Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1940 — Page 3

{ (BRITISH PLANES | 4 MAKE FLIGHTS | OVER BOHEMIA

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| tempers- were bad, as the guns are | unable to damage the strong case-

cout of 10, were almost universal

Also Maneuver Over Austria For First Time in War And Return Safely.

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sighted three German destroyers off Horn Reef Thursday afternoon and attacked them. Bombs were fe to explode close to the de-

stroyers. No damage was done to the British aircraft. {Reports that German planes had succeeded in ‘raiding the Cheshire shipyards were denied. A fire in the Yarwoods shipyards at Northwick, Cheshire, caused several oxygen cylinders to explode. Some persons | believed for-a time that the explosions were the result of| bursting bombs. Police said there was no question of sabotage.

en German planes off the]

southeast coast were pursued by British planes this afternoon one of them released a long ‘smoke screen and sped out to sea with the R.A. F. fighters in pursuit.

Attack Nazi Destroyers

The Air Ministry denied a German communique claiming that British planes had been shot down near the Luxembourg frontier yesterday and it was denied that any British planes had been shot down by German destroyers in Helgoland Bay. Horm Reef, where the British planes were said to Itave attacked - German destroyers Thursday, is off Glaavland on the coast of Jutland. _ It was understood that the German plane, which the Air Ministry announced had been shot down, was | destroyed in an|engagement which occurred at sea in the Firth of Forth area. Meanwhile, gas masks regained their popularity las a result of the increasing German air raids. The usual complacency of people in the street had been noticeably shaken and gas masks, discarded weeks ago by nine persons

again, . Six Trawlers Sunk Air raid protection authorities in London planned a new recruiting campaign. Scores of trawlers have been attacked and six sunk in the past two weeks and the fishermen were demanding defensive armament for their boats. A. Atkinson, secretary of the Northeast Coast Fishing Vessel

Disabled Plane Lands on River Ice

Only Pilot Charles Wheeler was seriously injured when a Mainliner flying from with eight aboard was forced down by one dead motor.

Pilot Wheeler glided his

Times-Acme Telephoto. Chicago to California ship to the ice of Rock

DRAFT ELLIOTT! MOVE IS GAINING

Democratic Deadlock May Bring Purdue Head Out For Governor.

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who are regarded as the leading popular condidates. State House workers have been warned not to voice favor of any candidate “just yet.” Recently a State Highway employee startgd spreading the gospel for Mr. Peters but he was told by his superiors to

“keep quiet because the Admin-

istration has not decided who it will be for.” It is known that Governor M. Clifford Townsend does not favor Mr. Schricker as a candidate and other Administration leaders have been conspicuously cool toward the candidacy of Mr. Peters.

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There was quite a lot of talk around the State again this week about the supposed Federal investigation of the Democratic Two Per Cent Club and its probable effect,

River near Moline, Ill. He suffered leg fracture in landing.

Comics Wife ~~ Won't Givot

| HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 13 (U. P.).

+—A comedian without his jokes as. George Givot today. His wife locked them. up and 'refused to let them out of the house. : | Givot and his wife, Maryon Curtis, have a divorce suit pending and Mrs. Givot, on the advice of her attorney, would not let Givot have his joke book despite a theatrical engagement billed for Jan. 17. The comedian obtained a court order and a deputy sheriff and went to his home after personal articles which included the coveted joke book. But Mrs. Givot said regardless of court order, sheriff or joke book, he couldn’t come in the house.

CONGRESS WARY ABOUT FINN AID

Fears Loan Would Put U. S. On Record and Lead to Involvement in War.

Congress in Brief

TODAY Both Houses in recess. ? YESTERDAY Senate Monopoly Committee continued investment banking hearings. House passed $264,611,252 emergency defense appropriation bill. Smith Committee continued NLRB hearings. Ways and Means Committee heard

MINTON T0 OFFER "TOLL BRIDGE BILL

Times Special

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Senator Sherman Minton will introduce in

Owners Association, said that “because of the cowardly attacks the] men ask as much protection as it is A union | spokesman added, .that . “our men are clamoring for guns and they

possible to give them.”

are ready to use them.”

East coast lifeboats went out last night in response to what the men believed to be distress signals and found that an armed trawler had been firing on a German bomber Worked out a running score on the comparative strength of G. O. B.

which dropped four bombs near the candidates, based upon what they

The trawler escaped damage.

boat. A steamship was reported at

tacked by a bomber near Filey, but

was not damaged.

A lightship off the east coast sent an SOS wien a bomber attacked it. support, A life boat went out and the crew

was found uninjured.

Two British Planes Shot Down, Nazis Say

BERLIN, Jan.” 13 (U. P.).—Two British airplanes were shot down and a third was damaged in aerial operations yesterday, the High Com-

mand reported today.

campaign.

Club here for several weeks.

istration as Governor,

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described as state-wide surveys. They claimed that Glen R. Hillis,

State Senator

dianapolis lawyer, Benadum, Muncie lawyer.

‘WHY? MOTHER OF

if any, on the McNutt-for-President It is said that Federal men have been checking on the money angles of the Two Per Cent

The club was organized during the first year of Mr. McNutt's Admin-

Republican dopesters this week

right now of Kokomo, has about 40 per cent of the delegate William Jenner of Shoals, 30 per cent, and > | the remaining 30 per cent divided among Judge James A. Emmert of Shelbyville, George R. Jeffrey, Inand Clarence

SLAIN GIRL SCREAMS

the Senate a duplicate of the House Bill granting permission to the Indiana Toll Bridge Commission to construct a bridge over the Ohio River at Cannelton, he announced today. The authorization was introduced in the House by Rep. John W. Boehne Jr. at the commission’s request. George Simler, Corydon, i§ commission president and William Minor, Cannelton, treasurer. Under the commission’s plan the new bridge, which will link Cannelton with Hawesville, Ky., will be operated on tolls until the cost of construction and financing is paid. Senator Minton’s office announced an additional $20,925 from the Public Works Administration - to complete the livestock pavillion at the State Fair Grounds in Indianapolis. Original grant was $514,350, making PWA’s - total contribution $535,725.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U. PJ). —Senator Sherman Minton (D. Ind.) was appointed today .to head

Secretaries Hull and Wallace urge extension of trade treaty program. Naval Affairs Committee continued questioning of Admiral Stark on Naval expansion bill.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U. P.) — Congressional leaders were wary today of President Roosevelt's proposal for nonpartisan consideration of the question of U. S, aid to Finland. They appeared willing to discuss the problem in a nonpartisan light, as was suggested by Mr. Roosevelt yesterday, but were skeptical about the consequences of formal action in aiding Finland. -. j Democrats and Republicans joined in requests for an expression of State Department opinion, and said they feared that this country might become involved in Europe's war if it granted a loan to Finland. Legislation has been introduced in the Senate and House authorizing the RFC to lend the Finnish Government $60,000,000. Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones conferred with several Sena-/ tors yesterday, but no announcement was made concerning the purpose of‘ his visit. The proposed Finnish legislation has been sent to him and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., for opinions. Senator William E. Borah (R. Ida.) told reporters, as did‘ most Senators and Representatives, that he was sympathetic toward Finland, but that a loan to the republic “presents a very serious problem.” “I don’t propose to take any step that would involve us in .this Euro-

| RAIN DEATH ON | HELSINKI AGAIN]

Thirty Bombs Kill Two and

One British plane was downed and another . damaged when a squadron of eight tried to bomb the Helgoland Bay area, it was said. The communique admitted that two attacking planes dropped bombs. A British plane was shot down by German pursuit planes over Germany, the communique said, and

MAUCH CHUNK, Pa., Jan. 13 (U. P.).—Mrs. Mayme Stevens, mother of 14-year-old Joan Stevens, shot and fatally wounded by State Motor Police Corporal Benjamin Frank-

lin, today created an uproar at his trial by shouting: “Why did they

a Senate Military Affairs sub-com-mittee to consider whether former Capt. Oberlin M. Carter, who was court-martialed from the Army in 1898, should be reinstated. Capt. Carter was charged with

crashed. in French territory.

German airplanes continued reconnaissance activity in the North Sea and eastern Rrance, it was said. The Western Front was reported

quiet.

PARIS, Jan. 13 (U. P.).—French | lines | along the quiet Rhine front engaged in a brisk, butiresultless duel with heavy and light machine guns today, military infoPmants said. The

and German troops in the

kill my child?” “Why did they kill her?” screamed hysterically.

took her away from me.”

she “Why did they- kill my poor child? They killed my poor child, my child! He

She was escorted from the courtroom by bailiffs and her husband, John. The jury was in the courtroom when the outburst occurred but Chief Defense Counsel Ben Branch announced he would not enter a petition for ‘a mistrial.

permitting contractors to deliver supplies which did not meet contract specifications for harbor work in Savannah, Ga. Protesting his inndcence, he has been trying ever since to have his record cleared. The House last year passed a bill to accomplish this, and now the Senate sub-commitee will consider the matter. Other members of the sub-com-mittee are Senators Edwin C. Johnson (D. Col) and Rufus Holman (D. Ore.).

pean affair,” he said. “I think the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ought to give very thorough consideration to the matter and that by all means we ought to have certain information which I presume the State Department has.” Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope recently tried in vain to borrow $50,000,000 from a New York bank.

House Group Slashes At Roosevelt Budget

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U. P.) — An economy-minded House Appropriations Committee prepared today to give Congress concrete proof of its intentions to slash President Roosevelt's $8,424,000,000 budget. The “finishing touches have been

fire was regarded as a sign that

Judge Shull said he would instruct the jurors to disregard the incident.

POLITICIAN GETS 2 YEARS

mates along the front.

German artillery (was reported active along the Western Front and it was said that French and Gerreconnaissance planes flew

man over each others’ territory.

EDUCATOR’S WIDOW DIES

P)—Mrs. Neva Axe Brown,

died at her home today.

VALPARAISO, Ind. Jan. 13 (U. 74, widow of Henry Baker Brown, founder of Valparaiso University,

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 13 (U. P.).—John J. Pryor, the hard-fisted Democratic leader who made thousands from public construction contracts given his companies by the Pendergast political machine, today

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record) Thomas, Mabelle Blackwell, at St. VinHarold, Virginia Galyean, at St. Vin-

ent’s. Edward, Mary McCarthy, at St. Vine|! S

DEATHS TO DATE

County City Total

2 0

1939 1940

sesesraseesvens 1

‘ Jan, 12

Injured essere 1Arrests .......31 res Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid $0 - 15

Dead .........1 Accidents

Speeding ........ 0 Reckless driving . 2 Failure to stop at through street. 2 Disobeying traffic signal .coecoeee 2

TolRlE rrrssoea15 118

MEETINGS TODAY

Indi pool Hotel. all day Hoine Missions Council and Council Women for Home Hotel Severin, all day.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

names and addresses.)

Charles Wilfred Hughes, 323, Jalayeue: Virginia Ho y. 21, 28.

16th. bert William Koons, 33. of 911 eration: Mary Smith, 20, of 2 laware. 2

of of

Whitaker, 26. of 1125 Pleas-

man. Fim PL. ant: Ruth Elizabeth Hampton, 27, or 12 Hiatt. :

BIRTHS Boys Messalem,

5 Michael, Selma ee

ana. Bar Association, meetings, Clayay.

sions, convention,

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West

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8. Lyons; 2737 Sher-

at Methodist.

cent 3

1| Chester, Mary Healton, at 520 Leon.

Charles, Mary Johnson, at 1035 River, Girls

Fay, Opal Morganthaler, at Methodist. Maurice, Alva Clemens, at Methodist.

Harold, Agnes Hulse, at St. Vincent's.

Robert, Geneva Smith, at 1261 W. 30th,

DEATHS Edna Woods, 45, at City, toxic goiter. dilatation of heart

ty dilatation of heart. Ri 78, at 2161 Station,

illiam Mahan, 67, at : tis. Almira Sewell, 86, do Ban Rhus chronic myocarditis

carditis. Thomas Muldoon, carcinoma

edema of lungs

Bruce Floyd, rheumatic heart

15, at Methodist, myocarditis. nary thrombaosis. bral hemorrha; cinoma. nald Wallace, 3, EB nmaeny Wallace, 3, ab Riley, lobar pn .| John Faust, 83, at City, myocarditis. —————— FIRES

: Friday 118 A. M.— flue, $1. 1355 9:51 A. areas e, 42 5:5

M.—1643 Leonard. hot ashes. Bs M.—918 N.

wire, $3 Saturday

2:02 A. ee a M 602 W. McCarty, f 7:23 A Maat N. Penal on roof. *

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William, Thelma Walker, at 1936 Mansfield

William, Amelia Karsner, at Methodist. Charles, Helene Wenner, at St. Vincent's.

Ernest, Helen Antrobus, at 706 N. King. Dwight, Marilyn Call, at 29 N. Addison.

Anna Richardson, 93, at 544 Agnes, acute White, 31, at 1307 Ewing, acute ar-

5168 Kenwood, George Sears, 65, at City, chronic myo68, at St. Vincent's, Barbara Abdon, 79, at 2112 N. Delaware, Ernie Reynolds, 1, at City, lobar pneuacute Simon Goldman, 86, at 225 E. Raymond, se Robertson, 68, at 1549 Harlan, coroMatilda Albin, 84, at 724 S. East,| cereMinnie Johnsey, 59, at 2215 Winter, garLeslie Wilhoite, 45, at Long, liver abscess. Do! et~

1, N. Senate, defective

Pennsylvania, hot 0 P. M — 1154 S. West, defective

M.—135 E, 48th, cigaret, not

. arty, false. Pennsylvania, sparks

was sentenced to prison for two years and fined $20,000 for income tax evasion.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8S. Weather Bureas

’ INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Rain tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer with lowest temperature tonight about 38.

Sunrise ....... %.06 | Sunset .......4:42

TEMPERATURE: —Jan. 13, 1939— reeves 31 1p.m. ........ 30

BAROMETER 6:30 a. m. ..... 29.97

Precipitation 24 hours ending 7 a. m.....T Total precipitation since Jan. 1 .29 Deficiency since Jan. 1 .

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Rain tonight and tomorrow, except rain or snow in extreme north portion; slightly warmer in south portion. Illineis—Rain tonight and tomorrow in south, rain or snow in north portion; slightly warmer in south tonight and in extreme south portion tomorrow. 7 Lower Michigan—Rain or snow in central portions. probably snow in cxtreme north portion tonight an tomorrow; slightly warmer in southwest portion to-

Ohio—Rain tonight and tomorrow, slowNY Iising temperature tomorrow; colder by

. Kentucky—Rain with slowly rising temjeratute tonight and tomorrow; colder by

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M.

put on the independent offices bill by an Appropriations Subcommittee which will submit it to the House Tuesday. It makes “substantial reductions,” Subcommittee Chairman Clifton A. Woodrum (D. Va.) said. For independent offices, exclusive of strictly executive offices, the President asked $1,926,562,173. Mr. Woodrum termed the bill he will report next week “a proof of the sincerity of our intentions to econ-

— | omize.”

Business Advisory Unit Supports Trade Pacts

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U. P.). —The Business Advisory Council,

-|composed of more than 50 ranking

industrialists and businessmen, has given support to the Administration’s fight to continue the recriprocal trade agreements program another three years, it was learned Today. e group, which advises Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins on business-government problems, was said to have adopted s resolution at the close of one of its periodic meetings here yesterday favoring extension of the program as requested by President Roosevelt

OVIET PLANES

~ Wound 20; One Falls in

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Central Front, had reached a point within 13 miles of Kemijaervi. The

of Finland Russian troops had penetrated deeper than had been reported earlier.

Salo, Lahti, Aabo, Raumo, Bjornborg, Hingve and Riihimaeki, it asserted. Severe damage was reported and it was said that numerous houses were burned or otherwise destroyed.

Three Planes Shot Down

Telephonic advices to Stockholm from Aabo reported that three Russian airplanes were shot down by

raid on Aabo, it was said, but numerous persons were injured. Several houses were damaged by incendiary bombs, it was said. A National Tidende Stockholm dispatch reported that a thaw has succeeded the bitter cold on the Salla front in Finland and that in consequence Finnish ski. patrols were handicapped. The Russians seemed to have profited by the thaw to attempt an attack on the Petsamo Far Northern front, the dispatch said, but there was no indication whether it was a serious one. On the Mid-Finland front, in the Kuhmo sector south of Suomussalmi, the Finns were reported to have

penetrated as far as 10 miles inside

Russia, reaching the town of Ruokhala.

Try to Trap 40,000 Reds

from the Finnish front reported that the Finns were trying to surround a Russian force of 40,000 men on the Salla” front. Unconfirmed reports were quoted that 18,000 Russians already had been surrounded. Russian planes were said to be dropping provisions to men on the Salla front. Antoine Moller, a correspondent for the newspaper Politiken here, said in a dispatch that he had crossed the Russian frontier with Finnish troops. Mr. Moller said that en route with a Finnish motorcade a group of Russian soldiers appeared and asked “for a lift.” He said the Finns emptied their - revolvers at the Russians. He dropped to the floor of his car and remained there until his photographer told him he was back in Finland. ;

Guards Not Needed

The writer reported that in the Suomussalmi area some .Russian prisoners had been put on evacuated Finnish farms and were given considerable freedom of movement during the day because the Finns had no guards to spare for them. The Finns had invited the Russians to go home if they liked, Mr. Moller asserted, but none seemed eager to escape. Stockholm press dispatches re-

had reached the Salla front, ‘some in big transport planes, and that the Russians had repaired the Murmansk Railroad so that they were now able to move up troops and supplies for the Salla front. _An Oslo press dispatch reported that on the Petsamo Arctic front Russian troops had been withdrawn from Liinihamari and that all but one of the Russian ships in harbor had gone. The Russians were reported to be trying to move reinforcements up to the Petsamo area from the Kandalaksk White Sea base. :

Moscow Denies Arrest Of 105 High Officers

MOSCOW, Jan. 13 (U, P.).—High official informants denied today as “malicious, provocative fabrications without the slightest foundation” Oslo, Norway, reports that 105 high Russian officers had been arrested as the result of a Russian defeat on the Finnish Suomussalmi front. The informants said that there had been no changes in personnel in the Russian army in Finland.

Belgium Takes

‘Defense Measures’ BRUSSELS, Jan. 13 (U. P.).—An official communique disclosed today that “certain defense measures” were taken yesterday. It was learned reliably that Belgium decided to re-enforce defenses on the eastern frontier chiefly because of almost daily flights by German planes over Belgian territory. It was said, too, that the defenses

German press articles hostile to neutral nations. * Rumors circulated that a German plane which made a forced landing this week at Mechelen Sur Meuse carried documents indicating that German fliers had maps of Belgian forts. / It was understood that part of the re-enforcement will involve calling up a small number of industrial workers to build military works.

SWEDE ATHLETES VOLUNTEER . STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 13 (U. P.)—Ivar Skeppstedt, motorcycle racer, and the pole vaulting star, Westberg, have volunteered for service with the Finnish Army,

and Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

JOLIET, Ili, Jan. 13 (U. P.).—All was confusion today when housewives opened kitchen faucets to draw water for their breakfast coffee and tasted beer—or was it soda pop? i Water Commissioner Joseph PF. Whalen said that he didn't know what was: wrong, but he was going to find out. He was certain that it was something more than overworked imagination because more than one housewife had tasted it. One woman said it tasted like

3 beer. A man said definitely it was

‘beer and he wanted jt stuter, with

MARS,

Draw One, With a Collar! Kitchen Taps Give Beer

it was made known today.

it was strawberry soda. Others said it tasted like vanilla. : Mr. Whalen thought that perhaps the trouble was pressure. He said

bottling plants were located in the neighborhood from which the com-

cross sections with city mains.

supply.

Hospital Courtyard.

report indicated that at the “waist”|

- Towns bombed yesterday included |

Finnish anti-aircraft gunners yes-|:‘ terday. Nobody was killed in the

A Berlingske Tidende dispatch|

ported that Russian reinforcements.

would: be strengthened because of].

| their ~own bargaining

a collar on it. Another woman said |

two breweries and two soft-drink

plaints came. The companies supply their own water from wells, he said, but their private water lines have

He believed the pressure in the private pipes had risen above the city’s pressure and had forced the multi-flavored water into the city’s

PHOENIX, Ariz, Jan. 13 (U. P.) —Joan Bennett, the wistful little actress. who countered Hollywood’s last glamour importation by letting her hair return to its natural brown, was married yesterday to her employer-producer Walter Wanger.

FARMERS MOST APT T0 WRECK “FD. R. BUDGET

Parity Payments Demanded . Bigger. Defense Program Is Challenged.

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. — The Roosevelt budget probably will be

i «| wrecked by the farmers. How much

the farm bloc in Congress will increase the Roosevelt deficit depends chiefly on how much it can grab from the huge defense estimates, if

jany. :

Times-Acme Telephoto.

Film Producer Walter Wanger . . + and bride, Joan Bennett.

They motorea here from Hollywood and went unrecognized to the Court House offices of Justice of the Peace Harry Westfall. Miss Bennett's change of coiffure resulted in a striking resemblance to dark-haired Hedy Lamarr. .

Pity a Human

Ape Needs No Ration ~ Card in Germany; KWH in Igloo.

NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (U. P.).— Dour commentary on humanity, that item from Berlin. It said: “The only ‘civilian’ in Germany who will not require a food ration card was born in the Frankfurt Zoo—a baby silverhaired ape.” : There’s no use carrying on about it. Too many other things to think about. Such as: Let-um Be Light The Natural History Magazine says there’s an iglod¢at the mouth of the Mackenzie River in Northwest Canada equipped with an electric light plant.. The Eskimo owner tells his neighbors he can turn on the moon by touching a switch.

He Asked for It

George Wray, 24, of Hamilton, Ontario, thumbed a ride three weeks ago. The auto hit a train. Wray escaped unhurt He thumbed a second ride last week. Again the car was wrecked. Again " Wray escaped. Then Thursday night Wray—you guessed it. The car hit a pole. Wray suffered fractures of both legs.

Stay "Way From My Phone

Police at Lynn, Mass., lamented the comeback of the corset. They said thieves were using corset stays to cheat the phone company. The way it’s done, you insert a stay in the telephone coin slot, get a dial tone, twirl a number and hang up. The nickel you didn’t spend is returned.

Love at College

At Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., the debating team is arguing the subject: “Resolved that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

What About Sneezers?

If you can prove someone else gave you that cold, it's worth $10 to you. Superior Judge William A. Burns of Boston so ruled in the case of Mrs. Celia Heath, 51, who said she got a cold because a Woolworth store waitress spilled a pitcher of cold water on her. . She asked $2000 but got oaly $10.

Okay, S. P. C. A.?

Mrs. Howard Simpson, 36-year-old. infantile paralysis victim at Saranac Lake, N. Y., refused to leave her burning home until her pets were saved. Fireman Joe Murphy carried her out, however, and then rescued three white rats, 10 guinea pigs and three cats.

JOBS NO. 1 PROBLEM, LEWIS, GREEN AGREE

WASHINGTON, Jan. i3 (U. P). —The C. I. O. and A. F. of L. agreed today that the No. 1 domestic problem in this country is unemployment. Both called for similar methods of solving the problem. The two labor organization’s views were included in their legislative programs for 1940 presented to Congress today by C. I. O. President John L. Lewis and A. F. of L. President William Green. - They were diametrically opposed with respect to the National Labor Relations Act, but in agreement on unemployment and on the belief that the United States must keep out of war. : The C. I O. asked amendments to provide criminal penalties for violations of the act, to bar awarding of Government contracts to violators, and to prohibit the Board “from carving up industrial units ‘established by the industrial unions of the C. I. O.” The Federation urged enactment of the WalshBarden amendments to change the Board, permit workers to choose units, and “check the present tendency of the Board to attempt to shape the form and character of the trade union movement.”

HERE'S AN OLD ONE

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 13 (U. P.) — Producer Hal Roach has b:en in-

last November on the Nevada desert probably was a foredear of the oyster. : Mr. Roach found the curious fossil and took it to the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. Paleontologist Henry Anson Wylde identified it as a pecten, a mollusk that lived millions ¢f years ago. was the ancestor of the oyster, 4 : x

ABOUT HAL ROACH|

formed that a fossil he picked up| @8

It resembled and probably ||

I. 5. TOREOPEN WPA QUIZ HERE

Federal Grand Jury Will Begin New Inquiry on Projects Monday.

A special Federal Grand Jury called to investigate alleged WPA irregularities in Marion County will open sessions at 9:30 a. m. Monday. In. preparation for its meetings, Richard Thompson, chief of the WPA division of investigation of investigation at Chicago, conferred yesterday afternoon with U. S. Attorney Val Nolan. The Grand Jury.was called at the conclusion of the Carl Kortepeter case here in December to consider all alleged WPA irregularities in the Southern Indiana district. It was called after Mr. Nolan told

.|the Kortepeter jury that “if you go

along with me in this and bring in a verdict of guilty, I promise you 1 will call a special Grand Jury to hear evidence I now have in my possession or further evidence I can get.” Two Convicted Kortepeter, former Marion County WPA co-ordinator, and his fath-er-in-law, Gurney G. Derbyshire, were convicted of converting WPA labor to build roads on Derbyshire Addition, south of Indianapolis. Although Mr. Nolan yesterday declined to discuss what projects he and Mr. Thompson were talking about, the WPA’s investigators have made reports on these projects: Extension of Ritter Ave. through Rolling Acres. The investigators said that more than $80,000 was spent on this project before it was stopped by John K. Jennings, state WPA administrator, because it was not authorized. Flood Project Listed

Extension of Maynard Ave. through a field near the Southport High School stadium. A sewer in Homecroft, subdivision near Southport. Extension of Barth Ave. and Grube St. through privately owned land for subdivision. The $6,000,000 White River flood control project. Crow’s Nest Drive, which runs off

| Spring Mill Road near 62d St.

George J. Shillito and Matthew J. Connelly, other investigators who were sent here by the Congressional Committee probing the WPA, will leave here late this month to begin a similar probe at Miami, Fla., they said today. j These two investigators, who came here last summer, have completed their study of WPA conditions in this state, except for a few “loose ‘ends,” but will remain here in case Mr. Nolan decides to call them as witnesses before the Grand Jury. Complete Marion Investigation Mr. Shillito and Mr. Connelly said they recently completed an investigation of WPA activities at Marion, Ind. “Our task is finding means of preventing future irregularities rather than curing those of the past,” Mr. Shillito said. “Any evidence of criminal misconduct we have found will be turned over to the district attorney.” £1

C. Y. 0. QUEEN CHOSEN ~ Miss Rosemary \Bakius, 1201 S. Meridian St., was chosen queen of the Catholic Youth Organization's inter-parochial dance series at a dance last night at the St. Philip Neri Hall, 530 N. Rural St. Miss Bakius represented the Sacred Heart Club. Miss Mildred Adrian, 4910 E. New York St., representing Our Lady of Lourdes Club, was named maid of honor. The dance was conducted by the St. Francis de Sales Club.

ment for ideas

the new 1940

now on display.

Ad Uv

The American Farm Bureau Fed-

eration. has no- ' |tified the Presi-

dent that it will fight for $807,

1 1000,000 for par-

ity payments.

| That is exactly

$807,000,000 more than the budget provides. The farm lobby officers added that they would favor a special tax if necessary ior this purpose, but . he chances of such a tax are slim, Congress may cut the President's demands for a much bigger Navy and Army—at least a little. This is an unexpected development. A fort- . night ago: it was generally assumed hat the defense .increases would go over almost automatically, with only the small so-called .anti-militarist group objecting.

Mr. Denny

Requests Challenged {

But the Democratic economy group and Senate Republicans are now challenging the Army-Navy requests. They may succeed in reduce ing the $2,116,000,000 defense estimate, which is about four times as much as in the first Roosevelt year. There will be a scramble, of course, to restore any such defense “savings” to the sundry social-wel-fare and relief agencies which the President cut when he proposed the efense increases. Who gets what will depend on the strength of the competing lobbies. And ‘no lobby. has been as powerful in recent years as the farm lobby—not even the military and pension lobbies. The farm lobby increased the Federal aid to agriculture from $156,000,000 in 1930 to $1,317,000,000 for 1940, or almost 750 per cent. The total increase in Federal net expenditures in that decade of depression and relief was 172 per cent,

This Is Election Year’

So in any year and under any circumstances the farm lobby can be depended on. Last year it was able to override the President and the Congressional economy bloc and get $225,000,000 for parity payments not in the budget. - And this is election year—the time when the farm lobby really shines, When the House Appropriations Committee this week voted to hold all bills within the Roosevelt $8,424,000,000 budget, its otherwise safe majority was reduced to three votes on the farm-subsidy issue. That is even before the lobby has put the heat on the Mouse. Always the Republicans have campaigned as “the farmer's friend.” This year their show is going to be bigger and better than ever. They were particularly encouraged by the Rerublican swing in the farm belt in the 1938 elections, and this year they are determined to cash in.

War Prosperity Fails

Already the Republicans have succeeded in dividing the farm organizations on the Hull trade-pacts issue. ' They are convinced that they can make much hay out in the counties with their streamlined ver= sion of the old tariff vote-catcher. Also, the G. O. P. politicians are putting the Democrats on the spot, surprisingly enough, in the merger

"of the Farm Credit Administration

with the Department of Agriculture. Worst of all for the Administration, perhaps, is the farmer’s disappointment over the war market. He had high hopes ‘that foreign orders would wipe out his price-depressing surplus. Instead, now comes the Administration’ warning him that the European war in the long run probably will hurt American agriculture more than it will help, that his surpluses are still large, that Euro=pean countries have stored large.reserves and that we have upward of 40,000,000 excess acres in production. - So Congress probably will be fairly easy pickings for the farm lobby in this election year.

DIAMOND HORSESHOE SOLD ‘DOWN RIVER’

NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (U. P.).— Directors of the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Co. have voted, with misgiving and regret, to accept the offer of $1,970,000 for the Opera House made by the Metropolitan Opera Association, the Opera producers. If the deal is consummated, such stockholders as J. P. Morgan will have no assurance that the general public will not be sitting in the parterre boxes next to them in the famous “diamond horseshoe.” The boxes would be. offered to anyone willing to pay the price, and generations of the strictest” exclusiveness

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