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"The Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow generally fair; continued cold; lowest tonight about zero.

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GOOD NEWS "ITLL BE ONLY ZERO TONIGHT

Weather Bureau Concedes That it May Be Warmer In Couple of Days.

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Good news! It will be only about zero tonight. And what’s more, there's a chance that it may get a little bit warmer in ‘a couple of days, the Weatherman said today after the mercury had taken a plunge to 4 below in the city and 8 below at the Municipal Airport. Warm winds are trying to waft in from the Pacific, the Bureau said, but cold air masses centering over the Northwest are maintaining a stiff blockade. Forecaster C. A. Donnel at Chicago made a promise to the shivering nation. He said temperatures will start moderating today and that the mercury in most’ cities of the country will read 10 to 15 degrees higher by Sunday.

TUPELO, Miss., Jan. 26 (U. P.). A disconcerted southerner ran the followi classified advertisement today in the Tupelo Journal: “Will sell, trade, swap, barter— by gosh will give away—one batch of snow and damYankee weather for some warm sunshine. Apply all jpeinis south.”

Relief was tardy in some parts of the frozen South. Richmond, Va, reported that the mercury went to 6 below. Miami recorded 44 degrees above and New Orleans 27 while California reported. a “norm=

a 3 > es City, “Moat; At was 8 cool PT Re CE RE AR Te cold zones centered over the Upper Rockies and the middle Mississippi River Valley. The Mississsippi and Ohio Rivers froze over and rive paddle wheels were - clogged byt The thermometer at St. Louis, Mo., told why—it recorded 2 degrees below zero. University of Illinois agriculturists feared ‘that the cold had caused. “almost total loss” of the £200,000 Illinois peach crop. Southern fruit growers burned smudge pots to protect their groves.

South Staggers Under Full Week of Snow

ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 26 (U. P) — The coldest weather of the century paralyzed the South today as it staggered from a full week of snow, ice and temperatures that frequently dipped below zero. The mercury-dropped to 13 below at Nashville and Chattanooga and was much lower in the mountains nearby. The rub-zero weather extended as far south as Birmingham, where it was three below, and temperatures between zero and 10 above . were general throughout Dixie. Tales of hardship began filtering in from isolated sections. Whole communities were reported, marooned by ice-incrusted snow in the mountainous regions of Tennessee, northern Alabama and Georgia.

SULLIVAN MAN DROPS DEAD, COLD IS BLAMED

SULLIVAN, Ind, Jan. 26 (U. P.). —Hezzi Cutts, 51, a Sullivan WPA worker, dropped dead of a heart attack believed to have been induced ‘by zero weather today. Coroner Hubert Wagner also is investigating two other deaths here. John M. Nally, 50, died unexpectedly after loading a car of coal at a mine. Arlo Sherman of Dugger died after being accidentally struck by a pick in the hands of a fellow workman” in a mine.

THIRD YOUTH DIES OF AUTO INJURIES

WABASH, Ind. Jan. 26 (U, P.).— Lester Cripes, 19-year-old North. Manchester youth, died last night from injuries received in an automobile crash near Urbana which claimed two other lives. A scheduled basketball game tonight between Urbana and Lincolnville was postponed in respect to the memory of one of the victims— James E. Urschel, 21, famed Urbana High School star. In one game Urschel scored 35 points for Urbana. The other accident victim was Ray Yoder, 16, Camden,

OATH ADMINISTERED TO 82 NEW CITIZENS

Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today told 82° persons who became United States Citizens that “to be an American citizen is a privilege.” | “The Government is doing you a {favor by letting you become citizens,” the judge said at the naturalization proceedings. “You should be deeply aware of the privilege you are being granted.” _Another 80 persons became citiwens yesterday. The next admission class will be held in June.

CITY BLOCKED IN

Puzzle After Court Throws Out Two Cases.

City officials, blocked in their first attempts to enforce the State tail-

out an enforce will “stick” in cot “Refusal ‘of Municipal Gout’ Charles Karabell yesterday to con‘vict two motorists because -police had not seen them park their cars without lighted tail lamps, led to a conference late in the day between Judge Karabell, Chief Michael F.

Michael Reddington. The decision to continue enforcement of the law was reached at the meeting, but the question of “how” was left for another conference, probably today, at which prosecutor David M. Lewis was to be present. Meanwhile, police continued to hand out stickers last night to owners of cars parked without lights on the streets between 30 minutes after sundown and 30 minutes before sunrise. Twenty-one stickers were issued during the night. ’ One of the problems discussed at the conference. was which of the two State laws requiring lighted tail lamps should be enforced. One, enacted 'in,1939, requires cars to have both front and rear lights] - burning while parked. ! The other, enacted in 1926, specifies that only th2 tail-light need be burning if the car is parked flat to the curb on the right hand side of the street.

identical with this earlier state law. It was the opinion, however, that (Continued on Page Three)

IGE GUT IN FEAR OF LOGANSPORT FLOOD

Workers Busy on Eel River Above Water Co. Dam.

LOGANSPORT, Ind., Jan, 268 (U. P.).—Crews of workmen today were cutting a wide channél in the ice on Eel River above the Logansport waterworks dam to avert a possible flood in the event of a sudden thaw. In 1935 a gorge of water broke loose during a melting period, flood - ing the residential area and drowning one person. The ice east of the town today measured 14 inches in thickness. |

ROOSEVELT PLANNING NEW REORGANIZATION

WASHINGTON, Jan, 26 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt | said today that he has two new Government reorganization plans in preparation but declined to say when they will be sent to Congress. He offered no indication of what agencies are affected by the _proposed reorganization. | He declined comment cn the expiration of the U. S.-Japanese commercial treaty or the attack on the New Deal py C. I. O. President John L. Lewis. He asked questioners if they could cite any reason why he should reply to Mr. Lewis.

INCREASES MEAT RATION LONDON, Jan. 26 (U. P.).—The Ministry of Food announced today that effective Monday the bacon and ham ration will be increased from four ounces per week per person to eight ounces. The Ministry said that’ the increase was due to

of bacon.

TAIL-LIGHT DRIVE

Manner of Enforcement Is

light law, today afisiapted to work,

Morrissey, Safety Board: President|: Leroy J. Keach,’ “Deputy Prosecutor |. Norman Blue ‘and’ City Attorney|"

The old City ordinance is virtually |. :

Feet Cold, Hearts Warm for ‘Gone With the Wind’

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1. Sub-Zero winds chilled their bones, but not the AN ai of

those -in this crowd that waited for the opening of Loew’s Theater

Reel 1 into the projector.

-today—and the first showing of “Gone With the Wind.” 2. While the crowd waited, Operator Cornelius Packard threaded

3. Miss Mary Glenn, 600 N. Rural St., Secretary to Ward Farrar,

boast.

“first 2500.”

For more than an hour before the!

theater opened at 9 a. m, waited, smiling with anticipation between gritti their teeth and stomping their feet to throw off the cold. Restaurants in the vicinity of the theater even reported that prospective patrons came into the establishments in the wee hours to sip warming coffee.

Youth and Age Attend

The crowd was cheery despite the cold and frequently when a theater attendant appeared as if to. open the doors a cheer went up. The first audience was predominantly young, but there were elderly women in shawls, old men with ear muffs, When the title was flashed on the screen it was greeted with the same type of applause as would greet an opera or concert star. The audience didn’t whoop it up and shout and cheer as movie audiences are wont to do. This crowd outside—a show in itself—was watched and commented upon by other hundreds hurrying to work. . The first night performance, at 8 o'clock tonight, will be attended by Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and others in the public eye.

Writing Took 10 Years

All seats will be reserved at the nightly performances at 8 p. m. and the Sunday matinee at2 p. m. Other matinees will be availaole on a continuous performance policy with unreserved seating. Heralding the film's approach here and elsewhere has been an unprecedented fever of public enthusiasm. And trailing in its wake is a statistical train of astronomical proportions. It was 10 years from the time that Margaret Mitchell began the

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First 2500° Brave Zero Weather at Film Opening

Shivering Line Keeps Smiling in Wintry Blasts Outside Boxoffice Hour Before Time for Show.

“I saw ‘Gone With the Wind,’” more than 2500 Hoosiers now can

They were in that audience which witnessed the first showing of the famous film at Loew’s Theater this morning. And they had to brave some of the coldest weather of the winter, standing in line awalling the opening of the theater, to be among the

S: 3: GITY OF FLINT ‘NEARS U.S. HAVEN

Sailors to Get First Pay Since Leaving N. Y.

BALTIMORE, Jan. 26 (U, P.).— The 8. 8. City of Flint, nearing the end of a modern odyssey of the sea,

Sieamen past the Virginia Capes toay The battered little American freighter had not been within Sig of U. S. shores since last Oct. when it sailed out of New York harbor on what was to have been

a routine cargo trip to European waters,

Tomorrow morning the Flint is due to dock at Baltimore harbor. Two officials of the United States Lines—charter operators of the Flint—boarded the freighter as it passed the Virginia Capes. They broughit with them a payroll for the American crew. The 40 sailors aboard the Flint have not been paid Since their vessel left New York Y. ar

SPECIAL STOCKS BEST IN LISTLESS MARKET

Special issues were active in a

listless New York stock market today. Bethlehem Steel preferred issues, aircrafts and Westinghouse Electric featured trading. A less than seasonal decline in motor car

and truck production was reported. |

Rye gained at Chicago where other grains were mixed. At Indianapolis, hogs weighing more than 160 pounds dropped 10 cents as hghter. Wsighis slumped cents,

| with political significance.

employment

WHEELER LISTS MAIN ‘PLANKS’

Senator Speaks to Miners As Belief Grows Lewis Will Back Candidacy.

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 26 (U.P,).— Senator Burton K. Wheeler ( Mont.) laid before the United Mine Workers Union convention today his program for solving America’s national problems as evidence accumulated that John L. Lewis is ready to back him for the Presidency, .

Mr. Wheeler's appearance before the miners’ convention was packed He is the only potential Presidential candidate invited to speak, and, before he appeared, he urged a ent Roosevelt. to. announce m intentions within “a eomparat vely short ime.” . am The Montaann “declared ‘that un“unsolved and comparatively untouched still remains America’s No. I problem,” ‘and he urged that a national conference of industrial, agricultural. and lapor leaders be called to propose a solu-

‘| tion to it.

_¥ Pleads for Neuiralily

Such a. conference also has been urged by Mr; Lewis, and indorsed by the mine union convention. The A. F. of L. also has -urged Mr. Roosevelt to call such a meeting. Like Mr. Lewis, Mr. Wheeler pleaded for strict American neutrality “in the European war and warned against attempts by U. S. public officials to use. foreign affairs “to divert our attention away from what is far more important to us, namely—the solution of our domes-

‘|tic problems.”

Historically, he said, wars abroad have been “a convenient device” for national leaders to divert attention from their failure to solve problems at home.

Objects to F. D, R. Silence

Mr. Wheeler referred to himself as a 1940 candidate for re-election to the Senate, but it was not believed that- this was. intended to preclude his availability for the Presidency. At a press conference before he spoke, Mr. Wheeler declared that continued silence by Mr. Roosevelt on the third term issue until the Democratic convention “can only lead to disaster.” Although opposed to a third term himself; Mr. Wheeler said that he believed Mr. Roosevelt could have ‘the nomination if he wants it, adding that he would support him if nominated.

petrators of what Mr. Lewis termed a “most reprehensible and cowardly trick.” The trick was to unfurl 8 large red flag emblazoned with the hammer and sickle over Mr. Lewis’ head while he was 'delivering an address on the Union’s 50th birthday over a national broadcasting company network yesterday afternoon. ‘Angry delegates milled about, shouting “Tear it down” when the flag made its appearance, and ushers grappled with ,newspabes hotographers to prevent a picture SD taken of Mr. Lewis standing under the Ccmmunist flag.

Columbus police searched for per-,

C.F C. MARKS

HALF CENTURY

OF PROGRESS

14 Charter Members, 235 Firms to Be Honored At Banquet Tonight.

Fifty years of business progress, during which Indianapolis “grew up,” will be spotlighted tonight at the Indianapolis Chamber of Com-

merce golden. anniversary banquet at the Claypool Hotel. There will be approximately 600 Indianapolis residents in the Riley Room to help commemorate the anniversary. On the program will be a talk by a nationally known industrialist, honor for 14 charter members of the Chamber and ceremonies for 235 firms as old or older than the Chamber. Fowler McCormick of Chicago, second vice president of the International Harvester Co., is to be the ‘principal speaker at tonight's bo quet. Grandson of Cyrus Hall Cormick who invented the reaper, Mr. McCormick is in charge of manufacturing of the internationally known firm. He rose to the position after graduation from Princeton University in 1922, working suc-. cessively as mechanic, salesman, branch manager, district sales manager and vice president in charge of foreign sales.

235 Firms to Be Honored |

A search of records by Chamber officials indicate that there are 235 Indianapolis firms that have completed ‘50 years or more of service in the city. Representatives of each have been invited to attend the banquet tonight where they will receive scrolls in recognition of their contributions to the business life of the community. Stowell C. Wasson is vice .chairman of the general arrangements

b committee in charge of. the banquet. | Mr.

McCord is chairman and Harper J. Ransburg and Henry L. Dithmer are members. George S. Olive is chairman of the program and Paul Richey and Meier S. Block are members; ‘I. W. Davies is chairman of the speaker committee, assisted by H. T. Pritchard and Charles W. Chase; Ralph S. Norwood is chairman of the decorations committee and Edwin J. Wuensch and Frank A. Montrose are members. The .50-year-firm committee is headed by Edward W. Harris, assisted . by Felix McWhirter and Almus G. Ruddell. Open House Planned As a precede to tonight's celebration, open house was to be held this afternoon at the Harvester firm's new truck engine works at “5565 Brookville Road for Chamber members ‘and their guests. - The open house is being conducted by Mr. McCormick and a group of company officials from Chicago. The 14 men who are to receive special honors tonight were members of the old Commercial Club, predecessor to the Chamber of Commerce. All still are members of the Chamber. They are Albert Baker, Arthur Bohn, Hilton U. Brown, William Fortune, Frank B. Fowler, the Rev. (Continued on Page Three)

ELLIOTT CHIMES IN WITH WNUTT RAP

Calls for Man Man Who Can Carry On F. D. R. Policies.

KALAMAZOO, Mich., Jan, 26 (U. P.) —Elliott Roosevelt said in an address here last night that “I don’t know any more than you do whether the President intends to run for

“only a man who can carry out the strong policies of the President should be given a place in the White House.” Young Mr. Roosevelt, speaking in a program sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, said that Paul V. McNutt “is a political adventurer who seeks the Presidency.” He made no reference to John L. Lewis’ statement before the United Mine Workers’ convention in Columbus that President Roosevelt would go down to “ignominious defeat” if he chose to run again. Mr. Lewis also had called Mr. McNutt a “political adventurer.” ° Without naming Thomas Dewey but in an obvious reference to the Republican Presidential aspirant young Mr. Roosevelt said: “Under . the nation’s present circumstances we cannot turn the picture over to an un-trained executive.” .

Time—7:30 p. m.

Haag’s Claypool Drug

Number of Bouts—24 to 30.

Times’ Clothe-A-Child

: Come: early. - There will be

Golden Gloves Antone

Place—National Guard Armory.

Ticket Prices—Reserved seats, 75 cents; general admission, 40 centsp Reserved tickets will be on sale at

after that at the Armory.

tion checked off, there still are 42 experienced sock‘ers in the running for the eight Open championships and 108 ready to battle for the Novice crowns. All bouts are three rounds to a decision.

Forty per cent of the net receipts go to The Indianapolis

Bruce P. Robison Legion Post charity fund.

Store until 6 p.m. Tonight,

With one night of sompetic

fund, 60 per cent to the

plenty of action,

office in 1940,” but he added that|

Lithuania,

Tosses Fast ‘Un

Walter Johnson . . . All aboard for Washington, says “Big Train.” -

GERMANTOWN, Md., Jan. 26 (U. P.) —~Walter Johnson, one of the most famous fast-ball pitchers of major league baseball, tossed a hot one into the big-time political ring

- | today—announcement of his candi-

dacy for Congress. Mr. Johnson has had a couple of years’ training in local politics as a member of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners. He now will seek the Republican nomination to Congress from Maryland’s Sixth District.

1S DEUTSCHLAND

WAR CASUALTY?

British Naval Men Wonder If Nazis Are Attempting To Conceal Loss.

LONDON, Jan. 26 (U. P,).—Navy men believed today that the German pocket battleship Deutschland may have been sunk anf that Ger-

many was attempting to conceal it by ahnouncing that the ship’s name had been changed to the Luetzow. There already was a Luetzow in the German fleet, a heavy cruiser of 10,000 tens, same size as the Deutschland Two things pointing to the possibility of the Deutschland’s loss were ‘pointed ‘out: heres =» 1. The British submarine Salmon torpedoed a. mnumbér of German warships at thé mouth of the Elbe River last month and although the crew could not ‘see the outcome, they believed that a cruiser of the Bluecher or Leipzig class had been sunk. -The Deutschland is of the same tonnage as the Bluecher and ‘has lines similar to the Leipzig. 2. The British submarines : Seahbrse, Starfish and Undine, whose sinkings were announced simultaneously this month, may have made a successful attack on a German warship before they ran afoul the Nazi depth : charges. It was pointed out that Germany had reported some of the créw members rescued, indicating that German warships were near the scene.

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Estimate Gerfans Build |Eight Subs Each Month

BERLIN, Jan. 26 (U. P.).—German Naval experts estimated today that one-third the U-boat fleet was operating on the high seas, although all surface ships except the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer were at, home ports. At the start of the war, Germany had 71 submarines. The number sunk and built is a secret, but the most commen estimate is that 20 have been lost and that replacements are at the rate of six or eight a month.

WISCONSIN WARNS INDIANA ON TRUCKS

Threatens Ban if if Hoosiers Delay License Parley.

MADISON, Wis., Jan. 26 (U. P.) .— Unless Indiana officials agree immediately to a ‘conference with Wisconsin authorities relative to reciprocity . in truck licensing arrangements, the entire southern border of this state will be closed to

man, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, said today. Wisconsin has not been bothering Indiana trucks, but Indiana has stopped at least 100 private trucks and placed some of the drivers in jail until they have “¢ ined Indiana license plates, Mr. \Rickeman explained. Reciprocal agreements have been

negotiated with Minnesota and

Michigan, and a_ similar agreement with Towa is anticipated, Mr. Rickeman pointed out. He asked Frank Finney, Indiana Motor Vehicle Commissioner, for an immediate reply to

‘his invitation to a conference on

the matter.

‘VAST PLOT’ AGAINST STALIN REPORTED

ROME, Jan. 26 (U. P.).—The authoritative newspaper Giornale D’Italia und.r a Kovno (Kaunas), dateline published today reports of mass arrests in the

| Ukraine {following exposure of a

“vast, plot” against Josef Stalin. Giornale D’Ttalia is edited by Virginio Gayda, who is’ close to the: foreign office and who at

{times .has spoken for Premier Benito Mussolini,

Indiana trucks which do not have| Wisconsin licenses, George W. Rick-

EUROPE RACING TOWARD END OF

WAR DEADLOCK

Major Offensives Expected Soon; Finns Say Hundreds: Of Russians Slain. =

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Europe speeded up war preparae tions today for major offensives which may come when winter ends, Nobody knew when or where the widely predicted springtime blows would fall, but there has been ine creasing confidence that the ‘west ern European stalemate will be broken and that the Red Army will throw its best troops into a general offensive in Finland. d Finnish troops were reported to have repulsed new Russian attacks today northeast of Lake Ladoga, “annihilating” - several companies which left hundreds of dead on the field. f Fighting northeast of Lake Lae doga is now in its sixth day, with the Russians still unsuccessful in their attempt to turn the left wing of the main Finnish defenses in the southeast, according to military dispatches. Offensive Continues

The official communique & said that the Russian offensive “cone tinued incessantly.” The. war communique said thad in addition to the Army casualties more than 400 Russian horses had been killed in the fighting. On other fronts the Russians were merely holding their own.

for the expected spring campaign was reported by the Stockholm néwspaper Aftonbladet which said that Soviet War Commisar Klementi Voroshilov had gone to the Finnish front, accompanied by the general staff. There have been persistent indie cations that the Russian troops in action on the Finnish fronts so far are untrained sécondary forces and that the crack Red Army units have been thrown into action on only two or three sectors. Regardless of the accuracy of ins dications that the spring will see's big-scale, geheral attack by the Sps viet armies, the Finns were hur

long the Mannerheim the North Central front.

Far East Is Sore Spot |

On the Western Front, séveral months of work by 100,000 laborers has turned France's famous Magi= not Line into a series of defense concrete’ forts. It has now been deepened and enlarged for the pure pose of ‘permitting flanking fire on a grand scale. Thus it combines the French system of a main line of solid forts with the German West Wall principie of a deep series of inter-locking lines, pill boxes, forts and tank traps. The change, the French report, was advisable in view of modern mechanized warfare and the Western Front defenses new are far. stronger than ever. ’“

The British Government yester-

|day called for the registration of its

fourth conscrip* class Feb. 17, to put an estimated 1,750,000 under arms by the end 0? March. In the Far East, Japan’s diplo~’ (Continued on Page Three)

RETURN OF RAGGED SANTA IS A IS AWAITED

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26 (U. P) = Habitues of the Los Angeles Skid Row watched for Brother John to= day and hoped he would return with .the bagful of quarter dollars which ‘he was handing out last night before a police riot squad took him away. Brother John, which he insists is his * only name, appeared inaue spiciously near a cafeteria on what is known as Skid Row—a half-mile of burlesque theaters, pawn shops and flophouses. Barefooted, hatless and drested in tattered clothes, the aged man stood there passing out quarters to all who came. He told police’ he had saved them from old age pension paye ments. He still had $200 left aftep distributing about $300 Worth, | 2

‘DON'T BURY ME WITH: HER,” HIS NOTE SAID

ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Jan. 26 (U. PJ, —A love that turned to hate was res vealed today when police found the frozen bodies of Jane Miller, 21 year-old stenographer, and Alfred L. Dick, 22-year-old filling stati attendant. Police said Dick hi illed the girl and then shot him sel “I did this because if I live my folks were in for a lot of worry,” read a note left by Dick. “I could not stand it. I killed her fo get re< venge. Don’t bury me in the same cemetery witl* her—please.” | The couple had been missing since Wednesday evening.

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