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FORECAST: Partly cloudy and somewhat colder tonight; lowest temperature 10 to 15; tomorrow fair.

VOLUME 51—NUMBER 250

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28 1939

Entered aw Second-Class

at Postoffice, Indianapo

FINAL HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

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C. OF 7 MEN

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Awards, Citations for Serv- | |

ice to Indianapolis to Be Presented Jan. 9.

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Membership on the Staff of Honor of Indianapolis will be awarded to seven citizens at the 1940 award

dinner Tuesday evening. Jan. 9. it |

was announced today bv C. D. Alexander, acting for the honor mittee, The Staff of Honor was established a year ago by representatives of civic organizations as a recognition of distinguished citizenship and distinguished service outside business or professional efforts. Ten men, one posthumously, received last vear's award, Recipients Are Listed

Mr. Alexander, who made the announcement, is president of the Chamber of Commerce, one of the sponsoring organizations. The seven elected this year are:

HENRY C. ATKINS, president of E. C. Atkins & Co STANLEY COULTER, Eli Lilly Co. research adviser and Purdue University dean emeritus HENRY IL. DITHMER, Polar Ice & Fuel Co. president EDGAR H. EVANS, chairman of the board of Acme-Evans Co FRED HOKE, Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Co. vice president and treasurer. HUGH McK LANDON. chairman of the board of Fletcher Trust Co FRANKLIN VONNEGUT, presi=dent of the Vonnegut Hardware Co.

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Bach of the seven will receive a gold medal, symbolic of his civic, social or philanthropic services to the people of Indianapolis. Parchment citations accompanying the medal will outline the services for which the award is made. Arthur R. Baxter will present the citations.

Requirements for Citation

Requirements for the honor include the following: “The recipient must have lived in Indianapolis for at least 10 years as & private citizen. “He must have reached his Year, “He must have served the city over and above the requirements of good citizenship and bevond his own chosen profession, business or calling The award dinner will be held in the Claypool Hotel Riley Room. Invitations have been sent to members of the Chamber of Commerce and luncheon and service club members, along with their families and representatives of other organizations in the city. The dinner will be open to the public. Members of the fam-

ilies of the seven men honored will |

be special guests,

This vear's dinner was held on |

Feb. 3. The 10 men honored were Arthur V. Brown, Hilton U. Brown, William H. Coleman, James W, Fesler, William Fortune, the Rev Matthias L. Haines, D. D, Josiah K Lilly, John ¥. White, Evans Woollen Sr, and posthumously, William J. Mooney Sr

BRITAIN WILL RATION SUGAR AND MEAT, TOO

LONDON, Dec. 28 (U. P).—An official announcement today said Great Britain would extend its rationing system to sugar and meat. The rationing of sugar will start Jan. 8, with each person limited to 12 ounces weekly, The date of meat rationing and the amount for each person per week will be announced later. Britain previously had rationed bacon and butter (four ounces of each per person per week),

OHIO MINE GROUP ASKS SOUP KITCHENS

ATHENS, O, Dec. 28 (U. P) A committee of unemployed coal miners of southeasterm Ohio today telegraphed President Roosevelt to send army soup Kitchens to feed hungry relief clients The President, after a conference several davs ago with John Owens, president of the C. I. O. in Ohio, had promised to set up soup Kitchens in Ohio if necessary to meet poor relief needs.

ADMIRAL TOWNSEND DIES

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (U. P) The Navy announced today that Rear Admiral Julius C. Townsend, commandant of the Fourth Naval District with headquarters in Philadelphia, died this morning at the Brooklyn, N. Y., Naval Hospital. Admiral Townsend, whose home was in Keokuk, Towa, was 60. He is survived by his wife, Martha.

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Marshal Hermann Goering couldn't Hitler get rid of him?

DEFIES HITLER, PAPER CLAIMS

‘London Herald Says He Plans Comeback “on His | Own Terms.

LONDON, Dec. 28 Dally Herald reported Field Marshal Hermann Goering was in disfavor with Adolf Hitler and had been retired to his shooting chalet at Schorfheide, Germany,

{Where he was planning a comeback campaign “on his own terms.” | Discussing the alleged status of Goering, Nazi No. 2. Herr Hitler's official heir, chief of the German air force and dictator of the four-vear plan of self-sufficiency, the Daily Herald said: “For more than eight weeks Hitler and Goering have not exchanged {more than a few words. The last time ‘Goering visited Hitler's chancellery at Berlin was Nov. 24, when there was an ‘unfortunate incident’ -& woman thrust into Goering's hand a letter demanding better rationing of food and clothing. “Goering has made no speeches, although as leader of the four-year (plan he was always talking of it { formerly. “Neutral diplomats who prefer to see Goering rather than Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ‘must travel to Schorfheide, They have brought back reports of angry

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70th outbursts by Goering against Hite TP ers policy.

The Daily Herald said that GoerNg's position was so strong that Herr Hitler could not get rid of him, since he had already nominated him as his successor. Moreover, the newspaper said, Herr Goering was surrounded by influential wealthy industrialists who were fearful of Heir Hitler's policy of seeking friendship with Russia.

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PARK BOARD CUTS 4 FROM POLICE STAFF

Dropped to Keep In Budget, Officials Say.

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Four of the nine members of the park police force will be dropped from the City payroll Jan. 1. the Park Board announced today. The Board made the reduction to keep within its 1940 budget which

provides for only five park police- |

men, For the last five years. the Board has emploved nine men as policemen, The Board approved the following reappointments of policemen who were recommended by Mavor Reginald M. Sullivan: James J. Reilly, 1408 BE. New York St.; William A. Brown Jr, 1219 Hersenell Ave., Raymond DPaiton, 1041 S. Senate Ave; John Costas, 910 E. 22nd St, and John V. Gallagher, 926 Union St. Policemen who will be dropped {are Lawrence Bourke, 230 E. 9th St.; Larry Hilton, 1089 Hanna Ave. ;

Frances Kennedy, 416 N. State St. |

and Harold Bucy, 623 EB. Terrace Ave, A. C. Sallee, City Parks Superintendent, said that the five remainIng policemen next year will con tmue working under the supervision of Police Chief Michael FP. Morrissey. Mr. Sallee said that he and other park officials would attempt to find jobs for the men who are being displaced because “thev re all good men.”

STERN CREW FAILS TO SAVE HALF-SHIP

LONDON, Dec. 28 (U. P). — The crew of the 7387-ton London tanker San Alberto, sliced in half by a German torpedo, fled in lifeboats (but returned and tried to sail the stern half to port. The seamen fixed the engines in the San Alberto’s stern——its forepart had sunk 15 minutes after the torpedo hit it—and got up steam in an effort to take it home, it was re-

vealed today as the crew members

told of their adventure By keeping the engines going slowly, the skeleton crew was able to prevent the seas from tearing the

stern to pieces. But every time she!

tried to buck the waves, great strips of her plating were torn off. The captain finally gave up. A destroyer took the captain and his men off after the sea . ‘came

rough and the stern began to sink. supplied us with aid so far has 15.000 men), ; “This is a war of numbers against ‘light machine guns the Finns were Postal

BRITISH CRUISER IN PORT RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil. Dec. 28 (U. P.)).—An unidentified Rritish

15, 18 cruiser entered the port of Rio De Janeiro today.

"REPORT 10,000

Many Thousands Homeless;

. Salinas Area on West Coast Feels Temblor.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Dec. 28 (U. P). — Dead littered the streets of | towns and homeless refugees sought | shelter from intense cold and driving snow today after an earthquake which had devastated a wide area {of eastern Turkey. | Disrupted communications made authentic casualty compilations impossible. But it seemed certain that the death toll would be high in {the thousands and that tens or [scores of thousands of refugees [were homeless. Fragmentary re{ports indicatd that the earthquake ‘might prove to have been the most disastrous in Turkish records. | (London dispatches estimated that the death toll would exceed 10000.) |

Erzincan Nearly Obliterated

Reports of death, destruction and over a 25.000

| i 1 suffering came from towns {total area of more ‘than | square miles. i | The city of Erzincan, 550 miles | east of Istanbul, with a population | of 60,000, was nearly obliterated, according to reports. Tn other towns the streets were strewn with dead and injured. | Such cities as Samsun and Ordu. tobacco centers on the Black Sea coast; Amasia, Sivas, Tokat, Refahive and Yozgad were reported to have suffered iragic ruin. ties in all were feared high. Authorities, seeking 0 restore communications, compile casualty lists and get relief to the enormous quake area, said they feared the earthquake had been one without precedent. For hours early yesterday, the earth had shaken. Imstruments of the Government seismological station here were broken for the first time since their installation.

Thousands Destitute

Amidst Blizzards

LONDON, Dec. 28 (U. P).-—An earthquake that tumbled entire towns in ruins and left thousands destitute in the midst of blizzards was described today in reports from Turkey, i

put the number of dead over a wide | area of eastern Turkev above 10.000. Villages over an area of 4000 square miles, only a part of the

disaster zone, were in ruins, acecord- |

ing to these dispatches. damage was done in seven towns ats least—Samsun. Amasia, Sivas, Tokat, Refahive and Yozgad. (The United Press Istanbul cor-| respondent reported that Erzincan. larger than anv of these towns. with a population of 60000, was nearly | wiped out.) | Reports were still to come of the extent of a quake suffered in | Tangiers, on the African Coast. 2500 miles to the west of the Turkish disaster zone. Paris reported that many had been killed and numerous houses crumbled in the Tangiers International Zone.

Light Quake Shakes

Monterey Peninsula

SALINAS, Cal, Dec. 28 (U. P) — A light earthquake shook the Monterey Peninsula today but no damage was reported. The shock was felt in Monterey, Carmel, Pacific Grove, Watsonville and Santa Cruz, at approximately 6:15 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), Tt shook houses and rattled dishes. but it was not sufficiently strong to crack windows or cause heavy damage. Hundreds of persons ran their homes and offices when a 10second temblor occurred at 1:29 p.m. (Indianapolis Time) yesterday in the Los Angeles area. Chandeliers and street light standards were loosenad and fell in Long Beach, where major damage resulted in 1933. The earthquake shook | hardest the Long Beach-Compton-Watts area.

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SWEDES, BRITONS SIGN PACT IONDON, Dec. 28 (U. P)— Britain and Sweden have signed a special war trade agreement designed to maintain Anglo-Swedish trade at a level as near normal as possible despite war, it was announced today.

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By HUBERT UEXKUELL United Press Stal Correspondent WITH THE FINNISH ARMY. SALLA FRONT, Dec. 28 Finnish patrols are harassing Russian troops behind the Russian lines all the way from the Salla front to the great Russian White Sea base of Kanda- | laksk, 45 miles across the frontier. | I was told last night in a dramatic interview with Gen. Kurt Willenius,

Finnish commander in chief on the |

Mid-Finland and northern fronts. Gen. Willenius talked as we drove |

through the white wilderness be- |

tween Rovaniemi, his general headquarters at the front. The car stopped suddenly. Two reindeer, clearly visible under the full moon, were in the road. They looked at us, bewildered, and trotted away into the dense woods. “The only great power which has

| been Russia,” the General said. “Our | men are now using Russian guns and we find them very useful.”

As we approached the front, the dir has never rid himself of his the Russians, they would never have auto overt natural instinct for membership in been able to make such fine weap. last night

General said: “I am afraid i can not

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Any reasonable hill today teemed with sleds and coast ers. Here's how it Jooked at Ellenberger and Ritter Aves.

HOPE WAR COST New Year’s Eve in City DEFEATS NAZIS, May Be

By LOUIS F. KEEMIE United Press Cable Faitor Swiss banking sources report that

the war is costing Germany about New Year's Day. It also savs bars ences with attorneys here today.

45 million dollars a day or $1,350, 000,000 a month, High French circles declare the estimate is conservative, The confidence of Allied victory so firmly voiced day after dav in Paris and London apparently is based on the fassumption that Germany's cash reserves will not last long at the present rate, With the Allied blockade almost

Press dispatches, in early estimates, | Wholly haliing German exports and |

imports, the Allies are convinced that the war will be won hy eco-| nomic privation and with little bloodshed.

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Balkans and the Black Sea, with a

possible Russian drive at the same |

time, directed toward Persia and | India as well as the Black Sea area. |

Troop Movements Reported |

Interesting reports are being cir- | culated in the Ttalian press about | troop movement in the ¥Yastern | Mediterranean region. The vara-| city of the reports and the reason | for circulating them may be open | to question. i However, reliable reports from | other sources have indicated unusual troop movements in the Bast | ern Mediterranean, with consider | able concentrations of Allied forces. | One Paris paper has referred to | the oil fields of Southeastern Burope and Asia Minor as “a strategic objective of capital importance” to the Allies. The Italian press reports said | that Russia is massing as many as | 700,000 men near the frontier of Afghanistan. In that area lies the [road into northern India through (the Khyber Pass and into Iran (Persia), with its oil fields and harbors on the Persian Gulf.

Two Motives Advanced

The reports added that British. Afghan and Iranian troops are reinforcing the frontier and are building fortifications. | Tondon attributes the Russian movements in East to German sources, tives are advanced:

reports of the Near Two mo-

The Germans hope by such prop- |

aganda to draw Russia into the war on the side of Germany by stirring up a threat to the Allied Empire in {the Near Bast. They further hope {to create a sufficient threat to oblige Britain to maintain in that area forces which might otherwise Le used elsewhere against Germany. The British count on the strong natural defense of the mountains to (guard the northern borders of India.

Feeling reasonably sure of thei Tragic (position in the west, the Allies are| American Association for the Adthe chance of a| Ordu, [desperate German thrust into the

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Allies Place German Bill at 45 Million Dollars a Day.

It looks like a quiet New Year's) Eve at home for Indianapolis None of the hotels are planning | Sunday New Year's celebrations and ! the public rum spigots will be turmed off, except from midnight to 1 a. m Monday. | That one hour was made possible (because the law savs -bars shall be allowed to stay open until 1 a. m.

shall not be open on Sunday. That | adds up to one hour, | However, a suit is being consid‘ered by the Wabash Valley Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association to en- | join the State Alcoholic Beverages Commission from enforcing the ban on New Year's beverage. Pierce Calton, executive secretary

Tells Girls How To Be Popular

By Neienee Service

COLUMBUS, O, Dec. 28

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vancement of Science was told today how girls can be popular with their bov friends. It was determined scientifically by Dr. T. M. Carter of Albion College on the basis of a poll of vouthful experts The tips: Keep your stockings Don't break dates with one man friend for another. Allow your escory to assist you in removing or putting on vour coat and in taking a seat at the dinner table. Don't talk baby talk Don't let vour slip show your dress. Don't call for a man hoping for a date Don't have runs in vour stockings. Don't ask a man to dance with vou And don't put on lipstick rouge in public.

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G.I. 0. MAY SUPPORT WHEELER IN'40 RACE

Leaders Assume President Will Not Run Again.

{| WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (U. P). —Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D Mont.), on the basis of the best available information, today appears likely to be the recipient of the support for the Presidency in 1940 that | John L. Iewis and his Congress of {Industrial Organizations gave President Roosevelt in 19386. The United Press was informed that C. 1. O. leaders, proceeding on the assumption that Mr. Roosevelt will not seek a third term, have looked over the Democratic Presidential aspirants and decided that Senator Wheeler is the best of the lot—although they are not yet [committed to his candidacy. Ane other and, from the C. I. O. standpoint, better candidate may enter the race at a future date.

nnish Troops Under Cover of Forest Use Russian Guns to Snipe at Reds.

| take you into the front line tonight.)

| The Russians have been more {tive than usual.” He got into another car and drove 'to the front lines. In half an hour the General returned. | “Sorry, but it is impossible for you to go to the first line tonight” he 'said. “My car was shot at and vou a Russian patrol.” On the wav back to Rovaniemi. a. “This war you see is a sort of mathematics. We have a certain troops. The Russians have a certain number. Whenever the Russians try to break through we must have enough men to halt them, which in this case means one battalion (perhaps 800 men) for each Russian division (perhaps

brains. Every one of our men must think for himself. The Russian sol- |

a crowd,

“The immense woods and vantage. : tain extent. But do not think this {war is childs play for us. Every hour our brave Finnish soldiers die | somewhere in the woods. “If this should go on for two vears Finland would no longer have | enough men. I think we have the

nations will take an interest in oar fight. But sympathy is not enough. We can not bomb the Russians with sympathy.” | Barlier vesterdayv, military authors! ities at the front had revealed to me their possession of ammunition of German origin, and a Finnish officer who had been at the front ior nine days without one night of real] steep had a machine gun which was| said to be of a lot of 68 captured!

using. “If the Americans had not helped

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of the association, said the suit may be filed in Marion County Coum Saturday. | Tf a restrainer is granted it would | make possible the sale of beer and liquors throughout Indiana on New Year's. Mr. Calton said the association is “planning” on fling the suit, | but that a definite decision would | not be reached until after confer= The proposed action would be against Omer Stokes Jackson, who | as attorney general, recently inter. preted an amendment to the State |

liquor laws as providing for a clos~ [to be found

ing on New Year's. | The amendment, intended to per | mit taverns to remain open be) (Continued on Page Three)

STATE TRAFFIC TOLL DECLINE

5 Per Cent Under '38 for First 11 Months of This Year.

Traffic deaths in Indiana for the first 11 months this year totaled 931, a reduction of 5 per cent from the figure for the same period last vear, State Safety Director Don F. Stiver reported today. Traffic fatalities in were 96, three less than for November, 1928. Deaths during the first 11 months of 1938 totaled 978. Fatalities resulting {rom col= lision of two or more vehicles led | the list with 364. Pedestrian | deaths were second, with 243, and | nan=-collision accidents involving | only one car Killed 123 persons. Railroad crossing accidents caused 97 deaths, and the striking of fixed objects by automobiles accounted for 63. Three persons died in accidents

November

| inv olving horse-drawn vehicles. The | murky past and made olive branches lowest death rate in counties with | ploam on its shores.

a population above 25000 was in| Allen County. Johnson County had | the lowest rate in counties between | 20000 and 25.000. | Indianapolis ranked third in the | death rate for cities above 70000 population. Evansville was first, Ft. Wayne second and Gary fourth,

CLEVELAND, Dec. 28 (U. P) =| City Relief Commissioner Frank G.| Jones, misisng after two men and a woman admited slugging him and | throwing him from his automobile, telephoned his wife today and said he was on his way home. A friend of the family, who related the information, said Mr, Jones did not | advise his whereabouts. | Authorities of suburban Parma | found Mr. Jones’ car wrecked by | the roadside, and a half mile be- | vond, found the two men and woman, all known to police, who said (hey had been with Mr. Jones. | Parma Police Chief Garry | Burczyk said that the two men and | the woman, when found walking along the rad, at first denied knowing of the wrecked car, but that when a probation department card |

long was found on John Evenden, one more than 18, yet she wore a white | ac- distances, of course, are to our ad- of the men, he admited striking gold wedding ring and a yellow | So is the climate to a cer- Mr. Jones, leaving him at the scene gold and diamond engagement ring. |

and taking his car. |

STEELS LEAD STOCKS

TO HIGHER GROUND,

New York stocks advanced today as the long-delayed year-end rally

right to expect that other civilized |gat under way in a more active

market. Steels, with advances of $2, led the gains. All the leading security groups joined the rise. Indianapolis hog prices fell 20 cents on welghts more than 160) pounds, 15 cents on weights less than 160 pounds. Chicago wheat prices drifted fractionally lower as more snow fell on the wheat belt, LOCAL COUPLE INJURED PLYMOUTH, Ind. Dec, 28.-—-U. 8. Inspector H. J. McBroom and Mrs, McBroom. Indianapolis, | were cut and bruised when their urned near Hamlet, Ind. | . They were treated at Holy Family Hospital, La Porte. : y

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RELIEF OFFICIAL SAFE MANIAC HUNTED IN

TEMPERATURE MAY TAKE DIP T0 10 TONIGHT

City Faces Third Day of Perilous Driving Seldom Equalied Here.

TEMPERATURES 2% 10am . BB “+ 3 11 a mn. . 23 ww 21 12 (moon) .. 23 “we 21 1pm... 2%

Temperatures that may plunge to 10 degrees tonight closed in on Indianapolis today and complicated the {| =» y . . . city’s job of digging out of (five and three-tenths inches lof snow, Tomorrow the city will enter the third day of hazardous driving which police say seldom has been equalled here, Exception for. those intersections treated with salt and cinders, or shoveled out by Street Department crews, all streets were slippery, calls

ing for the utmost caution by drive ers and pedestrians alike.

Autos Are Balky

Drivers today found it hard both to start their cars, and to stop them at slippery intersections, There were 29 accidents reported overnight in the City and three in the County

but none of them resulted in serious

Visits King, Expresses Hope [injury to any person Nation May Inspire Peace; (a. Fai creek Biv proves on ot: Host to Duce Jan. 4,

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rective trap for North Siders as {they came to work. One after ane (other, cars would labor up the icy

R , : MN. P.). i . hill while others remained safely ROME. Dec. 3 0. P.)—-His Holl 1 pind Soh ts mained 3

ness Pope Pius XIT expressed fer-| Three persons were reported dead vent hope today that peace would in the state Two boys were Killed make Italy “strong and great,” thus |in a coasting accident at Laurel, and

inspiring Europe's belligerents to» Woman died of heart disease bee lieved to have been induced by the seek “future accords for a new, tran- .

; s cold. quil and lasting order which is only within justice and Christian charity.” {

Burgdoerfer, 15, son of Mr. and The Pope's remarks were made | i . I's. rry Burgdoerfer, Dor= during a formal visit to the King | M1 Harry Burgdoerfer, and r

A | man Hannesey, 12, son of Mr. and and Queen of Italy at which the | ais. Thomas Hannesev Jr keynote was hope for peace M| They were coasting on the Washes

Europe and after which it was an- | i “Iai i : . i : gton St. hill over which Road 121 nounced that Premier Benito Mus= | j¢ routed. At the foot of the hill

solini would pay a visit of homage (ei sled rammed into the side of

& ie. | A car driven by Ashel Poe. He was We beseech God and the Virgin | not blamed for the accident.

(lo the august sovereigns, the Royal giantly of a broken neck and the Princes and Princess, the iustris | gannesey boy died a few hours

ous chief and members of the later i . : : | | later in Fayette Memorial Hospita Government of Italy,” the Pope said | » Connersville. ite]

(Ih a speech in Ambassador's Hall| mys Mary Moranz, 56. was found at the Quirinal Palace during cere- | aead in a snow drift near her home | monies not enacted since the middle in Warrick County, Death was said of the last century, by the coroner to be due to an attack of heart disease, possibly ine duced by the cold.

Toboggan Slides Popular

Vacationing Indianapolis school nd college pupils gathered by the wusands at city parks and golf courses for winter sports. H. W. Middlesworth, City Recree ation director, said that the toboge gan slides in Coffin Park and the sled tracks in the other parks wers crowded vesterday. At the same time police received numerous reports of children coasting in the streets and announced that violators would be ordered to attend traffic instruction school Sat« Murky Past Buried, He Says | urday morning. | Tce would have been ready on the

Wl ae - Xe hing have | ya rious park ponds for skating if yrrhenian Sea the it had not been for the snow. Now

it is unsafe for workers to sweep off the snow, the recreation departe

Two Boys On Sled Die The two sled victims were Vance

Stresses Happy Harmony “We beseech it 350 that peace may

inspiring those peoples which todav are fighting on the land and in the ,, skies and on the seas to seek future t accords for a new, tranquil and last ing order only to be found within justice anda Christian charity, “For the first time in decades the hand of a Roman Pontiff blesses in! this splendid hall as a sign of peace, | while both Italy and the Catholic | world rejoice. “After 10 years the happy har- | mony of the Church and the state is sealed anew,

«++ The two statues of Peter and Paul at the en- | : trance of this palace seem to rejoic Rv Suid: x ? AVES 3 y ee, : oa . 3 idleswort) 0 too, as if they had seen the dawn M Micdies N Ry v inted ou that winter sports have become

of new times.” . . more and more popular in the last The lavish ceremonies emphasiz- few: vears Pog "

ay eo of close relations | Since it is forecast that tems p he Church and the Ital " 4 " ou " : state followed persistent re. peratures probably will remain be (Continued on Page Three) low freezing for sometime, there a — TaN | should be several more days and Jights of park sports Mr. Middles= worth urged all citizens to particie pate. | Coasting good in Brookside, Ellenberger, Rhodius, Christian and Garfield Parks and at the Riverside

RED ROSE MURDE | (Continued on Page Three)

Nude Body Found in Vacant BOSTON'S CALENDARS Lot; Believed Well-to-Do. DISAGREE WITH F. D. R,

BOSTON, Dec. 28 (U. P.) Ale though President Roosevelt has ine dicated that he will proclaim Nov, 21, 1940-—the third Thursday—as Thanksgiving Day, a survey showed today that every calendar pube tished here carries the holiday as Nov, 28—the traditional last Thurse day. All six New England states, where Thanksgiving originated, celebrated the last Thursday this year.

DOCTOR WIPES SLATE CLEAN OF ALL DEBTS

| HOUSTON, Mo.. Dec. 28 (U. P). |—Dr. J. R. Womack, who has prac= [ticed medicine here 46 years, wiped the slate clean today and told his [patients to consider all accounts [paid in full, | If anyone wants to pay an old bill the money will be given to char [ity, he said. More than $3000 was {due the doctor.

AUTHOR OF 40 NOVELS DIES IN LONDON AT 62

LONDON, Dec. 28 (U. P.). Mrs. Charlotte Annie Kimberley, 62, known as the queen of melodrama, died yesterday. She wrote more than 40 romantic novels. Her works, particularly popular just before the World War, included “Little Gray Home in the West” and “Sisters in Sin,”

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28 (U. P), The nndy body of an attractive blond girl was found here early today lying on an artificial red rose in a vacant lot. She had been stabbed six times and slashed about the face and head. Her right collar bone was broken. Dirt stained her hands, knees and | soles of her feet, Identification was impossible immediately. ! Police believed the girl was not

There was another diamond ring jon her right hand’ and near the | (body was a five-inch yellow gold butterfly brooch. The jewelry led to the conclusion she was well-to-do. Police believed it would help in their efforts to identify her and find her slayer. They believed she may have died at the hands of a sex maniac whose advances she resisted. There was no explanation for the red rose. It evidently had been ripped from the girl's dress and placed under her right hip as the final gesture of the slayer before he fled.

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SPEE PROTEST DENIED

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 28 (U. P). --Argentina notified Germany today that the internment of the 1039 officers and crew of the scuttled Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was legal. Argentina thus rejected Germany's protest against the internment,