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GRAVE ISSUES FACE CONGRESS OPENING JAN. 3

Democratic Harmony Front Menaced; Presidential Politics Factor.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U. P.) — The harmonious Democratic legislative front established to enact Presi-| : dent Roosevelt's special session Neutrality Bill is menaced today by controversial issues awaiting Congress. Presidential politics will be a maJor factor in Congress’ 1940 delibera-

Streetcar Ride

YULE MISHAPS: 20 FROM STATE

Illinois Tops List With 55; 5 in Hammond Family Killed at Chicago.

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shot and killed his parents, seriously wounded his brother and then killed himself. One of the most unusual deaths occurred at St. Paul. Early Anger, 35, was run down and killed by the

tions which begin Jan. 3. Apart from the questions of nominees and ] 8 party platforms, grave issues of pub- hg HE | lic policy will have to be disposed of. : The regular session of Congress sa | which adjourned last Aug. 5 left : unfinished business which is likely to disturb both Democratic and Re- Ea | publican Party lines. Hotly disputed 3 legislation and Presidential author RE | ities expire next year unless Con 35 gress can be persuaded to continue them. Center of Discussion

Mr. Roosevelt's authority to : negotiate reciprocal trade agree : EE ments without Congressional consent | or advice already is the center of i. TR on. political discussion in which Repub- | | licans and a group of Democrats| Ruth English and Lou Pitts . ., | from agricultural states proclaim featured in an act called “The | determination to prevent its exten-, Bowery.”

cn REVUE TO OPEN INGITY TONIGHT

The reciprocal trade program was sponsored by Secretary of State] Cordell Hull rather than by Mr. | Roosevelt, but the President an-| nounced this month that he would | press for its extension. | Particular significance attaches to! the trade agreement dispute because | of Mr, Hull's position as a likely : : compromise Democratic Presidential Six to Be Starred in Show seek a third term. Rejection of the) At Coliseum, Beginning Hull trade agreement plan practically would eliminate him from 1940 At 8.30 P. M. consideration, whereas its extension - — | would materially boost his campaign stock. | Six Other Acts Expire in‘roduction to the world of ice Other ‘notable 1940 { (hockey being the first) at 8:30! dates include: {o'clock tonight with the opening] Frazier-Lemke Farm Moratorium | performance of the A Rurpeun day and night for the last week, and tonight's performance will be a world premiere. ! Starring a half-dozen American and European skating champions, ! backers say the show will present everything in the skating iine from! extravaganza to jitterbugging and comedy.

Indianapolis will get its second

expiration

Central Statistical Board—July 25.! Chandler Railroad Reorganization Act—July 28. Guffey Coal Act—Dec. 31. 1937 Sugar Act—Dec. 31. Authority for the investigation of un-American activities undertaken by Chairman Martin L. Dies (D. Tex.) of a special*House committee

automobile he was cranking. The engineer and fireman of a Rock Island freight train were killed near Choctaw, Okla. yesterday when the boiler of their locomotive exploded. At San Francisco, an aged couple died in a hotel fire which, for a time, threatened to trap 150 guests. At Pierre, S. D, a man arranging yvule decorations on the roof of his home, slipped, fell to the ground and was killed, At Los Angeles, an

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Pledges Cordial Reception To Taylor; F. D. R. Invites Two Church Leaders.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U. P)). —President Roosevelt today received assurances from His Holiness Pope Pius XII that the President’s newlydesignated personal representative, Myron C. Taylor, will be cordially received at the Vatican to aid in working for world peace. The Pope's sentiments were conveyed to the President in a letter from the apostolic delegate Amleto Giovanni Cicognani to archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York. At the ‘same time Dr. George A. Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, and Rabbi Cyrus Adler, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, assured the President they were grateful for his invitation for them to co-operate in

| aviator, flying low to wave to some [ friends, crashed into a radio station | transmission tower and was killed.

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TUESDAY, DEC. 2, 1989 EDHUNGER REAL IN CLEVELAND, SURVEY SHOWS

Mental Breakdowns, At tempted Suicides Revealed In Study of Relief Crisis.

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clients were restored gradually after Dec. 15 is seven and three-fifths cents a meal. The report said that 10 had threatened suicide and that 16 had approached mental breakdowns, One relief client had only onion sandwiches for his Thanksgiving dinner, the report said. Nurses who gathered part of the report found “continuous evidence of a meager diet, lack of essential clothing, bedding and furniture and extremely poor housing. “Patients lived on oatmeal, grae ham flour ana apples, potatoes and beans. “Expectant mothers and young

seeking peace. Invites Two Tomorrow

The letters from the three re-

} [children and patients suffered from tuberculosis. Diabetics lived mainly on starchy foods, when control of

Binnie Barnes . . has a new diamond.

| died when their car was struck by | train at the Chicago city limits.

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20 From State Killed, 10 of Them Overnight

Ten more Hoosiers—five in one family and one from Indianapolis— died overnight of traffic accident in- | juries to bring the holiday total] killed in Indiana to 15. Killed overnight were: MRS. ELLAWENE M'GUFFEY, 25, Indianapolis, who died in a Seymour hospital of injuries received in a Saturday night acci-

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Miss Louise McConnell, one of Birmingham's new trolley car hostesses (right), meets an emergency for a passenger. repairs for stocking runs, but information and help of any kind for the nickel and dime patrons are on the agenda for the hostess.

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dent. MR. AND MRS. GEORGE CLARK, their children, JACK, 10, and GEORGE JR. 12; and Mr. Clark’s mother, MRS. ANNA CLARK, all of Hammond, who

A. M. MAGUIRE DIES AT OFFICE

Heart Attack Fatal to Coal Dealer Long Active in Politics Here.

These are not included in the Indiana holiday death total, since the accident took place in Illinois. JOHN P. KING, 83, Vigo County infirmary inmate, who was killed by a hit-and-run driver. WALLACE O. BLAKE, 30, Hartford City, killed when he was

struck by a car at Acworth, Ga. , ; NATHANIEL FOWLER, 82 | Albert M. Maguire, : Haute, killed when he [treasurer of the Penn Coal Co., died |

walked into the side of a moving |today while working at his desk in| car at his home. the coal company office. He was 63.] WILLIAM D. MARTIN, 60, Mark Mercer, deputy coroner, atShelbyville, dead of injuries re- |tributed death to a heart attack. ceived in an auto collision. Mr. Maguire, who lived at 529 E.| Mrs. McGuffey was injured Sat-|32d St., had been in the coal busiurday when her car struck a truck (ness his entire business career, and| on Road 31 south of Seymour. Her was one of the founders of the Penn | husband, George McGuffey, who [Coal Co. about 30 years ago. was driving, escaped injury. An|

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Reading Youth Stumps Court

JUVENILE COURT HAS a case that has the social workers puzzled. A 15-year-old boy, picked up on a delinquency charge, was lodged in the Detention Home,

He was told last week that he could go home for Christmas. He said he didn’t want to because he

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story. Since then every time they have told him he might go home he has claimed to be in the middle of another book. He said he didn't want to go home, Social workers say he is an avid reader.

lligious figures were made public by [the White House. | Shortly after making public the {letters the President invited Dr. |Buttrick and Dr. Adler to confer with him tomorrow. Archbishop Cicognani’s letter to Archbishop Spellman said the President’s message “brought very great joy to the heart of the Holy Father,

and containing such high hopes of sipirtual and civil benefits for the cause of peace.” It was stated that His Holiness “desires himself to make a personal and official reply” to the President, but that Archbishop Cicognani was “requested to express to the President His Holiness’ profound gratitude for the choice of the honorable Myron Taylor as the representative of the President...”

Church Head Gives Pledge

Dr. Buttrick wrote: “We share your confidence that men and women in every land have a basic faith in God and therefore in human brotherhood, and that even in the present chaos and darkness they are preparing a better day... “The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America pledges itself through you to the people of America and of every church and land to | seek under God a world order in {which unmerited poverty and lurk|ing fear and the threat of war shall be banished.”

coming from so exalted a source, in- | spired by such noble sentiments,

the disease required a highly spee cialized diet,” the report said. A teacher in one school reported that “voungsters seemed weak, liste less and had a much shorter ate tention span than usual.” Others they described as ‘undernourished, with black circles under their eyes.” The report said that among the 219 individual cases studied 30 had reported that they were threatened with being evicted from their homes and that nine had been. One family of man, wife and four children, including a one-monthe {old baby lived three days on only bread and cocoa and potatoes, the report found. In another family of man, wife

ruled today that the Appalachian|and four children, the mother was existing on bread, coffee and

shutdown last spring was not 8 | potatoes given her by her married strike and that miners therefore gayghter, according to the report.

were entitled to unemployment in-| The daughter's husband was on surance for the six weeks in which | WPA and receiving Federal Surplus they did not work Commodities foods. One of the boys The decision was regarded here as|in the family “had been getting his establishing possible precedent for|meals at his girl's home” and filing of $15,000,000 in insurance | another son “eats around at friends claims by 340,000 miners in several | and in stores,” the report said. states, including Ohio, where more The study said that “a constant than 20,000 workers would be|refrain of undernourishment runs entitled to $1,500,000. | through these reports.”

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 26 (U. P). —Actress Binnie Barnes showed friends a 5% -carat square-cut diamond today announcing her engagement to Mike Frankovitch, lo~ cal radio announcer. The couple said they planned to wed in September. Both have been divorced.

BANS JOB INSURANCE IN COAL SHUTDOWN

CLEVELAND, Dec. 26 (U. P).—| Common Pleas Judge Joy Seth Hurd

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nominee if the President does not| Act—March 4. Ice Revue at the Coliseum. Vedettes Open Show uncle, L. C. Carr, 38, R. R. 1, Box| ; 1267, Indianapolis, was reported to| He had been active in Democratic Cartoon comedy vedettes will open he in serious condition with in- | politics many years, and was a forMr. Roosevelt d £ his Cab the performance with a number juries. mer member of the City Plan Com- - ROOSEVE'L and some of his Cab- “ fork” in w W. M. Telley, Indianapolis, was mission. He had been a director of inet have been consistently and called “Hello, New York,” in which 3 p

: Tea : 14 . » ‘ww ‘reported by police to have been | the Indianapolis Coal Merchants’ eaustically critical of the inquiry Grover Whalen’ welcomes the ice ("yy ver of the truck, Funeral |Association in past years. which, however, was continued |trouple to America.

” services and burial for Mrs. Mc- . i ras restry through 1939. House Democratic/ He will be assisted by Mickey : a apuite WHS Bo oay vast: of

| : . A h {Guffey will be in Nashville, Tenn. |St. Paul's Episcopal Church and a| leaders informed the White House Mouse, Pinocchio, Donald Duck and ney former home. The McGuffeys member of the Ancient Landmarks | that the investigation was too pop-|Charlie McCarthy.

: lived in the 700 block Woodlawn soni y ular to stop. On Feb. 3, 1939, the] Most of the numbers will be done aye Masonic Lodge

House voted 344 to 35 to continue to music. There will be an approach it through this year. {to ballet but the show has been |

WEST FRONT QUIET; BRITISH SHIP SUNK

By JOE ALEX MORRIS hw " United Press Foreign News Editor religion I ity SUNT . n e e Secre phen T. Except in the Russo-Finnish War, pay)y said that 400 telegrams were the fighting fronts today were com-| received over the week-end regardparatively quiet, after a small Ger-|ing the appointment of Mr, Taylor

man patrol attack on the Western| 2nd that only four of them were

expires Dec. 31, 1939. A resolution is pending to appropriate $100,000 to continue the inquiry through 1940.

fellow countrymen and the world at | large take new courage from the ‘fact that you are again throwing | {your vivid and forceful leadership into the cause for peace. It is a noble deed to bring the forces of ave your photographs taken the,

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The body is at the Flanner &| ‘The Clark family was killed last Buchanan Mortuary where friends night when their car was struck |may call after today. Front had developed into a brief

critical. A budget of sharply controversial described as “a glorified vaudeville yy Wabash railroad passenger | | ” « die} Moeair “Bite Banner.” Ras: Ie Funeral to Be Friday battle on Christmas Day. Paris GRANTS RESTRAINER Mrs. Services will be held at the Flan- Patches said that the German at-

legislation is held over from the last on ice.” Single numbers will take regular session. Here are some of the precedence over continuity. Mrs. Clark were 33 years old and the grandmother was 64. Mier & Buchanan Mortuary at 10:30 tacks were repulsed after they had | Burial will be in| failed in a surprise attempt to seize | ON TAVERN PICKETS

major bills which passed the Sen-| Appeared Abroad The accident was witnessed bys m. Friday. | prisoners.

ate but were not acted on by the House and which, therefore, still are, Nearly all the show's members, | relatives in two other automobiles | crown Hill. pending: o lexcluding Miss Audrey Peppe of following Mr. Clark's car. They in-| wr. Maguire leaves his wife, Mrs.| There was no hint of peace from | Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox 1. One billion, 615 million dollar York and Miss Ruth Eneli cluded his brother-in-law, Lee R.| Nettie Maguire: Rav d. a any of Europe's belligerent capitals, | today temporarily restrained Bar- | $ glish . | Nettie Maguire; a son, ymond, a |S, | (Moore, Kenosha, Wis. The Party |cjty Hall draftsman; a daughter, King George, speaking on Christ- | tenders Union, Local 437, from

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Mother, 72, Thumbs Ride, Begs for Sons’ Freedom

Spending Lending Bill. | | and Lou Pitts of St. Louis, have was en route to the home of rela- Mrs. Herbert Ransberg, all of In-|Mas Day, expressed certainty that|picketing a tavern at 142 N. Illinois’ 3. Creation of a five-man railroad, The show will include several visit. reorganization court. {waltz numbers, a comedy horse] The accident occurred at just] [promised that only victory would be [filed an injunction suit. Hearing a- | accepted bv the Reich. for a permanent injunction is to be term, low-interest farm mortgages. ferred to in this country as the eling about 60 miles an hour. IS SWEPT BY BLAZE Labor Act Changes Hinted | “Four Scrubwomen.” | The train struck the automobile | a : ] de accepting the fare of soldiers inltq coerce employees into joining a "== pillar containing red warning lights | — {observance of the holiday season. |ynion or “when an employer is at| to Latin-America. 2. Stricter immigration, deportathe eminence which critics of the legislation assert warrants amendLARGEST IN NATION proaching session on its investiga- a ‘ tion of the Works Projects Admin- | The Christmas holiday sales inSenator Carl A. Hatch (D. N. M.), | Federal Reserve Banks reported to-| with Administration backing, ex- day. | except those policy-making officials higher percentage of gain was| in the immediate presidential family.| Akron, O., with 13.9 per cent. Okla- : . : fanapolis department stores reported reported to be considering income, s ‘ora . bse} excise ‘and ‘estate tax increases ‘to sales gains of 9.3 per cent, standing upward trend in treasury deficit figures probably would be equally during 1940. The national debt was| near 42 billion dollars as of Dec. 20! servative Democrats led by Chairman Pat Harrison, (D. Miss.), of the

2. Eight hundred million dollar expansion of U. S. Housing Author- worked together in Continental | tives, Mr. and Mrs. James de Lasso, | gianapolis and a brother. William the Empire was united in the fight |St, ity's borrowing power. | performances. | Villa Park, Ill, for a Christmas| Maguire, Toledo, O. ft A es |e The a Was Sruiiteg fo Sh x any y @ S [tavern owner, ovits after he | 4. Bankhead Cotton Crop Insur- called “Sea Biscuit,” a number of outside the city’s southwest boun | ance Bill. {trios, two ensembles and an act ary. As the automobile reached the | Adolf Hitler left his luxurious re- nhelq Jan. 10. 5. Lee bill for insurance of long- called “The Four Char Ladies,” re- crossing the train approached, trav-| a Be Hlesguten to spend| The injunction suit was believed wistmas with German troops ont be the first filed since the State | The show was staged by Fred and hurled it through a signal Bills passed by the House but not Evans of Chica rected + 2) g s go, directed by : : by the Senate included: | Armand Perren of Switzerland, and and bells. The pillar Snapp Sod Fire of undetermined origin swept | Australian troops began arriving peace with his employees.” the automo i e rolled over, halt ng. two-story brick and frame storage in England—w here the Canadians | a." 50 feet away. already had arrived—in token of! tion and alien-detention powers. The long delayed House investigation of the National Labor Rela-! ment of the act and a shake-up of Board personnel. The House Committee on Appropriations is existration. A Senate Committee |CT®2Se recorded by Indianapolis dewhich has been investigating un- | partment stores for the week end-| employment and relief also is|IN8 Dec. 16 was exceeded only by pects at the next session to extend| For the week, the stores’ sales gain | his “clean politics” bill to state and here was 13.7 per cent higher than | municipal activities. As passed last| for the same period last year, it was | Defense Cost May Be High |homa City was the only city reNutional ‘Uéfense appropriations cording a loss—1.8 per cent. Roches- - s lati ter, N. Y., was thi i : are likely to top two billion dollars! =r BS third high, with 13.3, cover ‘some 500 ‘million dollars ‘of fifth among the 34 cities checked. that expenditure. A tax bill in a| presidential election year would be! distasteful to the party in control, whether Democrat or Republican. The Treasury is likely to reach and the statutory limit of national indebtedness is 45 billion dollars. An Administration move to raise the Senate Finance Committee.

French soil, distributing gifts and | Supreme Court prohibited picketing a 1. Authorization of munitions sales is under the general production tions Board has begun to develop! L S 6 SALES GAIN SECOND | pected to report during the apscheduled to announce its findings. [One major city in the nation, the session it covers Federal employees reported. The only city reporting a Fo > week i ¢ fm next session and Mr. Roosevelt is r the week ending Dec. 9, Indi-| unusual, but the alternative of an the limit of its borrowing authority | limits this year was balked by con-

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Hogs weighing less than 260] pounds gained 5 to 15 cents at Indianapolis today while others were steady. New York stocks receded in light trade. Steel operations dropped but, steel securities held steady. Chicago | wheat prices dipped when reports of | snowfall in the Southwest wheat belt, started selling on the Board of | Trade.

ARMY CASTE BROKEN { LONDON, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—There | are no “Officers Only” restaurants In| , London as there were during the] ‘World War. No distinction is made in serving colonels or privates,

—A gray-haired mountain woman |

David Frazier, 40, Roosevelt Ho- building of the Dorman Brothers’ | tel, was taken to the City Hospital Used Auto Parts Co. at 815 E. Mar-| after the car in which he was rid- ket St. late yesterday. All downing crashed into the railroad over-|town fire apparatus answered the Dea aunent at Kentucky Ave.lalarm and traffic was tied up more and ssouri St. than an hour. The car was driven northeast on| Firemen did not estimate the loss. Kentucky Ave. by George Dooley, 25,| The building was used to house of 617 Ft. Wayne Ave. police said. wrecked cars and used auto parts. He was not injured. Connie Hovis,|The blaze was prevented from 21, of 418 E. 9th St, a passenger, (spreading to an adjoining threeWa Spun. tote tiie ‘Wht story brick building used by the ere was no lig on e abul-|same firm. ment at the time of the accident,| Battalion Chief William T. Clune, police seid, re fated ‘uv uli |62, received a shoulder injury during 0 drivers were sialed by police the fire when he was caught beyesterday after a two-car crash at| tween a wall and pT ur an Senate Ave. and Ohio St. in which explosion occurred inside the buildOatsius Toien, 4, of Of 5. West |In5;, Te Was treated ‘at City Hos- » 9%, . SU pital. | St, was charged with failure to ; of give ‘the right ge way ‘after his car Hundreds of spectators were at ick by ‘one (Griveh by Walt | tracted to the scene by dense clouds WR ruck do lve Olay Was [O gos and glam. Hye of IOAN ly : ve , > th rm said t fire was discovSa with having no certificate | apeq by fo L id Della Tolen, 49, was taken to the!

City Hospital with fractured ribs. HULL WOULD ‘LIKE’

George VanPelt, 59, of 947 S. West, |

St., received an injured shoulder. TRADE PACT INQUIRY

Both were passengers in the (Earlier Details, Page Nine)

driven by Tolen. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U, P.) Secretary of State Cordell Hull said today he would welcome an investi-| gation of the Administration's re-| ciprocal trade agreement program. | The program has come under in-| creasing criticism since the Government began to negotiate a proposed |

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They killed Deputy Sheriff Martin Lange, Constable Joseph Clark and Fred Seaborn when they sought

the Empire's role in the European conflict and first British casualties in the front lines in France were announced. The war at sea continued, the British steamship Stanhold of 2473 tons, being sunk withut warning by a U-boat off the west coast of England. Fourteen persons were killed when the torpedo exploded suddenly among members of the crew celebrating Christmas below decks. Ten British ships and eight neutral ships were sunk last week.

BOAT LIVES UP TO NAME PAINSVILLE, O., Dec. 26 (U. P). —F. G. Haskins and Charles St. Clair named their 19-foot sailboat, equipped with outboard motor, “Gone With the Wind.” The name

{proved appropriate, for one day the |last few years haven't had enough |

two found their boat gone.

'MORRISSEY IS ILL, TAKEN TO HOSPITAL

Police Chief Michael ¥. Morrissey was in St. Vincent's Hospital today land was reported suffering from the recurrence of a stomach ailment. The Chief became ill and was taken to the hospital Christmas day. His physician, Dr. John M. CunPningham, said the illness was | “nothing serious,” adding that Chief

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