Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1939 — Page 1
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MILK DECISION 1S DUE WITHIN 10-DAY PERIOD {
Control Board. Resumes Study After Hearing Consumers’ Charges.
Whether Indianapolis is to pay 11 or 12 cents for a quart of milk is to be decided in “about 10 days,” Charles Humrickhouse, executive secretary of the State Milk Control Board, said today. A hearing on the temporary 1cent increase on bottied milk ordered by the Board ,was completed vesterday after two all-dav sessions in which distributors, producers and civic club members participated. Meanwhile, the Indianapolis Council of Women, meeting at the Ayres’ Auditorium, went on record against sanctioning any sort of strike, bv consumers or unions, as a means of settling the city's milk controversy
Unfairness Is Charged
| with
The Riverside Civic League also decided to take no official action on the price increase. The League, meeting at S-hool 41 last night, heard Harry S. Shepard and Health Board representatives discuss the milk situation last night. Yesterday's hearing was bv charges of unfairness, and monopolistic practices Consumers have fought crease on thc grounds that unjustified Distributors and producers stated during the hearing that the price of feed and winter costs increased their overhead so that the higher price is essential if they are to make any profit.
marked coercion
the init was
Attacks Foundation
The Rev. L. C. E. Fackler, pastor of the St. Matthew Evangelical Church, one of the first witnesses to testify the civic groups, said in part: | “We dare not mention names but some of the producers have said to] me that ‘if we did not support ths cause we would be dropped from the milk shed.’ Robert C. Deardorff, assistant City Attorney who represented the City at the hearing, made a scathing attack on the Indianapolis Milk Foundation What {x this nebulous, hazy thing called the Indianapolis Milk Foundation,” Mr. Deardorff said “Ever since this hearing began we have been trying to find out what the expenses of the milk distributors, are and when we called the only (Cuiitinued on Page Six)
WORKS BOARD 0. K.'S 2 PAVING PROJECTS
Proposed paving of Somerset Ave. from Michigan to Walnut Sts. and Sheffield Ave. from Lambert to Howard Sts. was approved by the Works Board today. City Engineer M. G mated the maximum cost of the Somerset improvement would be $9471.70, with a $4.92 assessment per lineal foot to abutting property owners, and the Sheffield improvement, $8414 90, with a property assessment of $639 per lineal foot. Construction on both proposed improvements will begin after Jan. 1, pending approv al bv property owners affected
4 QUARTERS TAKEN BY SHOTGUN BANDIT
A bandit
for
Johnson esti-
armed with a shotgun held up Mrs. Sue Brown in her grocer” at 441 N. Highland Ave shortly after 8 a. m. today After ordering groceries the gunman pointed the weapon at Mrs Brown and demanded four quarters When she gave them to him he said: “I'm going to use this to get drunk on. If vou tell the police I'll come back and kill vou. If vou don't T'l come back and return it to you some time.”
ANDERSON BLAZE DAMAGE 1S HIGH
ANDERSON, Ind. Dec. 6 (U. P.). —Several thousand dollars damage was expected to result from a jewelry | store fire which started last night when a small can of cleaning fluid exploded. The blaze fixtures and merchandise dows were cracked by
FORMER TEACHER IS FOUND IN COMA
Miss Grace Alexander, 66, of 1516 N. Pennsylvania St a former teacher in the Indianapolis Public Schools, was in a critical condition at City Hospital after she was found unconscious at Meridian St. and Fall Creek Parkway early todav Miss Alexander was placed in a respirator for two hours. She is the sister of the late Georgia Alexander, who was & prominent teacher and the author of several books.
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| —Joe BE. Brown,
| through U. S. lending agencies.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1939
Entered as Second-Class at Posteffice, Indianapol
Matter is, Ind.
PRICE
THREE CENTS
| Joe Brows Hurt
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Joe E. Brown. Still un-
conscious.
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 6 (U. P.. wide-mouthed comedian, was injured seriously today in an automobile collision in the heart of Hollywood. Two hours later California Hospital reported him still in surgery, unconscious. Police said Mi. traveling at high speed, collided another machine, turned end over end for 275 feet and crashed down a 30-foot embankment Charles E. Weaver, 65, of Montrose, driver of the other car, suffered minor injuries The accident occurred in front of the home of Jane Withers, juvenile film star, and was witnessed by the young actress’ _mother
F. D. R. STUDIES AID TO FINLAND
Brown's car,
Credit, Use of Surplus Crops
Hinted: Kallio Sent Warm Message.
(Thomas L. Stokes, Page Nine)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (U. P).— President Roosevelt today studied new plans to aid Finland, possibly through provision of American credit and surplus crops He surveved these possibilities with Jesse Jones, Federal loan administrator, and Norman H. Davis. chairman of the American Red Cross Already, Mr. Roosevelt has announced that he would ask Congress to authorize him to use the Dec. 15
| installment on the Finnish war debt
for relief of the Finnish people. In a message today to President Kyosti Kallio of Finland he expressed hopes that ‘these tragic days may not be long in giving way to a happier era Mr. Jones said after the conference, that the Government is studying the possibility of extending some aid toward civilians in Finland He did not go into detail. One avenue of aid might be for the Export-Import Bank or the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to make loans for the purchase and shipmen. of American surplus commodities to Finland Extension of aid through lending agencies would enlarge the help which might be tendered Finland in a practical demonstration of the United States’ anger at Russia's in-
| vasion of the republic
Meantime Administration leaders met mounting attacks on the President’s foreign policy with an “offensive defense.” President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle Jr. all fired broadsides at Administration critics Mr. Roosevelt vigorously defended his foreign policy at a press conference late vesterday. In re(Continuen on Page Three)
AGED SPORTSMAN FOUND DEAD HERE
William Norton Wilds at 86.
William Norton,
dian wilds alone at 85 and plaved golf as late as last summer, Was found gead last night by a searching pay of 50 men and boys in a woods east of here. The picturesque hunter and marksman, who apparently suffered a heart attack while hunting alone, was found in a thicket, his gun by his side and a rabbit in the pocket of his jacket. Dr. Hugh K. Thatcher, coroner, said he had been dead for probably eight hours, Mr. Norton, who lived with his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Douglas, 45 Cecil Ave. Washington Place, left home about 10 a. m. vesterday. When he had not returned home by about 8 o'clock last night, Sherifl's deputies were notified and the
searching party was organized. Steve |
After an hour's search, Rejko, 16, R. R. 10, Box 255 B, and Harold Plummer, 16, R. R. 305, came upon the body about a block north of E. Washington St., 8100 block. Mr. Norton, a striking figure more than six feet tall, whose unusually active life kept him in perfect health, was a barber by trade, but retired several vears ago. He was an expert marksman, participating in many meets. In later vears he traveled for a gun manufacturing concern. Golf was his favorite summer pastime. He plaved his final round last summer with his neighbor, J. Arthur Lovell, 65 Cecil Ave. Mr. Nitin was an active Masch.
Roamed
86-year-old | sportsman, who hunted in the Cana- |
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| — Allies Wonder
IIs Soviet Greater Menace Than Reich?
y LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Cable Editor
FINLAND FEARS RUSSIA TO ASK ESTHONIAN AID
Demand for Military Backing Hinted; Report Italian Help to Helsinki.
pean war grew greater today as Britain and France pondered | the extensive protests against the invasion of Finland. | The desire
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HELSINKI, Dec. 6 (U. P.).— Finns, although cheered by the reported arrival of 50 to 60 Italian airplanes | to strengthen their air force, feared danger from another quarter today
became apparent.
The Allies are faced with two aggressors, not one.
of the Allies to deal first with Germany | weakened as the implications of the Russian drive westward
‘CHISELERS' OF
CENTER RELIEF 10 B
The chances of Russia becoming involved in the Euro- 12 Names Ready for Jury;
E PURGED
Mueller Takes Office, Asks Co-operation.
The names of more than a dozen alleged relief “chiselers” will be
The turned over to the Prosecutor for British and French are realizing more and more that if they legal action within the next day or
‘when it was reported that Russia are to be consistent in their fight to guarantee the weaker two, Leo X. Smith, Center Township
{would call on Esthonia for greater military co-operation in the Soviet [campaign against Finland. | Dispatches from Tallin reported that Gen. Johan Laidoner, com-mander-in-chief of Esthonian armed forces, had been summoned to Moscow vesterday. It was reported that the Soviets desired to increase Esthonian mili|tary co-operation.
| Ttalian Aid Unconfirmed
Russia, after the German conquest |of Poland, negotiated a mutual aid treaty with Esthonia. along with Latvia and Lithuania. and already the Finns charge that Soviet planes operating against them have come from the Russian air base at Baltiski, Esthonia. | | Reports that the Italian planes had’ [arrived were not cffizially confirmed but there was no doubt in the minds of Finns that the planes were | here.
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Fighting continued on all fronts, | especially in the north and on the | Karelian Isthmus. The Finnish Legation in London | {announced that Russian troops had | advanced 11 miles on the Karelian Front and were approaching the outskirts of the Mannerheim de- nations of Europe against conquest, they
| fense line. Russian threat as well as the German.
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King Carol . . . Does he see the Josef Stalin. . He may “reshandwriting on the wall? cue” comrades in Rumania.
Nearing Mannerheim Line
The Mannerheim Line, con-
structed roughly 25 miles inside the face the issue is now.
The feeling is growing in England that the time to] If Germany is crushed and Russia the dri
| Attorney, announced today.
The announcement, coming as! Henry Mueller assumed office as! Trustee, was interpreted as the first (step in a serious campaign to purge | (the rolls of all undeserving relief | | recipients. | Prosecutor David M. Lewis said (he would welcome any information |of relief chiseling and would assign la deputy to investigate. Any cases | found to be definite law violations | probably would be prosecuted by | |affidavit, instead of asking the [Grand Jury to indict, he said.
Jury Far Behind
The Jury is far behind in its reg{ular work because of the six weeks devoted exclusively to the Center | Township relief inquiry which re- | Sulted in five indictments last week. Mr. Mueller, who took over his new duties after formal ceremonies | this morning in the County Com- | missioners’ office, spent the rest of | the day learning the routine of the office and getting acquainted with the present staff. He has asked the more than 120 employees he “inherited” to file ap-| [plications for re-employment and
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must meet the has indicated there may be quite a
few changes. Silent on Drive
Mr. Mueller declined to discuss
ve against chisselers, although |
Karelian Frontier. which runs north meanwhile gets complete control of Finland, with a toehold it was reported he had discussed
of Leningrad, is a series of fortifi-| cations resembling the French Maginot Line, planned by Gen. Baron | Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, com- |
on Sweden and Norway, will see Stalin intrenched with his loot. | mander in ‘chief of Finnish Armed | Then either the conquest would have to forces. ‘or a new war started to drive the Russians | The Finnish legation said that 2 be Au HS HER, Soviet forces, in addition to occupy- | Acceptance of the Russian conquest is unthinkable te ing four islands in the Gulf of Fin- a powerful bodv of opinion in 1 “11a Nye ‘hie is Iga A p yv of opinion in both Britain and Frauce, which ‘landed troops there yesterday. The fears the spread of Bolshevism inh Europe. Besides, acting island had been exacuated by the a5 policeman against Herr Hitler's plundering and at the ‘same time accepting Russia's would make a travesty of the Allied declaration of war aims. The present war would have
Finns, the legation said. Finnish officials laughed at rebeen without peint,
ports that their planes had bombed | either Leningrad or Baltiski but they said that their troops were battling Russians wherever they | were encountered on Finnish soil. |
Finland 22 Years Old ling storm. It would be difficult for him to retreat from |
The fighting occurrea on the 22d Finland, which would be a complete about face and a smashanniversary of Finnish independ- | (Continued on Page Three) ence, which the capital Sau rr rey
Tanner gave a reception for Vien] Moscow Organ ‘Suggests’ Carol Sign Aid Treaty
dent Kyosti Kallio, the Cabinet and
foreign diplomatic envoys. The morale of the Finns was high | and confidence in their ability to| withstand attack increased as the] | war neared the end of its first week. It was estimated today that the! Russians have lost 20,000 dead, | (Continued on Page Thee)
CITIZENSHIP JUDGE RAPS EX-HITLER PAL
‘DETROIT, Dec. 6 (U. —Kurt G. W. Ludecke, one-time Yo Srem {who wrote a book about his frie ship with Adolf Hitler, today | means of proving that he has rel nounced his former ideals. He must prove it if he is to become an Amer- | ican citizen. The author of “I Knew Hitler” told Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle at a naturalization hearing last | night that his opinions had changed. | But the court was “not impressed.” 1 AONDON. Dec “You're a cheap politician and "ant a 3 |hanger-on,” Judge Tuttle said. “You TC Powers are | would have remained in Germany if ter of the menace” of Nazi sea waryou could have gotten a job from fare, First Lord of the Admiralty | the Nazi Party.” [Winst shurehi Finally the Judge ‘adjourned ‘the Winston Churchill ie the House (of Commons today in suggesting
heari i Ne EN = So | that Adolf Hitler's heralded “secret SKIE [ueapn the magnetic mines was
S GRAY TODAY. “about the lowest kind of warfare CLEAR TOMORROW Wat can be imagined.”
Churchill spoke shortly after sev al German planes had made a! spectacular raid over the Thames | Estuary, dropping mines in the hope {of crippling traffic to the important
MOSCOW, Dec. 6 (U. P).—The Communist International. land Turkey. | Rumania was advised
Soviet Russia & mutual aid
in pointed paragraphs
Se—— land prior to the Finnish-Soviet
CHURCHILL DECRIES "ee « MAGNETIC MINES
and warned that British and French “imperialists” are attemptLowest Form of Imaginable, He Says.
ing to involve the Ankara Govern- | ment in the European war. | Both Britain and France Have! mutual aid pacts with Turkey and Warfare have pledged themselves to protect the independence of Rumania The allied pact with Turkey was | |signed after that nation had refused |
6 (U.P) .—The posed by the Soviet Union, which ‘getting the bet. Sought guarantees that the Dardanelles would be closed to hostile warships.
U. S. Influence Charged
The Allied pledge to Rumania was given at about the time of the British-French pledges to Poland which led to the European war and were designed primarily against any Nazi aggression in the Balkans. (Rumania’s Bessarabian area formerly | belonged to the Russian Ukraine.) The Communist International charged that Rumania is under the
LOCAL TEMPERATURES a. m, . 38 10%. ‘mm.
BAB Nam... 38 [Port ‘of London ~ > : Ra n 4 om. §1 | Mr. Churchill sai that Britain's “Pik Se a A retaliatory embargo against Ger-| “Dougtless the While skies were ‘gray today and man exports already is producing | consistent peace policy, Indianapolis’ collective nose resent- | results. ed a heavy gathering of smoke and It is satisfactory to learn that pacts with FEsthonia, Latvia soot, the Weatherman made a fair £00ds for exports already are piling Lithuania have influenced and warmer promise for tonight Up on German quays and in ware- manian policy,” and tomorrow. houses to such an extent that we tional articles. : The lowest temperature tonight is Are told they hamper the handling| “Furthermore, Rumania has seen to be a few points either side of |Of incoming merchandise,” he said. | {that war in Poland did not bring freezing. | Reporting that the British and! any effective aid from Britain and ir oh aio | French fleets and aerial forces are'!France. The Baltic countries know YOUNG HUNTER KILLED | destroying two to four PRINCETON, Ind.. Dec. 6 (U. P). week which is faster than Germany Soviet Union they have avoided war —A hunting accident near here re- can build them or train crews to and have obtained reliable guaransulted in the death last night of run them, Mr. Churchill invited tees of independence from attacks August Behagg., 18. of Buckskin. !
Behagg was hunting with a companion when his gun was accidentally discharged. |
Soviet the
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Ru-|
of the comparative safety of Brit-| “All these facts as well as the
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the end of the war with Germany officials.
be accepted he deeply regretted the
ER DOUGLASS, WRITER,
[to conclude a treaty on terms pro- |
influence of British and American Comes to Brow
{German pact and the Soviet Union's
said the Interna-|and
U-hoats a that owing to their pacts with the
neutral shipping to take advantage from any of the imperialistic states.|
matter privately with ove In a formal statement issued as he assumed office, Mr. Mueller said “sad and | [unfortunate circumstances that | (have made my appointment possi- | ble,” adding that he realized the seriousness of the responsibilities | he is accepting. “In beginning my duties as Trustee, I pledge complete devotion to! my work,” he said,
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Free on Bond
KORTEPETER,
KIN GUILTY IN FRAUD TRIAL
Pair Convicted on 3 Counts; U. S. Jury's Verdict to Be Appealed.
Carl F Kortepeter, former
Carl F. Kortepeter
Gurney G. Derbyshire
WELFARE FACES OFFICIALS" FIRE:
Trustees, Other r Officers in Convention Here, to Rap System.
Aftacks on welfare departments are to be made during the annual
‘WPA County Director, and his father-in-law, Gurney G. Derbyshire, were found guilty
lof defrauding the Govern-
ment in a sealed verdict read lin Federal Court today. The convictions were on all three counts in the indictments. They charged unlawful diversion of money appropriated by Congress; unlawful diversion of services acquired under funds appropriated by Congress and conspiracy to defraud the Governe ment, Kortepeter and Derbyshire will be sentenced by Federal Judge Robert Baltz~ll at 2 p. m. next Wednesday. They are at liberty under $5000 bond each. | The Government's charge of une lawful diversion of funds and labor |was in connection with the building of two roads on Derbyshire’s farm, {north of Southport, which was [platted as the Derbyshire Subdivie Verdict to Be Appealed
sion. | Floyd J. Mattice, attorney for | both defendants, said he will appeal | the verdict Neither Kortepeter nor Derbyshire showed any emotion when the verdict was read | The maximum penalty on each of | the first two counts is one year in [prison and a fine of $2000. The | maximum on the third count is two n prison and a fine of $10,000, tion the request of U. S. Dise« trict Attorney Val Nolan, Judge Baltzell called the Federal Grand [Jury inte session Jan. 15 for a fur= [ther investigation of WPA in Indiana.
Wide Inquiry Promised
A sweeping investigation of WPA activities in all the 60 Indiana coune ties of the Southern Federal Dis« trict was promised by Mr. Nolan in his closing statement to the jury. “The hour has come to stop the | dirty work in WPA," he said. “Not
“and in my ef- Meeting of the Indiana County and anly this type of violation, but all
forts to administer the affairs of the Township Officials Association and! violations from the highest job in Trustee's office T will proceed inde- aMliated groups which convened WPA to the bottom.”
pendently of every detrimental in- | fluence to conduct the office hon- |
There seems no doubt that Stalin is aware of the grow- ®t: economically and efficiently.
Invites Co-operation
“1 earnestly invite and solicit the | co-operation of all who desire to see |the office of Trustee of Center
here today As more than 3007 officials as-| sembled at the Claypool Hotel for | the three-day session, leaders of | the parent and other groups pre- | dicted the beginning of an open,
“If you go along with me in this land bring in a verdict of guilty 1 | promise you that I will call a special Grand Jury te hear evidence '1 now have in my possession.
Invites Aid of Citizens
“TI won't stop, if I can get the
| Township operated in this manner.» conflict with welfare departments evidence, until this dirt is cleaned
Mr. Mueller succeeded Walter O. Boetcher, former Mayor, who assumed the office temporarily follow | {ing the resignation of Thomas M.! [Quinn two weeks ago. Meanwhile, the false claim affi|davits pending against Dan R. An|derson, operator of two groceries, |
official and John Barton Griffin, milk route organ of the Comintern, published caustic warnings today to Rumania OPerator,
were dismissed in Municipal Court today. Griffin is a| son-in-law of Quinn and Anderson |
to negotiate with was Quinn's 1938 campaign man- | treaty similar to those concluded by Moscow ager, with the Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and vainlv proposed to Fin- |
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NATURE LOVER, DIES
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Created Nation- Wide Stir by Ribbing New Deal.
Benjamin Wallace Douglass, native of Indianapolis and the first State entomologist for Indiana. died | today of heart disease at his home,
| Hickory Hill at Trevliae, in Brown County. Mr. Douglass was 57. Since 1911 he had lived in Brown County where he operated a large apple orchard and a small canning factory. There
he wrote many articles for magazines 'ape is taking money away from ihe (hs Board.
of national circulation. | Around his depression experiences | with his apple orchard and canning | factory, Mr. Douglass wrote an article entitled “The New Deal n County,” which,
| when published in the Saturday
Union's Evening Post, created a nation-wide Soviet | stir,
It was one of the first articles
and attacking the New Deal economic
program to be widely published, it came in 1936 when the country was feeling some slight stir of returning prosperity. Mr. Douglass was widely known in Republican politics, but was even more widely known as one of the State's most ardent and well-in-formed nature lovers, an excellent amateur photographer and an] elaboraie practical joker, Close friends of Mr. Douglass had | known for some years that he had |
ish protected convovs and charter Anglo-French pressure to draw Ru- heart disease and that physicians
| (Continued on Page Six)
Lum °n Abner Add 99 More to Clothe-A-Child |
By JOE COLLIER | An even 99 children were clothed last night during the Clothe-A-Child broadcast over WFBM by Lum ’n Abner and the boys bubbled over after the program. Previously, they almost had decided to take today off—that is to take off the time they will have left after five stage shows and two coast-to-coast broadcasts. “We gotta make it 250,” said Abner, who is Norris Goff of Mena, Ark. “That's right, of Mena, Ark. Someone was listening to these Arkansas boys making one of Indianapolis’ problems—the adequate clothing of =
I doubt if vou can make it.” “Sassefrass,” serious way.
“Especially,” before. “And that's
Ox "” . 250, number's
said Lum, who is Chester Lauck
needy school children—their own problem, and said: “Two hundred and fifty at $10 a copy is a lot of money.
said Lum in an entirely “Sass-EE-frass. coming in on those phones, we can make 250 easy tonight.” | said Abner, “since we had 46 the night That makes 145 already.” only 105 to go. Riley five five-five-one, And =o, at 10:30 tonight over WFBM, Lum and Abner,
the boys from Arkansas, will make their third and last (Continued on Page Three)
friendly but
The way people have been |
Shucks,” said Lum, “the Let's go!”
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| York stock market
| volume [and Italian bonds advanced.
| shares | security trading was quiet.
would be made in speeches and resolutions.
At the same time, the State As- | sociation of Township Trustees, largest affiliated body, prepared to (defend the trustee as the logical] administrator of relief. The trustees also were to oppose extension of the | teacher tenure law into township | schools.
Ettinger
The trustees are to appoint committee to draft fins for changes in the basic re-| lief law and name a board to submit them to the next Legislature. “Welfare departments will be hit hard by the officials of both the parent and affiliated bodies,” R. Ettinger, Marion County president of the major group and secretary of the clerks’ organization, said “The cost of administration of these departments in almost every county equals or exceeds in personnel and expenditures the cost of all principal offices in the various counties,” he said. ‘Our reason for the attack is en-| croachment. Because of the mount- | ing budgets of welfare departments, | [budgets of county and township of- | ficials have been decreas>d, hamp-
Indicates Trend a
ering their operations and efficiency. | “There is too much red tape to
‘welfare departments and the red
townships.”
Dawson Joins Attack Mr. Ettinger is to make a formal! attack on welfare administration in| his speech before the only general] session of all associations tomorrow night. He was joined in Charles M. Dawson, Washington Township Trustee and secretarytreasurer of both the officials’ and trustees’ association. “Welfare departments will be attacked from all sides,” he said.
the attack by
| “Welfare is going haywire on costs.”
Mr. Dawson declared that the trustees will defend their right for home rule in the administration of relief. “Resolutions to be introduced,” he | (Continued on A Page Three)
BULLET IN
NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (U. P.).
| Walter Engelberg, 40, secretary to
the German Consul, was found
dead in bed at his Brooklyn home |
today, apparently, police said, the
| victim hid an nttack.
STEEL ISSUES LEAD STRONG N. Y. RALLY
By UNITED PRESS Steel securities led a strong New rally today. Gains ranged to more than $2 and increased. Scandinavian New curb stocks and Chicago firmed moderately. London
York
Chicago wheat prices dipped about 'a cent on profit-taking Indianap-
|olis hog prices remained at yester- Tnside Tndpls.,
day's levels,
recommenda- |
Charles | Clark, |
up. I invite you and you (here Mr. [Nolan turned to the spectators) ta [give me all the facts you might have After both sides had rested, Mr, Nolan called John K. Jennings, State WPA administrator, and Mare: tin Madden, State WPA finance di« rector, as rebuttal witnesses. Mr, Jennings denied telling Mr, | Kortepeter that he “wanted more men put on the rolls before the No« vember, 1938. elections” as Mr, Kortepeter had testified. Mr. Madden said that if work |done on a project was not within |its legal scope, his timekeepers amd [field examiners were required to report such violations.
Kortepeter on Flood Board
Cross-examined by Mr. Mattice, |he said he never had received such |& report on the Derbyshire roads. [* In final testimony it was brought out that Mr. Kortepeter received a |salary as a member of the City Flood Control Board while working for the WPA. He was appointed [to the Board, he said, by former [Mar John W. Kern in April, 1937, . Nolan asked him if he knew that holding two governmental jobs at once was a violation of a [Federal law. He said he did not. Mr. Nolan read a letter allegedly written to Mayor Kern by Mr. Kortepeter in which the latter waived any salary for service with Mr. Nolan also intro= duced photostatic copies of checks {which were paid to Mr. Rpt for his service to the Board
| Says Kern Requested Tt [ Mr. Kortepeter said he had writs [ten othe letter at the request of ‘Mayor Kern, who wanted to get a legal opinion on whether Mr, Kortepeter could hold both jobs An opinion later was rendered, Mr. Kortepeter said, that he could. That was why, he testified, he ac~ cepted the salary for work on Lhe Board, Mr. Kortepeter testified that “my taking of the money after waiving it was one of the reasons why Mr, | Jennings asked me to resign.” The other reason, Mr. Kortepeter said, was that “Mr. Jennings told me he couldn't get control of Marion County politically with me in my job.” “He said he wanted to get Evanse | ville people in the key jobs,” Mp, |Kortepeter said. Mr. Jennings 1s (from Evansville.
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