Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1940 — Page 3
TUESDAY, JAN. 23, 1040
RUSSIANS HAMMER IN VAIN AT FINNISH DEFENSES |
Jack Frost Chills Dan Cupid
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‘Moscow Criticizes F.D.R. for Naming Papal Peace Envoy
British Expected to. Spurn Japan’s Note on Seizure Of Nazi Seamen.
.By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
The Red Army appeared today to be attempting—so far in vain—another offensive against the main defenses ‘of southeastern Finland. Dispatches from Helsinki - and from Scandinavian capitals reported that the Russians were attacking in force both on the Kare- ~ lian Isthmus and north of Lake Ladoga, in an effort to turn the left flank of the Finnish Mannerheim defense line. Finns reported that the thrusts had been repulsed with heavy losses. An official communique said 1000 Russians were killed yesterday northeast of Ladoga. An air raid alarm sounded in Helsinki today, but the all clear signal was given 20 minutes later. .
" Increase Salla Front Pressure
On the North Central Salla front the Finns also were reported increasing the pressure on the Russian force of ‘perhaps 40,000 men entrenched in the Lake Marka sector. Messages to Copenhagen newspapers said that Finnish aviators, including foreign volunteers, had | damaged a Soviet battleship and a cruiser in a raid. on the Russian naval base at Kronstadt, near Leningrad, and that American volunteers were in action on the fighting fronts. The renewal of military operations on a comprehensive scale coincided with a series of diplomatic developments which did little to aid the Allied campaign to rally other states against naziism and bolshevism. At Moscow, Soviet organs renewed attacks on Great Britain and France and charged that the peace efforts by His Holiness Pope Pius XII had made him the “tool” of the Allied “war mongers.” There also was sharp criticism of President Roosevelt for sending a personal representative to the Vatican to. aid in such peace moves.
London Has Its Worries
In London, where a British spokesman yesterday denied that the Government approved Winston Churchill’s appeal for all European states to join the Allies against Russia and Germany, there were increasingly important diplomatic controversies with both the United States and Japan. The American Government's protest against delay of United States ships at Gibraltar was discounted by British circles as due to passing technical difficulties. ‘There was some concern in Fngland, however, as to American opinion toward the Allied cause and Sir Frederick Whyte, director of the American division of the Ministry of Information, warned that Americans were likely to become more strongly isolationist. London also had a protest from Japan against seizure of 21 German seamen from a Japanese liner off Yokohama. Rejection of the protest seemed certain but there also were mounting signs of much damage to British-Japanese relations as the result of a campaign by Japanese Fascists. Guards were posted around the British Embassy after a threatened march to demand release of the Germans had been frustrated .and it was suggested officially that the British voluntarily release the Nazi seamen. Japanese officials made no definite threat of retaliation in the Far East —where Britain recently had been gratified by improvement in relations—but there were warnings that
Pianist-Patriot
Ignace Jan Paderewski. Heads refugee Parliament of native Poland.
PARIS, Jan. 23 (U. P.),—Ignace Jan Paderewski returned to politics today, at the age of 79, as president of the refugee Parliament of his native Poland. The celebrated - pianist-patriot, who vowed the day that Adolf Hitl1ér sent his army into Poland that he would never play another note of music until Poland was free again, was elected without opposition to head the new 24-man National Council. It will sit alongside the refugee Polish Government: in France, as an appointed Parliament, until the end of the war.
repetition of the incident would bring retaliation. With Italy still in a “non-belliger-ent” but indefinite position toward Europe’s wars, ‘the diplomatic developments appeared to continue to push the Nazis and, Soviets closer together and to hold out to them the possibility of Japanese co-oper-ation or at least. friendship in the future. "The extent of the German-Rus-sian collaboration. was further indicated by reports at Bucharest that German forces were guarding the railroad line over which Rumanian oil now is naving through Sovietized Poland td the Reich. Travelers arriving from former Polish territory reported at Bucharest that German forces were now believed to be organizing improved oil transport through the Sovietseized territory and that they were expected to guard the railroad line. In Berlin, however, it was again denied that any Nazi troops were on Soviet soil. On the Western Front the French War Office reported that an “enemy thrust” was repulsed west of the Vosges Mountains yesterday with heavy losses. Intense cold was retarding war activity.
FACES DRUNK CHARGE AFTER AUTO CRASH
Lester O. Quince, 37, of 806 N. Delaware St., Apt. 3, was charged with drunkenness, drunken driving, disobeying a traffic signal and leaving the scene of an accident after the car he was driving was involved in a crash last night at 30th St. and College Ave. According to police, Quince struck a car driven by Maizie Ruth Tyner, 3007 N. Delaware St., Apt. 8, as she was driving east on 30th St. with the green light. Quince refused to take a drunk-o-
said.
meter test at headquarters, police;
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OFFICIAL U. S. ANGER AGAINST ENGLAND RISES
Reply Is Asked on Demand For Better Treatment of Ships at Gibraltar.
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orally in a conference in the State Department. Mr. Berle’s memorandum said: 1. This Government was “seriously concerned” over the treatment meted out to American shipping in the Mediterranean area, and particularly at Gibralter. 2. The American Government previously had stated its objections to British interference with cargoes moving from one neutral country to another. 3. British interference with American ships going to and from the Mediterranean area had reached such a point that it appears definitely discriminatory. 4, Ample time has elapsed since
“ithe British authorities set up their
control system to make it difficult for the British Government any longer to blame delays “to the confusion attendant on early organizational difficulties.” Discrimination Charged 8. The contraband control author-
"|ities appear to have held American
ships on an average of more than three times as long as they detained Italian ships passing through the same areas. 6. Cargoes on Ifalian vessels received more favorable consideration than similar cargoes on American vessels. 7. American ships in some cases are forced, contrary to American law, to proceed to belligerent ports to unload cargoes ruled as contraband. “This Government must expect,” the note concluded, “that the British Government will at least take suitable and prompt measures to bring about an immediate correction of this situation. It will appreciate receiving advices that the situation has been corrected.” Comment Is Lacking The memorandum was made public without comment. No ong in official quarters would admit that relations between Britain and the United States have become strained. But the series of irritating incidents was said to be doing relations no good. The conference between Mr. Berle and Lord Lothian took place only about an hour before Britain made public in London its reply to Mr. Hull's protest of Dec: 22 over British interference with American mails. The Government had been given the text of the British reply four days earlier. Mr. Hull and his associates were displeased with the British stand in that controversy. The tone of the latest protest was
‘believed to have voiced some of that
displeasure. Attached to the aide memoire was a listing of specific delays to American vessels in the Mediterranean area. Nine vessels, eight belonging to the American Export Lines and one to Lykes Brothers Steamship Co., which had encountered delays, were named.
Britain Claims U. S.
Fails to Co-operate LONDON, Jan. 23 (U. P.) .—British Government spokesmen claimed today that lack of American co-opera-tion with British contraband control officials was responsible for the United States complaints that American shipping was subjected to
long delays at Gibraltar.
The Foreign Office said that the trouble leading to the U. S. protest was “transitory and technical.” A spokesman said that the detention of Italian vessels was shortened by the fact that many carry bulk cargoes like oil or grain and are easier to examine.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the > aftic Record DEATHS TO DATE
County City 3933 ivan 2 1940 ....
"Total®
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: Jan. 2 Injured ...... 2 | Arrests ...... 21 -Pead ........ 0 | Accidents ... 18
MONDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid sae 8 4 3
0
Speeding .... Reckless ‘driving. . Failure to stop at through street.. Disobeying traffic signal ....... Drunken driving... All others ..
33 0
0 20 19
$104
3 0 0 1 5
Wotals ...nse BB. 0 D3
‘ MEETINGS TODAY ’ Rotary Club, luncheon, . Claypool Hotel, Ys Men’s Club, luncheon, ¥. M. C. A,
a pha Jan Omega, luncheon, Board of Trad e.
nog reator Club, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln,
lis Home Builders Jileciation, gindianapolis Athletic Club, 6:30 m. RES versal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,
no miversity of Michigan Club, luncheon,
Ba ighis of C: "Cotumbus, luncheon, K. of C.
: CIs
Lutherad Service Club, luncheon, Canary ne Po Credit Group, luncheon, Men's Grille, Wm. H. Block ., noon. MEETINGS TOMORROW Y. M. C. A. Camera Club, meeting, cenons Merab. Taaehoun, Claypool Hotel,
Nyon Men's ‘Discussion Club, dinner, ¥. |,
Purdue Alumni Sseciation, luncheon. Hotel Severin,
3% Di Sisict An Ameriean Legion, luncheon, oon. Siem a ‘Alpha | Epsilon, luncheon, Board of
Delta “Thea Tau, luncheon, Seville Tav-
ern Co-Opora ative Club of Indianapolis, lpeeon. Columbia Ci noon. In Hs Traffic Association, -luncheon, Hotel Antlers. noon. Juni Chamber ot Commerce, luncheon, Canary Cottage us C Club. “meeting. Chamber of Commerce,
Kiwan ay Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,
MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times therefore, is not responsible for sion in names and addresses.) *
111i W Lams 39. of roa on. oi 3 New| ™
$32|-
pen > Club, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel,
of 1801 | ays
Bellefontaine: EJ Edna Elizabeth Logan, 26, George Fionns ‘Krach. 25. of 1512 N. Meridian! Helen Gaylord. 20, of boat Guil-
ord. Joseph Hall, 25, of 222 N. Dguslas: Car4 |malita Hampton, 23, of 216 Dou Donald Gilbert Brown. 20. kin Alice Mae Craggs. 19, of 1539 Colleges
BIRTHS Boys - Otto, Esther Ebert, at Methodist. Lawrence, Elizabeth Crosbie, Methodist. Norman, Imogene Stunt, 2 Methodist, Ben, . Augusta Nash, Ralph, rothy ey Lo \ Winford, Dorothy Cooper, on ‘Coleman Hunter, Mary Kennedy, at St. Vinconi's. Lester, Helen Gordon, at St. Vincent's. Charles, Margaret Trobaugh, at 12
e. Whiiam, Wilma Jones, at 2123 W. Howard.
Girls Georse, Della Buckley, at Coleman. Paul, Frances Tribble, at Coleman. Harry, Betty ‘Ford, at St. Yeent's. Clarence, Ethel Bray, at Cit; Russell, Winifred Yoder, at Yt. Francis. Charles. Dorothy Goebel, at St. Francis. Ervin, Rose Wade, at St. Francis. Edmund, Mary Stapp, at Methodist. Everett, Leona Aldrich, at Methodist.
DEATHS atelectasis VanBuskirk, 2 months, at City, atelectasis Mme (McKinney, 20, at City, general Henry ‘Schuck, 63, at 2146 Olive, sarcoma ar es Richardson, 63, at City, aortic rism Bertha Severn, 55, at 1313 E. New York, cerebral hemorrha age. pup Smith, 59, at Methodist, bronchoEstella 60, ‘at City, cerebral helorrhage. : ack, 67, at, Veterans, arteriosclerosis. omas Arnold, 64, at 1621 S. East, eholelithias Infant Presker, 1 day, at Methodist, atelectasis. codons Brown, 65, at Methodist, carMichael Cassetiey. 76, at Central Indiana,
chronic myocarditis = ichard Daniels, 11, at Methodist, brain
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Elizabeth Isible, 65, at 1064 W. 27th, car=ants Hayes, 66, at 201 N. New Jersey, obar pneumonia. Charles Miller, 67, at 212 W. Walnut, aortic stenosis. Joe Royster, 89, at 2635 Northwestern, broncho-pneumonia. Isabelle G Crimi, a, at 333 Burgess, chronic myocarditi noe : elk elch, 77, ot 1908 Miller, chronic Joseph Smith, 82, at Methodist, lobar pneumonia. Jane Soverts, 31, at City, lobar pnetimo nia
mellitus, Mar, ary "Ann cardio vasoular renal disease.
FIRES Monday
1 5 A. M.—3721 N. Meridian, coal pile in
8:0. basement, not Satjma 8: M.—1853 Ludlow, ADT ala
23 3 M.—1417 N. Arsenal, torch thaw- Om h Ho! WAT%. A, M.—967 Pansy, fire to heat auto Portia 1° A. M.—Rural and Masaschusetts, San_ Francsco
-in north portion tomorrow; colder to ow
nver James Davis, 58, at 536 W. 12th, diabetes =H ~Tullis, 79, at 1314 Reisner, |:
M 3454-38 W. Michigan, flue sparks, Bot estimate M. ~ 545 Holly,
child with matches, ‘$10. 2:58 P. M.—502 E. 10th, cause unknown. 24 P. M.—16th and Olin, defective wir-
4; ing in auto, $50. 7:26 P. —305 N. Euclid, automobile. 5: 47 P. M.—2503 Guilford, defective wiring .in auto. 9:58 P. M5 E. 17th, flue sparks, $5. 2 06 P. M.—1714 Spann, flue sparks, $10. Tuesday a. 117 A. M.—2442 Caroline, flue sparks,
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. 8S. Weather Bureau
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Snow fonight and tomorrow; heavy this afternoon and tonight; colder tomorrow and tomorrow night; continued cold Thursday; lowest tonight about 18.
Sunrise. ......7:01 | Sunset
. TEMPERATURE Jan. 23, 1939— m........ 16
seers 4:53
6:30 a. m
Precipitation 24 hrs. endin Total precipitation since Excess since Jan. 1
MIDWEST WEATHER
Indiana—Snow tonight and tomorr ow, heavy this afternoon and tonight in central and south portions; colder tomorrow and tomorrow night; continued cold Thursday.
Mlinels-—30stly cloudy, snow tonight and morand in southwest and west-central POTtions tonight; continued cold Thursday.
Lower Michizan--Cionay. tonight and tomorrow with snow, mos Hy light; colder tomorrow and tomorrow ght; continued cold Thursday.
Ollp=Snow : sonigh} and tomorrow; not quite so cold in north portion tonight, i r SOnOrIO ow and alin night; continued cold Thursday and Friday. orming; heat now tonight and tomorrow morning, eavy snow in east portion tonight; colder tomorrow and tomorrow night: continued cold Thursday and
7a mMm.....00 Bl lesen, 1.2 1.1
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Weather Bar. Temp. Amarillo, Tex. srasv..Cloar 30.34 11 Bismarck, N. D, ... 2 Boston I
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Frigid grip of winter stopped the splash at Niagara Falls as zero temperatures left American Falls (above) 20 per cent paralyzed. Only a small trickle of water now drips into the gorge.
MARRIAGE LAW EFFECT WAITED
Rise, Then Drop, in License
Sales Expected by County Officials.
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the same delay that will be entailed oy complying with the Indiana act. Secondly, those seeking licenses will learn soon there is no legitimate reason to avoid the new law. Dr. Verne K. Harvey, State Health
Director, who with the State Health Board will administer the act, believes the sensible approach ta the law will become general as soon as doctors, marriage license clerks and the general public become thoroughly acquainted with its regulations. The first reaction is expected to be felt in the next few weeks because, in effect, the new law begins to operate before March 1 for those couples planning to marry on March 1 or a few days thereafter. it. This is because the law provides that the blood-tests and physical examination must be made within 30 days prior to application for the license and because the test procedure will take at least four or five days to complete. Until the mechanics of the procedure are worked out smoothly between the license applicants, the examining physicians, - the State Health Board laboratories and the license clerks, applicants should allow at least six or seven days for the tests. The delay which will be caused by the steps taken to obtain a license is coincidental to its main purpose, but the Legislatures who formed the act were cognizant of it. The delay, which Dr. Harvey hopes will be shortened eventually to three or four days, is expected to be an effective deterrant to hasty marriages, operating like the marriage “waiting” laws of certain other states. Under the present marriage law provisions, couples can obtain 1licenses and be married within the same hour. It has been done in minutes. The new marriage law also contains a provision repealing former license regulations. This provision, which also will go into effect March 1, has nothing to do, however, with syphillis control. Under this provision prospective brides and grooms no longer need apply for their marriage licenses in the county of the bride’s residence. The elimination of this residence requirement, will serve to lighten the burden of former red tape for the alter-bound couples, but also, some county officials believe, stimulate intrastate elopements. This repealer was designed to compensate for the burden of red tape arising out of operating of ihe new hygienic marriage regulaions.
(NEXT: Procedure to he followed in obtaining marriage li cense under new law.)
REPORTS CHILDREN’S DISEASE DECLINES
BOSTON, Jan. 23 (U. P.).—Tuberculosis of the spine in children is practically non-existent in large cities in the United States now, Dr. A. Bruce Gill, director of the orthopedic department at the University of Pennsylvania said today. At a symposium at the American Academy of orthopedic Surgeons, Dr. Gill said that state and city clinics and pasteurization of milk are the most important reasons for the decline of the once-prevalent disease.
BOY QUIZZED AFTER 4 FIRES AT SCHOOL
YPSILANTI, Mich., Jan. 23 (U. P.).—Four fires have ‘broken out in the Woodruff School here since last Thursday, but it was reopened again today under extreme ution while police questioned a 15-year-old youth they suspected of trying to bum it down because he disliked
de fon and the lace pattern cut
‘models that sweep the floor.
Robin Watchers Take Warning!
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan. 23 (U. P.)—Don’t anybody boast about sighting a robin this winter from now on. The Rev. Fr. George M. Link,
nature guide ‘at Pere Marquette State Park, Grafton, reported he had sighted 33 (that’s right, thir-ty-three) robins. He and his parties also saw 12 bald eagles, 83 blue-jays, 400 cardinals and three canvas-backed ducks. The ducks looked cold.
MORGENTHAU BACKS BALANCED BUDGET
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Appropriations Committee's econ-|
omy total so far this year to about $113,000,000—the amount which apapropriation bills have been cut below budget figures for the fiscal year which starts next July 1. However, at the same time the
Committee reported two special de-|2 ficiency bills providing $69,502,600 to be spent for naval construction, tax refunds and farm benefits during the remainder of the present fiscal year.
Chief cuts ordered in the Treas-ury-Postoffice bill were in items of a semi-defense nature. The Treasury was given $218,691,530, $8,057,150 less than Mr. Roosevelt recommended. The Post Office got $813,963,082, a $3,434,750 cut.
Although Administration leaders predicted that the Treasury-Post-office measure would encounter only negligible opposition and pass in its present form. Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary (R. Ore.) warned that the Republicans are “economy-bent” and probably would seek additional reductions.
Spending Debate Expected
The defense bill which comes up in the Senate today would authorize funds for the Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Federal Bureau of Investigation - to supplement their usual allotments for the current fiscal year. Observers believed that the defense bill—first major spending bill to reach the Senate floor this session— might touch off a general discussion of Government spending, particularly President. Roosevelt’s proposal for increased taxes to provide $460,000,000 of the cost of the expanded national defense program. Chairman Alva B. Adams (D. Colo.), of the Senate Appropriations Committee, predicted that the measure would encounter only negligible opposition.
CORRECTION
An article in The Indianapolis Times Thursday incorrectly stated that Kenneth Wold, 1108 College Ave., was the driver of a car which struck Leo Koontz, ‘33, of 1718 E.
| 11th St., at 11th St. and College Ave.
the previous evening. Police reports state that Mr. Koontz was knocked down and bruised by a taxicab driven by Elvin Covert, 821 E. 14th St., and that Mr. Wold was walking across the street with Mr. Koontz at the time of the accident.
PROOF IS GIVEN
YOUTH MARRIED HIS OWN SISTER
Judge to Order Order Permanent Separation in ‘Wedding’ Of Blood Kin.
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| son lived with his mother until 1924
when she died. He then became a
ward of the Juvenile Court and for|
a period of time was in first one and then another orphans home. That son is Leroy Williamson, Mrs. Harker declared. : : Courf Record Produced
In April, 1921, Helen Williamson bore a daughter at her home on N.
| East St. and both she and the infant
were taken to City Hospital. There, Mrs. Harker said, Mrs. Williamson ‘signed a petition which made the infant a ward of Juvenile Court,
- | signing her name as Helen Smith,
but later ‘crossing out the "Smith and substituting Williamson. ‘That pape: was produced in Court toa On the petition she named the girl Crystal Westerfield, but when the infant was placed, a few days later, in the Indianapolis Orphans Home, she was given the name of Crystal Clair Williamson. ‘A few days later she was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Wolfe, 760 Lynn St., and was given the name of Virginia Wolfe. Mrs. Harker testified that at the time the girl was adopted by the Wolfes, she wanted to take her, but was unable to do so. She told the Court that ‘another daughter of Helen Williamson, probably a full sister of the two involved but at least a half-sister, now lives with her in Urbana, Ill. This girl's name is Crysal Clair Haines, the surname having been taken from a former husband of Mrs. Harker. This girl now is 18.
Heard Radio Appeal
Mrs. Harker said that she had, during the years, made repeated attempts to locate the daughter of her sister who was adopted by the Wolfes, but. had been unable to do so. A year ago Christmas, she said, she, heard on a missing persons broadcast that if Crystal Clair (she didn't catch .the last. name) could find her mother or father, she would be happy. The broadcast was from Indiana. Mrs. Harker said she wrote to Indianapolis for information but got none and in April of this year came here. She said she traced her sister’s daughter to the Wolfes and there told the Wolfes of her background. Meanwhile, the boy, Leroy Williamson, had gone to live with the Indianapolis man suspected of being the father of all three of the children. Mrs. Harker found him, -t00, and |; in the Traction Terminal station here last April she brought them together and told them they were brother and sister. Leroy Williamson told the Court that he promptly fell in love with Virginia Wolfe, had a deep-seated]. belief they were not brother and sister, and started a long search of records to prove it. It was after he had discovered discrepancies in the records, explained away today by Mrs. Harker, that they decided to get married. They were married about two weeks ago, and then the whole matter came to the attention of Juvenile Court.
NIGHT PARKING BAN ‘POSTPONED 30 DAYS
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because we've built a lot of apartments in Indianapolis without providing garages for their occupants. “And besides, we haven’t enough policemen to enforce the ordinance against everyone.” Mr. Campbell said enforcement of the ordinance would drive “countless residents and taxpayers out of the City.” At its mecting o week ago, the Safety Board was informed by Building Commissioner George R. Popp that a survey of 22 Indianapolis apartment houses showed that garage space was provided for only 21 per cent of the cars owned by the apartment occupants. The survey was made by Mr. Popp to support his contention that lack of garages in apartment districts contribute to the overnight parking problem. The criticism over the Board's enforcement order started Indianapolis realtors studying a proposal to amend the City Building code to require that adequate garage space
be provided as a requisite to obtain- |
ing a building permit.
The idea of such a provision was|
suggested originally by Mr. Popp and Chief Morrissey. The Apartment Owners’ Association is scheduled to consider the proposed measure at
its meeting tomorrow.
New Gowns Have Gomoh, : But It’s All Just Sew-Sew
PARIS, Jan. 23 (U. P.).—There is “oomph” in every stitch of the new fashions, if judged on the basis of Paquin’s collection of spring models. Low cut, transparent lace gowns, swinging hip lines, demure veilings and glittering jewels are the out-
{standing features. Women will have
a wide choice of “siren roles” for these clothes are worthy of Cleopatra, Salome and Mata Hari.
lavender hyacinth tips over one eye and has perky, wired black velvet bows sticking up, the whole thing draped to below the shoulders with a patterned veil matching the dress. Gray combined with purple; it is said, always gets a man. So, Paquin made a gray jersey suit with elbow sleeves and a tight-fitting jacket. Under the blouse of purple net, long tight sleeves show in contrasting
Formal evening gowns are cling-|gray
ing jersey and transparent lace with some draped-effects and some Wine e “come hither” effects are given by a ular under-skirt slit up the front above the knee and from there buttoned to the top. A blue lace gown was most provocative, with the upper_ half over flesh chif-
to the]
In the silk Jersey group, there was a dress of heavy white silk trimmed on the sleeves and pockets and collar with gold tatting braid. A large jeweled pin of yellow diamonds was worn with this costume. One of the best ensembles had a pleated plaid taffeta skirt and a blue jacket double breasted, with plaid buttons. There were
Three Bullets In Head, Lives
NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (U. P.).— Twice Salvatore Morrione put a revolver to his head and pulled the trigger. He heard explosions but nothing happened. He squinted into the muzzle to see if anything was wrong. Nothing was. " So he put the gun to his head and fired a third time. Then he threw the gun away in disgust. He was in the basement of an apartment building, where he is a janitor. He walked up to his sec= ond-floor apartment. His family saw blood on his head and called an ambulance. X-rays showed all three bullets in his skull. One had struck the brain and lodged at the base of the brain. Two were lodged back of the right eye. His skull was fractured, he had a concussion and a hemorrhage, but he insisted he still “didn’t feel a thing.” He explained that he had two children, earned only a dollar a day, was tired of living and had found the gun in the basement. Police charged him with ‘Sullivan Law violation and put him in the prison ward.
COURT AWAITS BROWDER PLEA
Appeal Due Today on 4-Year Sentence for Falsifying Passport Application.
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though they had aided him in his unsuccessful campaign for re-elec-tion as Governor of Michigan in 1938. In denouncing the “instability of the ruling class,” apparently referring to the President's family, he said: : “. . . Constantly torn by contradictions, they have interests here and interest there and they cannot be reconciled. The daughter-in-law may be married to a munition family and there is a contradiction to it if we have a peace policy. Another member of the family may have entered the ‘employ of their once greatest political rival. “These contradictions have to be reconciled some way and the family and national unity has to be reestablished some way, and how can it be done?” Of his conviction, he said: “Today I received on your behalf the sentence against our movement. consider it a great honor. At the same time, carrying our appeal from this court of the ruling class of America to the people of America, we must warn the people that this verdict in this case is only one indictment in the drifting of the American ruling class toward war. . . In this court today I was prohibited from speaking, except within the limits tnat were laid down by the judge. I observed those limits which he laid down, even though in the observance of these limits I was constantly coming into collision with his. . . .” Browder has been in prison before. He was sentenced in 1917 for obstructing the draft. He had made his own summation in court after his attorney, George Gordon Battle, had rested without calling defense witnesses. The Government had established that when he applied for a passport in his own name in 1934 he had written “none” in reply to the question “my last passport was obtained from. . . .” although he had been issued three passports previously under different names.
Strauss Says:
5 pairs $1
iL. STRAUSS & C0
PROJECTS LAG, | 12,000 ARE IDLE. ON STATE WPA
Jennings Blanes. Sponsors; Men Forced on Relief, He Declares.
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platerents are expected to be filled within a few days.” :
The State Administrator pointed” out that the benefits a community" may derive from the WPA depend: on locai governmental units. °° -.. Unless local sponsors have suf=. ficient projects and are allowed to set up a budget that will meet requirements as set by Congress, the WPA cannot assist in employing their people, he added, and these’ people remain as a direct relief load. “Such a situation results in inwcreased relief costs, loss of Federal funds to merchants and others in the community and the loss of con-~-structive public benefits which might have been derived from Fed= eral funds,” he said. : “This whole situation is strictly’
‘a local responsibility.
4549 Jobless in This District
The Administrator's statement followed one released last. week by Posey B. Denning, District WPA administrator here, who charged that Marion County officials had failed to provide sufficient projects. : In District 4, which includes Marion County, there are 4549 certified workers unemployed because of fail ure of sponsors to provide projects,” Other countries in the district be~. sides Marion failing to provide proj= ects, according to the WPA, are: Brown, Clark, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Ripley, Rush, Scott, Shelby, Switzerland, Union and Washington. In District 1, where 2004 are unemployed, counties failing to provide projects are DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Lake, Marshall, Noble, Pulaski, St. Joseph, Starke and Steuben.
1923 In District 3
In District 2, where 1737 cannot be supplied with jobs, counties not providing projects are: Allen, Huntington, Wells, Wabash, Grant, Blackford, Delaware,’ Howard, Tip= ton, Hancock, Madison, Jay, Rane dolph, Wayne and Henry. In District 3 a total of 1923 are unemployed because the following counties have not provided projects: Morgan, Clay, Owen, Vermillion, Parke and Vigo. District 5 has 1576 unemployed. Counties failing to provide projects are Vanderburgh, Posey, Gibson, Sullivan, Greene, Perry, Crawford, Pike, Knox and Daviess,
FIRST LADY AIDED PARALYSIS VICTIM
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (U. P.). —MTrs. Henrietta Hickerson of Good Will Industries today ‘told how Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt intervened and obtained for a deformed infantile paralysis victim a reduction in the tax the District of Columbia sought to assess him for operating his electric wheel chair. When the youth, Gordon Walter, obtained a clerical job at the Navy Department, he bought the electric wheel chair to help him get around and the Traffic Bureau tried to make him pay the $21 license as= sessed hard-tired electric trucks. Mrs. Roosevelt was able to convince the Bureau officials that Walter should be charged no more than the
nominal cost of a private automobile license.
GREAT ACTIVITY CENTERS AROUND THESE:
Clearance of Men's OXFORDS. at 3.45
HANDKERCHIEFS, white and colored—12 for $1
SHORTS, cut true to size, white, plain colors, _ stripes, each 29c, 4 for $1
SOCKS, including “REALSILK LISLES, substandards—also Strauss hose, firsts, of course . . 4.
SHIRTS; white and patterned, sale groups 1.35 and 1.69
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