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ECEMBER 29, 1939,

Entered as Second-Class at Postothes,

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FINAL HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

ON NEW YEARS NPS’ AWAITED

Cox to Act on Suit Filed by Tavern Operators to invalidate Ban. |

Court Judge Earl R. Cox Was 0 Tule late (oday as to whether celebrators will be able to buy liquor for more than one hour on New Year's Day The question in dispute was placed before his court today in a suit to enjoin the Alcoholic Beverages Commission from enforcing the order prohibiting Jan. 1 liquor sales. It was filed by Ravmond F. Cassel. Teme Haute tavern keeper, and, Pierce Calton. executive secretary of the Wabash Valley Retail Liquor Dealers Association. The suit actually was froth of an opinion by Attorney General Omer Stokes Jackson barring New Year's liquor sales. The opmion was used as a basis for the subsequent ABC ruling.

Ruling Rinds Barnhart

Al the hearing on the suit, ever, State Excise Director A. Barmhait injected a by testifving, “Tt is and that of the Alcoholic Beverages Commission that the LegisJature tended that liquor should be sold on Jan. 1. He added that his order baming tire les was issued because the Commission was bound by the Attormey General's opinion. The month-old dispute turns upon the meaning of one six-line passage in the now-famous “House Rill 166,” the 1838 Alcoholic Beverage Act The law question, of liquor

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is interpreted, without &S permitting the sale between midnight, Sunday, and 1 a. m. Monday Judge Cox, after hearing arguments from plamiifl’'s attomeys and former State Supreme Court justice James Hughes, now a deputy attorney general defending the ban. declared. “It is obvious that amendments to the bill affecting New Yeers sales were drannm hastily It looks Jike some of the drafters of bill imbibed of some of the Spirits which are regulated in the bill

Passage Disputed

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DONATES STANLEY STEAMER

WATERTOWN, Mass, Dec. 29 «U P).-Fred H. Marriott, who drove & Stanley Steamer more than 120 miles an hour on the sands of Daytona B ja. in 1906 to & record which still stands in that class sald today he would present the racing cars engine to the Smithsonian Institution &8t Washin

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TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Movies ......8 ¥ Mrs. Ferguson 14 Obituaries ... 16 Pegler ..vave 18 Pyle 13 Questions .... 13 Radio ..... 15 Mis. Roosevelt 13 Scherrer ..... 13 3 Serigl Sterv.. 19 Society ......8 9 Sports ....10, 11 State Deaths. 18

BOOKS susvass Clapper Comics 19 Crossword .... 18 Curious World 19 Editorials .... 14 Rinancial 15 Firnn 13 Forum In Imdpls... Inside Indpls. Jane Jordan.. Johnson

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Canada’s famous Dionne quintuplets, shown here in party dress to meet King George and Queen

Elizabeth on the royal tour last summer, may be reunited with Papa and Mama in a specially

mansion.

MERCURY HEADS FOR 15 TONIGHT

5-Degree Rise Nips Snow; Four Hurt at Bedford In Sled Accident.

TEMPERATURES 23 11 a. mh. 24 12 (moon) 24 1pm Au 2pm 2

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up ome in they mal as degrees 1othe Weather Bureau warmed jumped five degrees Wamand 1 pm he temperature rice bevond Mees.

Temperatures pushed today low

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naianapolis ship 10 night The mearcan to 29 between The PIOBRBIY NE ding the aftemoon, As (he mercury passed yesterday's peak of 26. the mow and ice melted somewhal, bul not enough 10 relivve araffic predlemt or mar winter sports. The Bureau said there will be No Moe MOw tonight.

Hort in Accidents Persons were reported inred in trafic accidents and falls oan sappery pavements, The State Highway Commission Ald HAT Y0AAS In the Seymour and neennes were m ® hazardous condition and traffic was moving slow A light how was reported Mm both distiers Four young people = Tere IN critical condition their sleds collided a there The accident was when

to occured temporarily obseured

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Redford today afte hill neal reported moon by ®

on have the Was cloud Harold Haley, 14. and Maxine Anqerson, 14. both of R. R : Bedford, were suifering from fractured skulls, while mpjuries of David iy 18. of Oolitic, and Dales Chenault, 18, of R. R. 2 Bediord. had not heen termined The latter two were serious conail however, Strack by Struck by

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car here he Was oYOSSING eel 10th and Paca Sty, vesterday, Thomas May, 50, of 646 Wright St. was critically jured about the head Police said auto whi May was anven by Claude ton, 28 of 10 W. Vey who was driving west on St Oflicer Rov Conaway. MN of 321 Kenyon St. received wo fractured bs today when slipped on the ie In the rear Police BeadnaYrers He fell the runnin © board of his ca

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REDUCES RANKING OF 31 DETECTIVES

Board Acts for Economy: Firemen Promoted.

Thirty-one reductions mM rank in the Detective Department were ordered today by the Safety Board in conformity with provisions of the 1940 budge! The reductions were made on the basis of recommendations submitted to the Board by Police Chiet Michael F. Morrissey and Detective Chief Fred Simon No changes were made above the rank of sergeant. ILeRov J. Keach, Safety Board president, said that the Board was not yet preparad to announce changes in rank among the high officers of the Department, The Board also made eight promotions in the Fire Department in accordance with recommendations of Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy. Sixteen sergeants and six acting sergeants in the detective depart. ment wii! retain their present rank, at salaries of $2292.50 a year. Three detective sergeants have been Yeassigned as acting detective sergeants; 11 sergeants and one act mg sergeant have been requeed to patroimen at 3204728 a year: and AIRNT sergeants and eight actin sergeants have been reduced to actINE Investigators at $2100 a year. Those retaining their present rank of acting sergeants sre Thomas A. Aulls, Ralph Rader, William E Lahrman, T. J. McMahon, Howard Sanders and Allan Steger Those retaining their ranks a: sergeant are Noble Allen. Russell B. (Continued on Page Three)

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F D. R. Dodges Another Suge

WASHINGTON. NU Newspaper men Lo wished President Roosevelt “an eventful 1940.”

The expression of good wishes failed to draw from the Presiden anv sign of his political intentons. The President replied bv asking the newspaper men why thev were so equivocal. He then commented that it was very sweet of them to extend good wishes and in turn wished them a Happy New Year.

BELL NAMED TO TREASURY POST

F. 0. R. ives cares Man Job as Undersecretary To Succeed Hanes.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (U.P) President Roosevelt announced todav that Daniel W. Bell, veteran Treasury official and for several vears Acting Budget Director. will be the new Undersecrstary of the Trea sum My. Jom W effective private

uecead vesigned 10 re-enter

Rell Hanes, who has Jan. 1 in orcer business, At present Ny. Bell to the Secretary df the Treasum and is in charge of fiscal matters Queh as financing. He ix & government career man of lang services DAavIing started ac an ordinary clerk Mr. Rooseveli «aid that he did not balieve Mr. Bell would lose his civil SArvice status in accepung the new position, My. Bell if 88 and was bom In Minois. He became a cdrk in the Treasury at the age of 20. During the World War he served six months overseas in the tank corps, then remed 1 the Department and won various promotions. Im i931 he was appointed Commissioner of Ace counts and Deposits When Budget Director lewis W Douglas resigned in September, 1934 Mr. Bell became Acting Director of the Budget. Im March, 1935 he was appointed Assistant to the Secretanm the Treasary, but continued as Acting Budget Director until the appointment of Director Harold D Smith April 15. Retiring Undersecretary Hanes proposed that Congress make Mn Bell permanent Undersecretary of the Treasun

KEROSENE CARRIES DEATH TO GIRL. 12

RUFFALO. N.Y. Dec. 2 UU. PM) James Ctlotto, 53. sterted a fire in the living room stove with keroene. Fe pilied a little of the Jammeable fivnid, and it irekled under ihe door into 12-vear-old Marx Celotto’s bearoom A tongue of flame puddle of kerosene and a moment later Mury's room WAS afire. Trapped, she died before her father cond rescue her

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U. S. WARSHIP DESIGNS BURN

Sabotage Is Hinted After Fire Spreads Rapidly in Destroyer Plant.

REVERE. Mass. Dec. 20 (U.P) ire early today destroved valuable patterns and casting designs for sev. eral dgestrovers now under construction. Investigators suggested saboeure may have started it, The fire spread quickly through the plant of the Revere brass founwhich is turning out special castings for destrovers being built at the Bath, Me, Iron Works, to the exclusion of all other work. Fire Chief Thomas J. NMaeCarrick asked state police and the State Fire Marshal to investigate the possibility of sabotage because of the rapidity with which the fire spread through the 1';-story frame struc mare, A curtain of water spraved between the pliant and numerous oil ENRT beside” the Chelsea River nearest of which were 200 feet from the flaming building, prevented a conflagration Investigators said the fire start ed In a large oven used for drving casting cores. Coal is fed into the oven through doors rom outside the building, though the cores are inserted from the inside The possibility that mflammables or explosives might have been sorted from the outside was gested by firemen, though night natehman Edward J. O'Brien said he was only 20 feet Drom the oven when it burst inte flames following an explosion. It also was said that gases might have accumulated m the oven, though none ever had in many Years use

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LAKE COUNTY RELIEF QUIZ REPORT IS DUE

Six Indictments Returned in 6-Month Inquiry.

GARY. Ind. Dec. 0 A Lake County Grand Jury which has completed a six=month investigation of poor relief administration was expected to submit a written report of its findings this afternoon The report was 10 have been sued earlier today but the Jury held another conference fore releasing it Six persons already are under in aictment, the Jatest being Carl J Etter, chiel deputy in the North Township Trustees office. Hammond, and Hyman Goodman, Ine diana Harbor grocer. who were charged with conspiring to file false claims on poor relief orders Ald under indictment are Mis Mary Grace Welis Schaal, former Calumet Township trmstee, chargad with bribery, and Dr. Anthony A Forszt, Bast Chicago optometrist: Nichols Roknich, Gary clothier, and Frank Schneider, Hammond depart. ment store manager. all charged with filing false claims

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Dafoe Resigns

{ance at

Guardian Post but Will Remain As Their Doctor.

CALLANDER, Ont. Dec. 29 (U P.) The Dionne quintuplets, it appeared today, are going to live with the folks—Papa and Mama Dionne and their seven sisters and brothers The wav was paved for reunion of the famous little girls with their less

(famous family with the resignation of Dr.

Alan Rov Dares, wire brought them into the world more than five vears ago, from their Board of Guardians. Dr. Dafoe will quing’ physician A lengthy Oliva Dionne and

continue as the agreement between the doctor pro-

house for the entire Dionne family the building of a school house near. by where the girls and their sisters and brothers mav study, and the right of Mr. and Mrs. Dionne to direct the quing religious and schol

| astic education, under supervision of

the Ontario Government. Hepburn Is

The agreement also provided for the withdrawal bv Mr. Dionne of two actions against Dr. Dafoe which now are before the courts. One sought a declaration of monies received bv the physician in connec {jon with advertising concerming the girls, and the other was a libel action based on Dr. Dafoe's appeara Saints and Sinners Club initiation in New York where he was labelled a “doctor of litters.”

Agveeable

Present plans call for construction ||

of “grand mansion,” as the quins call jit. early next spring. Tt is expected the family will be together under its roof before next fall The aguintuplets at home since thev As wards of the Xing. reared apart and even ents could visit them specified times Although the agreement ject to approval by the Ontario Government, Premier Mitchell F Hepbum indicated today at his Yarmouth home that he will accept the doctor's resignation from the Board of Guardians. Feud Apparently Ends

“If Dr the Government will aceept it.” Premier said. “It a matter tirely for Dr. Dufoe to decide. One thing is certain, however, Dr. Dafoe will continue as the guing’ physician The babies would have died in infancy if it had not been for him. I cannot too highly praise his work.” The Premier said he “had heard nothing” concerning the agreement He said that "as far as I know” the guins will remain at the Dafoe Nursem unless Dr. Dafoe recom mends that thev rejoin their famiy.” Even would

the

not lived infants nere parat

have were thev their only

ic sub-

Dafoe wants to withdraw, the en-

the Government carefully consider the welfare of the responsibility.” The agreement apparently ended fend of long standing between Dafoe and Papa Dionne. Their disagreement extended even to the choice of nurses for the girls, who lived in a specially built home near. the modest Dionne house

AUTO INDUSTRY ENDS ITS “10TH BEST YEAR’

29 (U.P) Auntomobile production for 1939 ends todav with the industry recording the 10th best vear in its history and the position of inventories and unAlled orders indicating a healthy outlook for 1940 The last production dav of 1939 finds manufacturers tarning out cars and tracks at near-capacity

STEAMER WITH CREW OF 30 IN DISTRESS

BOSTON, Dee. 29 (U, PH -—The Jugoslavian steamer Bor, 2518 tons, radioed her Boston agents today she was in distress off Rermuda with her decks smashed. The ship carries a crew of 30 Al the same time the Roston beam trawler Villa Nova radioed Coast Guard division headquarters this afternoon that she had reached the disabled and leaking Boston fishing aragger Maris Stella and was stand ing bv. The Maris Stella earlier had sentout an 8S. 0. 8

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DETROIT. Dec

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Polish Youth Holds Up Radio Studio; Goes on Air Until Mike Switch Is Pulled

FALL RIVER. Mass. Dec 22 (U P.) —Though one had to understand both Portuguese and Polish to know it, there was great iin on the air waves last night. A highly excited young man burst into the main studio of Station WSAR while the Portuguese hour was on the air. He held his right hand in his coet pocket and outined aprinst (he cloth was the contour of what evervane thought was a pistol, To Manuel Rodrigues, ceramonies and director string ensemble, he sad: “Keep quiti—I'm going to speak for 10 or 15 minutes in the inter. ests of Poland.” Five nomen singers emitted various sounds of acute distress, rangmg from a scream to a gurgle, and, with Mr, Rodrigues. backed against the wall, mtimidated by what they thought the man had in his coat: pocket,

of the

master of

| The orchestra kept right on playing, and the man addressed the taterophone in Polish The orchestra stopped and then the speaker stopped. He ordered everyone to remain silent and addressed the microphone again.

Mr. Rodrigues managed to reach a switch and pulled it to render the microphone “dead.” But the speaker didnt know it. He talked and talked. Slowly, for the studio andience, 15 minutes passed. There had been one interruption. When the program was broken. control room operator Orville Seagrave came in and the man said to him: “Move over in the corner or I'll shoot” After 15 minutes, Guitarist Manwel Ferreria said to the speaker: “May I get a drink of water?” “Sure.” said the speaker Mr. Ferreria went out and tele phoned police. | When police arrived, the man di«

the hidden object in his pocket at them and told them not to advance. A policeman loudly ordered the studio people to let him speak. Then, when he turned his head, the policeman laid him low with a fiving tackle, At the police station, he identified himself as Louis Belecki, 25. He said he had been impelled by a decire to “do something for my counuy.” He was charged with disturbing the peace. By the time Belecki wag carried out of the studio. 45 minutes of the Portuguese hour had expired. The five women were in noe condition to sing so the hour was completed with the plaving of phonograph records. Police discovered that the cone

rected

(tents of Beleckis coat pocket was

not a pistol, but & miniature croquet mallet Belecki is to be given & mental examination,

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Yurlish Quake

Toll Mounting

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The map shows the large towns in Turkey which were hardest hit

by the carthquake,

New Shocks

| Toll of 100,000 Feared

vides for the building of a large All Casualty Figures Yaken With Foseive: Pending Official on

Reported;

Check: Whole Villages Disappear.

ISTANBUL, Turkev, Dec. 29 « told of frightful destruction and

and villages

lin the center of in the disaster might reach 100,000. All casualty figures were accepted with reserve here, however, pending an official check. The new quakes were 1e at Giresun, on the coast, TA ey Turhal and Malatya, 180 miles inland. Light shocks continued at! Erzincan. | Fight thousand parsons were reported dead at Erzincan and the official inquiry commission report said casualties in the entire province were tragic. It ws reported there were 1500 dead among 1000 homes demolished at Zara. (A dispatch from Istanbul to the | Giornale D'Ttalia in Rome reported there were 120000 dead in Erzincan province alone. The city was completely in ruins, the dispatch said.) Three survivors were reported among the 350 people of the village of Tomuk. Some villages were reported to have disappeared almost without trace | A civil hospital, a military hospital and a school at FErzincan| were obliterated, reports said, and bodies of 90 cadets and 10 officers were found in the ruins of the militarv academy. Twelve cities and towns and 80 villages were reported partly or ale most wholly in ruins over an area | of more than 25000 square miles from the Black Sea coast southward. Fires burned still at many places, in some where crashing buildings broke gas pipes. Some people died in the Names, reports said, and fires seriously hampered rescue workers, Aside from the death toll, the tens of thousands of Injured were in many cases without medical z2id and hundreds of thousands of persons were homeless in sub-zero cold with. out food Erzincan city and province, the city with 60.000 people and the province with 160,000, seemed hardest hit. Erzincan was nearly destroved bv an earthquake in 1784 First comprehensive dispatches from Giresun, on the Black Sea, indicated additional heavy loss of life in that area Late reports, lacking official con(C ontinued on Page ‘Thee

uU ~Renewed shocks were

Tering in devastated cities,

Reports from an official inquiry commission which reached Erzincan, the devastated zone,

100,000 TROOPS STRIKE AT FINNS

_Indioated that the ¢ death

Army Hammers

ers Renew Attacks.

BULLETIN HELSINKI, Dee. 29 (U,

in the battle of Kelja, raged from Tuesday night noon Wednesday, an official communigue announced tonight,

By WEBB MILLER United Press Sta®® Correspondent HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. 29 P) Russia threw an army

end of the Finnish

Line today in a new attempt

Russian planes over the front

re. ported in the eastern Turkish ail zone today as official reports formed as soon as possible.” towns

toll

Mannerheim Line: Russian Bomb-

PP.) Finnish troops killed 600 Russians which te

estimated at 100,000 men at the western | glizabeth cl Mannerheim to! the Warspite, break through and crush resistance. Queen Elizabeth. Appearance of big squadrons of 1913 or put

3 BRITONS DEAD

IN TORPEDOING OF BATTLESHIP

Victim of Nazi U-Boat Off Scotland's Coast Proceeds | Safely on Course.

LONDON, Dec. 23 (U. P) The Admiralty announced today that three persons were Killed in a Gere man submarine attack on an une named British battleship | The Admiralty admitted “somé$ | damage,” but said the vessel, hows. ever, is “safe and proceeding on her | cone y | (In Berlin Command in

the German High a communique said that a German U-boat had tore 'pedoed a British battleship of the Queen Elizabeth class off the west CORSt of Scotland.) “A torpedo attack has been made a British battleship by a U-boat, Some damage was caused,” the Ade | miralty announced | “Three men were killed. The next of Kin of the casualties will be in-

Earlier the Admiralty and other {British naval circles had said that they had: no knowledge regarding the German submarine attack. It was pointed out that battle ships are designed to withstand such attacks and that because of their multiple compartments and anti-torpedo bulges it is virtually impossible for a single torpedo to sink one It was believed here that the ate tacking * submarine escaped, but since a battleship. when at sea, almost invariably is escorted it was presumed that the U-boat was forced to flee after firing one tore pedo Another sea war Known today when it was an(nounced that the British ‘trawler | Resercho struck a mine and sank [off the east coast of England. Nine members of the crew, all uninjured, were picked up by a British tanker;

Five Ships of Class

‘Named by Germany

BERLIN, Dec. 29 (U. P.).—A Ger. {man High Command communique said today that a German submae rine west of Scotland had torpedoed a British battleship of the Queen

casualty becams

ass. The Queen Elizabeth clas: includes the Valiant and ths All were built in 1914 and have a displaces

ment of 30,600 tons. Each carries

the Finns on the alert for a possible from 1100 to 1200 men.

Russian attempt to land

suicide

Battleships of the Queen Eliza«

squads by parachute to blow up vital beth class are about 600 feet long

bridges and cut communications

Al the same time, bombing planes flagship.

renewed activity,

Karja, on the south coast.

ed at Hanko. Parpoo and Lohja. Twe Explosions Heard

There was an air tween 11:30 p. m. 12.05 a. m. today

vesterday

was inch bombed and air alarms were sound- aircraft

alarm here beand Police and others

and each is equipped (0 serve as a They carry eight 15-inch eight six-inch guns, and four= guns, three pounders. anti= and machine guns. The | vessels carry four airplanes each [with catapult attachment The battleships Malaya ang Brae ham also are of the Queen Eliza« beth class. Each was built at a cost of approximately $15,000.000.

UNS,

heard two heavy explosions outside Fach vessel was reconditioned bee

the city, Kotka. on the coast

heavily

For three weeks the Russians had 2 driven vainly at the eastern end of the Mannerheim Line, on Lake La. fdoga,

in an attempt to tum

( Finnish left wing.

INFANTILE PARALYSIS BARRIER’ REPORTED

Key May Rest in Glands or Diet, Scientists Told.

Bw Neienve Sevivice COLUMBUS, O, Dec 9 The kev to infantile paralysis prevention may be held by either glands or diet, the American Association for the Advancgment of Science was told here today Dy. Albert Sabin of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and the Childrens Hospital Research Foundation, reported that a natural barrier to passage of the disease-causing virus is induced by normal growth and maturing. Researches leading to discovery of the virus barrier were made by Dr Sabin in association with Dr. Peter K. Olitsky at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York City No wav of creating the virus bare rier which protects against attacks of infantile paralysis has been discovered, but gland and dietetic factors “are being investigated for effect in accelerating or re-| tarding the development of this re- | sistance,” Dr. Sabin said in an interview, In his formal address. he merely described the virus barrier, stating that while “this mechanism may be only one among a number of others which operate in protecting the ma- | jor portion of the animal and human population from disabling and fatal disease of the nervous system, | it is especially interesting because | it lends itself to the Kind of experimental manipulation by which one may attempt to change susceptible individuals into resistant ones.”

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POLICE CAR SKIDS ON EMERGENCY CALL

Jesse Sims, 55 of 1739 Ludlow St, fell as he got off a streetcar today at St. Clair and Illinois Sts, and Police Car 10 was told by radio to mvestigate,

As Car 10 reached the scene it

"skidded on the ice and crashed into

the back of another streetcar. It had to be towed to the police] garage. Patroimen William Hague | | and Louis Mikesell were uninjured. | Mr. Sims’ wrist was sprained,

Today.

lian Isthmus front, struck at the Finns’ right wing.

It seemed possible that this fight

would develop into a crucial one, Crucial Battle Possible

Shock troops were supported

75 miles east of Helsinki, was bombed, apparently

the after a long bombardment

of points all along the 60-mile Karethe Russians

tween 1925 and 1933 at a cost of approximately $5,000,000 The Queen Elizabeth class ships have a speed of about 25 knots and radius of action of about 4400 miles. During reconditioning. the battleships were fitted with “bulges” as protection against submarine ate tack. The internal protection of the ships was regarded by naval experts as good

COPENHAGEN, I Denmark. 29 (U. P). — The newspaper lingske Tidende reported today that 15 persons were lost and only {we saved when the Danish steamship Hanne was mined off the east coast of England vesterday. The deaths

Dee, Ber-

reserves, estimated in all in excess made a total of 115 Danish seamen

of 109,000. The reserves were

astride the main Leningrad-Viborg

Road. The Russians repairing the railroad, whjch when they voluntanly

had succeeded

the Finns tore

first few davs of the war. The Finns’ to the Gulf {flanked by

of Finland. the heavy coastal

10-inch guns farmed inland

Knowledge that

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Charge Soviet Fliers Fire on Own Troops

HELSINKI. Dec. 290 (U. P) The official news agency today issued a sensational dispatch =alleging that Russian airplanes had strafed their own lines on Arctic fighting front. Shooting and shouting were heard among the Russidn soldiers near the Kemi River, it was said. The implication was that the Red Army forces were in revolt in the cold, snow-covered battleground, but neutral observers had no confirmation of the report, There have been repeated-—and often misleading — stories from Finnish sources regarding the conduct of the Red Army since the invasion began. The same Finnish sources which today claimed Soviet fliers turned their guns on their own troops following an unsuccessful drive, have repeatedly said that the Russian troops were poorly clad and near revolt. Previous charges have been made that Soviet officers posted machine guns behind their men to foree them to advance and prevent retreat.

in Leningrad-Viborg up retired to the | Mannerheim defense line during the

NRNt wing is anchored It i batteries on Koivisio Island, some with These guns could he hurried up the stairs s0 as to enfilade (he Russian line in event of an advance the guns were a menace was the explanation for de-

the

Killed mn _the wai War.

LEG BROKEN IN IN RACE TO AID GRANDCHILD

Five-vear-ol ld Early Sansing brushed against a stove today in the upstairs of her home and her clothes caught fire. She screamed and her mother, Mrs. Lula Sansing and her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Griffin, to help her, The grandmother fell and her left Jeg was broken. Her mother reached the child and beat out the flames with her hands, receiving burns hers self. The child was badly burned on her back. All three were taken to (| City Hospital

STOCKS IRREGULAR: LOCAL HOGS LOWER

By UNITED PRESS New York stocks turned rn mn afternoon trading today, followse ing extension of yesterday's gains during morning transactions. Some highgrade issues were aided by ree [investment demand. Wheat gains ranged from {race tions to 1 cent at Chicago. Hogs weighing more than 160 pounds dipped 5 cents at Indianapolis, Other weights sold 15 cents lower,

‘GONE WITH WIND’ OPENS HERE JAN. 26

“Gone With 1 the. Wind" 1s coming to Indianapolis for a road-show en= pagement at Loew's beginning Jam 26. it was announced today. It will be shown either three times a day. Loew's management reports that 200 to 400 phone calls a day have been received in the past two weeks, asking the playing date of David O. Selznick's $4,000,000 epic screen version of Margaret Mitchell's bess seller, The picture has a playing time of three hours and 45 minutes. It will not be shown at popular prices, the | distributors have announced, ab least until 1941.

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