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VOLUME 51—NUMBER 219

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In the Words of the Prophet!

INDIANA TRADE IN SHARP GAIN!

Part of 10 Per Cen Per Cent Rise Due |

To War, I. U. Says; Conditions Here Better.

(Chart, Page 11)

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Nov. 22— Indiana business conditions in October made one of the sharpest gains in more than a decade in

advancing nearly 10 per cent over September, the Indiana University Bureau of Business Research reported today. A part, but not all of the buying is a result of the war and the influence of the war on world trade, it was explained. The University indicated that peace might bring a temporary halt in the upward movement but that the momentum might still carry business forward after perhaps a month's hesitation." “Only once since the upswing in the early Twenties has the index made a similar gain; that was in November, 1938,” the Bureau's Review states.

Production Expands

“The improvement in business which took place quite rapidly in

. August, then hesitated in Septem-

ber, is again under way with apparently enough momentum to carry it well into next year, unless itis slowed down by more substantial peace rumors than have come forwi thus far,” the Review stated. e Bureau attributed the gain to an expansion in production based on increased consumer buying rather than a replenishment of inventories although it said some industries, especially steel users, may be stocking supplies for later use. Pig iron production in the In-diana-Illinois district was the highest for any October since 1929 and highest for any month since: 1930 with the exception of May, 1937, the Review said. Automobile production, practically unchanged from September, failed to keep up: with retail sales of new cars which were considerably ahead of September, the Review reported.

Retail Sales Gain The Bureau's preliminary estimates of electric power production in the Great Lakes area indicate an all-time production record was set. Coal producers, after making allowances for seasohal differences, had the best month since December, 1937. Agriculture showed improvements in October but the + (Continued on Page Three)

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Bulging Tables Predicted

As Price of Turkey and Fixin’s Drops.

6 DIE IN PRE-HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS I IN STATE

Truck Overturns.

Indianastoday counted six dead in pre-holiday traffic. State Police increased patrols to curtail accidents on heavily travelled highways today and tomorrow. The victims included two members oi a CCC camp at Thorntown, killed this morning when a truck on which they were’ riding overturned on a curve near Thorntewn. They were Neal Boggs, 18, of Churubusco and John Haringer, 19, of South Bend. Donald Sykes, Hillsdale, and Marvin Armstrong, Marion, were injured and taken to the CCC camp for treatment. Several others were shaken up. The toll of a headon .collision near Columbia City last night rose to two with the death of Mrs. Merbie May Zimmer, 64, of Winona Lake. Mrs. Caroline IL. Cushman, 52, Charlottsville, Va., died en route to the hospital. Mrs. Blanche La Follette, 67, Warsaw, an occupant of the car driven by Mrs. Zimmer, was hurt critically, Emery A. Mason, ‘56, of near Winslow, was killed yesterday when struck by an auto driven by H. L. McHenry, Oakland - City, as: he walked along the road near his home. Ray Tucker Jr. 16, Peru, died yesterday of injuries received Sun(Continued on Page Three)

SNOW? NO! NOT FOR 1ST THANKSGIVING

TEMPERATURES .... 34 10a.m. .... 35 hee 35 1lla.m. .... 35 vee 38 12 bom) _, . 35 Wk. 1pm, . 35

Thanksgiving Day—at least the first one this year—will not be white, the Weather Bureau gloomily predicted today. It will be fair and with a slowly rising temperature, Tonight it will be somewhat colder, the Bureay predicted, with the ing as low as ’

DETROIT, Nov. 22 (U. P.).— Negotiations in the Chrysler dispute resumed today and officials said they would meet again’ tomorrow on Thanksgiving if necessary to find a basis for - set the union

{quarrel which has. idle. :

Hoosiers Hurry Home To Thanksgiving Feast

(Church News, Page Seven; Othere Stories, Pages Three and Nine.)

The trek home for. Thanksgiving dinner began today. Despite the inclement weather, thousands of Hoosiers packed the highways with their automobiles and filled trains, busses and airplanes in their annual pilgrimage home—wherever it might-be. |, - . The family dinner--replete with turkey, crapberries and pumpkin pie, is to be the big ger of the day throughout the State.

2 ccc. Youths Kil Killed When :

to hold a Thanksgiving

for Celebration Tomorrow

Indianapolis grocers indicated that the holiday dinner tables will be overloaded even more than usual because of the low food prides. Turkeys, chickens, geese. and ducks —the main course—are several cents cheaper this year than last, leaving more money in the budget for phi foods.

‘ Public Buildings Close

Nearly all business houses in Indianapolis ‘will be closed tomorrow, including banks. In those that remain open, only skeleton staffs will be maintained. All public buildings, including the Postoffice, are to close. All public elementary and high schools were to be dismissed this afternoon to give the pupils a twoday vacation. Indianapolis public schools and the State School .for the Blind here were to have Thanksgiving programs today. Howe High School is

Turkey Trot this afternoon. . Tusk

Some families with children schooling in states where the Governors followed the original Thanksgiving date of Nov. 30 instead of the President’s proclamation of Nov. 23 are expecting ‘to celebrate Thanksgiving twice, the second time when the children get their vacation. Most Indiana families intend to celebrate Thanksgiving" tomorrow, according to grocery officials. Many Thanksgiving events are planned here for tonight. Among them is the 46th annual Thanksgiving Eve banquet of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity to be held in the Riley (Continued on Page Three)

GARNER, 71, HUNTS UVALDE, Texas, Nov. 22 (U. P.). —Vice President John , N.: Garner, who reportedly hopes to bag the Democratic Presidential nomination next year, set out today—his 7Tist hday—to bag his first deer of the hunting season.

Nearly all of thel

HIGHEST COURT VOIDS BANS ON OIL LIBERTY

Four Cities Overruled on Long-Argued Pamphlet And Canvassing Issues.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (U. P). —The Supreme Court today held unconstitutional ordinance of four cities which citizens had challenged . on grounds they violated civil liberties. Three of the statutes prohibited

distribution of leaflets in the public|”

streets and the other, that of Irvington, N. J., required a police permit for house-to-house canvassing.

|The handbill ordinances involved |

Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Worcester, Mass. In Irvington, a member of the religious cult, Jehovah's Witnesses, was arrested for circulating religious literature ‘from door to. door without "having registered with the Police Department. *

Oil Companies Win

In Los Angeles and Worcester individuals were apprehended for dis tributing announcements of meetings, and in Milwaukee 19 union members were fined for handing out leaflets while picketing. In another decision, the Court affirmed the dismissal of anti-trust charges against 11 defendants in the Government's case against major Midwest oil companies. - The Court upheld the action of Federal District Judge Patrick T. Stone in dismissing the charges after the jury had returned verdicts of guilty. The tribunal's decision—important for its effect on. Government anti-trust suits against large groups of individuals and corporations— arose from the lengthy trial at

Madison, Wis, in late 1937 and 1938 in which the Justice Department sought to prove that oil operators in 10 Midwest states banned | gether to prices artificia Fi

toand ‘control spsdlipe

Jury Verdict: Guilty Judge Stone presided over the

trial and received, before the case

went to the jury, a motion from the

defendants for -a ruling that the Government's evidence was insufficient, as a matter of law, to sustain a conviction.

Later the jury brought out ver-

dicts of guilty against 46 defendants,

and the latter immediately asked Judge Stone to set aside the jury

judgment “notwithstanding the ver-

dict.” That request was granted six months later as to 11 defendants

—one corporation and 10 individuals,

The Supreme Court today Werely affirmed the action of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals which had

upheld Judge Stone's action. The

decision was made in a per curiam opinion - which did not state the grounds for the action. In the civil liberties cases the Su-

preme, Court of each state had up-

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$64,481 REQUEATHED

TO ART ASSOCIATION

The Art Association of Indianapolis has received $64,481.56 fer: “the purpose of carrying forth. objects and purposes of the institution” as requested in the will of the late Josephine Farnsworth McDonald. ‘The Indianapolis Home for Aged Women is to receive an equal amount. Mrs. McDonald, who died Feb. 16, 1916, willed her estate to heirs and at their death, the amount was to go to the Art Association and the Home for Aged Women.

E. PROSPECT SPAN UNSAFE, CITY TOLD

City Corporation Counsel Edward

H. Knight warned the Works and

Safety Beards: today ‘that the E. Prospect St. bridge over Pleasant Run Creek was unlighted at night and improperly safeguarded. He

said these conditions would lead to ‘damage suits aggins the city.

Mr. Knight dlso said there are several places where abutments sup-

porting overheads are not lighted or marked. \

- Technology

Professional Kissers in Hollywood Lose Jobs To Machine.

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 22 (U. P.). —Relentless advance of the tech‘nological age today caught up with Hollywood’ s only professional kissers and replaced them with a mechanical kissing machine: Joseph Roberts and Miss June Baker lost their jobs because after the first dozen kisses every morn-' ing their enthusiasm began to

‘vanish. Their cast iron successor |

kisses at the rate of 1200 per hour, without ever blowing a fuse,

Max Factor Jr. invented it to |

test whether lipstick would transfer a portion of its color to. “other surfaces with which it came I contact.” Mr. Roberts and Baker used to do the testing.

SHETLAND ISLES BOMBED 20 TIME

Raided by 6 Nazi Planes As Seventh Ventures Alone Over Thames.

LONDON, Nov. 22 (U. P.). — Six German planes flew over the Shetland Islands today ‘and dropped bombs as a seventh ventured sudaciously over towns along the Thames

Estuary. Details on the néw. Shetland Island raid were vague, but the expedition hinted that the long eéxpected mass bombings by the German airfleet were nearer than at any time during the war. \ During the Shetland Island bomb-= ing, air raid warnings were sounded in one or two of the island towns which were visited by bombers last week. The all clear signal sounded in la short time. Anti-aircraft guns and British Royal Air Porce pursuit ships attacked a German reconnaissance plane flying over towns along the Thames Bst and heavy firing also was reportéd at Essex. Large! crowds saw anti-aircraft shells burst in the Thames area near a large black bomber which flew inland despite the British attack. The Air Ministry and Admiralty announced that three Germans from a plane shot down yesterday had been picked up from a rubber boat in the North Sea. Of the crew, two officers and a private, two were inJjured' seriously. ree The German Army High Command in Berlin announced that Nazi airplanes yesterday reconnoitered -over British Sertiiory “up to Scapa Flow.”

NAZIS SAY BRITONS GUILTY IN BOMBING

Declare Proof of Spies’ Connection to Be Offered.

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BERLIN, Nov. 22 (U. ‘P.).—Reliable’ German sources said today that within a few days the police probably will issue a statement containing alleged proof that two Britons, a Capt. Stevens and a Mr. Best, were implicated in the Munich beer cellar bombing. Afternoon newspapers, without offering any concrete proofs, implied that there was a more or less direct connection . between the British agents and the bombing: “That will be brought out later,

ECONOMICRUIN

1 “blitzkreig” at Nazi economy and

FOR HITLER IS | BRITAIN'S AM

French Fleet 10 Join n . Seizure of Exports to | Strangle: Foreign Trade. |

“War in Brief LONDON — British attempt fo - strangle Reich economically. - Shetland. Islands’ raided second time in week by Nazi planes. PARIS—France to join in British * blockade, calculated to “shorten war” through starvation of Germans, THE HAGUE .— Holland says

Vacates Office

Thomas M. Quinn . . ‘resigns as Center Township Trustee.

blockade will aggravate unem‘ployment. BERLIN—High Nazi circles claim evidence will link British spies to Munich bombing.

LONDON, Nov. 22° (U. P.).—The ‘Ministry of Economic Warfare predicted today. that the Allied order to seize German exports would be a

would “have a marked effect shortening the war.”

. The decision of Great Britain to dare the anger of neutral nations —which suffer most severely in the intensified sea warfare—and intercept shipments from as well as shipments to the Reich coincided with:

1. An explosion that wrecked the 6660-ton Italian steamship Fianona, the 17th vessel to hit a mine off the English coasts or be sunk by “enemy action” since Saturday. The Fianona still was afloat in an area where the Norwegian steamer Brarena and the : Greek freighter = Nicolaos Piangos collided this morning.

Contraband Seizurse Rise

2. Announcement that during the week ending Nov. 18, the British contraband control intercepted and detained about 14,000 tons of contraband © destined for Germany, making a total of 441,000 tons detained in the first 11 weeks of war. About 1150 ships passed through the contraband control, including 45 United . States. vessels of which .six are still detained. The British officials, seeking as far as possible: to offset the anger of|t neutral shippers, emphasized that seizure of German exports was in retaliation = for allegedly illegal placing of mines. The effect, the Ministry of Economic Warfare said, would be to strike a “lightning blow” at German trade, wiping out all of Germany’s foreign exchange and thus undermirfing * the Nazi economic system. - German foreign exchange in 1938 equalled $500,000,000 in overseas exports. :

Hope to Shorten War

This, it was contended, would shorten the war. But others believed that it might also drive a desperate Germany to big scale aerial attacks. The Ministry said that “Germany started the war with depleted gold reserves. The s00, i her purchasing power is destroyed the:sooner the war will be over.” In Paris, it was announced that France was ‘joining with Britain in the blockade of German exports, thus uniting the efforts of the Allied fleets The blockade will go into’ effect within 24 hours. ' British warships then will be empowered to stop and search any neutral ship suspected of carrying anything that came from Germany t The By sis by neutrals already had started. Dutch newspapers said the new policy only would make matters (Continued on Page Three) -

SEEK STATE AID

agencies will seek the co-operation of the Stats in a drive against drinking abuses which. they describe as widespread.

Safety Boa agreed to Alcoholic Beverages Commissioner, Friday and urge him to withdraw tavern licenses where disorders have been reported even if there has been no court conviction.

consideration a new regulation on mechanical boxes, which all officials agreed are one of the chief attractions to taverns. It is studying the possibility of requiring permits for these, revocable when Gisoniers. are re-

ported. to did a to persons already. in-

uty Sheriff James B. Martin, 25, was struck by a car allegedly driven by|* a drunken driver and w ously injured. mained serious at City Hospital

PROPOSED TO BLOND

Face Turns Red When Love

Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German(American Bund, testified in his grand larceny trial today that he had called Mrs. Florence Camp, blond divorcee, “heaven sent” and asked her “to become my beloved | wife” but insisted Bad is all in fun. ”

sistant District Attorney Herman J. McCarthy that he did not propose

a boat en route to Germany in February, 2 ‘too much of a lady to marry a man she has known for only four or five days.”

INLIQUOR CHECK

To Be Asked When Disorder Occurs.

City’ and County law -enforcing

in Indianapolis

At a conference last night, the and Sheriff Al Feeney 11 on Hugh Barnhart,

The Safety Board also has ander

record-playing music

6 entir

tire problem of ier gales] oxicated came to a head when seriHis condition re-

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| ‘IN FUN,’ KUHN SAYS

Note Is Read in Trial.

NEW YORK, Nov. 22 (U. P)—

Resuming the stand Tob State cross-examination, Kuhn told As-

0 Mrs. Camp when he met her on 1938, because she was

The 42-year-old “Bundesfuehrer”

but it is obvious that the Munich bombing was perpetrated by a secret service connected with the Western European Chief Secret Service, ” the Nazi source said. “It is evident that Strasser (Otto Strasser, leader of the anti-Nazi Black Front, whb now is an exile in Paris) did what was expected of him’ in return for British money,” the| newspaper Deutsch Allgemeine Zeitung said. i. “The gentlemen in Downing Street may be assured that we won't leave them out,” the Nachtausgabe said. “We won’t let them escape one atom of guilt in the investigation, regardless of the names which those responsible bear.” - An authorized: source : further identified “Capt. Stevens” as Richard Henry Stevens, born in Athens

AIRPORT NEEDS ARMY

Works Board today.

ceiving ‘apparatus.

Enrico Pi Enrico C

(Continued on Page Three) jand teacher.

RADIO, CITY ADVISED

‘The Municipal Airport should install radio equipment which could receive Army aircraft messages, Adj. Gen. Elmer F. Straub advised the

Gen. Straub said the Indianapolis airport is one of three large ports in the nation which have - control towers unequipped with Army re-

CARUSO ‘DISCOVERER’ DEAD MILAN, Italy, Nov. 22-(U. P.), — tari, 73, who discovered , died today. He was an internationally known bautione

Experts Blast ‘Magnetic Mine’ T poor]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (U. P.) —Military eXpeils scoffed today at reports that Germany has a “magnetic mine”—one that would be attracted to a steel hull passing ‘nearby, leap .into contact, and explode. They pointed out the submarines, trawlers and other :

craft would be in very grave lay “magnetic mines.”

danger if they attempted to

Experts here believed that the mines, which have caused a heavy toll of lives and ships near the coast. of England, either drifted accidentally into shipping lanes or were laid deliberately by one of the belligerents. : But all discounted the “magnetic mine” theory, Tee

calling that a Federal board of experts, headed by the late

inventor, Thomas A. Edison, set up during the World % War to study ideas for new weapons, ‘was pess

‘about the value of magnetic

gilts. Th

such mines would be inefficient benause of the difficulty i in wransmitting magnetic impulses through water. On the basis of reports received here, some experts believe that the mines probably are of the better

known electric-type used by most navies.~ These have long “feelers” on antennae attached so that a ship [brushing

against them will automatically set off the: explosive, which is usually sufficient to sink or badly cripple a heavy

warship. : These mines are fastened % the bottom of the ocean

advised of the presence of the : . a - kep e ie

‘vacation over the Thanksgiving

testified yesterday that Mrs. Camp had repaid in full the $717 which the state charged he had misappropriated from bund funds to pay for moving her furniture. Kuhn's face turned almost beetred. when the love note was read and he ‘was indignant in his denial of its implication. He also denied ‘he arranged with Mrs, Camp to divorce her husband.

F. D. R. ARRIVES AT HOME IN GEORGIA

WARM SPRINGS, ¢ Ca, Nov. 22 (U. P.) —President Roosevelt arrived here at 10 a. m. today, just seven and one-half menths after he had promised his friends at the Warm. Springs: Foundation to “be back. in the fall if we don’t have a

war.” Accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and his aids, Mr. Roosevelt motored immediately to the “Little White House” where he plans a week’s

holiday. Nearly four hundred spec-

tators greeted the President at the railroad station.

STOCK TRADE DULL IN’ NARROW / PRICE RANGE

By ig PRESS

row orbit. Buyers were ‘cautious,

New York stock trading was light|

by iron anchors, and their distance from the surface can : today, With prices moving, in a nar. Edi

be regulated by a chain. When they are laid—either by undersea or surface a Siping is usually sec

ignoring favorable news in most in- :

OFFERS TOGNE TESTIMONY T0 | GRAND JURORS

|Lewis to Call Him Next | Week; Holtman Will Fill

Post ‘Temporarily.

By‘LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM - Thomas M. Quinn resigned today as Center Township ;

| Trustee,

At the same ‘time, he offered to wave immunity and testify before the Grand Jury, in its probe of his township's. relief administration.

Prosecutor David M. Lewis said he would accept the offer and cail Mr. Quinn when the jury recon= venes Monday. The resignation, effective imme=: |diately, was a surprise. Although there had been severdl suggestions that he resign, in view of the evie dence of alleged fraud and other irs regularities presented to the Grand Jury, Mr. Quinn previously had

| stated emphatically he would not.

resign under fire, Sends Note to Ettinger

~ Mr, Quinn’s formal resignation. which was sent to County Clerk Charles R. Ettinger by a personal friend of the trustee. was accom panied by an explanatory state ment, i The statement said he acted “with the sincere desire that the come munity may be better served” and added he felt “public confidence could not be restored under my administration in view of the unfor= tunate circumstances which have been brought.to my attention in ree. cent weeks.” : Mr. Quinn said Charles Holtman, chairman of the Center Township Advisory Board, would serve as trustee until appointment of a suce cessor by County Commissioners, f "Declines. to a “Ione of the & toners in the Court House when the resig= nation was submitted, and could not be reached for an indication of their = possible choice. Mr. Quinn's statement, which he declined to amplify, follows: “My resignation as Center Towne ship Trustee has been submitted with the sincere desire that the community may be better served. After careful consideration I have decided that public confidence could not be restored under my adminis tration, in view of some of the une fortunate circumstances which have been brought tojmy. attention in ree cent weeks. “In addition to the co-operation which has previously been extended / by my office, ft is my utmost desire,

' |that the investigation now bef

conducted by the Grand Jury Mr. Lewis be afforded the highest degree of co-operation.which T per: sonally can extend.

Offers to Appear Before Ju

“1 furthermore feel that jt is my duty as the administrative officer of the organization under investigation to appear before the Marion County Grand Jury, if my testimony is desired.” : The Grand Jury investigation of the township's relief administration was begun Oct. 16, a few days after Mr. Quinn admitted to The Indianapolis. Times that “political and family favoritism” had played a heavy part in the distribution of the township’s $1,000,000 a year relief | business. \ ‘Among other things, he admitted that: 1. Dan R. Anderson, who mane aged his election campaign lash year, operates two groceries which, combined, had been receiving 17 per cent. of the total relief grocery busie ness in Center Township. A

ket, one of the two artis. oper ated by Mr. Anderson. Both Quinns, however, denied that Young Quinn.

ever engaged actively in Operation of or received money from (Continued “on Page Three)

BYRD SHIP LEAVES BOSTON in BOSTON, Nov. 22 (U, P.)—In a fitting flurry of snowflakes the 68« year-old’ Barkentine Bear sailed toe day as the flagship of the Govern ment’s Antarctic expedition directed by Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd. Whistles of harbor craft shrieked tugs nudged the three-master inte the channel

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