions, it was said, were for an attack on a German while the éxecutions of students yese terday were for demonstrations “fog freedom.” . Protectorate offices announced , that Hacha, in his six-minute radio speech, said that the Czech people should be conscious that the pros tectorate now is incorporated in the “vital room” of .the great in Reich Sh 2nd that they sho on appropriate conclusions fro cha further warned ea hot-headed and unconsidered = ace tions and said that the: Protectorate government represented the best i terests of the people.” The protectorate offices continue to insist that everything was in Praha and that Hert von Neue rath had 'not issued any § proclamations.

Well informed sources said iota m

less Czechs . could - expect punishe ment to be extended to ; "other spheres of their fe.” =. |

Silent on Fascist ‘Angle’ : 3

Following the arrival ‘of the. Storm. Troopers by automobile and motor cycle from the Reich, the city. was quiet ‘as death all night. hs kept off the streets, avoided pu 0 places. : Nothing was said about a. demone stration Thursday by Czech. Fase

cists, who gathered in defiance of

an order by the Czech police: Jos bidding their meeting, and shou tAvay win Joe Government wi ng paid by. the > The Czech pdlice ie Boglish Fascist meeting, . a counter-demons» stration to that’of the anti-Nazi students the day before, and clubbed 12 of them seriously. But today Storm Troopers and German secret police were in charge and the Omech police were subordinate.

Benes Is Blamed on The Germans ‘announced that all Crech universities were closed for three years because of the stue dents’ “acts of resistance.” They

the

blamed the disorders to Czech “ine

tellectuals” in conspiracy with Ede ouard Benes, the last president of Czechoslovakia before the German occupation, who now. is. in exile: in

establishing Europe on a more prac- England.

tical basis after the war. The much-discussed “United States of Europe’ may not materialize, but the goal of men among both British and French statesmen is recognition of the living needs and trade: requirements of each country and a mutual society of nations agreed on respecting such rights, thus removing one of the fruitful causes of war,

DOW VORHIES DIES; RITES TOBE MONDAY,

County Commissioner Was I Six Weeks.

"Dow W. Vorhies, Marion County Commissioner for the last nine years

‘|and lifelong county resident, died

yesterday at his home on Bluff Road ‘after a six weeks’ illness. He was 63. Mr. Vorhies had lived on Bluft Road all his life. His parents were John BZ Vorhies and Lucinda LeMaster Vorhies, both of whose fam-

| ilies held land grants from the Fed- | eral Government. | He had held public office for 21 Broun

8 At Berlin, a high official uid that while the execution of nine students “may seem harsh,” was necessary because Germany was at: war and “can not allow the

Czech people to. be contaminated 3

by a few hot-heads.” : He said: “It is quite possible sime ilar occurrences may take place in the occupied parts of Poland. po In Paris yesterday. Stefan Osusky, (Continued on Page Three) :

SIAMESE TWINS POSE. A SINGULAR QUESTION |

BOSTON, Nov. 18 (v. PA union committee said it would: dee cide today whether Siamese’ twins are singular or plural. Its decision will determine whethe : er Mary and Margaret: Gibb of Holyoke, 27-year-old Siamese Dr must pay one or two initiation fees to join the A. PF, 'of Ls Guild of Variety Artists. . The sisters are playing a Garden. -

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