Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1940 — Page 7

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DIPLOMATS

Western Power's Drawing New Lines to Exterminate Red Peril in Balkans.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

Soviet Russia’s relations with Europe’s belligerent and neutral nations appeared likely today to overshadow the stalled Red Army’ invasion of Finland. While the Finns were reporting that the latest attempt by Russian forces. to out-flank the Karelian Isthmus defense lines had been frustrated, the Moscow. Government witnessed an increasingly complex

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FCC Recommends Congress Authorize Unified Wire System in Nation.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P.)—The Federal Communications Commission recommended today that Congress authorize the consolidation of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Companies. ; In a report filed by FCC Chairman James L. Fly with the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, the Commission said that consolidation of the existing companies “into one or more unified systems is an obvious remedy for unsound management policies and destruc|tive competition.” : : “The present situation,” the Commission said, “is fraught with pos- | sibilities of substantial losses in employment unless something is done

diplomatic situation in Western

Europe and the Balkans.

In London, it was reported that

Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov had warned Sir William Seeds, the British Ambassador, that Britain must abandon widespread “antiSoviet activities” if increasingly unfavorable diplomatic relations are to be avoided. Sir William was said to have been given the warning when he paid a “farewell” visit to the Premier before going on leave .to London. There has been much speculatioz ‘whether the ambassador would return to Moscow and whether the Soviet Ambassador to London would be called home. Italy and Russia will not maintain’ ambassadors at each others’ capitals for some months to come at least, it was reported today in

" “reliable Rome quarters.

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Russian informants there confirmed that all belongings of Nicholas Gorelkin, Russian Ambassador to Rome, were being sent back to Moscow. Gorelkin, arriving there recently as the new envoy, returned to Moscow without even awaiting the presentation of his credentials. Italian sources reaffirmed that Augusto Rosso, Italian Ambassador to Russia, was coming home to “report” and a High Italian informant said that Italy had no intention of keeping -an ambassador at Moscow.

Italy Is Uneasy

Diplomatic sources in Bucharest, Rumania, reported that the German Minister there has been advised that if Russia continues to make military preparations along the Rumania frontier Italy would interest herself in the sityation.

Some Italian sources asserted’ a belief that if Germany did not tell Russia plainly to keep hands off the Balkan States there might sooner or later be a break of the BerlinRome “axis” of diplomatic co-oper-ation. Rumanian relations with Germany were regarded .as improved since the recent negotiation of a Rumanian-German trade agreement. However, there was evidence of a determination to resist any encroachment by Russia. Foreign military quarters In Bucharest reported that the spirit

of the Rumanian Army had risen since Finland started its stand against Russia. Popular sympathy

with Finland was evident. In Berlin, a Nazi spokesman said today that if Great Britain gave aid

on a considerable scale to Finland,

Germany would have to “reconsider” its positjon. 'Syrjan Defense Formed

The important thing to Germany,

the spokesman said, was the “true intention” £ Finland. If Britain "attempted to establish “bases” in Scandinavian

states, he commented, Germany

“could not remain disinterested.” A Prench-British military force is understood to have been organized in Syria and Palestine, ready for any possible Russian move against Afghanistan, Iraq or Iran. Many British officers have arrived in Palestine for the defense force, it is reported, and the British and French were confident that they could count on Turkey's aid if Russia attacked Iran. The greatest concern of the Allies, the dispatch said, was a possible Russian attack on Afghanistan. :§ In the midst of these hostile moves, Netherlands Prime Minister Dirk Jan de Geer made a new appeal for peace in a New Year's broadcast to the Dutch Empire to-

Cites Voices for Peace

“The voices for peace which are heard from various countries, including America, must be heard also in tHe belligerent countries, who

° should realize that it would be bet-

ter to start peace negotiations now than to continue the war and leave

a destroyed and powerless Europe to the mercy of dark powers who would not spare civilization,” he said. It was reported in Brussels that Premier Hubert Pierlot would tender the Cabinet’s resignation to King

Leopold tonight after a meeting of the Chamber of Deputies which is

¥ scheduled to vote war tax modifica- '' tions, already passed by the Senate. The King, it jwas reported, will

ask M. Pierlot to form a new Cabinet of national concentration similar to

the present Cabinet which consists

of Catholics, Socialists and Liberals.

In the Far East Japan-and Russia agreed today in principle to form a mixed commission to delimit the entire frontier between ‘Manchukuo and Rusisa and Outer Mongolia, the Tokyo Foreign Office announced today.

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- OWNER DIES AT 78

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 3 (U. P.)— Harry Davis, co-founder of moving picture house, “The Nickelodeon,” died yesterday after spend- + ing the last 12 years confined to his hotel apartment from a stroke of paralysis. He was 78. The son of an English Millwright, , Mr. Davis came to America at the age of eight. Undismayed by his many failures when he first broke into the “show business,” Mr. Davis and his brother-in-law, the late State Senator John P. Harris, es-

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nd Mr. Harris branced out. In 1927 Mr. Davis sold his theater holdings to the Stanley Company of America

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For the first time in 11 years as a city official, Louis C. Brandt, . Works Board president, was speechless today. Mr. Brandt walked into the Works Board chamber prepared for a day’s work. . He found the room banked with flowers, a large cake on his desk and about 30 colleagues and city employees ready to congratulate him. on his re-appointment as a board member by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. . . M?¥. Brandt was sworn in for his new term as Board member by City Clerk John Layton. He was so surprised at the welcome that he could hardly follow Mr. Layton in repeating the oath of office. Finally, recovering his breath,

Betty Scantland has a cold-blood-ed, business reason for being the only girl enrolled in the non-col-lege ground course sponsored by the Civil Aeronautics Authority at the Marion, Ind, Municipal Air-

port. She thinks it may be handy in the future. She figures aviation is going to grew just as the auto business did, and there are going to be plenty of places for people who know a little about it. Betty, a 22-year-old stenographer for the Indiana State Conference on Social Work here, is not definitely consigned to aviation as a career however. : “Who knows what the fates may hold?” asks Betty. She admits that a home and children are not altogether out of the picture. “I am just fitting myself. I am taking this aviation course, because “F think it will do ‘me a lot of good and may be plenty of value to me

NAZI PLANE DRIVEN FROM PARIS REGION

PARIS, Jan. 3 (U{ P.).—At least one German airplane penetrated as far as the Paris region before it was driven off last| night, French military dispatches reported today. The flight was the second the Germans have made to the Paris area this year. French, British and German air forces were active, dispatches said. The Germans, in addition to the flight to the Paris region, made another flight over eastern France. French “econnaissance and pursuit plane takeoffs totaled 106 during the past 24 hours. There was scouting over the German lines. Some planes flew deep into Germany. One French squadron sighted a German air patrol and went into combat formation, but the German planes turned back before they could be engaged. r

Only 1 of 3 Britons Survives in Air Fight

LONDON, Jan. 3 (U. P.).—Air authorities today quoted the surviving pilot of a formation of three British planes that battled 12 German planes in the North Sea yesterday, as saying that he flew for half an hour only 20 feet above the water to*escape his German pursuers. The Air Ministry announced that in the fight near the German coast, one German Messerschmidt plane was shot down in flames and two others were forced down, while one British plane was shot down, one was missing and the other returned safely. \ (In Berlin, the authoritative D. N. B. Agency reported that German planes shot down all three British planes which attempted to fly over Helgoland Bight.) ;

BRUSSELS, Jan. 3 (U. P)—A British plane, chased by a German squadron, crashed today in flames near Raeren in Belgian territory near the German frontier. Oné occupant of the plane parachuted to safety. Two others escaped with

. jonly minor injuries,

KEEPEYESONU.S., | LATIN AMERICA TOLD

NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (U.P.—The peoples of Latin America and the West Indies were exhorted in boldface type handbills today to place themselves “on guard’ ‘against “a new menace” arising in the United States. [1 The menace “is at your door,” they were told, in the form of proposals that the United States take over European possessions in the Western Hemisphere as payment of $9,483,000,000 in defaulted war debts and for “so-called protection.” The wa was issued: by the Council for Pan-Américan Democracy and half a dozen associated groups in. calling. a “mass demonstration” here Friday night against various expansionist.

some of them pending

gy Murphy, board secretary, cuts the ated. . . . Others in the picture, from left to right, are Board Members Maurice Tennant, Charles Britton and Leo Welch.

Times Photo. cake. . . . Louis C.

he said: “This is such a surprise. I don’t think I can say anything. But I'm very happy.” Unaware that any ceremony was being planned, Mr. Brandt started out to work as usual this morning, but was intercepted by Street Commissioner Wilbur Winship as he neared the City Hall On the pretext of examining a sewer, connection, Mr. Winship took the veteran Board member down to the South Side where the two inspected street improve= ments until everything was in readiness at City Hall. Mr. Brandt accepted reappoint ment last week after he had declared his intention of retiring at 70, his present age. Mayor Sullivan and Board members persuaded him not to retire.

Stenographer, 22, Takes Aviation Ground Course

later on. It would be the same if I decided to take a course in. English at the Indiana University Extension Center here.” : Twenty-two boys are enrolled in the course set up by the CAA Act which provides: that 5 per cent of the total appropriation for teaching civilians to fly shall be spent on non-college youths. The non-col-lege courses are taught in Indiana only at Marion and South Bend. A competitive examination is given after 75 hours of instruction in the ground course. The highest 10 per cent of the class get 60 hours of flight ' instruction. If Betty makes the 10 per cent, she’s going to take the flight instruction. : : Betty will drive to Marion for the two-hour sessions three nights a week with William Noftfke, 20, of 430 N. Jefferson Ave. who is also enrolled in the course. -

ington High School, attended Butler University for two years and took a business course at Central Business College before getting her present job in November. Betty lives at 3015 N. Pennsylvania St., with her sister, Miss Harriett Scantland, associate editor of the State Welfare Department magazine. :

Betty graduated from the Worth-

to alleviate existing conditions.” Defense Also Considered

The proposed’ consolidation also would provide more effectively for communication needs incident to national defense, it said. The Commission recommended that legislation be enacted removing existing prohibitions against such a consolidation, but did not suggest specific legislation. It recommended that the sc of consolidation be left to the discretion of the FCC. No suggestions were made for the International Telegraph Service, which will be the subject of a supplemental report. “The financial situation of the Postal System is precarious and that of Western Union, although less critical, is definitely unfavorable,” the Commission said. “These conditions are the result of a long and well-settled trend, and there is no indication of improvement under existing ‘ conditions.

Four Causes Cited

“There is every indication that unsound management policies have contributed to existing unfavorable conditions. . , . ’ “Some of the more important causes underlying this situation are: (A) Decline of telegraph as most important intercity communications service; (B) Leased private lines of Bell System and other competitive services; (C) Attempts to retain or recover business, and (D) Duplication of facilities.” Western Union maintains nearly 20,000 branch offices with 43,490 employees in the United States, while Postal Telegraph has about 4400 offices with 14,560 employees. The Commission said that the offices maintained by the two companies “are greatly in excess of facilities required to handle the present or prospective volume of business.” “The employees cannot be held accountable for the causes of existing conditions and they should receive primary consideration in the formulation and adoption of any eonsolidasion plan,” the Commission said.

2 SUSPECTS HELD IN VINCENNES ROBBERY

Arrest of two suspects in connection with the abduction and robbery of John Borah, 20, Vincennes truck driver, near Vincennes last week, was reported today by State Police. *The suspects, according to word received by Don F., Stiver, State Police superintendent, were arrested

at Cape Girardeau, Mo.

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5 rN ‘0 i Fails in Le PITTSBURGH, Jan. 3 (U. P)— A student assistant librarian at the

University of West Virginia strangled her mother to death, then|

| tried to take her own life today by

leaping out of the sixth-story window of a hotel;, Her mother was secretary of student health service at the university.

Miss Agnes West, 34, said she strangled Mrs. Helen G, West, 58, of Morgantown, W, Va., because of a “dispute” that arose over a “difference of opinion.” So It was learned that Miss West, a native of Detroii, had been a patient at the Huntington State Hospital, Huntington, W. Va., in 1938, and her mother had made arrangements yesterday to have her réad-

( gles Mother but Kill Self |

mitted to the hospital as a “volun-

tary patient.” Police believe the daughter objected to returning to the institution, which is devoted to the treatment of mental and nervous diseases. While attending the University of West Virginia from 1925 to 1929 Miss West was a brilliant student. She flunked out in her medical

Questioned by police at a hospital, |studies at Johns Hopkins University

after twd years. Her father, the late Kenneth J. West, was an electrical engineer born in Johnstown, Pa. : More than eight hours after she strangled her mother with a scarf, Miss West, leaped out of the window of her room on the sixth floor, but struck a false tin roof in an alleyway. The tin gave way and she was found alive by police.

BRIDGES STILL LEGION TARGET

Kelly Says Organization Will Continue to Fight Alien Agitators.

Times Special LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 3.— Failure of the Government's depor-

tation case against Harry Bridges will not deter or diminish efforts of the American Legion to deport “individuals of his ilk,” National Commander Raymond J. Kelly said here today. : In a nationally broadcast address before the Los Angeles Breakfast Club, Mr. Kelly made his first comments since the decision of James M. Landis, Harvard Law School dean, that Mr. Bridges was not a Communist Party member and could not be deported on this ground. The Legion continues to regard Mr. Bridges as an alien agitator and a menace to American institutions, the Commander declared. “The American Legion continues to believe that Harry Bridges is the type of individual who cares not for the privation and suffering of those who labor, but that he is an individual who in' his heart is a servant of a foreign ideology whose object would be to destroy everything we in American hold dear by plunging our people into the tragedy of class warfare. “The American Legion believes that an .aroused public opinion, marked evidence of which is becoming more and more apparent, must soon mean the passing from the contemporary scene of those alienminded men and women who would engender and develop a spirit of destructive class-conflict, protected by the processes of .our constitutionality guaranteed liberties for the individual.”

Y. M. AID TO SPEAK Parker P. Jordan, general secretary of the Central Y. M. C. A, is to speak tonight at 6:30 p. m. at the weekly meeting of the Indiana Central College of the Y. M. C. A. at the’ college. Mr. Jordan will discuss “Facing a New Year.”

11 DIE IN TRAIN WRECK

persons were killed and 72 injured, 12 seriously, when electric trains collided in the suburbs.

This advertisement by following members of the. Marion county League of Building & Loan Associations:

Arsenal Bldg. & Loan Assn.

Atkins Sav. & Loan Assn.

Celtic Federal Sav. - & Loan Assn.

Colonial Sav. ~~ & Loan Assn.

First Federal Sav. & Loan Assn.

Fletcher Ave. Sav. & Loan Assn.

Indiana Sav. & Investment Co.

- Insurance Sav. & Loan Assn.

Peoples Mutual Sav. ~~ & Loan Assn.

Railroadmen's Federal Sav. & Loan Assn.

‘Shelby St. Federal Sav. & Loan Assn.

Union Federal Sav. & Loan Assn.

proposals— in Congress.|

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Time again has told —

These figures SPEAK for THEMSELVES

Number of Loans Made to Indianapolis Home Owners and

Home Buyers in 1939 . . . . . .. 4,198

Dollar Volume of ‘Loans to Indianapolis Home Owners and Home Buyers in 1939 .

Locally owned and operated Savings and Loan Associations in Marion County each year are paying dividends to an increasing number of savers . . . are growing in size . . . are creating ample reserve funds for increased safety. They are, each year, making it possible for more people in Marion County to enjoy the pleasure and independence of owning their own homes.

Any ‘one of the associations named here will help you plan‘ the purchase of YOUR HOME.

\. on THE MARION COUNTY

LOAN ASSOCIATIONS |

- $8,639,262.00

TOKYO, Jan. 3 (U. P.).—Eleven |

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BURNED AS HOT IRON IN BED STARTS FIRE

of the city of Rochester, had a pri-

She was rescued from her blazing bed yesterday by her brother, Orley Fugate, after a heated iron she had placed in the bed td keep her feet warm, had ignited the blankets. Mrs. Stetson was overcome by smoke. was expected to recover.

DISCUSS ORTHOPEDIC DUTIES OF NURSES

Problems confronting the public health nurse in the care of orthovedic patients were discussed today by nurses attending the four-day

orthopedic: conference which opened this morning at the State Welfare Department. Following a welcoming speech by Thurman A. Gottschalk, State Welfare director, Miss Jane Nicholson of the Children’s Bureau of the Department of . Labor addressed the meeting. She discussed the relationship of public health nursing to the crippled children’s program. - Miss Jessie L. Stevenson, registered nurse of the national organization, told the conference of the nurses’ duties in the orthopedic program. Dr. Oliver W. Greer, director of the division of services for crippled children, presided.

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Stamp Club Meets Friday—The Indiana) Stamp Club will hold its first meeting of the year at 8 p. m. Friday at the Hotel Antlers. Members throughout the state are expected to bring their collections to the Tegne. Mrs, Albert Eiteljorg

is club secretary. 1

' ROCHESTER, Ind, Jan. 3 (U. P.).|} —Mrs. Cleo Stetson, clerk-treasurer |

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Robert P. Friedman . , . worship-

ful master.

Robert P. Friedman will be installed Tuesday night as worshipful master of Monument Lodge No. 657, F. and A. M. Other new officers are Champ C Pritchett, senior warden; Jacob Weiss, | junior warden; Otto Cox, treasurer; Eph Levin, secretary; Joseph | Murphy, senior deacon; Leon Hillman, junior deacon; William Ehrhardt, tyler; Mr. Levin, Masonic Temple Association repre-

isentative, and Edgar Kaeppler, Masonic relief board representative. The installation will take place at the Masonic Temple, Illinois and | North Sts., following a 6 p. m. buffet supper. : Addr Bible Club—Milford D. Barrick of the Y. M. C. A. staff at Charlotte, N.°C., and C. E. Guthrie, general “Y” secretary at Marion, Ind., 'will speak at a meeting of the Y Bible Investigation Club at the Central Y. M. C. A. at 6 p. m. today. Both are former Y. M. C. A. staff members here.

Townsend Clib-4 to Meet—Tow.1= sent Club 4 will meet tomorrow night at the Club's headquarters, 2621 W. Washington St. The club will meet every second and fourth Thursday in the month.

Nurses’ Course Continues—Dr. E, W. Dyér and Dr. Russell Sage will answer questions on’ eye, ear, nose and throat care during the third session of the Methodist Hospital poste graduate course for special duty nurses at the Nurses’ Home Friday afternoon. The seminar is presents ed by the committee on nursing of the hospital’s medical staff in coe operation with the alumnae assoe ciation and the School of Nursing faculty.

School Granted $26,509—A check for $26,509.14 has been released to the School Board as part payment on a PWA grant to build an addition to Broad Ripple High School. Previous payments bring the total received to date to $113,202.16. The PWA awarded a grant of $117,000 for this project, the estimated cost of which is $260,000. The Broad Ripple addition includes classrooms, a gymnasium, locker rooms and a cafeteria. :

The Irvington district winner of the peace -declamation contest sponsored by the Church Federation of Indianapolis will be deter~ mined at the Downey’ Avenue Christian Church at 6:30 p. m, Sunday. ' | Participants in the district contest will be representatives of the Tuxedo Park Baptist, Downey Avenue Christian, Irvingten Methodist and Irvington Presbyterian Churches. District winners will compete in the city-wide contest Jan. 21.

Pastor on Radio—Dr. John Fergue son, pastor of the Irvington Presby= terian Church, will speak during “The Bible and Life” program over WFBM at 9:30 p. m. tomorrow. Mrs, Guy O. Carpenter will sing. The program is sponsored by the Church Federation of Indianapolis. |

Civic Club to Meet—The South Side Civic Club will hold its first 1940 meeting Friday evening at Turner Hall and begin a drive for 500 members. Plans also will be formulated for other activities, Charles J. Fritz is secretary of the group.

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