Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1939 — Page 1

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VOLUME 51—-NUMBER 252

CENTER TWP.'S NEW ATTORNEY

Relief Coal Cost Is Cut $10,000 a Year: 4 Investigators Resign Jobs.

Appointment of John G. McNutt as attorney for the Center Township Trustee, effective Jan. 1, was announced today by Trustee Henry | Mueller. { Mr. McNutt, a member of the County Tax Adjustment Board, succeeds Leo X. Smith, who resigned following a relief inquiry by the Grand Jury in which Thomas Quinn, former trustee, and four others were | indicted. The job pays $1500 a year. | Mr. Mueller also announced the resignation of four investigators, an] investigation into filing of false! claims for relief and an agreement with coal dealers to save the township $10,000 annually on relief coal.

One Position Abolished

The investigators who resigned | were Miss Helen Carroll, chief su-| pervisor; Mrs. Katherine Smock,| Miss Josephine Deery and Mrs. | Catherine Stadtmiller. The position held by Miss Carroll | was abolished. Miss Carroll drew a salary of $165 a month while the three investiga - | tors were paid $115 plus $20 a month fof auto expenses. Mr. Mueller explained that the coal dealers had agreed at a meeting Thursday night to reduce the price of Indiana fourth vein eoal from $4.75 to $4.40 a ton because of the volume of relief business, approximately 5000 tons a month during the winter season. Chiseling Claimed

The trustee claimed that investigations of the relief applications already had disclosed approximate- | ly 10 relief chiselers. He said that these cases would be prosecuted soon after the first of the year, Three indictments charging official neglect and accepting bribes from grocers were returned against Quinn bv the Grand Jury Dec, after a six weeks’ relief probe. He has pleaded guilty to official neglect, but delayed his plea on the pribery charges. Four others were indicted with him on charges of filing false claims and obtaining money under false pretenses.

All "at Liberty on Bond

They were John Barton Griffin, | Quinn’s son-in-law and operator of milk routes for two dairies which received a large share of the trustee's milk business; Frank Bluestein, grocer who received relief orders: Dan R. Anderson, Quinn's campaign manager last year and operator of two ‘‘favorite” relief groceries, and John Neenan, former order writer in the trustee's office. All five are at liberty under bond. Criminal Court Judge Dewey E. Myers today overruled Anderson's motion to quash the indictments against him. Arraignment was set for next Thursday. Arguments on a motion to quash the indictments against Griffin are to be heard by Special Judge Omar O’Harrow of Martinsville Jan, 9,

LAKE COUNTY RELIEF PROBE REPORT DUE.

GARY, Ind. Dec. 30 (U. P.). — A delayed report of the Lake County

Grand Jury, which has spent several ‘have heen flowing in at the rate of |

months investigating poor relief administration in three townships, was expected to be made today. The report had been anticipated yesterday. It was indicated that the new Grand Jury, which begins its session Tuesday, will continue to investigate the relief situation.

TOMMIES DROP GUNS TO FIRE SNOWBALL

WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDI- | TIONARY FORCES IN FRANCE, Dec. 30 (U, P.).—British put down threw snowballs at

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each other, |

Unlicensed Drivers Face Arrest

The State House auto

Thousands of unlicensed drivers |

face the risk of being arrested if tk ey drive their cars next week. The State Motor License Bureau estimated today only about half of the State's million drivers purchased their operator's licenses before the deadline at noon today,

PENSION CHECKS TO START FEB. |

U. S. Receives Applications From Those Fast 65 at Rate of 500 Daily.

By LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—New Year's Day will be a landmark in the history of social but the real red-letter day for those on the receiving end will come a month later.

For on Thursday, Feb. 1, postmen will distribute to thousands of retired American workmen past 65, or to their survivors, their first month-

security,

ly insurance checks from the United

States Treasury.

A series of articles explaining ing important changes in the Social Security Act starts Monday in The Times,

Applications for the pensions about 500 a day lately, and after New Year's the number is expected to run around 2000 daily. The Social Security Board has estimated that by next December old-age insur-

912,000 persons. The pensions won't just turn up

license office

drivers crowd windows to

Governor M. Clifford Townsend's | recent moratorium, extending the deadline license plates until March 1, did not affect drivers’ licenses, “Motorists found without driver's licenses after Monday will be sub-

for

Home Burns As Firemen

Debate Bill

HAVERSTRAW, N. Y. Dec. 36 (UTP) .—A house burned to the ground today while firemen of two villages stood by arguing about a $400 bill. The Fire Departments of Haverstraw and West Haverstraw each answered the alarm, thinking the blaze might be in their territory, but when they found it was in an unincorporated area between them, they just watched it, tried to keep the smoke out of their eves, and argued. The Board of Trustees of the villages has been trying for two vears to collect $400 from Haverstraw Township on grounds their firefighting apparatus was damaged in putting out fires in the township outside their limits. It was the second time a building has burned while firemen watched. The Fairhaven Hotel burned down Sept. 11 with a loss of $35,000. Fire Chiefs of both villages said they had “orders” to keep away from fires in the unincorporated area. Four families had lived in the house.

BRANDT KEEPS POST | Barnhart to the Lake County Tav-

ance money will be going out to WITH WORKS BOARD

automatically. Application must be made—in person-—at one of the 400 field offices of the Social Security Board. Under the original Social Security Act of 1235 these ‘monthly checks would not have started rolling out until two years later—1942.

soldiers In amendments passed last August, President, their rifles today and Congress changed this and numer- to the Board today by Mayor RegFor inald H. Sullivan and abandoned his |

ous other features of the act.

Abandons Retirement Plan; | Three Others Named. |

| Louis C, Brandt, Works Board accepted reappointment

A heavy snowfall insured a quiet one thing, it put off the scheduled dream of retiring into private life | New Year celebration for the Brit- [January increase in the wage and at 70. |

ish troops—as far as the war is con- [payroll taxes, freezing these at 1 |

The Mayor also named Tino J.

cerned—and work on fortifications per cent each until 1943, when they Poggiani, State Highway Engineer,

was slackened. Scottish {roops prepared to celebrate the New Year in | traditional style with plenty of haggis (Scottish pudding) whiskey and bag-pipe playing. BRITAIN TO CALL MORE LONDON, Dec. 30 (U. P.).—Sev-| eral new classes will be called to the| colors early in the new year, it was| learned today. The number of} classes and their ages was not re-| vealed. Three classes already have been called up, aggregating 673,000. URUGUAY MAY WARN SHIP MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. 30 (U. P), — Uruguayan authorities were expected today to notify the 8268-ton German freight ship Ta-| coma, suspected of having been a} supply ship for the pocket battle-! ship Admiral Graf Spee, that it must leave within 24 hours or be interned. {

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LINDER WILL RETAIN COUNTY LAW POST

Detention Home and Infirmary Heads to Stay.

John L. Linder will be reappointed County Attorney for next

year and the heads of two county | the | Commissioners announced |

instifutions will be retained, County today. Mr. Linder has held the post

five years.

Institution heads to be renamed | onday are Harry Barrett, super- | intendent of the County Infirmary at Julietta, and Mrs. Anna E. Pick- |

ard, superintendent of the Detention Home, 548 W. New York St.

Three new County officials will be gress on “the state of the union” ceremonies in the first-floor corridor of 2 p. m. next Wednesday.

sworn in Monday during the Court House,

Walter C. Boetcher will be sworn

Bradshaw of Juvenile Court. Glenn B. Ralston, new County Auditor, office by Circuit Court Judge Earl R, Cox. Harry F. Hohlt will be sworn in Auditor Fabien W,

Biemer. Mr.

4, 5 Hohlt has been serving the unex- clined . 6, T|pired term of the late Dow W. Vor- speculation has ‘placed it in the the house. I neighborhood of $9,000,000,000,

hies.

|to succeed Charles E. Jefferson as a member of the Marion County Flood Control Board. He reap[pointed George T. O'Connor and {John W. Atherton as members of the City Plan Commission and | Zoning Board. | The appointements become effec{tive Monday. | The Mayor said he has not decided on the appointment of a Republican member to the Park Board to fill the vacancy left by the expiration of the term of Mrs. Louis { Markun, Republican. Mrs. Markun [said she would not seek reappoint- | ment, Mr. Brandt was appointed to the] Works Board in 1930 in Mayor Sul- | (Continued on Page Three)

ROOSEVELT DRAFTS CONGRESS SPEECH

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (U. | | —President Roosevelt worked to-| (day on his annual report to Con-|

which he will deliver in person at

| Speaker of the House William B. {Bankhead (D. Ala.) disclosed that

Mrs. Ferguson 10/in as Treasurer by Judge Wilfred Mr. Roosevelt would follow his usual |

(custom and make a personal address to Congress.

He also dis-|

will be given the oath of closed that the President's budget mother and he had been asleep!

'message will be given the following | day. | Mr. Roosevelt told his press con- |

good budgetary figure, but

to ‘disclose it.

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beal deadline and avoid arrest,

Frank Finney, Bureau

ject to arrest,” Motor License trator, warned, He ing that enforcement of the truck weight tax license law also will start Tuesday,

LIOUOR LIMITED T0 1 HOUR JAN. 1

Tavern Owners Plan Fight To Sell ‘on New Year's Day in 1941.

adminis-

reiterated a previous warn-

The right to sell liquor all day New Year's swept away by a Circuit Court decision, tavern owners today turned their attention to New Year's Day a year from now, In Circuit Court they heard Judge Earl R. Cox deny a suit enjoin the State from barring sales for all except one hour Mondav, on had property rights under liquor licenses and therefore could not make such a civil plea. They were encouraged, bv a statement from Judge Cox urging them to seek a declaratory opinion on the interpretation of the State Alcoholic Beverage Act in time for next New Year's Day.

Quote Barnhart Letter

Also noted by the tavern owners was the sentiment indicated by the Alcoholic Beverage Commission. They produced a letter State Excise Director

vesterday to

the grounds they no

however,

from | | Hugh A,

ern Owners and Restaurant Association saying: “It is still ‘my opinion and that of the Alcoholic Beverage Commission that the Legislature intended that liquor should be sold on Jan. 1.” Mr, Barnhart added, however. that his order barring sales for all except one hour on Monday was; issued because the Commission was | bound by an opinion handed down by Attorney General Omer Stokes Jackson. Passage Ts Disputed

Bars at most downtown hotels

and scores of taverns will not be.

opened to celebrants from tomor[row midnight until 1 a. m. Monday as allowed by law. Managers said the time for business was too short to make it worthwhile, Bars will be closed at the Lincoln, Claypool, Washington, Severin and Warren. The Hotel Antlers bar will {be open. The suit ruled on by Judge Cox was filed by Raymond FP. Cassel. Terre Haute tavern Keeper, and Pierce Calton, executive secretary of the Wabash Valley Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association. They sought a judicial ruling on one six-line passage in the now-famous “House Bill 166.” The passage in dispute reads: “The sale of alcoholic beverages (Continued on Page Three)

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CRACK TROOP MASS FOR NEW BLOW AT FINNS

Soldiers of Moscow Garrison Among 150,000 Moving

On Mannerheim Line.

By WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent

HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. 30. Fresh Russian troops from the crack | garrison were thrown against the Finnish Mannerheim Line today in a snowstorm, In addition to these men, Scandinavian press reports said, the Reds at other points were massing 150,000 crack soldiers from Siberia | and the Caucasus on the Karelian Isthmus for a decisive attack as the battle there went into its 25th day. Concentration of large numbers of airplanes in the Leningrad area was taken to indicate they would co-operate in a big scale attack. The newspaper Politiken in Copenhagen said that the inns had killed 3000 Russians during the last | two days in the new Soviet effort to crack the Mannerheim line, The newspaper also said in a dispatch from Rome that 2000 Italians, | including aviators, were ready to leave for Finland.

Use Best Men in Army Now

The big men of the capital garrison, often seen by visitors to Moscow in the Red Square parades on Russian holidays, are representative | of the best men in the Russian Army. They were sent against the | Finnish right wing. A Stockholm report squadron of Russian bombing planes surrendered south of Petsamo, on the Far Northern front, explaining that they were out of gasoline and that their motors were not functioning properly. It was later found, the dispatch alleged, that there was plenty of fuel in the tanks and that the motors worked smoothly It was reported alse that two battalions of Russians, numbering probably 2000 men, had surrendered | Just north of Hoeyjenjaervi, on the! Far Northern Petsamo front where | they had been holding advanced | positions.

Report 10,000 in Danger

There was another report that two Russian regiments, numbering close to 10,000 men, were in danger of being cut off from their base oi supplies by the bold advances of Finnish guerrillas operating on the Mid-Finland Salla front, Some versions of this report were that the Russians already had been isolated: this seemed to be incorrect on the basis of early dispatches today. However, all reports indicated the daring Finnish ski patrols were operating far behind the Russian lines

was that a

land reports persisted that some of

them at least had reached the region of Kandalaksk, Russia's White Sea base on the Murmansk Railroad, which is the line of supply for the Russian Far North Army, It was said that Gen. Kurt Wallenius, Finnish commander-in-chief on the Mid-Finland and Par Northern fronts, had succeeded in getting reinforcements, Thus the Russian position on the Mid-Finland front, where the Finnish patrols are seeking to cut the! railroad, was made even more predispatches said, and the Russians might have to decide whether they preferred to retreat or to make a bold mass attack in (Continued on Page Three)

1940 DECISIVE YEAR OF WAR, HITLER SAYS

Nazis Fight for Existence, He Tells Armed Forces.

BERLIN, Dec. 30. (U.P. .—Germany is fighting for her existence must win, Adolf Hitler declared today in a proclamation to

the German armed forces. Herr Hitler's proclamation echoed the recent declaration of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister, that Germany must win or perish. In a simultaneous New Year's message to the Nazi Party, Hitler hailed 1940 as the most decisive year in Germany's history, but added | 1940 will bring a decision.” “Before us lies the hardest kind of battle for the existence or nonexistence of the German people,” he said. The Fuehrer bitterly attacked Jews and said that since “Jewish reactionary warmongers in capitalistic countries” want war “they shall | have it.” He taunted the Allies for not daring to attack Germany's Westwall. |

Son Carries Mother to Safety as Fire

WINTER'S COLDEST BLAST

T0 BRING CITY PLEASANT

'39 Infant Greets Infant ‘40

The date Judith Diann Oliver meant to point out is the first,

Year's Day is her first birthday, baby horn in Indianapolis in 1939.

Mr, and Mrs, Harry F, Oliver, 616 F

Photo New Not only that, she was the first Judith Diann is the daughter of xeter St,

Timey

Reporters Tour Allison, Find Its Secrets Guarded

By SAM TYNDALL

The guarded doors of one of

shops,

Uncle Sam's the Allison warplane engine division, swung ajar vesterday to

most celebrated work-

admit the writer and another newspaperman for an inspection, The new $6,000,000 General Motors production unit is the world's most striking example of ‘a completely air conditioned, artificially lighted

and windowless factory. tions” factory in the country. The “appointment” for the inspection trip was made by telephone. Wnaen we arrived at the plant, south of Speedway City, a policeman greeted us with a “who are you and what do you want?” After explaining our business a representative of the plant manager, Otto T. Kreusser, appeared and took us under wing. Mr. Kreusser, astute and jovial head of the plant, gave us a brief history of the Allison Division and an outline of what we were about to see. He then issued the “open sesame’ and the inner doors from the office bujlding to the plant proper opened. With proper awe, guide into an acre of brand new custom-made drills, lathes, mills (Continued on Page Three)

FOUR U. S. STUDENTS TO HELP FINLAND

MALOME, Sweden, Dec. 20 (U. P.).—TFour Columbia University students, John Hasey, Robert Newman, William Mock and Louis Bartlett, arrived here yesterday for ambulance work in Finland after having found conditions ‘too quiet” on the Western Front. They said they would await arrival of their ambulance from France before continuing on to Finland. The unit, they said, is financed by the American Women's Volunteer Ambulance Corps. In Stockholm Prince Carl, head of the Swedish Red Cross, announced that Sweden soon would send its second ambulance corps to Finland. Tt was announced also that two new large groups of Swedich volunteers, including several retired Swedish Army officers, had left to serve with Finnish forces.

we followed a

HOGS UP 15 CENTS: STOCKS IRREGULAR

By UNTTED PRESS Hog prices at Indianapolis advanced 15 cents today in the final trade session of 1939. Most of the week's losses were erased by the gain, New York stocks were narrowly irregular and trading was light. Bonds were mixed. Major commodity markets were closed, with

[the exception of the Chicago Board

of Trade where wheat and corn made minor gains.

Roars Through Home, Burning Both

Aroused by the crackling of flames, !

|a mother and her 24-year-old son! front porch roof.

escaped at midnight last night from

home at 3019 Barnes Ave. Both were burned and the mother, 56-year-old Mrs. Sara Belcher, also! suffered from nervous shock. { The son, Howaid Belcher, said his | about a half-hour when the fire started. He said smoke billowed up the stairway and he broke the win-|

9 as County Commissioner by County ference that he had decided on a dow of his bedroom in the rear to de- let the smoke out and then went to and Persistent | his mother’s rescue in the front of taken to the Grant home.

He broke the window

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lifted her out on the Two unidentified passers-by obtained a ladder from

room and

(a fire that gutted their two-story a neighbor's house and rescued the

pair from the roof.

Mrs. Belcher was taken to the home of Mrs. Ethel Washburn, 3017 Barnes Ave. while Howard, clad only in underclothing, ran barefooted through the snow to the

‘home of a cousin, Paul Grant, 1154

WwW. 30th St. nearby. Both were taken to City Hospital treated for burns and then Mrs.

Belcher was burned on her arms,

in her bed- ‘while Howard had cuts from the fire,

window glass on his arms and burns

on his arms and legs,

Marvin Belcher, another son who arrived home after the fire, said

| furniture loss totaled $800. All the family's clothing, except what they

were wearing, also was destroyed. Three fire companies were unable to save the house, Two other members of the familv who normally would have been asleep in the house were the father, John Belcher, who was visiting two other sons in Bowling Green, Kv. and a nephew, Ray Belcher, who did not arrive home until after the

It is the second co

mpletely ‘controlled condi-

MORE KILLED IN NEW TREMORS

Estimate 30,000 Killed; Many Die in Snow, Blizards; Rivers Overflow, ISTANBUL. Dec. 30 (U, P)

and violent earthquake Anatolia

New mn a

shocks scene of devastating earthquake this week caused most extensive damage and destroved many villages in the Amasia district today The Health Ministry estimated the dead from Wednesday's quake in the city ‘of Brzincan at 30,000 and the injured at 12,000 Many who fled from their homes in night clothes forze to death in the heavy snow and blizzards which followed the quake. Survivors were in a plight without medical bread, milk or pure water. Fire added to the destruction, wiping out the city's entire bazaar district. Reports reaching Istanbul today placed the dead and injured in Erzincan Province alone as high as | (Continued on Page Three)

eastern

supplies,

KORTEPETER SUES CITY FOR $2000 PAY

Says He Failed to Get 1939 Flood Board Salary.

Carl F. Kortepeter, former county | WPA director convicted Dec. 6 in Pederal Court of ‘defrauding the Government, today filed in Superior Court Room 3 a complaint asking for salary he claims is owed him as a member of the Flood Control Board, The suit names the City dianapolis, the Board of Flood Confrol Commissioners and James E. Deery, City Controller, as defendants, The suit states that in 1937 John |W. Kern, then Mayor of Indianapolis, appointed Mr. Kortepeter as a Flood Control Board member. The (suit also sets out that Mr. Kortepeter ‘has served continuously on the Board since his appointment, and “that no charges have ‘ever been preferred against him in any proceeding for his removal from said office.” Under the act creating the Control Board, it is provided, according th the complaint, that each member of the Board shall be paid a salary of $2400 per vear. According to the complaint Mr. Kortepeter was paid for his servfces in 1937 and in 1938 “but said board, said city and said controller has failed and refused to pay plaintiff the w=alary due him in the amount of $2400 for his said servfces as a member of the said hoard during the vear 1939." In the Federal case, Mr. Kortepeter, free on bond, has filed notice “of appeal, % /

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NEW YEAR’S--AT FIRESIDE

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TEMPERATURES 1 260 19 19

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Old Man Winter will make it a pleasure for Hoosiers to celebrate the New Year's week-end hy the fireplace. A cold wave is moving in from western plains, bringing with it the coldest weathe er of the winter, the Weather Bureau reported today. The mercury is scheduled to sink to 10 above zero hy early tomorrow morning. Tomorrow will be fair and colder than today, with an average tems perature of about 20. Light snow flurries may occur in the extreme

northeastern part of the state, Weatherman J. H. Armington said,

Midwest Faces New Blast

The newest wintry blast is sched» uled to strike throughout the mide west The Kansas City Weather Bureau predicted that the temperas« ture will drop to about five above 7010 in many parts of Kansas and Missouri, and will not rise much above 18 during the day, Cienerally fair weather vear's Day is forecast for the Middle West, Light thaws vesterday paved the wayv' for additional coats of ice on the City's main thoroughfares. Police reported that there were no serious injuries resulting from last night's accidents This was the most dangerous day since Tuesday's snowfall for mo= torists. Most of the slush and snow had frozen and many of the citys most heavily traveled thoroughfares had a full coat of ice,

| All Streets Are Bad

All streets were bad, with N, Cape itol Ave, one of the most perilous, Where N. Meridian and other arteries had a narrow pathway clear of ice, Capitol Ave, was frozen almost solid. | Heavily traveled arteries from the past Side were in a similar condi= tion While highways in the state are reported open, the State Highway Commission warned that in many places the pavements are covered with #now and ice and dangerous for fast driving

New of

for most

A hlanket of snow covered the Factern seahoard from Maine to New .Jersev today The snowfall, first hig storm of the winter for the ast. ranged from two inches in New Jersey to almost five inches in New England, Greenville, Me, reported the low temperature for the storm area, two above zero.

SEEK EX-HUSBANDS IN WOMAN'S DEATH

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Dec. 30 (U, P.) Officers today continued {rying to learn the names of the first two husbands of Mrs. Rex V. Smith, 26, whose body was found Wednesday crushed under the wheels of an electric interurban train west of here : They also were trying to locate Mrs. Smith's third husband. Two men are held in jail but police re= fused to reveal their identity. Lie detector tests mav be made next week on several witnesses.

40 DEAD, 150 HURT IN ITALIAN TRAIN WRECK

Italy, Dec. 30 (TU, P) == persons were reported 150 injured today when Express, crowded with New Year celebrants, crashed into a local train at Torre Annunziata station outside Naples. Several sole diers were aboard the rain. The local had halted at the sta tion when the crack express smashed into it, The first snowfall here in 20 vears was held responsible. The ice and snow jammed a switch.

21 HURT WHEN TRAIN IS DERAILED IN TEXAS HOUSTON, Tex., Dec. 30 (U. B). —The Southern Pacific passenger [train Acadian was derailed two miles east of Orange, Tex. today and several coaches overturned, in-

juring 21 persons, none seriously, A broken rail was blamed.

desperate |

NAPLES At least 40 killed and the Siciilan

F. D. R. JRS. AT WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (U, PD. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and his wife, the former Ethel du Pon? rested at the White House today after suffering minor injuries ves terday in an automobile accident near Winchester, Va. BLAST WRECKS RESORT AMSTERDAM, Dec. 30 (U.P). = A mine explosion today wrecked the small North Sea resort of Huisduinen, Netherlands. Roofs of A num«ber of buildings, including a hotel, were blown away and most of the ‘houses in ‘the wvillage suffered "damage.