Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1940 — Page 8

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PLAN TO OBTAIN GAS PROPERTIES UNDER SCRUTINY

Condemnation Proposal to Be Reviewed at Public Hearing Tonight.

A public hearing on the City Utility District's proposal! to purchase * the Indianapolis Gas Co. properties will be held by City Council at 7:30 Pp. m. today at City Hall. Although a large number of perSons are not expected to appear, de- - velopmentsyjeading to the Utility District’s proposal will be reviewed

in detail, Council President Joseph G. Wood said. F. B. Ransom, chairman of Council’'s Public Works Committee, will preside. >

Ordinance Is Pending

The Council now: has pending an ordinance approving< the Utility District’s: proposal to acquire the properties of the Indianapolis Gas + Co. through condemnation proceedings. If Council approves the ordinance, the Utility District’s proposal must then be approved by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan before proceedings can begin. Under the proposed condemnation plan, a local court would be asked to fix a fair value for the Indianapolis Gas property, which includes about half the mains serving Indianapolis consumers. The City, would pay the ‘court's valuation through a bond issue, probably to be retired out of revenue.

Protest Is Indicated

Louis B. Ewbank, attorney for the Indianapolis Gas Co. has indicated he will appear to protest immediate action on the proposal by Council. : Mr. Ewbank was expected to ask Council to defer action until the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago has decided on the validity of a lease which the Indianapolis Gas Co. claims binds the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility. The lease was executed between the old Citizens Gas Co., prior to its acquisition by the City, and .the Indianapolis Gas Co. It provided for payment by the Citizens Gas Co. for mains owned by the Indianapolis- Gas Co. When the City acquired the Citizens’ Gas Co., officials contended the rental in the lease was excessive and that the City was not bound.

Baltzell Ruling: Appealed

After a long fight in Federal Court here, Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell declared the lease was not binding. This left to the city the necessity of making a new arrangement to use the Indianapoiis Gas Co. mains and equipment. Utility Dis- . trict trustees and directors, who operate the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, then decided to acquire the Indianapolis Gas properties. Meanwhile, the Indianapolis Gas Co. had appealed the case to the U. S.'Circuit Court. It is believet that a decision favorable to the concern will enhance the value of its property. Patrick J. Smith, attorney for the Utility District, will present the City’s case for songemnaion tonight.

‘CEASE’ ORDER NAMES EAST CHICAGO FIRM

. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (U.P) — The National Labor Relations Board today ordered the Continental Roll & Steel Foundry Co., East Chicago, Ind., to “cease discouraging” membership in the Amalgamated Asseciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America (C. I. 0). At the same time, the Board dismissed a complaint that the company had dominated the Employees’ " Independent Labor Organization of the Continental Roll & Steel Foundry Co. and that it discriminated against five employees because of C. I. O. union membership. The Board ruled that the company violated the Wagner Labor Relations Act by employing the Thiel Service Agency to receive reports on its employees’ union activities; by questioning employees about their union, and by making “disDaraging remarks” concerning ‘thé C.10. group.

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Works for Peace

Former Premier Hendrik Colijn of Holland . . . looks ahead after the war.

FORMER DUTCH PREMIER ACTIVE

‘Grand Old Man’ Is Seeking Economic Co-operation On Practical Basis.

- THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. 23 (U. P.)—Former Premier Hendrik Colijn, Holland’s “grand old man,” is working quietly on a gigantic plan to solidify world peace after the present war, it was understood today. Colijn is believed to have the approval not only of Queen Wiihelmina of Holland and King Leopold of Belgium but of other important personalities including some key figures in all countries now at war. It is expected here that Colijn will be elected chairman of a League of Nations “central committee” which is to meet here Feb. 7 and that the first concrete work on a plan for future economic reconstruction would be started then. The difficulties which confront Colijn are obvious. Nevertheless his work is regarded here as practical and of immense general importance.

Began Career as Soldier

Colijn is 70. He started his career as a soldier and took part in army expeditions to the Netherlands East Indies. He entered politics 30 years ago. He has held every key post in the Nethgrlands Cabinet, including that of Finance Minister. He has been a director of the Royal Dutch-Shell Oil Co.,, a member of the Bank for International Settlements advisory committee on German conditions and a delegate to international economic conferences. Premier Benito Mussolini, with whom Colijn has talked recently, was believed to be one who approved Colijn’s present work and it was believed here tha‘ his plan was not unknown ih Washington.

Group to Work Slowly

There seems a real hope here that the work of attaining a secure peace might be so co-ordinated as to bring in such figures as President Roosevelt, Pope Pius, Sig. Mussolini, former Premier Paul Van Zeeland of Belgium and well-known persons in Allied countries who, according to information: here, are working quietly for a real peace without as yet being able to make their efforts public. The League of Nations “central committee” was expected to meet in secret here and to say little at all for public consumption. The plan seems to be that it will work slowly on a big peace and reconstruction plan, gathering all information. it can on world problems. World economic co-operation on a practical basis, supply and distribution of rav- materials, colonies, and a reorganized League of Nations completely divorced from the Versailles Treaty are among the problems which Colijn envisages as necessary for study.

. U, CENTER ADDS TWO TO FACULTY

Two new members have been added to the education faculty of the Indiana University Extension Center here for the second semester, Miss Mary B. Orvis, executive secretary, said today. They are Dr. Ruth Strickland and Mrs. Henry Lester Smith. Dr. Strickland, former director of primary education at Kansas State Teacners College, will teach a class in the Supervision of the Elementary Curriculum, every Thursday evening. Mrs. Smith, wife of the dean of the I. U. School of Education, will teach a course in Comparative Education at 8:30 to 10:30 a. m. on Saturday | morning. Twelve education courses | will be given at the extension center {during the second semester, Miss {Orvis said.

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DEFEAT oNLss I “WAR IS RUSHED

Believes Hitler Must Spring a Surprise.

By WILLIAM PHILIP-SIMMS Times Forelgn Editor =~

tary attache, whose forecasts made privately last July have proved al-

{most ‘100 per cent correc, iow pre- | dicts defeat for Germany unless she |:

has some extremely potent surprise up her sleeve about which the world knows absolutely nothing. . Last July this attache told me that he expected war not later than September; that the Germans were

“ready but the British were not;

that Hitler was convinced that if he invaded Poland, Britain would back down; that, even if Britain and France came in, Hitler felt certain the Siegfried Line would stop them;

that if war came the Germans would

be east of Warsaw in 60 days and that Hitler would then offer peace to the Allies. Each of these predictions has come true. Hence the attache’s views.on what may happen next are

worth recording.

Cites Public Opinion .

Neither Germany nor the Allies, he thinks, will attempt any largescale attacks along the Siegfried or He recalls Germany’s costly failure to breach Verdun in 1916 and concluded that mass attacks today, against not one but a whole array of Verduns, stretching from Switzerland to the

sea, would bog down in much the

same way. And he doubts that public opinion in any of the countries involved would permit any such slaughter. Nevertheless, the attache holds now as he did last July that Germany must make this a quick war if she is to win. He takes this view despite the fact that, unlike many others, he believes she has a reserve of war materials sufficient to last her for 12 or 18 months. : In addition to numerous other factors, he says, Russia will prove an increasing menace to the Reich as time-goes on, and Hitler knows it. Hence some other quick way to end the war will have to be found. So the Nazis might try to break through via Switzerland. But that avenue of attack would necessarily have to be confined to a narrow valley and the Swiss, aided by the French, ought to be able to block the enemy's passage.

Doubts “Big Push”

Accordingly, the Germans might try the other flank, via Holland and Belgium. But even if the low countries were overrun—and both the Belgians and the Dutch could be counted on to make the invaders pay for every foot of ground gained— Hitler's legions would still have to break through the Maginot Line, extended, to get at France. My expert, therefore, doubts that

Hitler will resort to any such tactics

—at any rate, not unless he has in mind something more than a springboard for a land attack - against France. And here we come to Banther of his predictions of last uly. Should Britain and France turn down Hitler’s bid for peace, he said, then, the Fuehrer might attempt an aerial blitzkrieg to terrorize them into making terms. The attache spoke of this as a “war of blackmail”—a swift, systematic dealing of death and destruction from the sky so horrible that a new peace of Munich would be pessible. But first, the attache said, Hitler would have to win control of the air. He would have to send out planes in droves of thousands and sweep the Allies from the sky. Then he might start the progressive destruction of large centers of population in Britain and France. Gradually closing in on London and Paris, which for the psychological effect he might leave for the last.

Shortage Made Up

Today, however, the attache wonders if: Hitler would dare try such a scheme. The Fuehrer may have delayed too long. If, as some say, he has from 15,000 to 20,000 planes in readiness for a Blitzkrieg, the Allies have about as many. They have made up most of the shortage which existed at the beginning of the war and, counting American sources. Their rate of increase probably is superior to that of the Reich. Hence their ability to retaliate. Should Hitler stake everything on an aerial blitzkrieg and fail, he would be doomed to certain and early defeat. So the Scandinavian countries and the Balkans might provide the field for a decision. If the Balkans and Near East become involved, that would also’ drag in Italy. If Italy were on Germany’s side she could close the Mediterranean to the Allies. If on the Allies’ side, she

-might turn the tide in their favor.

UNITY FACES BULLET REMOVAL OPERATION

LONDON, Jan. 23 (U. P.).—Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, regarded by Fuehrer Adolf Hitler as the perfect Nordic beauty, was a patient today in a nursing home, where she will undergo operation for removal of a hullet from her neck.

the country home of her father, Lord: Redesdale, ‘from Munich where she was shot under circumstances never explained.

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FRANKLIN, Ind. Jan. 23.—<When sparks from a burning flue at the home of Carroll Groves, living southwest of here, showered down on his housetop and the roofs of nearby buildings, he put in an urgent call for help. An estimated 30 neighbors answered his pleas and stood by to form a bucket brigade if necessary. After an hour, all threat of fire had passed and the neighbors returned to their homes.

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Enough Civil War clothing, jewelry, guns, sabers and other articles to outfit the cast of “Gone With the

Wind” went on display today in the Wm. H. Block Co. Auditorium. The exhibit will remain on display through Feb. 3. The store sent out a call a week ago for relics of the era, and the response was almost staggering. Many precious heirlooms had to be rejected because of lack of space in the big auditorium in which to display them effectively, store officials said. Nearly enough Confederate money to pay the war debt was offered, together with enough muskets, pistols and swords to wipe out several enemy divisions,

Dresses Bring Ohs and Ahs

The display of military relics is enough to delight the heart of any boy—from 6 to 60. And ‘the scores of hand-made party dresses, multitudinous and voluminous petticoats and other articles of wearing apparel bring ohs and ahs from the feminine spectators — with an occasional snicker from the younger generation. Included is a dress worn to President Grant’s inaugural ball, loaned for the exhibit by Mrs, John P. Cochrane. : Mrs. W. L. Horne, 1835 N. Pennsylvania St. loaned numerous articles -of wearing apparel ‘including her mcther’s Infair dress, of green taffeta. An Infair dress, she explained, was the dress worn by the bride at the party given by the groom’s parents the day following the wedding.

‘Hats Look Modern

Some of the hats in the exhibit aren’t such a far cry from those worn today. Several came equipped with curls dangling from the back to give milady the appearance of an abundance of hair. One of the interesting exhibits is a blood-chilling kit of surgical tools carried by a Confederate doctor. Included is an amputation saw and a half dozen murderous-appearing knives. Nearby is an old-fashioned “bleeder.” Place it against the skin, pull a lever and 10 small blades neatly start the blood to flowing. A testimonial by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to Garrett O’Neal, reputedly the only man whose military discharge covered both Army and Navy service, was entered by Mrs. J. E. McGill of Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Accompanying it is a picture of Mr. O'Neal, pose, and a note of explanation. It

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Mrs. Frieda Robinson ett). Wm. H. Block Co. auditorium director, admires an old-fashioned lace jacket entered by Mrs. W. L. Horne, 1835 N. Pennsylvania St., in the store’s exhibit of Civil War days relics. the background is a green taffeta dress worn by Mrs. Horne's mother the day following hei- wedding in 1868.

Indianapolis Residents Dig Out 575 Heirlooms for Display Of 1860s at Block’s; Prizes Offered.

seems Mr. O’Neal’s brother had a broken arm and couldn’t enlist in the Union Army during the Civil War. So Mr. O'Neal, in a spirit of bravado, enlisted in both the Army and Navy to make up for his brother who couldn’t serve. There are 575 articles in the exhibit. Prizes totaling $100 will be divided among the owners of the articles adjudged the most unique and interesting. The judges will be Mrs. Grace Golden, executive secretary of the Children’s Museum; Mrs. Walter Montgomery, and Mrs. Edgar Forsythe.

STATE FOREST FIRE DAMAGE IS $493,578

Fires which swept over 35,617 acres of Indiana woodlands during 1939 did an estimated damage of $493,578, Virgil M. Simmons, State Conservation Commissioner, said today. Five hundred and fifty-five fires were reported during the year by the Division of Forestry, with 208 of them attributed to lighted matches thrown away ‘by careless smokers. More than 80 per cent of the fires began after Aug. 10, when the squirrel hunting season opened. One hundred and fifty-five fires were attributed to failure to keep burning brush piles and other debris fires under close observation; 68 to sparks from railroad locomotives; 41, incendiary origin; 18, lumbering operations; five started by campers; 10 from miscellaneous causes, and

no definite cause was discovered for 53 fires, Mr. Simmons reported.

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ABE LINCOLN MOVIE IN CAPITAL PICKETED

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (U. P.).— The world premiere of the movie “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” was held here last night with as much fanfare as Hollywood could offer—plus a picket line of civil rights demonstrators. A thousand movie-struck men and women, boys and girls lined the

sidewalk outside. the theater, craning their necks for a glimpse of so-

litical figures. Those present included Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Raymond Massey, star of the picture, Cabinet members and other high ranking Government officials. The 50 pickets, mostly Negroes, were members of the Washington Civil Rights Committee. . “I think it is particularly tragic,” Mrs. Roosevelt said after the performance, “that the people whom Lincoln freed should not be alloyed to see the show about him.”

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