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FHURSDAY, JAN. 18,
1940
. Extension of Hatch ‘Clean Politics’ Act> - Debated i in Senate
Broadening Scope to Add Thousands of State Workers Urged.
By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. a A Senate committee began consideration today of bills designed to broaden the scope of the Hatch “clean politics” law. At the same time a survey showed independent moves in early a dozen states and cities to set up “little Hatch Acts.” Senator Carl A. Hatch( D. N. M.), author of the 1939 act placing a farreaching ban on political activity by Federal jobholders, went before the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee to urge an amendment extending this prohibition to thousands of State workers. - The Senate Committee named a subcommittee to study the bills. It was composed of Senator Hatch, chairman; Senators Walter F. George (D. Ga.), Theodore Green (D. R. 1), Warren R. Austin (R. Vt.) and Gerald P. Nye (R. N. D)). The amendment would forbid State officials paid wholly or partly with Federal funds, except ‘“policymaking” officials, to use their authority or influence to affect election results. State employees receiving Federal money would also be barred from “any active part in political management or in political campaigns.”
Murphy Urged Extension
Where State employees violating the act.are not dismissed from their jobs within a “reasonable time,” the Federal Government would have the right to withhold funds of the agency concerned. Sena Hatch has been aided in drafti is bill by Justice Department 3Forneys, and is expected to point out that the President has indicated favor for extension of the original law. Frank Murphy, as Attorney General, also urged its extension to State employees. An amendment to the Federal Corrupt Practices Act which would make it unlawful to solicit Federal
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._employees for political funds also ®was to be urged before the Commit-
‘tee by Senator Hatch. This strikes directly at campaign war chests and is certain to meet opposition from party leaders.
Eleven States Act
. H.' Eliot Kaplan, executive secretary of the National Civil Service Reform League, reported today that legislation similar to the. Hatch act is being fostered in New York, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Connecticut, New Jersey, Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Colorado and Wyoming. Mr. Kaplan said bills probably would be introduced in New York by Senator Thomas C. Desmond, in New Jersey by Senator R. C. Hendrickson, and in California by Assemblyman Albert Wollenberg. Senator George Woodward may propose such a measure in Pennsylvania.
Favors State Action
Senator Hatch has referred to his own proposed amendments as “patchwork.” | He views the attack on the problem by the states as more direct and fundamental. In this way, he points out, not merely those paid by Federal funds but all
employees of | states, counties and
cities would be affected. But even the Hatch amendments, it has been estimated, would affect at least as many additional workers es the nearly 1,000,000 Federal employees touched by the original Hatch act. A bill by Senator Matthew M. Neely (D. W. Va), which would force states receiving Federal funds
to establish |civil-service political
bans also is before tl the Senate.
Independent Offices Bill Awaits House 0. K.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (U. P.).
~The House was ready today to pass and send to the Senate an independent | offices appropriation bill already cut $94,517,206 - under President Roosevelt's 1941 budget. Only one major fight was scheduled—over a $40,000,000 fund for the Tennessee Valley Authority. There was no likelihood that it would bring any increase in the
bill's present total of $1,100,187,263.
Compress. in “Brief
TODAY Senate considers unanimqus consent calendar. Privileges and Elections Commit © tee takes up Hatch bill amendments. Monopoly Committee continues study of copper industry. : Appropriations Subcommittee de-
bill. House continues debate of - ‘independent offices appropriation bill. Naval Affairs Committee hears Admiral Robinson on naval expansion biil. NLRB Committee continues its investigation. Ways and Means Committee hears Undesecretary of State Grady on reciprocal trade agreements.
YESTERDAY
Senate Foreign Relations Committee reached tacit agreement to survey Japanese-American relations. Banking and Currency Committee invited Secretary Hull to ex=’ plain proposed financial aid -to
Finland; questioned Jesse Jones
on amount of loan. House debated independent offices hill. House received resolution for com-
mittee study of proposed St.
Lawrence-Great Lakes water way Naval Affairs Committee heard Rear Admiral Robinson urge naval Expansion,
GARNER BALKS ON FINNISH LOAN
Denounces Advance of Cash For Military Purposes As ‘Unneutral.’
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (U. P.).— Proposals for financial aid to Finland moved deeper into a Congressional stalemate today when it became known that Vice President John N. Garner had denounced military loans as “unneutral.”” The Finns are anxious to obtain credits for military supplies, while President Roosevelt has said any aid would be confined to non-military products. Mr. Garner, it was learned; told
friends that they would be “making a pretty good guess” if they predicted that Congress would not act on the proposals at this session. His views were revealed after Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones told the Senate Banking Committee that he believed a loan to Finland for military purposes would violate the neutrality act. Mr. Garner was reported to have made his position known to President Roosevelt, Mr. Jones and interested Senators. The Banking Committee, apparently in no desire to hasten action, invited Secretary of State Cordell Hull to explain next Wednesday how the proposed assistance program might affect this country’s neutrality.
Reports Indicate Eccles May Retire Feb. 1
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (U.P.) — Chairman Marriner S. Eccles’ term as head of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors expires Feb. 1 and reports today indicated that he might either retire: from .office or continue on a month-by-month basis, probably the latter. President Roosevelt has not indicated whether he will ask Mr. Eccles to continue although it is assumed
that he will be urged to remain. The chairman is high in the councils of the big spending, heavy tax-
ing, redistribution of income wing of the New Deal. Reports from back home—Utah—
are that Mr. Eccles might oppose Senator William H. King, an anti-
New Deal Democrat, this year for Democratic Senate nomination.
bates emergency appropriation -
Senator.William E..Berah, 74,
suffered in a fall Tuesday.
e “Lion of Idahe,” lay near death
in his Washington apartment today following. a cerebral hemorrhage Long a militant isolationist, and once .a candidate for the Republican nomination for President, Senator Borah in recent months had vented his oratorical fire against the Adminis- | tration in a fight against revision of the Neutrality Act. He .is shown above in a characteristic and vigorous pose at his desk in the capital.
$1160 and two-thirds of them under $1500. A third. of the nation’s families
‘cannot afford even an ‘“emergency-
level” diet. More than half cannot provide a “maintenance level” in food. Those welowslevel families cannot provide conditions of health, proper housing, or medical care. Still our social-insurance system fails to protect the family where illness strikes, though loss of income by sickness is a chief cause of economic insecurity. Aid to Children Lags
There is" a lag. in aid for dependent children. : Under the- Fed-eral-state systend last year only 751,000 dependent children were being aided compared with 1,872,000 aged; and the security act amendments will only bring the number ‘of children up to one million. ‘Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, chairman of the conference, addressed the opening session and called the attention of the 500 members to the threat of child welfare caused by “the breakdown of orderly. relations among nations and the lack of balance among the various elements of our own economic life.” - Tomorrow night the conference’s recommendations will be placed before President Roosevelt, honorary chairman, who will deliver a nationally broadcast address. Mrs. Roosevelt is honorary vice chairman.
10-Year Program Mapped
The report prepared for the conference—based on first-hand analysis in every part of the country—proposed a 10-year ‘or longer” childwelfare program to: 1. Increase family purchasing power. 2. Improve housing and expand slum clearance, especially in rural areas. 3. Increase state and Federal aid to communities. for improvement of educational opportunities. 4. Provide additional recreation centers for supervised direction of leisure time. 5. Enforce improved child labor standards on a national basis.
income and
6. Expand full-time local public
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record
DEATHS TO DATE
Coftnty Cily Tota]
1939 .ceso vio 1 | 1940 Se 000 tan ) 2
Jan. 4!
Injured cession 4 Dead ... OlAccidents .....
. WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COURT ; Cas
tions Paid 0 ag driving 1 0 Failure to stop at ‘through stree Disobeying tra signal 0 Drunken driving 2 | All others .....19 |
Totals
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1 webeom2] 1 fl + MEETINGS TODAY
Indianapolis Real Edtate Hoard, lunch-
eon, Hotel Washington, ni
Advertising Club of eon, Athletic Club. no pSism
on. a Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade
3 Pai, Catherine Matrau, at 827 E. New
Caravan Club, luncheon, Murat Temple,
oon. Oil Club, luncheon, Severin Hotel, noon. Construction of Indianapolis,
League luncheon, Architects and Builders Build-
ing,
Tndianapolis Camera Club, meeting, 110 Pri. luncheon, Canary Cot-
E. Sth Beta Theta
tage, *famba — ‘Chi Alpha Russet Cafeteria, Poon;
MEETINGS TOMORROW Exchange Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin,
Opiimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,
N Reserve Officers’ Association, Board of Trade, noon. Phi Di Delia
tage, noo ia “Tan Delta, luncheon, - Club, Pe diaaon "Stamp Club, Antlers. 8 p. m. tanaps, pSisma, 1
Alumni Association
* no
meeting,
1%
FIRES
. Ea anche) 8 2 M.—B21 E.. 5th, Jlelacris flue. : $ ashes.
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rests ....... 14 10
Convic- Fines
SD [J SD
«0 Ble
Indianapolis, lunch-
luncheon, | 40 Theta, iuncheon, Canary Cot~ Columbis tu Hotel Canary Cot-
12:18 P. M.—1122 W. New York, sparks from flue, $16. P. M.—3044 W. Michigan, :kerosene stove, $15 5:36 P., M.—144 W. 18th, defective wirloss Whesiimated 149 P. M.—Minnesota and Spruce, tomobile, alcohol. 7:54 P. M.—4615
in #Usparks on
de-
Sunset, roof, $2
:43 P. M.—2309 Parker, automobile, fective wiring. Thursday M.+2029 Prospect. false alarm. 6:04 a M.—4124 Barth, thawing frozen
pipes. $15 6:26 " M.—109 N. Belmont, defective — flue, Bo unestimated. :06 a M.—348 S. Hamilton, overheated
MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)
Lissa
stove,
John E. Buhler, 32, of 42 Ruth P. Zike, 30, of 1232 W. a Riki Edward J. Bishop, 53, of iy hig Sianapois: Florence M., Updike, 29, of
45 N. Randolph. Cecil H. Wheeler, ot of 611 N. Arch; N.. Arch.
Hazel! Jones, 20, of Lee Oldfield, 50, 3 ‘Mooresviie; Helena
C. Wanner, 40, of 518 JE. 23d.
BIRTHS % Boys Orlando, Fay Rodman, at City. Bernie, Helen Sanders, at ley. John, Mary Lutz, at Methodis ,| Howard, Marion ‘Chastain, ly Siethodist. Edwin, Marguerite Esther, at 1203 Carrollton. Girls
Eugene, Oneada Cook, at Diy: Tho as, Ruth Wooten, at Cit Charles, Marie Bishop, at st. “Vincent's. Bernard, Marie Coleman, at St. Vin
y Santon, Valerie Gira, at St. Vincent's. (Thomas, Anna Marie Updike, at Meth-
Marion, Helen Clark, at 1650 E. Tabor.
DEATHS
Florence, Friddle, 70, at 3817 E. 31st, gastric ulcer. Rawar rd Kirk, 62, at 2415 Station, hyperMargate: Se 86, at Methodist, frac-
tured fi ge “Hartwell, 49, at Methodist, or. Joseph Catherwood, 62, at peritonitis. Emelie Jones, 54, at 2615 Jackson, acute pancreatiti Jism toiditi Catherine Pe Re; 34, at 1743 8. Keystone,
apne sndocar & a be" vl O85
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brain
m Laux, 4 months, at Riley, mas-
brain tum Jena Hamilion, os | cinom
Evison, car-|T,
William Burton, 63, at 2305 Guilford, lateral sclerosis. Carrie King, 68, at 3'N. Kealing, angina pectoris.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U.: S. Weather Burean
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST~—Fair night and tomorrow; colder tonight; lowest temperature about 10 below. . Sunrise %:04 | Sunset TEMPERATURE —Jan. 18, 1939
6:30 a. m Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m..
Excess since Jan, 1
MIDWEST WEATHER except in extreme northwest.
south portion tonight. Lower Michig: tonight and tomorrow probably. some" local SNOWS etuceia] 1 west tinued cold w Ohio—
Li | tonight;
Zéro toni tomor west portion 3 i Tig ht snow in east porsion; co Sonunued cold tomorrow, al
tonight; colder tonight, cold treme east Je. zéro in west and central portions tonight.
to-
01 ‘Total precipitation since Jan. 1:........ 124
Indiana—Generally fair tonight and fomorrow with severe cold and colder tonight
Illinois—Generally fair and continued cold tonight and tomorrow with colder in
an—Considerahble cloudiness
turday
day Kentucky Y" Light snow this afternoon and wave in exrtion and. temperature below
Tomorrow generally fair except light snow in ‘extreme east portion, Sontinbed cold ei tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday
Every Other Child Lives in Home of Meager Income
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health services organized on a city; county or district basis.
children without regard to color or creed.
. . | ae Family : Relations Seriously Distorted (Copyright. 1940. by Science Service) WASHINGTON, Jan. families and and doctors ought to do to make ‘this a better country for 36 million young Americans was aired author-. itatively, as the fourth White House Conférence on Children in a Dem-
ocracy opened here today. Problems de children not ye!
solved include some new to the United States in recent years. Boys and girls who support parents uns able to get jobs create one topsy-
turvy situation, leading to distorted Smallness of modern families, and the drop-
relations in family life.
ping out of uncles, cousins, ‘and aunts from ¢
down opportunities of young Amer-
always adjust to the greater emotional load. These are two random
affecting the growing-up years of the new crop of citizens.
Many Hoosiers To Attend Conference
House Conference on. children, .are Miss Mildred . Arnold, Children’s Division director, State Welfare De-
director of the American Legion national child welfare division; Howard B. Nettel, of the State Health Board; Mrs. Mary L. Garner, State Commerce and Industries Department; DeWitt S. Morgan, Indianapolis schools superintendent. .E."M. Dill, Indiana Boys School superintendent; Cleo W. Blackburn, Flanner House superintendent, and Mrs. Charles W. Sewell, Otterbein, administrative director of the Associated Women of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
NAVY BUILDING FUND SLASHED BY VINSON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (. P)— (Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee today cut his proposed $1,300,000,000 Naval construction authorization bill to $800,000,000. The measure originally was designed to authorize a 25 per cent increase in the tonnage of the Navy. Mr. Vinson eliminated some $50,000,000 in authorizations for ' construction of 34 destroyers. The revised bill would authorize a total of 41 combatant ships, instead of the 717.
| units. | admonitions contained the .charge
7. Insure equal ‘opportunity for race,
18.—What schools and churches
he home circle, narrow icans to share their burdens and joys; and the small family does not
examples of many strange things happening to family patterns and
{full skiers.
Among Hoosiers who have announced plans to attend the White
partment; Miss Emma C. Puschner,
IF GIVEN. HELP|
Neutral Military Eerie Say War Materials: and Credits Are Needed. hia
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officers would - be “held responsible for deserfions or surrenders in their It was alleged that these
that. some officers had ‘proved traitors who ‘led their troops into positions in which numerous men surrendered. In this war on man against ma--chine, the man seemed so far to have won. ‘In seven weeks of desperate . fighting in sub-zero cold, which has reached 54 below : 4n -the last two days, the Finnish Army, according’ to neutral observers, has fought the Russian Army successfully with less machine power, fewer guns, fewer men and under an overwhelmingly superior rain of shells; +! Today, according to observers, the Finns’ strategic position is far bet-
ter than at-any time since the start
of the war and they are not seriously menaced at present at any point.
Claim Victories on Five Fronts
‘On five different fronts, aceording to Finnish communiques, the Finns have thrown the Russians back, at places to their own frontier. They have broken three Russian divisions, normally from 15,000 to 18,000 men each, on the basis of their reports, and have captured enormous quantities of war ‘materials, “including several hundred guns of different caliber. They lay claim to the capture or destruction of about 430 tanks and the infliction of tens of thousands of casualties. I have taken occasion during the last few days, with interruptions due to air raids or air alarms, to make a survey of the situation. I have seen enough fighting and enough of the peculiar Finnish terrain, and ‘have talked to enough of- '| ficers, men and neutral experts to give their explanation of a military feat which has astonished the world. Believe Liberty at Stake
Summarized, here are some of the reasons offered why the Finns have been able to hold off the Russian machine: 1. The Finns believe they are fighting for their lives, their homes, their religion and their liberty. 2. The Finnish soldier has been trained for fighting in the difficult terrain and rigorous climate. Foreign observers say the |Finnish soldier has a high standard| of education, - initiative and i
eed in few roads, and with about 70,000 lakes, many ‘of which inter-connect to form a canalized front, the country is ideally adapted to a fight against a ‘mechanized army. 4, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim, the Finnish commander in chief, and many officers of | the higher command fought the Russians in the war of independence over this same ground.
Finnish Mobility Cited
5. The Finnish system of communications and transport is superior, observers say, to that of Russia. The Finnish railroad systems enable the Finns to achieve greater mobility, to concentrate quicker at a given point, and to move supplies faster. Nearly #11 Finns are skilFew Russians can ski. Hence the Finns have superior mobility in the snow. | 6. Netitral observers say that the Finnish commanders have had longer and better training, that the staff work of the Finns is better. There is a tendency to speculate on this in’ connection with the Russian Army “purge” which caused the disappearance of many officers of the Russian high command. 7. Finnish marksmanship, both with rifle and artillery, is held superior to that of the Russians. The Finns are famous for marksmanship.
Report Finns Advancing North of Lake Ladoga
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 18 (U. P.) .— A National Tidende dispatch from Stockholm reported teday that the Finns were advancing on the front ‘(north of Lake Ladoga with the apparent infention of driving toward Petrozavodsk, a big Russian base on the Leningrad-Murmansk Railroad. After halting the Russians on this front,| the dispatch said, the Finns began an advance. They were: reported moving eastward at a point north of ‘Kitelae, which is on the north shore of Lake Ladoga 110 miles west of Petrozavodsk. Petrozavodsk, on Lake Onega, has been the base for all Russian operations on the general front of Suo.jaervi, north of the lake, where the Russians had sought ‘by a turning movement to crumple up the Finnish left wing and make the Man-
nerheim defense line untenable.
Here Are the
By LEO DAUGHERTY The telephone at the U. S. weather Bureau rang at the rate of 300 times an hour today. And 300 times an hour Bureau attaches gave the cold reply: “Ten below tonight; yes, 10 below.” And 299 times ‘out of every’ 300,
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the only comment at the other end was a painful” “Oh,” followed by a quick banging down of the receiver without : any inquiry about, possible relief, records or anything else. : Meteorologist J. H. Armington, who returned to his office after the extraction of a tooth which he said had “blown up” despite the wegther, dug: out the cold, cold facts on Indianapolis’ January weather. : If the mercury does sink to 10 below tonight it will be the coldest January day here since 1936, the coldest Jan. 18 since 1930, when it
10 | was 15 below, but still 15 degrees
below the all-time record cold here. Just 38 emainder « of that 1936 as-
Cold Facts:
4-Year Mark May Be Set
“up” to 9 ‘below on Jan. 24. During the next three days the mercury took an ascension to 10 above then went down again until it hit 8 below on the last day of the month.
Jan. 18 over a period of 20 years, except for that 15 below in 1830, has actually been a warm ‘day here. “The temperatures were: 1921, 19; 1922, 35; 1923, 32; 1924, 14, 1925, 19; 1926, 37; 1927, 28; 1928, 34; 1929, 31; 1930,- 15 below; 1931, 35; 1932, 30; 1933, 34; 1934, 29; 1935, 23; 1936, 16; 1937, 24 .1938, 28; 1939, 24, and 1940, »? | The two coldest days on. record here were 19 below on Jan. 12, 1918 —and. 25 below on Jan. 5, 1884, Warren J. Rice, the veteran temperature taker, came in shivering after taking a 3 below reading on the windswept roof and said. he'd like to h F rom ‘Robert Spencer at the Wa ‘Bureau. “Yep,” nila Mr. -- Armington,
| Holland Ready to Defend - \ Coun try if Nazis A ttack,
State. of Siege Extended
‘We Have Confidence i in Our Army,’ General Staff : * Reports. a
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By H C. BUURMAN g United Press Staff Correspondent THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. 18.—Members of the' Netherlands General Staff said today that they were ready to defend the country against an attack by any side. ' “We have complete confidence in the spirit of our Army,” they said. The statement was made as Queen Wilhelmina by royal decree placed a wide area of the North Sea Coast under a technical state of siege. Some key coastal areas had. been placed under a state of siege last November.
, Ready for Emergency
By the new decree, the waters|: adjacent to the municipality of Cal-| & on the North Holland]: province coast near the Helder naval ‘base, and the waters along the coast | ;
lantsoog,
of South Holland province, covering The Hague and Rotterdam areas, were put under the special status. Authoritative quarters said that the decree was simply an extension
‘of national defense measures. Burgo-
masters and other municipal au-
not to be too strictly enforced, but
military | authorities especially in naval base areas.
Calm, bvt Watchful
In face of foreign reports that -a German attack on France through the Netherlands and Belgium is possible, and with knowledge that special precautionary measures have been taken, the Dutch nation—and reports show that the same goes for the Belgians—are going about their industrial life as usual, but watchfully and ready. for an emergency. The strongest proof of the calmness and resolution of the people was the attitude of key men of the general staff with whom I have talked here. These men forbade me to publish their names but permitted me to say I had talked withthe general staff. I asked regarding the opinion expressed by Allied diplomatic agents that the Germans would be abie to break through .quite easily. To this, the reply was a smile and the quiet statement “You have Been in this building for some time now. Has anybody you have seen struck you as nervous or excited—which certainly would be the case if what you suggested were true? We are not frightened. But we are watchful.” Then came the statement that the general staff has complete confi-
-/ dence in its preparations and in 32e
spirit of the .army and was ready to defend the country. I talked to several Netherlands, Allied and neutral diplomats. They all expressed the belief that the. situation of Holland and Belgium remained dangerous so long as more than: 1,000,000 Germans were concentrated on the lowland countries’ borders.
Report Germans Build
Wire Barrier at Border
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Jan. 18 (U. P.).—Germans have been busy for weeks in the vicinity of Nijimegen, in Guelderland province of the Rhine frontier, in closing the border with a high barrier of wire netting, topped by barbed wire which has been electrified in some sections, it was understood today. The barrier is more than six feet high.
Paris Hears Million Nazis
Mass Off Low Countries
PARIS, Jan. 18 (U. P.).—Usually reliable sources insisted today ihat Germany, since Jan. 1, has put 70 Army divisions, perhaps one million men, into position opposite Belgium and "The Netherlands. French sources said that the German Ambassador at Brussels, Vicco Karl Buelow-Schwante, visited. Foreign + Minister Paul-Henri Spaak Tuesday and asked an explanation of Belgian defense. measures, and the relations, if any, between the
general staffs. Doubt was expressed here that Germany intended to invade Belgium and The Netherlands.
DEAD-SHOT BUTCHER BAGS TREED TABBY
An unidentified’ butcher today proved a better shot than police and firemen. Women in the vicinity of 3350 N Capitol Ave. were worried about a cat which had been up an 80-foot tree for two days and nights. The longest ladder of Engine House 14, erected under Capt. John ' Fehrenbach’s Sipervision, failed to reach the cat. « Patrolman Bdward Brown and firemen tried to bring the cat down with revolvers. A large crowd
|gathered, and the butcher, known {only as Scott, brought the striped
gray cat down with one shot from a 22-caliber rifle.
X-RAYS FAIL TO FIND ‘SWALLOWED’ PENNY
Five-year-old Howard Wilson was back home in Bloomington today after a hurried trip to Riley Hospital which turned out to be a false alarm. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Wilson rushed their son to the Medical
that he had swallowed a penny. Doctors there was no penny in Howard's stomach. /
NOT IN DOGHOUSE? CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 18 (U. P.).—Witnesses testified in’ a court contest of the late Mrs. Emma Young's will that the wealthy widow made her husband live in the garage while her dog resided in the house and dined at table with her.
FORTUNE. IN DISGUISE NEW YORK, Jan. 18 (U. P.).— Police arrested shabby, 54-year-old
“when he was here he used to cook Vine g of ‘our most famous heat|sh
thorities in the affected areas will |i put themselves under military super- | : vision. This aspect of the decree is|:
was explained as necessary to facili-| tate collaboration between civil and | ;
land Hungary's territorial
Belgian and the French and British
Bomb Sets Fire
A Russian bomber soars high over a blazing apartment house in Salla, Finland, after the building was fired by an incendiary bomb.
ALLIES TIGHTEN NET AROUND GERMANY
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will be held at Belgrade next month, at which a working agree-
ment will be discussed, and an effort made by the Balkan States to forego their territorial claims on one another, at least as long as the war menace exists. Present at the meeting will be Jugoslavia, Rumania, Greece and Turkey, with Hungary, Bulgaria and Italy having observers present. Hungary and Bulgaria thus will sit at the same table with the other powers for the first time since the World War. It was reported today that Hungary’s regent, Admiral Nicholasde Horthy, and Jugoslavia's regent, Prince Paul, were about to méet in Jugoslavia for an important conference in connection with Italy's appeasement program in the Balkans. The significance in such a meeting is that Italy and 'Jugoslavia have struck up a new friendship, claims against Rumania are the chief barrier to the.formation of a bloc of Balkan nations.
represent 6,300,000 troops now under arms and could expand to nearly 10,000,000. They have 3500 fighting planes.
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THREE LONDON POWDER PLANT BLASTS KILL 5
Forty Others Reported Hurt As 6-Mile Area Is Jarred; Sabotage Fears Revived. |
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tearfully awaiting news from within
| the factory.
Wives and sweethearts ran joyfully to wor kmen leaving the factory in mid-afternoon, ‘embracing them as they realized .they were safe. Others sfood by sorrowfully waiting for their own relatives. “We lieard terrific bangs,” one
"| workman from an undamaged sec-
tion of the factory said. “We were told to carry on, but we thought it ir raid.” People ran inte the streets in panic. There was no official hint of sabotage in the factory explosions | but it was recalled that the Ministry of Transport yesterday renewed warnings for railroads to guard against sabotage. : Last fall, Sir Samuel Hoare, the Lord Privy Seal, read to Parliament an Irish Republican Army memorandum which said it was planned" to bomb railroads, factories and public buildings. At least six factory huts were demolished by the explosions. A woman two miles from the scene said: “There was 8a terrible boom as if a bomb had-been dropped in our front garden. The front door was blown clean off its hinges.” “The explosion lifted my dog off its feet,” one hot house worker a mile and a half away said. “A great of flame shot into the air. - The blast cut a path through the trees and hedges like an express train.” Another resident nine miles from the scene said: “Our house shook. The window curtains billowed into the room as if a gale were blowing. The explosion even blew in sealed windows. All doors in the house were hlown from their hinges. The ceilings in the back of the house crashed, We thought it was an air raid and dashed for the shelters.”
| FOURTH QUADRUPLET
IS NAMED FRANKLIN
JASPER, Ala. Jan. 18 (U. P.).— The brother of Faith, Hope and Charity is Franklin. The quadruplets, born Saturday in a back-country cabin to . Mrs. Clyde Short, wife of a sharecropper, were reported to be “doing fine.” Mrs. Short named Franklin yesterday. She liked the name and had no one in mind. His three sisters were named Sunday. A home and eare for them has been offered by the Walker County Board. Mr. Short and Dr. H. J. Sankey, who delivered them, have been named legal guardians.
CITY HELD POTENTIAL AIR TRAINING CENTER
Indianapolis can be developed into “The biggest flight training center in the United States,” Col. Roscoe Turner told the Junior Chamber of" Commerce at a luncheon yesterday. Col. Turner, ace speed flier who recently took control of the Central Aeronautical Corp. at Municipal Airport and has established a flying school, said the City can be made an important air center in five or 10 years.
CHAILLAUX TO TALK ON DIES COMMITTEE
Homer Chaillaux, American Legion Americanization officer, is to discuss | un-American aetivities in the United States as disclosed by’ the Dies Committee tomorrow at a Reserve Officers’ Association luncheon at the Board of Trade Building. Plans will also be discussed for Na-
tional Defense Week beginning Feb. 22. /
Strauss Says:
Center early this morning, believing , / X-rayed and - decided :
"YOUR PLEASURE DOUBLED!
When you buy anything here at a reduction—you!'ll be pleased with what you get... and with what you save! For this is a clearance of regular stock . . . and the reductions are the real thing.
Which reminds us of the - OUTERCOATS, the SUITS, SHIRTS, SOCKS and SUCH—that are selling right out!
Drop in... Siel |
sail. STRAUSS & C0., we. THE MAN'S STORE