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FORECAST: Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature; lowest tonight about 25.
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VOLUME 51—-NUMBER 248
SNOW COVERS SOUTH INDIANA, PASSESUPCITY
Cloudy Skies § Stay Today; ‘Worst’ Fall Drought 3 States Broken.
TEMPERATURES A" 10a wm ws 11 a. Wm. + ve 28 12 (moon) hb hue AY 1p m
LOCAL
The tail end of a snow storm that broke the worst fall drought in history in Western Kansas, Western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle furnished some parts of Southern Indiana with the state's only white Christmas yesterday. There is no prospect of snow for the Indianapolis area, however, the Weather Bureau predicted. Instead, temperatures will change little and cloudy skies will continue tonight and tomorrow The main snow fall ranged from 15 inches at Goodland, Kas. to 12 inches in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles Snow Still Falling
Snow was still falling in the Western Plains area and general snow was forecast for Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma Snow began in Eastern Oklahoma, Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri this morning and by nightfall most of the Midwest will be covered, the Weather Bureau forecast. Colder weather is forecast for Missouri tonight and more snow will probably fall in Eastern Missouri tomorrow. | However, in western Kansas and over the Panhandle area the skies are expected to clear tonight and the clear weather will extend over the three-state area by tomorrow. Ice and snow covered highways in many sections and highwav departments warned motorists to travel with care. | Tn Michigan the storm left eight inches of snow at Marquette and | four inches at Houghton. Northern Towa, Minnesota and Wisconsin also were blanketed. Park Falls, in northern Wisconsin, received 12 inches,
Three Inches at Evansville
The snow that covered the south- | ern part of Indiana extended over, an area embracing St. Louis, Evansville and Louisville, and was accompanied by sharply reduced temperatures. Evansville reported a three-inch fall; St. Louis, five inches; Louisville five to seven inches. Louisville reported three above zero temperatures yesterday and unofficial reports were two below at Corydon, Ind. and five above at New Albany Indianapolis enjoved higher than normal temperatures and a brilliant sun yesterday. The lowest temperature here tonight will be about 25 degrees
Moon Wears Halo
Last night a good deal of comment was caused when a halo appeared around the moon. There is a popular belief that a moon halo indicates stormy weather to come Meteorologists explained, however, that the halo is caused by a large amount of moisture, or dust, or fog in the atmosphere, bringing about a distortion of the moon's ravs
RUBY DIVORCES AL: CHARGES RIDICULE
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 26 (U. —Ruby Keeler, dancing film today obtained a divorce from Jolson after she testified that he! had ridiculed her so much she developed an inferiority complex. Miss Keeler, who was 19 when she married Mr. Jolson in New York on Sept. 21, 1928 obtained the interlocutory decree on the charge of extreme cruelty. Mr. Jolson did not contest the action. He will give Miss Keeler $400 a week for life, or until she '®marries, in which event she will receive $50,000. Another $100000 will be placed in trust for their 4-vear-old adapted son. Al “Sonny Boy” Jolson, who will remain in the custody of his mother |
DON LASH FATHER OF CHRISTMAS BABY
Dec. 26
P.), star, Al
BLOOMINGTON (U. P).—The timely arrival of the stork made it possible today for Don Lash to compete in the Suga: Bowl mile and two-mile events at New Orleans Sunday. “I. might not be able to come,” the Indiana policeman replied when invited several weeks ago to run in next Sunday's meet. “My wife and I are expecting a baby Christmas day.” He sent another day: “Baby arrived. want me?” “Certainly,” was the reply. a train and come come ahead.”
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DAN CUPID SOARING TO NEW HIGHS HERE
Two new all-time records for marriage licenses were hung up in the County Clerk's office today Last year's all-time record for licenses issued in one vear, amounting to 5057, already has been broken, with a total of 5312 issued so far this vear to noon today, figures showed. Marriage License Clerk Francis M. Feeney also reported that the all-time record of 70 licenses issued in one day set Nov. 18 this vear, was topped last Saturday. During |
the half-day Saturday a total of 8 | heater in the basement apartment Reve to field duty,
couples were issued licenses to wed.
three to |
Twins Arrive Here for Christmas
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Here are a couple of Indianapolis’ the last Christmas Day bahy born in an Indianapolis hospital,
midnight last night,
horn two hours and 43 minutes earlier,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1939
HUNGER REAL IN CLEVELAND, SURVEY SHOWS
Mental Breakdowns,
Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,
SOVIET SHELLS
at Postolfice,
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At-
tempted Suicides Revealed
In Study of Relief Crisis.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 26 Cases of children so weak from lack
lof food that they had to be taken
| out
| search, | the report
of school and of relief clients who lost as much as 15 pounds of weight in two weeks, were related today in a 30.000-word report on Cleveland's recent relief crisis. Others attempted suicide, while ‘many approached mental break- | downs, according to the study made by the Cleveland chapter of the American Association of Social Workers, professional case-work group, assisted by representatives of 29 other social agencies. City Welfare Director Fred W. Ramsey, who had requested the reannounced after studving that he was planning “one of the most comprehensive surverys of a relief situation in a large
| American city.”
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Times Photo, citizens—the last one horn an even 55 minutes hefore His twin brother was | The mother is Mrs. Peter Ruden, 1427 N. Chester St. Nurse |
newest
Kathryn Riddlebaugh didn't know which was which as she held them and they haven't been named. |
(Story Page 11.)
Lion Hunt Downstate Just a Wild Goose Chase YULE ACCIDENTS ~~
Pike County Is Calm Again After Deciding Tracks Total in wikia) Rises to 15: Belong to \ to Wolf or Dog.
Times Special
UNTON, Ind. Dec. 26.—Things in this neighborhood are better today |
554 DIEINU. S.
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5 in Hammond Family | Killed at Chicago.
after being worse last week because a good many peonle thought they |
saw a lion, It began when Charles Fears, a chores last Wednesday night.
WESTERN AUTO
LEASES STORE
New Unit to Be at College38th: Iinois-Market Work To Start Jan. 2.
The leasing of a North Side store and garage by the Western Auto Supply Co. was announced today by W. A. Brennan, Inc The Brennan firm both the Western Auto Supply and Hook Drugs, Inc. the latter being the owner of the property at the northwest corner of College Ave. and 38th St, It also was announced today that the razing of two buildings at the no. theast corner of Illinois and Market Sts, which is to make way for a new $75,000 store building, will start Jan. 2. Occupy Two Store-Rooms
represented
The auto supply firm will occupy two store-rooms at 3810 and 3812 College Ave. and a connecting garage that extends through to the alley. The lease provides about 4171 square feet of floor space in all. The auto supply store will be just north of the Hook drugstore on the corner. It is expected that the auto supply company will be ready to oc-
cupy the premises early in January | improvements are
after extensive completed. A portion of the garage space will be reserved for the servicing of autos, The Western Auto
Supply Co,
(with headquarters at Kansas City, | 1s @
national chain, operating in practically every state. It retails auto accessories, tires, batteries. radios and electrical appliances The North Side outlet will be in addition to the Western Auto Supply stores now located at Washington and Alabama Sts. and at | Illinois and Vermont Sts
Seek Sidewalk Barricade
J. Lloyd Allen and John R. Kelly, architects for the proposed building at Illinois and Market Sts., petitioned the Safety Board today for permission to erect a sidewalk barricade during the construction period. The Board took the request under advisement pending an investigation to determine if the barricade would be a traffic hazard. The building is being erected by | the Mansur Realty Co., through the [Spann Realty Co. The plans call [for five store-rooms and fireproof construction throughout, City Building Commissioner George R. Popp Jr. said the plans were filed with his office Saturday but that a building permit would not be issued until the barricade request had been disposed of by the Safety Board.
THREE CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE CHICAGO, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—The three small children of Mrs. Marie Worthley, 22, died today in a fire which broke out while she was next door telephoning. William Edward, 3, suffocated and Donngr Jean, 20 months, and Julia, sever. ! months, burned to death. An oil
'starteg. the fire,
He saw a large animal leap from his pig
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By UNITED PRESS Sudden death cut short Christmas festivities in hundreds of homes during the week-end. At least 554 persons died in traffic accidents, shootings, drownings, fires, | suicides and miscellaneous violence. ! Traffic accidents killed 389, fires killed 27, suicide added 42 and 96 died from causes such as drownings, shootings and falls. Tlinois Leads States Illinois led all the states in the number of dead, with a total of 55
farnmrer near here, was finishing his|
pen and run inte the woods. It was dark and he couldn't see | | the animal well, but he later con[cluded that it must have been some sort of a lion Next day pupils in a school near his farm heard strange noises in the woods. They didn’t investigate, personally, but they decided it must have been the lion Mr. Fears reported, That night some animal got into] a corral at the Warner Ropp farm and stampeded the cattle so that . [they tore up a fence in their frenzy | They included 37 traffic victims, | Mr, Ropp didn’t see the animal but suicides, one from burns and [ felt that it might very well have from miscellaneous other causes been the Fears lion | California was second with
Friday night, at milkin time, Lossie Hill er his re, were Ry them in in Tae ecient frightened when an animal let out on 3 hia Mahar: 38 oa a great roar near the barn lot. eh : | County Councilman James Bor- | Ten Hoosiers were Killed over. ders, who lives near Zion Church, ih Te oe em when 3 ain hut heard strange noises Friday might oo. SHC i hw ok w around his home. He got a flash- n Indiana over the week-end light and went to investigate. He ‘cached 15. saw a strange animal on the high-| Abbey Scene of Shooting way about 40 feet ahead of him. The| at Onllegeville, Minn. as St. animal ran when the light beam was John! s Abbey was stilled in obseryplayed on it. nce of Christmas Eve. Brother Yesterday a hunt was organized Iter Stellner shot and killed /and 25 men trudged over the Snow- Brother Stanislaus Saworski, then covered hills of Pike County under ghot himself twice. leadership of Sheriff Cleve Good- (Gounty authorities said they had man. not learned his motive or where he No one saw any suspicious tracks. obtained the gun. They said no inSheriff Goodman said the animal guest would be held and that they probably was a large dog or wolf, [had ordered him interned at a St. No paver Ings are planned. | Cloud hospital for observation.
John Slavickas, 54, shot and killed SHAKEUP iN POLICE [his wife, wounded his daughter and
| committed suicide at his Ludington, to Be Demoted in seriously.
| Mich.,, home yesterday. At Wor= | cester, Mass, Mrs. Benjamin Jacques, 45, a State Hospital attendant, Economy Move. | At Princeton, Tl, a bridegrooma | to-be went berserk Christmas Eve, (Continued on Page Four)
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entered a room where her estranged husband was eating Christmas dinner with six other persons, and opened fire with a pistol. Her husband and his host were wounded
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Acting on a plan adopted several
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Terms Study “Helpful”
Mr. Ramsev said that the study had been “very helpful,” and he hoped in the next one to deal also with permanent relief policy in addition to only
| gency.
The social workers’ report covered 374 relief cases. Tt found that during the four weeks from Nov. 15 to Dee. 15 when 16,000 single and childless-couple relief cases were off
| food orders entirely and 40.000 other |
cases on curtailed orders that hun- | drieds went without! food for days. that others rooted out waste food [in markets and that serious illnesses | increased.
Most of these illnesses were in the |
pneumonia, influenza and pleurisy Srey 2a tubercular, diabetic and | hea ses were aggravated serireport said.
22 of 155 Found Jobs
The report said that those studied preferred employment to relief, but that no validity had been found for the claim that hunger would drive [most relief clients into finding jobs. Among 155 of the number studied, which had been cut off food orders entirely, only 22 were able to find employment of any kind, according to the report. Ten of these got odd jobs paying 25 to 50 cents, five were reassiened to WPA, one got a “rejob” and only six obtained jobs in private industry, the study showed. The report said that families which continued to receive relief | had lived on a food standard of five | and one-half cents a meal a person. The “full relief” standard, to which (Onneivued on Page Fr;
AMA MOVES T0 BAN RECKLESS DRIVERS
Uryes Licenses Be Suspended During Motorists’ Trials. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U,
~The American Automobile Association today published the draft
(of a proposed safety-responsibility bill designed to bar reckless motor- |
ists from the highways, The AAA is waging a campaign for adoption of the measure in the states and principles of the measure were approved at the association's convention in November, The measure, adopted already by several states, would suspend a driver's license until guilt is established or disproved. In case of guilt the license would be withheld until compensatory judgment is fulfilled. Indiana is one of the 27 states which now have driver safety-re-sponsibility laws. The bill also calls for interchange between states and provinces of rulings as regards drivers who have run afoul of the law,
ENGLE, YALE MENTOR, DIES BOSTON, Dec. 26 (U. P.).-—-Clvde Engle, 56, old-time major league baseball star and for 18 years freshman baseball coach at Yale University, died unexpectedly of heart "disease in a A hot ’] room here today.
months ago. the Safety Board will meet in special session this week to revamp the organization of the Po- | lice Department | The most sweeping change will be | | made in the detective department [where 29 detective sergeants will be | reduced to the rank of detective in-| Capt. Frank G. Irvin, 37, died to-! vestigators. Only 25 men will retain day in Walter Reed Hospital, Washthe detective sergeant rank of the jngton. of injuries received when his 54 now holding these posts. plane crashed in a fog early SatThe rank reductions will be made yrday at Municipal Airport here. as an economy move, according to, Capt. Irvin was taken to MethLeroy J. Keach, Safety Board presi- odist Hospital after the crash. He ‘dent. The 25 sergeants with the best suffered a fractured skull and in-|
records will retain their positions at | jured spine. | i}
$2202.50 a year. Investigators will He was flown in an Army trans. | receive $2100 a vear. /port hosital plane to Washington Three additional detective lieu- Saturday and placed in a respirator tenants will be named, bringing the theye. number of lieutehants in the detec-| Gapt. Irvin, an Army Air Corps
i 3 9, », i | | tive department to five. Fred Simon officer, had flown here from Ingle-
will remain as chief of detectives. |wood, Cal. and radioed the port Albert G. Perrott, lieutenant in here that he was going to set down charge of the identification bureau, for rest and fuel. Robert W. Kellwill be advanced to captain of the hofer, 30, a civil aeronautical enbureau, a newly created post, The Rineer who was a passenger in the lieutenancy will be abolished. [plane, was uninjured. Robert LL. Batts, police radio! The ship tore up the ground at director, will be named an assistant the airport for 40 feet, somersaulted | police inspector at a salary of $3500 and finally came to stop on its back, | 'a year. Two additional deputy po- pinning the pilot in the cabin lice inspectors will be named at| Capt. Irvin was a native of] salaries of $3300 a year and will be Greencastle, Ind., and was a former | according to | DePauw University athlete. ‘the plan
Capt. Frank G. Irvin. . , fog ended his flight in disaster,
His the daughter of Edward Raub, for-| [the flames, bringing the wife, the former Eleanog Raub, is'mer City Council president, She/ I safely to the ground. »
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HITLER TREADS
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‘Hears Christmas Bells 2 By Daring Nazi Troops In Enemy Village.
BERLIN, Dec. 26 (U. P.).— Hitler stood on French soil at
Adolf the
. Times Photo William Sanders . . . reveals Pan-American prospects.
PLANS ‘TEETH’ FOR NEUTRALITY:
Legal Aid Says Hemisphere May Act to Enforce Safety Zone.
the recent emer-|
[bolls of Spichern in ne-man’s-land--tolled by daring German soldiersring on Christmas Eve. The Fuehrer crossed frontier during his visit dier” to the front lines, DNB, official news agency, announced describing Herr Hitler's trip to the
the French
Saar sector and especially to Spich- | Saar- |
|ern Heights southeast of | bruecken., It was the first (that the Fuehrer
France,
had been in Distributes Gifts
“In the main battle sector before | Saarbruecken, Herr Hitler went
| VISIT 10 LINES VIBORG — Utilities Russians continue
| Western Front, an official announce- | | ment, disclosed today, and heard the
“as a sol-| the | in|
time ‘since 1918!
FINNISH
UTY OF VIBORG
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orichiss Shiver at 15 . Below; Russian Soil Invaded.
War at a Glance
damaged a® to ktombard Finland's second largest city
HELSINKI — Air raid alarms and anti-aircraft gunfire keep Finns in capital watching sky anxiously,
| MOSCOW-=Russian victories are ree
ported in the Suomusalmi and Jolomantsi sectors of mid-Finland front.
PARIS—French claim German sure prise attack is repulsed on. the Western Front,
LONDON-—RBritish steamship Stane | hold is sunk without warning off the west coast of England
BERLIN — Adolf Hitler makes Christmas visit to German sole diers on French soil, distributes gifts.
SHANGHAI — Japanese spokesman reveals that mass air raids have been made on several Chinese cities.
By WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent FINNISH ARMY GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, VIBORG, Dec, [26 Russian “Big Bertha” shells smashed into Viborg today in a
A tentative plan to “put teeth” in | from emplacement to emplacement, bombardment which started Christe
|the 300-mile safety zone around North and South America was revealed here today by William Sanders, chief of the Pan-Amer ican | Union's juridical division, Mr. Sanders spoke this noon on | “Progress in the Development of Pan-American Policies” before the Rotary Club at the Claypool Hotel. In an interview, he said that an outgrowth of the Graf Spee and Columbus incidents may be that the
Americas will deny belligerent ships |
the right to refuel or get supplies | anywhere on the North or South American continents, He said this] would require belligerent ships to remain reasonably close to their bases of supply. Explains Declaration “With such a move it would be possible without resorting to force to make belligerents abide by the | Declaration of Panama.” he said. “The establishment of the security zone around the Americas by (he Declaration of Panama has no le[eal basis. Tt is a declaration of | policy for continental interest to keep the European war on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. “Therefore, no sanctions can be | taken against the violators under international law. But by joint ac-| tion the 21 members of American Union can deny the violators the right to get fuel or pe plies over here.’ He said belligerent ships could legally be interned if they came close enough to American soil, but] he doubted (his would be done. Similar ers between belligerent, ships took place near the American coastline in the last World War, Mr. Sanders said. Cites Faith in Hull “The reason the Graf Spee in-
| cident received such publicity was | because of the Declaration of Pan- |
ama,” he said.
Relations between the Americas Way, retired Eli Lilly & Co. execu- new victories.
the Pan- |
sea battles and encount-|
from position to position, and from | soldier to soldier with packages,” the Agency said. “Only at a late hour did Hitler | ‘return to headquarters.” While at Spichern Heights—the town of Spichern is in France—German soldiers erept out in the early dusk and rang the Spichern church bells. The village lies between the French and German lines,
Eats With Soldiers
The Fuehrer had gone to | Western Front [or Christmas in- | stead of remaining at his mountain home at Berchtesgaden, He ate the
| regular fare of the front line troops.
One stop was at a military air-
mas evening and showed no signs of ending. Throughout the night the shells, [crashing onto homes and buildings in twos, threes and fours from the Russian lines 25 miles away. and the roaring fire engines on their way to put out fires had made a pandee | monium of the city.
The city was now under an almost {continuous air raid alarm. Planes
the swept over Viborg, dropping bombs,
during the daylight hours yesterday and the first alarm came today just before 5 a. m, Anti-aircraft fire at once started,
Smash Six-Foot Craters
| port where the pilots were at lunch- |
eon in a big hall, gaily decorated for | Christmas with evergreen, | Fuehrer entered suddenly and sal
with the squadron leader, The pilots
were described as amazed to see him land, according to the German correspondents in the party, their showed great amazement, | The German correspondents noted that seated near Herr Hitler at the table were two lance corporals—the rank the Fuehrer held in the World War-—and that they were sons of Austrian Nazi Old Guards who had been in prison camps before the anschluss,
JOHN KORN, RETIRED LILLY OFFICIAL, DIES
‘Native of City Was Founder
| Of Traffic Club.
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| John William Korn, 4627 Broad-
The
faces |
At midnight, the Russian “Big Berthas,” a new development. began firing with increasing intensity. | They seemed {o carry higher charges of explosives than had the first ones, and they were smashing craters sig feet deep and 12 feet across in the | frozen earth, In parts of the city the bright sun was obscured by a heavy pall of smoke from burning buildings. All services such as gas and water had been cut off. Restaurants and shops were closed and there was ne food [or hotel guests,
Constant Air Alarms
‘he constant air alarms delayed he communications. Some« times Viborg was cut off for hours time, and calls were often ine me after a connection had eth esiablishey. hrough Christmas Day the i had bombed the city. and all through the night the shells crashed down, adding new ruins and sending new families out into the streets in (a temperature of 15 degrees below Zero. But out on the fighting lines the Finns say that they are winning They say that now,
at the present time are the besl tive, died last night at St. Vincent's following up a Russian retreat, they
they have been in history. Latin Aniericans have a sincere faith in Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Mr. Sanders said,
Three things, he said, ure upper=|
the Panthe present continental
most in the minds of American countries at time: Joint neutrality,
security and economic co-operation. | the
It was for these aims that Panama City Conference this vear was called. Mr, Sanders believes that, so far as internal relations of the Americas are concerned. the field of economic co-operation is the most. important,
Hoosier Army Pilot Injur red Here Dies; Flown to Washington in Hospital Plane
her parents’ home, 60 W when the accident occurred. Capt. Irvin entered the Army as a second lieutenant of infantry, later transferring to the Air Corps. He finished the flying courses at the Texas Army schools and the me-! chanical training at Wright Field, Dayton, O. He was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant July 1, 1931, and captain Aug. 1, 1935, being a pilot
was at 43d St.,
| staff officer at the Air Corps head- |
quarters at Bolling Field at Wash | ington. | Plans are being made for Army | funeral services at Washington and [burial at Greencastle. [| Capt. Irvin was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for “extraordinary heroism” in a test flight
from Wright Field to Indianapolis |
July 22, 1936, His citation states
that he was in command of an had been associated in that concern Curious World Army ship testing carbon monoxide ‘about 15 years and for 16 years be- | Fditorials ... ai high altitudes, when the ship | fore that worked for the Beeler, Va- pinancial
caught fire at 2000 feet,
Capt. Irvin and his co-pilot
(ordered the observation crew to bail| and was a graduate of Shortridge Gallup Poll .
out in parachutes, thus assuring | their safety, and then extinguished costly ship |
He was 75 and a native resident of Indian-
Hospital. |and life-long apolis. Mr. Korn joined the Lilly company in 1890 and was traffic man(ager when he retired in 1936. He was one of the founders of the In-
ganizer and original director of the Home Builders Savings and Loan Association His recreational hobbies were baseball and bowling and ne was one of the founders of the Indian(apolis Bowling Club. He was a member of the Marion Lodge, FP. & A. MM. the Scottish Rite and Murat Temple, He was married in 1889 to Miss Maude Milbourne and last May the couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, His wife and a daughter, Mrs, W. C. Best, Milwaukee, survive,
Services will be at the Flanner &
Buchanan Funeral Home at 11 a. m. Thursday with Dr. William F. Rothenberger, pastor of the Third Chris tian Church, officiating. Other serve |jces will be held by the Scottish | Rite.
E. Roy Copper D Dies At Stockyards Desk
E. Roy Copper, 611 E. Southern Ave, a commission merchant at the Indianapolis Union
day. Dr. Hugh Thatcher,
(coroner, said death was due to a heart attack. Mr. Copper was firm of Branigin, Copper & Co.
a partner in the He
[ladin & Moffett Co. He was born at Greensburg, Ind. |
High School. Mr. Copper is survived by his wife, Hazel Frances, and his father, Wil
| am Riley Copper of Indianapglis.
dianapolis Traffic Club and an or-
Stockyards | about 31 vears, died at his desk todeputy |
have cut their way across the frone tier north of Lake Ladoga to take the war, for the first time. onte Russian (oil, and to threaten the Leningrad - Murmansk Railroad which is the vital artery of supply to the Russian Far North Army,
Shell Russian Warship
Three Russian tanks have been destroyed, two field guns captured and two companies of Russidn infantry routed in latest operations. Finnish communiques sav, and Fine nish coastal batteries have shelled the Russian 23.600—on battleship, Marat It was to be expected that fighting would continue on Christmas Day. The mockery that war makes of such days was best shown here yesSe terday. A few weeks ago Viborg was a bustling, prosperous city of 80. 000 people. About 7000 remain. the rest having fled. The first of the Christmas air (Continued on Page Three)
T™WO SHIPS SINK, 3 DIE ISTANBUL, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—Two ships foundered during a severe storm off Sinopa in the Black Sea |with a loss of 34 lives today. The | Turkish. steamer Kizilirmak went | down with loss of its entire crew of [20 and the Greek steamer Astrea [ with the loss of its crew of 14,
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