Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1940 — Page 19
£00,000 CURD | BRITAIN AGAINST RAIL SABOTAGE
Nation Takes Stern Steps to Offset Nazi Plot to Smash ~~ Main Lines. : LONDON, Jan. 17 (U. P) —Six
hundred thousand British railroad men were put on the alert today
against an alleged German plot to!
sabotage communications.
It was asserted that authorities
had uncovered a plot by the German Intelligence Service aimed at public works, communica tion 5, bridges and railroads. . Necessary counter measures were taken at once, it was understood, and secret instructions were sent to railroad officials to keep al sharp watch for suspicious characters.
Main Lines Targets |
The implication was that not only railroad workers, but others had been enlisted in a gigantic counter espionage organization. eports were that main line railroads were tne chief targets of the alleged ploters. ’ News of the danger to communications came as the country pondered the grave warnings of | Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and other key Cabinet men, that the war might soon enter a more acute “Phase. Allied sources concede that Germany is now superior in airplanes and perhaps in some other arms of warfare. But they say that the relative strength of the Allies is growing and that the Allied production of airplanes and other weapons, plus the purchases of planes in the United States, is turning the balance against Germany. On that basis, some Britons believe Herr Hitler's military experts may advise him to act early in the spring, before Allied supremacy is assured, and that he will decide on ruthless airplane and submarine warfare against Britain.
Nazi Plane Attack Hinted
Reports have reached - London from neutral sources that Germany As preparing for such warfare, particularly for violent airplane attacks on British ports co-ordinated with submarine and mine laying camPpaigns. - The Leslie Hore-Belisha sensation fizzled with yesterday's House of Commons session in which Mr. Hore-Belisha spoke on his resigna- _ tion from the War Ministry and Mr. Chamberlain replied—both being
careful to say little and to start no]
new controversy. German newspapers showed great amusement over the debate in the -British House of Commons, in -which, as they put it, Prime Minister Chamberlain disinissed Leslie Hore“Belisha as war secretary because of his “very great qualities.” “That is a splendid commentary on the capacities of those ministers who remain in office,” said the Voelkischer Beobachter, official “newspaper organ of the Nazi Party.
LUMBER FIRM PAYS © $500 FOR OVERTIME
Under terms of a consent decree issued by Federal Court Judge Robert C. Baltzell, approximately 40 employees of the National Veneer & Lumber Co., 1635 W. Michigan St., will be paid $500.65 in overtime wages. : The complaint, filed on behalf of Harold D. Jacobs, Wage-Hour Division administrator of the U. S. Department of Labor, charged the defendant with failure to pay its employees one and one-half times their regular salary for overtime work. This was the first case filed in Indiana by the Division which involved only the failure to comply with {the overtime provisions of the Wages and Hours Law. All other cases| involved failure te pay minimum, wages.
PEPPER NO FRIEND OF COLDS AND FLU
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (U. P.). —Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) ‘wants something done about the common cold. He introduced 11 yesterday to appropriate $100,000 to the Public Health Service to investigate causes and cures of the cold, influenza and
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_Tosses Hat In
LOUISIANA OTE INDICATES LONG FACES RUNOFF
Returns Show Governor’s Total Is Far Below
‘was Sixth District director for the
Lenhardt E. Bauer . .. in the race to Washington.
Bauer of Terre Haute to Seek Democratic Bid For Congress.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Jan. 17 (U. P.).—Lenhardt E. Bauer, former member of the State Legislature and Terre Haute lawyer, today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Sixth District. Mr. Bauer, a native of Vigo County, ¢praduated from Indiana University and served in the 1933 and 1935 Legislatures and in the 1936 Special Session. He was deputy prosecutor of Vigo County until he resigned to enter private practice. Mr. Bauer was Democratic caucus Ise def in the House and. helped direct | many pieces of legislation through the Gemeral Assembly. He was admitted to the bar at Terre Haute in 1931 and in 1932 he
Commerce Department business survey. He is a member of the Lutheran Church and holds a second lieutenant commission in the U, S. Infantry Reserve,
COMEBACK FORECAST FOR LLOYD GEORGE
LONDON, Jan. 17 (U. P.).—David Lloyd George, .who has had a political role in two of Britain's wars may be given a voice in the conduct of a [third war, it was reported today, on his 77th birthday. Should Primé€ Minister Neville Crater quit, it was said, Mr. Lloyd George might be sought out for the unofficial role of “elder staesman” and adviser, whose inspiring record in the World War could help animate the country’s war effort again. | This would be expected to be the case especially if Mr. Lloyd George’s old World War cr ny, Winston Churchill, became Pri ne Minister,
HUNT INAUGURATION IS SET FOR JAN. 27
Timez Special | DANVILLE, Ind. Jan. 17. —Hun- | dreds of Central Normal College | alumni are to attend the inaugural ceremonies of Virgil Hunt as presi-
dent of Central Normal here the! afternoon of Jan. 27. The inaugural ceremonies coirncide with the Home-¢oming activities which had already been planned for that date. The | inauguration ceremony will begin at 2:30 p. m. and will be followed by the inaugural banquet at 6 p. m. Following the banquet, the Central Normal College hasketball team will play the Manchester College squad. The ceremonies will end with a Home-coming Ball, following the game, in the gymnasium. President Hunt, a native of Oakland City, is 28 years old, and a graduate of Indiana University in 1932.
30-OUNCE BABY DIES LANSING, Mich., Jan. 17 (U. P.). —Kay Fern Emerson, who weighed only 2512 ounces at birth Dec. 22. died late yesterday in an incubator at the Sparrow Hospital. Born three months prematurely, she was the
day with thorough dispatch;
Required Majority.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 17 (U. P.). —Governor Earl K. Long will have to carry the fight to save the dynasty, founded by his brother Huey P. Long, into’ a second Democratic gubernatorial primary election, incomplete returns from 539 of Louisiana’s 1704 precincts indicated today. Governor Long had a total of 85,093 against the combined total of 103,634 of the four anti-admin-istration candidates at noon. Sam Houston Jones, Lake Charles attorney, was second with 52,002. The vote for the other candidates stood: State Senator James A. Noe, 38,927;
| James H. Morrison, Hammond at-
torney, 10,230, and Vincent Moseley, Opelousas businessman, 2469. Under Louisiana law, the two leading candidates in a primary election must compete in a run-off primary unless one candidate receives a majority of all votes cast in the regular primary. Long Leads in City Mr. Long held a majority of 350 votes in New Orleans with unofficial complete returns of all but three of the city’s precincts tabulated. He had predicted that he would carry the city by a large majority, offsetting the anti-administration vote in the out-state parishes. Both Governor Long and Mr. Jones announced early today that they had won. In general tumult, the election compared favorably with any conducted during Huey Long's reign, and like several of its predecessors, it ‘was foredoomed to Federal investigation. . Mr. Noe had four fist fights in the course of the day. even though he had broken his right hand in the first one, at 5:20 a. m. “Goon” squads—pug-uglies from the wharves and bums from the hobo jungles—roamed the city all day in the interests of at least three of the candidates. Jones and
hired “goons,” but said they had done so in self defense against Long machine “goons.” The “Goons’ ”’ duty was to drive voters to polls, stop and start precinct fights as conditions warranted; pour ink in ballot boxes, which they did yestersteal and prevent the theft of ballot boxes, also as the situation warranted. The average pay was $10 per “Goon,” plus $1 for meals. Photographers Arrested Police Superintendent. George Reyer, a carry-over from Huey Long's time, ordered all out-of-town photographers arrested. He said members of the machine-con-trolled election arbitration committee had recommended the arrests because an out-of-town photographer, working for Mr. Jones, had had his jaw broken in a poll booth brawl. Mr. Noe, an oil and radio station operator, once was in the Huey Long fold and he had a brief experience as Governor between the
| office and the next election. Mr. Jones, a Lake Charles attorney, stated his platform succinctly. It was: “Throw the thieves out.” Mr. Morrison enlived the campaign with burlesque typical of Huey Long's time. A feature was his “convict parade,” of men labeled as high state officials wearing prison stripes. Plainly labeled were . former Governor Richard W. Leche, hotel operator Seymour Weiss, merchant Abraham L. Shushan, three ranking heirs of Huey Long. All but Leche ‘have been convicted of misuse of the mails in their handling of State funds. Leche is under indictment.
2 YOUTHS SENTENCED
Wilbur Richardson, 19, of 540 N. Pine St., and Dale Query, 18, of 645 N. Davidson St. received - prison sentences of two and four years, respectively, today in Criminal Court after they pleaded guilty to a charge of second degree burglary. They admitted to Judge Dewey E. Myers that they had burglarized 21 estab-
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theron
pneumonia,
Emerson of Holt. She had gained] five ounces since birth.
lishments in the past six weeks, getting loot of $600 which they used to buy clothes.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record DEATHS TO DATE
County City Total 1939 ........... 1 2 3 1940 esse t tose 1 1
Jan. 16 . 4'Arrests ....... 15 0/Accidents 8 TUESDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid 1 $5 3 11
2
0
; Injured ....
“ Speeding . ! Reckless driving. . “ Failure to stop at through street. . . Disobeying traffic . signal “Drunken driving. . All others ..
Totals ....
2
21 871
MEETINGS TODAY Y. MC 4 Camera Club, meeting, Y.
“Club. Hotel, Men's Discussion Club, dinner,
m Lions luncheon, Claypool noon. ’ : Young M. C. A...6 pn. Purdue Alumni luncheon, Hotel Severin. noon. 12th Distriet, American Legion, luncheon, Board of al 5 a Alpha Epsilon, Pacheon. Board of rade, aise Real Estate Board, Property Management | Division luncheon, Can-
‘ary fia The Delta 7 + Vs Tau, luncheon, Seville Tav-
Association,
ern 3 Boro tive Club of Indianapolis, luncheon, Columbia Club, no _ Indiana Motor Traflie sociation, luncheon, Hotel Antlers, noon Junior Chamber of Commerce, luncheon, Plug Clu. noon ws Club, meeting, Chamber of Com-
7:3 m p Kiwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,
MEETINGS TOMORROW
Inglans lis Real Esate Board, luncheon, Hotel Washington; Advertising Club of in rapolis, luncheon, ‘Athletic Club. noon. Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade,
oon. n Paul, Catherine Matrau, at 827 BE. New Caravan Club, luncheon, Murat’ Temple,
n. d 0il Club, ne Severin Hotel, noon. “. Construction Indianapolis. ~ luncheon, Architects and’ Builders Building. noon. Indianapolis Camera Club, Meeting, 110
ol 20! mon 33 mn
carcinom -
E. 8th 8t., 8 p. ma
Beta Theta Pi, luncheon, Canary Cottage. noon
Lambda Chi Alpha Al Russet Cafeteria, Pa AL Association,
MARRIAGE LICENSES (T
ese lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)
Ro Lunte, wl At A710 .E. 10th; Irene
Gates, 20, of 15! William Rual Jones, oy 933 English; orth,
‘of Kathleen Frances Hall, 26, of 423 E. emp aaraaa.
BIRTHS
Boys Louis. Frances Lathrop, at Methodist. - Bl Dorothy Hagneman, at MethJohn, Wanda Rosehrougi, at Methodist. Curtis. Lorene Neal, 501 Warren. Maurice, Mable Elliott, at 1541 E,
Frolik, Hilda anor.
Ray-
Donoho, at 2934 Forest
Girls
Will. Dorothy Long, at City. Stanley, Mary Doulas: ty City. Riley, Jane lair, at Elbert, Thadious oe Vet Methodist. Wallace, Bella Baker, at Coleman, Jesse Lucille Feld, af Coleman. Robert. Alice Harper. at Coleman. Norman, Jennie Brier, at St. francis. Paul, Joan Kent, at St. Fran ci Anpur, Dorothy Galinsky, James, Meridian
cis. pis St. Pran- . Sylvia McGlaughlin, at 1653 S.
DEATHS Franklin Mills, o 94, at 665 E, 25th, arteriosclerosis. Lawrence Murphin, 12, of Riley, bypostatis pneumonia. Pauline Patton, 49, at City, pulmonary tuberculosis. Vernie Corliss, 52, at Methodist, agute peritonitis. Alonzo Sargent, 93, at 1608 Churchman, arteriosclerosis. Malinda Fox, 91, at 5828 Dewey, chronic myocarditis. Mary McAllister, 62, at 617 E. Vermont, carcinom Allged 2 ughes. 6, at City, leukemia. wim Spreng, 68, at 823 N. Butler, Vivian Grittin, 22, at City, tuberculous m Myrtle Gurnell, 28, at City. peritonitis.
Mary Tucker, 74, at 544 W. 16th, carci- Mism, i,
noma, a ‘
FIRES
Tue 12:29 A. MoPeneAY is and 32d. auto, | Omaha.
035 $2. ol 31 A. M.—350 Middle, trash near stove, 8 1:19 P. M.—5971 Rawls. Nipset stove 1:20 i ro — ans & Cp. poultry Boiss
3: 5 #. M228 N- filinol is Wi
3: 5 P. M.—1433 W. Ohio. false alarm. 6:3 M.—1400 E New York, auto. 9 > M.—131 N. Pennsylvania, loss $3. 9:53 P. M.—21711 Winthrop, garage, cause undeterthinéa. loss $75 P. 1000 E. 27th, sparks from 2711 Winthrop, garage, loss $10.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. S. Weather Bureau am
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Snow flurries and colder tonight; tomorrow fair and continued cold; lowest temperature tonight about 5.
Sunrise .... 7:04 | Sunset
TEMPERATURE —Jan. 17, 1939— m....... |
BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m....29.95
Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m.. Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1
MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Snow flurries and colder, much colder in extreme south tonight: tomorrow generally fair and continued cold.
Illinois—Generally fair in north, considerable cloudiness in south portion tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight, much colder in extreme south portion, continued cold for several days.
Ohio — Mostly cloudy with light local snows tonight and tomorrow; colder in extreme south and slightly colder in north and central portions tonight: continued cold tomorrow, Friday and Saturday.
Kentucky—Light snow tonight and tomorrow; considerably colder tonight and in south portion tomorrow; continued cold Friday and Saturday
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Weather Bar. Tem Amarillo, Ter. Cl 30.0 ® Bismarck, Boston Chicago oe Cincinnati’ > leveland
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To keep her state election on the level, Louisiana “fingerprinted” her ballot boxes this year to prevent substitution of illegal vote Ward leaders Sam Cusimona and David J. McNeil in New
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Finn Ski Squad Escorts Writer Into Soviet Waste
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would have been better but I didn’t want to make a spectacle of myself in front of the expert Finnish skier guides.
EUROPE KNOWS WAR TO SPREAD
‘But Where—7?’ Is the Question That Worries All Nations; Italy Fearful.
(Continued from Page One) increasing trend towards the belief that no major move will come before March because of the severe winter conditions in all of Europe. Mid-March is only two months away. As a responsible statesman, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain may be presumed not to have been raising a hollow cry of wolf when he told the House of Commons that the war may soon enter a more acute phase. The fear that the spread of the war may be in the southeast is obvious in two dispatches today.
Rumania Builds Defenses
=| said
One is from London, where a Rumanian spokesman said his country has built hundreds of miles of defence systems along its frontiers, both in the west against Germany and in the east against Russia. The defenses, thrown up hurriedly under the direction of King Carol, were referred to as “The King’s Dike.” The other dispatch comes from Rome, and was a statement by a responsible official that Italy may have to go to war. Gen. Ettore Muti, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, declared that Italy may not be ahle to stay neutral forever and might be “at any moment be faced with the necessity and duty of taking up arms.” A dispatch last night from Eleanor Packard, United Press correspondent in Rome, contained this statement: “It is not overlooked in Italy that spring developments might force Italy into the war despite her sincere desire to remain at peace. Any move hostile to Italian interests in the Balkans, Danubian Basin or the Mediterranean would be strenuously opposed by Italy in the diplomatic field and might lead to her involvement in the war.”
. All Countries Prepare
Wherever the war spreads, the countries affected have made every possible military preparation and have declared that they will not share the fate of Poland and Czechoslovakia, but will fight as Finland is doing. As to Belgium and Holland, a French Foreign Office statement declaréd last night that a German invasion would not be like the sweep through of 1914, but that “one miilion well-equipped men would join the Allies to halt the invader.” The expression “Join the Allies” incidentally amounts to the first open declaration of France's inientions to go to the aid of the low. countries.
Most allied tacticians believe the
French wall is so strong that the| Germans will not attempt a suicidal frontal attack, but will detour through the low countries, Claiming that the Reich was suffering severely as a result of the economic warfare waged by Britain and France, British Minister of Economic Warfare Ronald Cross told the House of Commons that
8 German's resources were smaller
than they were 25 years ago and said that, while her economy might be stronger in some respects, it was also more brittle.
31 Neutral Ships Held
Officials disclosed today that there were 31 neutral ships at British contraband control bases on Jan. 16, of which 14 had been there five days or less. The total included seven Dutch, 10 Norwegian, four Belgian, two Danish, two Swedish, one American and one Estonian. In the week ending, Jan. 13, the contraband. committee considered 161 ship cases — all arriving that week — in.addition to 25 cases of ships from the previous week. During the week, the British detained 3364 tons of suspected con-
traband.
—— SH 98 BRITISH MISSING LONDON, Jan. 17 (U. P.).—The Admiralty announced today that 98
officers and men were listed as.
missing from the British submarines Seahorse, Starfish and Undine which, it was announced yesterday, had not returned to their bases
and had been. §iven up ‘a8 Joh,
Riding in an open sleigh at 38 below zero is not as bad -as it sounds if one remembers to bring fat to smear on nose and cheeks. Without it, one’s face might freeze before one knew it. . Near the frontier we abandoned the sled and I reached the boundary line afoot. On the Finnish side of it we saw the tracks made by a Russian ski patrol of at least 50 men.
They had crossed our road headed north. There had been a brief batile two days before when Russian and Finnish ski patrols met there. The Russians had been beaten back with rifle and machine gun fire. We could | see the bullet holes in trees and in! the frontier posts. The frontier was marked by a 12yard - wide clearing through the forest. The Finnish and Russian boundary posts were about the same distance apart. The Finnish post was of raw, unpainted timber. The Fininsh lion shield had been removed from it, apparently by Russians. The country around us was deathly quiet but in the faint distance we could hear artillery fire. The guides it came from the Ilomanti Front. 2 The Russians had withdrawn to their line about four miles ahead of us. The woods around us were full of Finnish outposts, I was told, but I couldn't see them. To reach the border I had to climb over a miniature ‘“Mannerheim Line,” consisting of felled trees and barbed wire. The Finns had thrown it up very recently. In unforested sections of this region, I was told, the front was protected by huge swamps, which had not frozen this year when the big snows came and now were making excellent tank traps. One Russian tank unit had mired down inextricably in trying to cross not far from here. I spent a "half hour surveying Russia before rejurning to the Finnish line,"
Action Nearly Paralyzed By Bitter Weather
HELSINKI, Finland, Jan. 17 (U. P.) .—Bitter cold, with temperatures ranging from 33 to 42 degrees below zero, all but paralyzed action on the Finnish fronts today and caused severe suffering among troops and refugees from cities. Wounded men froze to death, reports said, unless they were taken to shelter promptly, and anti-aircraft and machine gun crews had to fire occasional bursts to keep their weapons from freezing. Hot oil was used to start airplane motors and the motors of automobiles were kept running at all times. Reports from the front were that, because of the cold, the Russians engaged in only minor offensive operations and that these met with no success. g Finns alleged that the Russians seemed. to have embarked on a terror campaign in the air, seeking to demoralize the civilian population. It was asserted that numerous individuals and airplanes had been machine gunned by low-sweeping Russian planes. They said that the Russians had dropped thousands of small incendiary bombs at random in small towns in an apparent effort to start
HOOSIERS FIGHT |
" should be directed to keeping out of
preserving a ‘new, scientific method
F.D.R. PROPOSAL FOR FINN LOAN
VanNuys Fears That American Men Will Follow Any Money Sent Abroad.
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While it may be possjble to do something for Finland through the Ex-
port-Import Bank, I would want to to make sure that our neutrality is safeguarded. Our whole efforts
Europe’s wars.” Hull Invited to Explain
The Senate Banking Committee today invited Secretary of State Cordell Hull to appear next Wednesday to explain how proposed financial aid to Finland might affect U. S. neutrality. Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones told the committee today that the amount of any proposed loan to Finland is a question for Congress to decide. He said the 10 million dollar credit already arranged by the Export-Import Bank was “a] good loan.” Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R: Ind.) issued a blast against the present policy which he charged resulls in| extending sympathy to China and selling ‘arms to Japan. “Our support to Japanése aggression must end,” Rep. Landis said. “It would be impossible for Japan to continue this war, if it were not for the supplies of war materials being imported from other countries. We have furnished a large part of those supplies.
Plan Japanese “Survey”
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee reached a tacit agreement today to survey the entire field of Japanese-American rela-| lations, including proposed embargoes againsi Japan, after the commercial treatv between the two! countries expires Jan. 26. Chairman Key Pittman said that | the committee probably will request Secretary of State Cordell Hull to go over all phases of the situation with the committee on Jan. 31. Mr. Hull last summer denounced the treaty which regulated trade relations between Japan and the United States for 24 years. Assistant Secretary of State Henry F. Grady told the House Ways and Means Committee today that the facts refute charges that the reciprocal trade treaties are robbing | the American farmer, He urged that the present act be extended three years beyond its ex-, piration date June 12 as a means of
of formulating. tariffs” and assigning to the scrap heap “the old logrolling methods.” He said that if
were required, the whole program would be “blacked out.”
Destroyers Urged
In the House, Rear Admiral Samuel M. Robinson, chief of naval engineering, told the Naval Affairs Committee today that the Navy proposes to build large numbers of destroyers to. meet the threat of submarines in the navies of potential enemies. He did not identify the “potential enemies.” : Simultaneously a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee heard Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of" Naval Operations, on the $264,611,000 supplemental national defense bill. Members of the House Appropriations Committee, who already have cut $103,880,437 out of President Roosevelt's 1941 budget, whetted their axes today for Federal agencies which were created by executive order. They established a precedent on extra-legal bureaus yesterday by lopping off all funds for two in the President's own White House set-up —the National Resources Planning Board and the Office of Government Reports.
$2,115,000—mere bagatelle in a bill that carried $1,100,212,307 for independent Government bureaus and commissions. The economy bloc hoped to make other savings when funds asked for other executive-created agencies.
‘I'm Not Dead,’ Victim’ Says
BRAZIL, Ind. Jan. 17 (U. P.. —William Lloyd, 65, formerly of Brazil, walked into the Lawson and Sons funeral parlor yesterday and told the. proprietors that he was not dead and that it wasn't his body they were holding for burial. A body, believed to be Lloyd's, was returned from Ramsey, Ill, two weeks ago, but, as funeral services were about to start, his sister, Mrs. Laura Davis, said that the body was not that of her brother. Lloyd said that he lost his mine union card near Mt. Carmel, Ill, three months ago and supposed that it had been found by the
fires ‘in wooden homes.
man who died at Ramsey.
J MILBURN, N. J, Jan. 17 (U. P)). —Something went out over the air waves at 3 a. m. on the night of Dec. 14. | It was never intended broadcast. | ; Because | of it, departmental charges have been filed against Patrolman Philip G. Pierman, who at that hour is alleged to have been entertaining a young woman in his two-way radio car. Officer Pierman, according to the charges, didn’t know that his radio transmitter switch was on, and that two startled desk men on duty at headquarters, 10 radio patrolmen
to be
who happened to have their radios turned to that short wave length, were hearing a strictly private conversation. Nobody ‘concerned would say what, conservation the radio picked up. Police Chief Norbert Wade, a stickler for regulations, deduced
this much about the woman;
Officer Didn’t Know It but Broadcast Was Arresting!
on their beats, and anybody else |.
“She was one who neither required information, was neither aged nor infirm, blind, taken suddenly ill, injured, or otherwise temporarily unable to take care of herself.”
If she had been any of those things she might have had some business in Officer Pierman’s car. “The broadcast,” Chief Wade continued, “was not in line of duty, or relating to public police or safety matters.”
“Ner,” he added, “was the broad-
cast required by any. rule or police |
ordinance.” - Officer Pierman said he was surprised. ' He hadn't seen the charges and had nothing to say about them.
Those who missed the broadcast
Senate ratification of the treaties]
These two agencies were to get |
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City Bachelors Are Singularl Non-Committal
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pointment. to me for so many years thas I've lost confidence in it.” Albert O. Deluse, City Council member and top-flight bachelor, claimed that Leap Year had been a great disappointment in His life and that if he was” reorganizing the calendar he would omit it entirely, mistake or no mistake. ‘Chief Morrissey at | first wouldn't talk. Then he cautiously said that he had been so busy that he couldn't remember the last Leap Year having leapt, and the way things are going, will be no more aware of this leap.
It may be a pure coincidence, but the following bachelors are out of
‘the city: Col. Roscoe Turner, fiying
ace and head of an air school here; Virgil Simmons, Indiana Conservation Commissioner, and I. J. (Nish). Dienhart, manager of Municipal Airport. They left no public forwarding addresses. Among other bachelors who were not reached for comment but whom you can contact personally for their sentiments on the matter are: Bomar Cramer, concert pianist; Eugene C. Foster, director of the Indianapolis Foundation; Kurt Lieber, of The H. Lieber Co.; Alfred J.
Stokely, of Stokely Bros., the pack- |.
ers; Robert F. Daggett Jr. architech; Francis D. Brosnan, Indianapolis Life Insurance Co. assistant agency manager; Henry J. Frenzel, Indiana Trust Co. teller; John M. Layton, City Clerk; Elmer W. Stout, American National Bank board chairman, and James F. Cunningham, Center Township assessor. Mr. Middlesworth was the last one contacted. “What do you think of Leap Year," he was asked. “I don’t know,” he said.
822 STOLEN AUTOS
RECOVERED BY STATE
State Police made 4322 arrests, recovered 822 stolen automobiles worth $328,000 and traveled 7,632,000 miles during 1939, the annual report
of the State Safety Department
showed today. Sixty per cent of those arrested were convicted, including one who was given the death penalty and seven who were given life sentences, The Detective Division reported {the peak crime months of 1939 were | March and July with the lowest in August, The crime laboratory workers reported they gave the drunk-ometer tests to 880 drivers and the lie detector was applied to 215 suspzcts during the year.
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SCAN PLAN FOR
MORE GARAGES
Realtors, Apartment Owners Wait Ordinance Before Taking Stand.
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on City streets. Warning stickers already have been distributed, he added. Meanwhile, conflicting points of view on the proposed garage ordinance were expressed by representative apartment owners and builders. Thomas A. Moynahan, State Housing Board chairman and president of the Moynahan Construction Co., said he believed such a measure ‘very constructive.” “It would seem to me on the basis of information I have now that this proposal would add greatly to a reduction in traffic hazards,” he said. B. M. Cunniff, general manager
lof General Apartments, Inc., said he
believed that the enforcement of such an ordinance would be unconstitutional. | “I don't believe that this proposal would solve the all-night parking ‘problem immediately and might work some injustices,” he added. “If such an ordinance were passed, it would take 10 years before it could solve the problem.” He also asserted that automobile ownership varies with the location of the apartment structure and with rentals. It would be “unfair” to expect all apartment builders, putting {up structures for a variety of economic groups, to conform to a standard garage space provision, he said. ; Mr. Popp cited figures to the Safety Board yesterday showing that of 22 apartment houses he surveyed, there were garage facilities for only 21 per cent of the cars owned by tenants. ¢* The survey showed that 61 per cent of the families living in 890 apartment units owned a total of p49 vehicles. For these cars 192 garages were provided. Mr. Popp and Chief Morrissey used these figures as one reason large numbers of cars are parked in streets all night. The survey is representative of “the general apartment situation here,” Mr. Popp told the Board,
CAPITOL FIRM GETS SUNNYSIDE CONTRACT,
‘Capitol Dairies, Inc., today was awarded the annual milk contract for the Marion County Tuberculosis Hospital at Sunnyside. | County Commissioners awarded the_-milk supply contract for the Children’s Guardian Home to Golden Guernsey Farms, Inc., and the Detention Home contrac t to the Weber Milk Co. The Capitol Dairies furnished milk for the tuberculosis hospital last year.
to get
at 15.75 or
—29.75.
may get to hear a transcript of it. The Township committee will take! up the charges at Monday ‘night's | meeting and may set a date ini
L. STRAUSS & 00., me
Quite a lot Clearance priced at 39.75.
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Tickets on sale right now!
SONJA HENIE and her 1940 edition of Hollywood Ice Revue . . . (Feb. & through the 10th).
On First Floor . . . (south).
Strauss Says:
DEAR SIR:
Pay heed to this clearance—and pay less for your SUIT!
You'll enjoy the saving . . . because you'll get a suit that will fit— (sale or no sale— come snow and hail and high water a Strauss suit must fit —or we don’t want you
if) .
It will be fresh and fine . .". The reduction will Ji the real thing.
You can get a Wearington Si Sui
19.75,
An exceptionally strong clearance group . . . including Princetowns, Don Richards and Charter House
of Pedigreed Suits—
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. THE MAN'S. STORE,
for a public hearing, 2 > 3 tL