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. “generously and substantially” ._ reports were received of the destruc-

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FORECAST: Fair and continued cold tonight and tomorrow.

SCRIPPS-HOWARD VOLUME 51—NUMBER 253

MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1940

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Pledge of Aid Coincides With Report on Destruction Of Red Unit of 15, 000.

BULLETINS . KOPERVIK, Norway, Jan. 1 (U. P.).—The 1040-ton Norwegian Steamer Luna was reported sunk today by a torpedo—allegedly without warning—25 miles off the

Norwegian Coast only two hours

after it had left its home harbor of Bergen.

“HELSINKI, Jan. 1 (U. P).— Violent fighting broke ouh on the Karelian isthmus front today, and it appeared possible that the Russ were about to launch a bigscale offensive in the south.

. LONDON, Jan. 1 (U. P.).—Great Britain today officially went on record as determined to aid Finland as

tion of an entire Russian division of approximately 15,000 men by Findefenders in the Lake Kianta

‘The Government reaffirmed Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's . promise. of aid to Finland in a teleto Joseph Avenol, Secretary “General of the League of Nations. It was understood that Britain was informing Washington and Paris of the help it is granting the

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Finns Mop Up After Decisive Victory

By WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent - HELSINKI, Jan. 1° (U. P.)—Finnish troops fought today to capitalize on their reported major vietory over a Russian division of "15,000 men which official dispatches said was wiped out.yesterday in the Central Sector Ree: ‘Kiantajaervi (Lake Kianta). Entering the new’ year with what military experts said was the most important triumph of the war, the

veges sald. that the 163d Russiani. : vision could be regarded as de-

stroyed. While their troops pressed _mopping-up operations in the Kianfajaervi area official announcements claimed that since the start of the war 129 Russian planes had. sheen shot down. The battle of Kiantajaervi, experts said, had definitely halted a ‘Russian attempt to cut across the center of Finland to the Gulf of - Bothnia. Russian casualties were estimated variously at from 15, 000 to 18,000 men.

Foes Repulsed on Lake In another less spectacular but

~ important victory, the Finns said they had frustrated an attempted

Russian advance on the Lake Ladoga Front. For the first time since the start of the war, they said, the| Russians had tried to attack by crossing the ice of Lake Ladoga but had been repulsed. «+ During successful Finnish land operations, Finland was subjected to intensive bombardment by the Red Army Air Force. - At least 11 places were bombed yesterday, including Turku (Port

. Abo), Tempere and Hyvinkaa, 35 miles north of Helsinki. At Hyvinkaa

' a sanitarium was set afire and two persons were killed. The final Finnish communique of 1939 said: “Dec. 31. Land: Fighting in the Kiantajaervi country of the Suomussalmi Commune on our Eastern Frontier resulted in 2 great victory for our troops on Dec. 29 and 30.

~The enemy’s 163d Division was def-

initely cut off and for the most part destroyed. Remnants of the division are partly scattered in the forests

and partly fleeing, pursued by our

toward Juntusranta (about five miles from the Russian frontier at the northeast end of Kiantajaervi). “Mopping up operations continue ‘around Kiantajaervi. War material so far. collected by us includes 27 = (Continued on Page Three)

‘HULL CITES HOPE

FOR WORLD PEACE

~ WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (U. P.).— Secretary of State Cordell Hull today offered peace-loving Americans the new year’s view that “there is no inevitability about war.” «TI am sure that there are in the world few men and women in whose hearts and minds there is not today

~~ a mingling fear of apprehension and

‘hope . The hope springs from the profound conviction . . . that there is no. inevitability about war,” he said. «There is a way for peace for all nations, if they choose the way of ~ peace rather than the way of war.”

RIVAL LABOR CHIEFS JOIN IN JOB PLEAS

gore for the nation’s idle. A. F.;0 ident William Green, warned st the “problems and dangers” of ipcusirial activity stimulated by § resident John L. Lewis against efforts to divert from “the difficulties of UL in 1 problems and stake jhe nat ons, future on the vagaries of

The Crystal Bowl—

By HENRY M’'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent PASADENA, Cal, Jan. 1.—As I write this I have before me a bunch of roses, a sack of sugar, a crate of oranges, -and a bale of -cotton. By staring fixedly at these ob“jects for hours I have been able to put myself in a trance whereby I have second sight and can see into the future. © The outcome of today’s four major bowl football games are as clear to me as everything was at three o'clock this ‘New Year's morning. When I look at the roses (which I just borrowed from a florist and must get back before they wilt) I see thorns for Southern California. A Tennessee team that is hard as nails, lightning fast, and worked up as a sawdust trail revivalist; will overcome the tremendous power of the Trojans. The score will be something like 13 to 6 with Tennessee scoring on a long run by Johnny Butler and a pass. The Trojans will dominate the early part of the game, but will cool off after the first quarter and be shackled by a Tennessee defense ‘that didn’t yield a point during the regular season. South-

BUSINESS HERE BEST SINCE "23

Indianapolis Showed Way to Rest of State, Year-End: Survey Shows.

By DAVID MARSHALL Indianapolis business in 1939 al-

| most reached the “two chickens in

every pot” era of 10 years ago, a year-end survey disclosed. Most major business barometers passed 1937 Jvels while some edged close to 1929 highs. Conditions throughout the state generally were slightly behind Indianapolis. : All 11 major indices used by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce in taking the local business pulse Ne well ahead of 1938 figures.

spent more money ve during 1938. Carloadings — always an indication of business trends — were 14,580 cars ahead of 1938 for an 1l1-month period. There were 167,123 inbound railroad cars from Jan. 1 to Nov. 30, 1938,- compared with 176,751 during the 11 months of 1939. Outbolind cars totaled 115834 in 1938 as against 120,786 for 11 months of 1939. The average number of telephones in use for 11 months of 1939 was 89,556... This was 5805 more than the 1938 1l-month average. During November the number of phones in use set a new all-time record, soaring to 92,286. Far more electric power and industrial gas, which reflect the ac(Continued on Page Three)

URUGUAY ORDERS TACOMA INTERNED

Gunboat] to Take Charge of Nazi Chaft in Harbor.

MONTEVIDEO, Jan.-1 (U. P).— The German freighter Tacoma, supply ship to the scuttled German

pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, was ordered interned by the Uruguayan Government today following its failure to comply with a 24-hour order to leave port because it was adjudged a German naval auxiliary vessel. Official announcement that the Tacoma, manned by about 55 officers and men, will be interned for duration of the war coincided with conferences aboard ship and ashore | to work out final details of internment. The Uruguayan gunboat La Valleja, carrying an armed ‘party of 15 en, put out from the inner harbor rto the. Tacoma’s anchorage outside the breakwater to supervise internment procedure. . The 8268-ton German ship was ordered interned despite strenuous German efforts to obtain an extension of the Government's order. The 24-hour order to the Tacoma to leave port or submit to internment expired at 4:30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). s Seven members of ‘the Tacoma crew were ashore and" could not be found. They had been missing from the vessel last night when it moved hom the inner harbor to the outer port.

Rose Bowl Tennessee

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Roses Are Red, Sugar Sweet, Oranges Juicy— But Weeril’s in Cotton

ern Cal will score on a pass from Nave to Krueger, just .as they did against Duke in the game last

year. Concentrated gazing at the sack of sugar revealed that Tulane will pull an upset way down yonder .in. New Orleans and turn back the

rated tops in the country by many experts.

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Texas Aggies, the team that is

[ Tennessee vs. Southern California—Bill tern—3:45 p. m, WENR-870. | Georgia Tech vs. Missouri—Ted Husing—1 p. m. WFBM-1230. Texas A. & M. vs. Tulane—Red Barber=1 p. m., WLS-870. East vs, West—3:45 Dp. WIND-560. ° |

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Firemen Look Askance at '40

If New Year's Eve is a harbinger of the year to come, firemen, at. Engine House 13, Maryland St. and Kentucky Ave, eRpecryneny unusual things, Last night, just as the old ye ope was ringing out, Pumper Co. was called to make its 34lst and final run of the year to Rox 341 at 14th and West Sts. A mattress was on fire. Then Capt. Harry W. Pruitt and’ his crew on Pumper 6 were called to make the longest run of their careers.” They went out to extinguish an automobile fire at Harding and Washington Sts., in: 1939 and came back in 1940. The run took only 17 minutes, however. And to top things off, the first, call of the New Year came at 1:25 a. m., from Box 924, the last

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First Baby of the Year Born At 12:24 A. M.

Little 1940 is & girl! She arrived at 24 minutes past midnight at St. Vincent's Hospita 2333 N. Alabama St. She weighed 7 pounds, -12zounces. The second of the New Year also arrived at St. Vincent's. It was a boy at 1:32 a. m., born to Mildred and Leroy Hunt, 726 Cottage Ave. - Other early New Year's infants were: 1:56 a. m., a girl at Methodist Hospital to Dorothy and Artnur Lego, 1767 Lynhurst Drive; 2 a. m,, a boy at Methodist Hospital to Mary and Francis Clark, 1745 S. Dawson St.; 3:40 a. m., a boy at City Hospital to Mary and Wesley Hardwick, 1306 Pruitt St.; 7:58 a. m., a girl at Coleman Hospital to Catitola and John Martin, 1446 N. Illinois St., Apt. 20. -

WOMAN WHO VIEWED LINCOLN RITES DEAD

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan. 1 (U.P). —Funeral services were planned today for Mrs. Lydia C. Davenport, 90, Springfield, among the last of a remaining few who attended the funeral of Abraham Lincoln here three-quarters of a century ago. She died of a fall in|her home yesterday.

found by her daughter, Mrs. Clara

Schuman, at the bottom of the basement stairs in her home where she lived alone. Mrs. Davenport was a lifelong resident of Springfield.

SHIP SURVIVORS LANDED °

LONDON, Jan. 1 (U. P.).—Survivors of the crew. of the British trawler Barbara Robertson, 325 tons, which was sunk by a German submarine off the North Coast of Scotland, arrived Poi Northeast Coast port today. One member of the crew was repor ed killed. The remainder were rescued by a

British warship.

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1 DEAD, 30 HURT IN COLLISION OF CRACK TRAINS

Locomotive of One Plows Into Rear of - Other at Small Illinois Station.

ARCOLA, Ill, Jan. 1 (U. P.).—The

Central Railroad, speeding north-

ward with a trainload of persons returning from Christmas vacations in the South, rammed the rear of a standing north-bound train, the Louisane, at the railroad station here today, kijiing one and injuring 30 to 40. The standing train buckled three cars from the end, killing Thomas V. Talmadge, Evanston, Ill, in his

across the aisle, was uninjured. Most of the injured had leg injuries from being thrust forward against their feet in the berths. Diner Telescoped

tially telescoped over the tender of the locomtive directly ahead of it,

cago, the chef, Ambulances carried the injured to

and Tuscola. Hint Faulty Brakes

A relief train was made up at Champaign and sent here to give assistance and carry away the uninjured. A wrecking crew set to work to clear the northbound tracks. South- | bound tracks were clear. The Louisane stopped at Arcola to pickup a passenger. The Panama Limited crashed into it before the engineer. could make his brakes hold. Clare Hull, manager of Radio Station WDZ, Tuscola, quoted the engineer as saying he had reported automatic brakes were not working when he stopped at Centralia, but that he had been instructed to proceed. The engineer was quoted as saying he slowed down due to fog and low visibility and did not see the

too late to make his brakes hold. Fireman Jumps

His fireman, Fred Faulkner, Champaign, jumped just before the

another train.” He Suffered it legs, y . Four, injured taken ¢ to samenlB fa © MY and Mrs. John Stargo, Ey and Mrs. Bernard Prusner and Miss Anna Smook, both of Chicago. Hospital attendafits-said they were not seriously injured. - Pandemonium in the sleeping cars was described by Robert Sanderson, Portage, Wis., a University of Wisconsin law student returning from spending the Christmas holidays at New Orleans. He said sleepers were tossed out of their berths and women screamed and prayed. He was in the stand-|, ing train. Sanderson said he was tossed

His trousers were flipped 10 feet away. Lights overhead dropped and popped and windows broke. In the darkness the startled and injured sleepers were crying for assistance. The trains struck with a crash that awakened many citizens of this town in belief there was an earthquake, Lindy Lindemeyer, editor of the Weekly Record Herald, reported.

REPORT NAZI PLANE DOWNED BY BRITISH

LONDON, Jan. 1 (U. P.).—One of two German airplanes which flew over the Shetland Islands today was reported to have been shot down by British anti-aircraft guns. An air raid warning was sounded as soon as the planes were sighted and the “all clear” signal was given 45 minutes later. The plané reported shot down was

crack Panama Limited of the Illinois

The diner on the Louisane par-| critically injuring Nathan Hill, Chi- |

hospitals at Champaign, Mattoon |

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Is i CURE Bitter Factional Fights Are

Forecast in . Congress Opening Wednesday.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (U. P.)— Shaggy-browed John Nance Garner, now an avowed candidate for the 1940 Presidential nomination, today returned to the capital as the nation awaits opening of the third session of the 76th Congress. The Vice President, rested by kunting and fishing excursions to favorite haunts near his Uvalde, Tex., home, will signalize opening of the session when he raps the Senate to order Wednesday. Mr. Garner, who recently broke a long silence on public questions to make a front-porch announcement of his availability to Democrats. booming him for the Presi|dency, refused to discuss politics today, but, as usual, he is expected to he a central figure in cloakroom political discussions, destined to be even more numerous in this campaign year. Even as Mr. Garner returns to the national scene, the political griddle sizzles in the capital, and nb hope is held out that there will be an adjournment of politics such as that which marked the special - session (Continued on Page Three)

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(First of a Series)

By GILBERT LOVE Times Special Writer Most persons in the Indianapolis area will gét a New Year's present from Uncle Sam. Congress wrapped up the present last summer, when it amended the Social Security Act and labeled it “Do Not Open Until Jan. 1.” No secret was made of its contents, and persons who felt that it was addressed to them. — those around the age of 65—now have a pretty good. idea of what they are going to get. |

Other and larger groups, however,

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Security Changes Bring New Year Gifts to Many

are generally unaware that the “package” contains - something of immediate value to them. . The groups include merchants, younger workers in business and industry, employers, the unemployed, and sons, and daughters of elderly workers. Here is how these groups will benefit— The amended Social Security Act should help merchants, and others with goods and services to sell, when it starts to release in 1940 some of the money that has been collec during the past three years in payroll taxes. Under the original act, (Continued on Page Four)

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Air Chilly but Actress Gets a Warm Reception

Having a Grand Time on Tour, Play Opens at English’s

Tonight.

By JOE COLLIER Constance Bennett, the screen star who has just taken up stardom on the stage, arrived in Indianapolis at 7 o'clock this morning when it was three degrees above zero and called for meiba oast, tea Land orange

Virtue” at English’ s tonight.

e sat on a divan in her hotel room and

gave a sparkling account of her first experience on tour, in spite of the fact the breakfast -nad nat arrived

able to open her mouth in the morning ‘without af least ‘orange juice. - It seems, according to Miss Bennett, that she wished the engineer of her train a happy New Year at

Pittsburgh. and thereafter something went decidedly haywire. “He kept trying to break my neck,” she said. “One of the beds in my drawing room was drafty, so I got in the other. Then he went around a corner and 1 fell out and I got. back in the drafty bed. What could I do?” \ Ah, the Waiter! Miss Bennett saw the waiter at her door with a serving table and she yelled: “Come on in.” Almost before the table had stopped in front of her she had picked up the orange juice and was drinking it. “Now,” she said as she finished the glass,” let's have the questions. I'm ready.” “What,” someone asked, “do you think of “Gone With the Wind"? “Wonderful,” she said. “They stuck to the book. But hells bells, four hours is just too long to sit at one

time and be comfortable.” “How long are you going to be

on the stage?” “The run of the play, of course, and then a play a year. I'm go-

while this play runs, but I can’t tell youranything about it. It's a secret.” Difference of Opinion The waiter brought out what he ‘thought was melba toast. “That's not melba toast, ” Miss Bennett said. “That's the way we make it here,” the waiter said. “Well you take that right back and have them make it. And she described how she wanted it made. “Have to have it that way— doctor's orders,” she explained. She watched the retreating waiter, and flashed a smile. “Cute, wasn't he?” Miss Bennett said that she might do one more Topper picture if they can figure out some more camera tricks. She said she will rehearse from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. today before the opening tonight. She gave everyone the impression that she was a young woman having a delightful time with a new experience and whose infectious good humor could not be downed by zero temperatures, falls out of bed, sixhour rehearsals, or counterfeit

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Cotton Bowl

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Indianapolis Seems Sole Exception Because of Liquor Ruling.

By UNITED PRESS

- Noisy millions ushered in a new year and a new decade today and put inte their celebrations—according to police, spectators, night club and hotel operators—more zip than had been evidenced since the lush days of 1929. It was, on the basis of reports from the country’s major centers, the United States’ biggest, noisiest, and most expansive celebration since pre-depression days. Millionaire and clerk alike staged their celebrations and the difference was in cost, not. exyberance. That.

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quietest celebrations-in years. Most clubs and hotels had their festivities Saturday night. The Indiana Alcoholic Beverages Commission liquor ban, except for one hour, and the oil-slick streets kept things quiet. “Cars crept to and from private house parties over .the dangerous ice. The downtown and neighborhood |

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ill continue fair and cold for at least 36 hours, the Weather Bureau said today. : This prediction was made as Indianapolis and vicinty shivered in the ji weather it has expggienced in two

The lowest tempivalure of the : season was reached at |7 and 8 a. m. yesterday at one degree above zero. The low today was 3 above at 7:15 a. m.

Sub-zero temperatures were recorded at the Muni-

was reported at 1 a. m. today.

and 8 a. m. yesterday was the cold est Indianapolis has experienced since Jan. 23, 1937, when the cury dropped to four above. The lowest temperature here in 1938 was «| five above on Jan. 5. The average temperature here yesterday was eight degrees, 21 degrees below the normal average, the Bureau said. Temperatures throughout Indiana were far below normal at the beginning of the new year. In| many localities, with below zero temperatures prev

alent throughout the northern and

|central sections.

Parks Crowded

Cars were frozen by the hundreds as motorists neglected to protect their radiators. Despite the heavy snow still on the ground and the low tempera‘tures, winter sports enthusiasts were scarce in the coldest parts of the state. : Skating was limited to rinks as the snow failed to lakes and ponds to freeze to sufficient thickness. . : In the city, however, the quick freeze which followed snow flurries late Saturday improved conditions . for skiing and coasting. Hillsides in City parks prepared for Despite ihe

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gerous and STippery 2 aes State Highway Department making every effort in an attempt to clear them. Ice rutted | | many

centers were almost. deserted. One of the -largest celebrations was at the Coliseum’s European Ice Revue. Several. thousand -persons at a midnight performancme sang “Auld Lang Syne” to the booming of small cannons. Many a projected party was delayed by motorists whose cars had frozen in the near zero cold. Most” filling stations and garages were out of rental batteries.

tions began as early as 7 p. mi. and continued all night. Under a special dispensation of the State Liquor

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NONE DEAD AS ICE CAUSES 55 WRECKS ,

Seventeen - Persons Hurt Here; 5 Killed in State.

Despite treacherous driving con-

ditions and perhaps some driving by tipsy celebrants, Indianapolis on the final day of the old year and the first of the new did not have a traffic fatality. But there were 55 accidents in the City over the week-end and 17 persons were hurt, none seriously. Five persons were killed on State highways. While the City began 1840 with a none-killed record, it counted a traffic death toll of 66 for 1939. The County’s toll last year wds 99. In 1938, there were 76 fatalities in the City and 115 in the County. The old year’s final traffic victim was Jack Page, 21, of 31812 W. 30th ‘St. . He died at Methodist Hospital yesterday. He was hurt Dec. 24 ‘when the automobile in which he was riding overturned at 75th St. and the Allisonville Road. Those killed in the State during the week-end were: MRS. ESTHER MITCHELL, 50, and HELEN TAYLOR, 50, both of Farmland, killed when their car (Continued on Page Three) =”

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major roads. Henry Baur, 12, of 1919 N. Illi nois St, sprained an ankle when his sled ‘struck a tree while he was coasting at the ' Riverside| Golf Course. He was treated at City Hospital. Gordon Hawkins, 15, of 2009 N. Capitol | Ave, received leg ‘ine Wuries when his sled struck a tres ‘while he was cpasting at 28th and ‘Meridian Sts. . Those injured in falls on the ice were Patricia McKnight, 24, of 3029 Northwestern Ave.; Laura Hawkins, 8, 165% Hoefgen St., and Ada Halfhill, 45, Spink-Arms Hotel Annes,

CCC MOURNS DEATH OF ROBERT FECHNER

Flags were at half mast at Civilian Conservation Corps camps through= out the nation today as ‘enrollees ‘paid final tribute to Director Rob= ert Fechner, 63. Mr. Fechner, former labor union

| official chosen by President Roose-

velt to head the CCC, died yestere day at a hospital of a heart disease. Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., he had supervised approximately 2,000,000 CCC enrollees since 1933. He will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery tomorrow. Enrollees from two nearby cco camps will be pallbearers.

President Roosevelt, in a message a

to Mrs. Fechner, said:

“As director of the Civilian Con- 1

servation Corps he brought to th public service great administrative ability, vision, indefatigable indus= try. His death is a loss to the ore and the: nation. »

COLD HALTS FIGHTING

War Office Communique No. 239

front.”

BERLIN, Jan, 1 (U. P.).—The German High Command Commus= nique ‘said today that “there were: no particular events on the Western Front.”

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