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FORECAST: Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight about 30; colder tomorrow,

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VOLUME 51—NUMBER 280

FINNS READY

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1940

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18-MONTH WPA LAYOFFS FAIL T0 BRING JOBS

86.5% Had Not Found Work by November, Report Shows.

Only a handful of the 3497 Indianapolis WPA workers laid off last July and August under the 18months clause managed to obtain private employment by November, a Government survey revealed toeay.

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layoffs of all workers who had been on WPA continuously 18 months was adopted last year on. the supposition that many of those dismissed would find work if forced to shift for themselves. The survey showed, however, that, of the Indianapolis group, 86.5 per ‘cent still were unemployed in November, while 87.3 per cent of the 775,000 laid off throughout the nation were jobless. . 48.5% Get Relief

Among those in Indianapolis who

vey, a third were receiving less than $10 a week, ohio ~ Approximately 48.5 per cent of those laid off in Indianapolis received some form of relief while 19

to WPA jobs after remaining idle 30 days. : The remaining 19 per cent, or 574

«Jobs, no WPA employment, no relief. The WPA doesn’t know exactly what happened to them. On the whole, the situation in Indianapolis was slightly better than in the rest of the nation. Here, however, the unemployment problem was complicated by the presence of 3500 certified workers who are not working because of a lack of projects on which to employ them.

23 Key Cities Survey

The survey, issued at Washington, was received this week by State WPA Administrator John K. JeniS: yaa

It covered separated workers in 23

since late July. “The discharged WPA workers have not benefitted to any great extent from the industrial recovery this fall,” the survey said. “They are not the first to be hired when business improves. “Employers tend generally to re.call workers recently laid off, most of whom have not yet been forced to seek assistance. When there are between 8 and 10 million persons seeking work, WPA and relief workers, with their longer periods of unemployment, have to wait.

100,000 Leave WPA Monthly

“Slightly more than half of the 12.7 per cent of the separated workers throughout the nation who were privately employed were earning as much or more than their former WPA project wage. Most of these workers undoubtedly would have left WPA voluntarily. Every month, 100,000 WPA, workers leave for private employment at wages which permit a minimum standard of living. “Among. the others who were employed, some 45,000 were earning less than their former WPA project wages. These - were receiving substandard wages or working at parttime jobs.” The survey - also disclosed wage standards for unskilled workers in various parts of the nation. Average wages were found relatively high in Milwaukee, Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit, but low in the Southern cities. In Indianapolis, the average wage received by the dismissed workers who got private jobs was $15.15 a week, compared to the average of $17.22 for the 23 cities surveyed.

$6 in Fi. Worth, Tex.

In Ft. Worth, Tex. the average weekly wage was $6; in Nashville, Tenn., $7.27, and in the industrial city of Birmingham, Ala., the average weekly wage was $8.82. In a great many cases, the jobs the dismissed workers did receive were temporary. In November, 10 per cent of those employed - had been working for less-than a week. “Unable to find jobs of any kind, most of the dismissed workers again (Continued on Page Three)

‘diana University.

Relax to Listen, Erskine Says

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John Erskine, writer and musician, came to Indianapolis today to

address the banquet tonight in the

. this state’s drive for music appreciation.

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Claypool Hotel that will inaugurate He was met by Mrs. Paul Committee for Music Appreciatio

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Music Appreciation Drive To Be Launched Tonight

1600 Hoosiers Expected at Claypool Hotel Banquet;

Record Distributio

John Erskine came to town today and advised all persons attending “We are rics. turning out as. many

symphony concerts to relax, breathe

n to Begin Soon.

normaily, and enjoy themselves.

Here to address the banquet tonight in the Claypool Hotel, which will begin the state’s campaign for music appreciation, Dr. ‘Erskine urged the concert-goer, whether he knows anything about music or not, to stop

IR. S. L. DAVIS OF. U. IS DEAD

Chemistry Professor Was 75; Renowned in Nutrition and Dentistry.

Dr. Sherman L. Davis, professor of chemistry at Indiana University for 35 years, died today at Methodist Hospital. He had been ill for several weeks.

Dr. Davis had been retired for three years and lived since then at 320 W. 43d St. He won international recognition in the field of nutrition, especially as applied to corrective dentistry. Dr. Davis was born in Bloomington. in 1865 and was educated in Bloomington public schools and Ins At I. U. he took his A. B. and A. M. degrees the same year and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity, He took his Ph. D. degree in the University of Marburg, C He spent one year on the faculty of the Universily of Oregon and was a lecturer on the staffs of the I. U. medical and dental schools in Indianapolis. Ten years ago he joined the faculty of Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., and for four years was in charge of nutritional research in Washington hospitals. (Continued on Page Three)

BOBSLED INJURY IS FATAL TO YOUTH

PLYMOUTH, Ind. Feb. 1 (U. P.). —William M. Madel, 17, Notre Dame University freshman from Plymouth, died today of a head injury received last night when he tumbled from a bobsled hooked on the back of an automobile being driven over the ice at Twin Lakes near here. Madel did not believe the injury was serious and continued coasting

MRS. ORSON WELLES 1S GRANTED DIVORCE

RENO, Nev, Feb. 1 (U. P)—! Virginia, Nicolson Welles today was | granted an uncontested divorce from, Orson Welles, radio and movie | actor. Mrs. : Welles, 23, divorced the 24-year-old producer whose “Men From Mars” broadcast startled the nation in 1938, at a brief, secret hearing. The statutory charge was “extreme mental cruelty,” but Mrs. Welles said the word ‘‘cruel” didn’t really fit Welles. She had only praise for her former husband, but indicated that being a “genius” and a husband do not mix,

BING READY FOR WORK

with two friends, Robert Kitch and Mickey Burke. He became violently ill early today and died several hours later. He leaves his parents and two sisters.

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had a goéd time, - Avgood-way ta prepare oneself for a concert, he said, is to buy the orchestral score even if one ‘can’t read music accurately, and to play discs of the music until you can follow it after a fashion. But whatever happens, enjoy it if you like it and stop being selfconscious about any real or fancied deficiency in. musical background. Dr. Erskine gave this advice with a shake of his shaggy gray hair. Other speakers on the program

* | tonight, which 1600 persons are €x-

pected to attend, are Edward -T. Ingle, Washington, director of the National Committee for Music Appreciation; Ralph W. Wright, Indianapolis schools music supervisor, and Felix A. Grisette, Washington, executive secretary of the national committee. William H. Ball, Muncie, chairman of the Indiana group of the committee will give the introductory remarks, and Robert A. Adams, attorney, will be toastmaster. Dr. Erskine said there is an “amazing” revival of interest in music in this country today and added he believes music is coming in for (Continued on Page Three)

HOOSIER NOMINATED FOR U.S. FARM POST

Claude R. Wickard Chosen For Undersecretary’s Job.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U. P.).

_|—President Roosevelt today nom-

inated Claude R. Wickard of Indiana as Uncersecretary of Agriculture succeeding M. L. Wilson.

A Purdue University graduate, Mr, Wickard is a Carroll County farmer; living at Camden, Ind. He served in the 1923 session of the Indiana State Senate, and since that time has been associated with the Agricultural Adjustment - Administration. Since November, 1236, Mr. Wickard has served as director of the AAA’s North Central division, which includes Indiana, with offices in Washington. ; : Mr. Wilson becomes head of the Agriculture Department extension service.

Hoosier Fugitive Denied Plea to Return to Cell

An Indiana convict who escaped from the Indiana State Prison in 1938 and now wants to get back into it is out of luck, so far as getting help from the State is concerned. ¢ "The convict, Frank Perryman, 35, has been hiding -out in Mexico since he walked out of the prison barber

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 1 (U. P.). — shop

Bing Crosby, film and radio star, planned to do his regular broadcast tonight and perhaps go back to work ‘at his movie studio next week. His physician, Dr. Arnold Stevens, said he had improved sufficiently from a slight attack of appendicitis to return :

Now ill and destitute in Mexico City, Ferryman staggered into the U. 8. Consuls office there yesterday and asked help in getting back to Indiana. He said he wishes to obtain hospital treatment at' the prison. | The consul notified Secretary of

for auto banditry.

State Cordell Hull, in Washington, and Mr. Hull today wired Governor M. Clifford Townsend, informing him of the escaped convict’s plight and desire to return and serve out his sentence. * But the Governor said the State has no funds available to help Ferryman back to prison. “He’ll just have to stay in Mexico, as far as the State is concerned,” Mr. Townsend said. “We won't take any action to get him back.” ny Ferryman was sentenced in Vermillion County in 1931 to 15 years

ALLISON PLANT NEAR CAPACITY

24-Hour Operation Begun in Most Departments; Others Follow Shortly.

By SAM TYNDALL The new $6,000.000 Allison warplane engine piani here was thrown into high gear this week and is now operating at near-capacity, Otto T. ‘Kreusser, general manager, said today. Machinery in all departments “except in a few spots” is operating 24 hours a day. Mr. Kreusser said that the plant

would be going “full swing” shortly, as scon as a few ‘rough Spots” in the production system have been smoothed out. : “Near capacity” was interpreted as meaning that between eight and 12 finished motors are coming off the production. lines daily. The plant capacity is reported to be 12 motors a day. Ji Materials Turned Back

Delays in reaching the maximum production schedule have resulted from exchanges which have been made in raw material items. Mr. Kreusser said substantial amounts of unacceptable raw materials have had to he turned back. He said this circumstance frequently occurred in the motor manufacturing: business. The Allison factory, a unit. of General Motors, holds orders for approximately 18 million dollars’ worth of its high-speed liquidcooled military airplane engines. It is expected to take four months to fill all the War Department orders

.|now at the plant.

“Everything is running just about on schedule,” Mr. Kreusser said.

motors as we would like to, but the ‘bugs’ in our new production plant will be ironed out shortly.”

| Groom 24-Hour Schedule

tion this near record-breaking industrial construction project for, Allison officials. +The construction of the new plant began six months ago. Since then custom-made tooling and machining equipment to make the precision airplane motor has been tested and synchronized for a 24-hour production schedule.

HULL CALLS BULLITT - TO U.S. FOR TALK

. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U. P).— Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced today that the U. S. Ambassador to France, William C. Bullitt, has been summoned to Washington to report on the European situation. Bullitt will leave Paris Feb. 3 and return to his post after a brief stay. Secretary Hull said there was. no special significance in Bullitt’s return and that no particular development prompted the projected conference with Administration officials.

STOCKS ARE DULL; 160-POUND HOGS UP

New York stock trading continued in the doldrums today. Prices drifted aimlessly with changes generally small. Steels were mixed, motor shares were lower, while rubber and auto equipment securities changed little. At Indianapolis, hogs weighing more than 160 pounds sold 10 cents higher and others remained steady.

KENWORTHY, SMITH ON ELECTION BOARD

Ettinger Reports Pledges of ‘Full Co-operation.’

County Clerk Charles Ettinger tocay appointed Hendricks Kenworthy, Democrat, and Robert S. Smith, Republican, to membership on the Marion County Election Board. Mr. Ettinger is the third board member. The Board, which will supervise operation of the new Central Ballot Counting Law for the first time at the May primary, will hold its first session Monday. Both Mr. Kenworthy and Mr. Smith served on the Board in 1938. In making the appointments, Mr. Ettinger accepted the recommendations of the Democratic and Republican county chairmen. The appointments halted rumors that a fight over the complexion of the board was brewing and the nominees would be unacceptable to the County Clerk. Mr. Ettinger said: “I have received the assurance from both Mr. Kenworthy and Mr. Smith that they will co-operate fully in guaranteeing the success of the new central counting system: “Both commissioners also have told me they will work with me to the end that not only the intent but the letter of the election laws will

| be strictly obeyed and enforced.”

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It Ended in

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Ti i Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt, securely in the line of fire from “Two Ton” Tony Galento, was looking to his own personal security Tuesday night at the annual dinner of the Philadelphia

Sporting Writers Association

in the Penn A. C.

Connie Mack, veteran manager of the Philadelphia

Athletics, looked on from a safe distance. Late wire dispatches indicate the McNutt-Galento bout was

a draw.

100 HERE GET SECURITY CASH

Receive Benefits in Several Months.

Nearly 100 elderly Indianapolis residents, the first to receive social security old-age benefit payments, prepared to spend the checks delivered to them by mail yesterday and today. Several hundred others in the City and County have. received notice that they, too, are eligible to receive the benefit checks, but will not get them for several months

because of having received lump sum payments last year.

Officials of the local social security office estimate that probably 1000 men and women in the Indianapolis. area, including Marion

County and six adjoining counties, |

will be receiving benefit payments by early summer.

Many Inquiries Studied

Meanwhile, the field office continued to receive inquiries from scores of persons anxious to learn if they are eligible for the monthly payments. : Peter Van Geyt, manager of the Indianapolis office, said several hundred of those applying for information ‘were found to be ineligible. Many were disqualified because they have not been employed in one of the industries covered by the social security laws. Several, were farmers or domestics. 3 Scores of persons who felt they were entitled to checks because they had passed their 65th birthday found they may not be eligible for several months or a year.

Law Amended in 1939

Mr. Van Geyt explained that persons who became 65 during or after 1937 cannot possibly be eligible before July 1. An amendment to the law last year included ‘this group but made their participation retroactive only to Jan. 1, 1939. Before they become eligible, they must have been employed at least six consecutive quarter-year periods.

‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U. P.). — As more than 3000 retired workers past 65 received their first Federal old-age insurance checks, Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt said today he hopes that millions of workers not covered by. the Social Security Act will soon be entitled to its benefits.

Groundhog

If He Ganders Shadow ~ Tomorrow, Look for More Winter.

THE GROUNDHOG'S chances of gandering his shadow tomor-

sleep for another six weeks are good, according to J. H. Armington, U. S. Weatherman here. That would naturally mean we aren’t through with winter here and will have to shiver and shake for at least six more weeks. Mr. Armington says there will be mostly clouds tomorrow, but if Mr. Groundhog stays out very long, he’s bound to see his shadow because there are going to be snatches of sunlight. That forecas* is just for tomorrow. After that “it’s the groundhog’s responsibility,” Mr. Armington says.

NO NEWS OF NEW

Temperature May Drop Slightly Tonight.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ...2 10a m. .. 35 a.m ... 30 11am ...38 8a. m. ... 30 12 (noon).,. 38 9a.m ...31 1pm... 38

No prospect of another cold wave was in sight today as the City relaxed in unaccustomed mild temperatures. The Weather Bureau forecast colder weather tomorrow but only slightly colder, J. H. Armington, U. 8S. meteorologist, said the mercury probably would drop to about 25 degrees by late tomorrow, going somewhat lower. during the night. Tonight's low was expected to be about 30. : ; It’s still cold in the far northwest and in southern Canada, Mr. Armington said, but, even so, temperatures there are above the winter normal. ;

SMOKE ROUTS 30 IN N. SIDE APARTMENTS

More than. 30 persons were routed out of a 16-apartment building at 1227 Park Ave. last. night when smoke from a fire in the basement filled their rooms, The fire was discovered at about 7:30. o'clock by James E. Dunbar, apartment manager. He estimated the damage to

the basement at about $1000.

“Glub,’ Says Barrymore in

wi fe Vs.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1 (U. P).— John Barrymore, out celebrating the Broadway opening of his play “My

Dear Children,” ran into another]

domestic crisis in a night club early today and had to choose between his daughter, Diana, and his estranged fourth wife, Elaine Barrie. He preferred Miss Barrie, and Diana stomped out of the place calling denunciations on “that woman” —her stepmama., : ‘Reporter lurking about the Monte Carlo Club began converging on the Barrymore table. One asked, “Is this a reconciliation?” “Talk to John,” Miss Barrie re-

Daughter Feud

Mr. Barrymore reached unsteadily for his glass and made a remark which sounded like “glub.” Miss Barrie, rid of her daughter-in-law and rival, took full charge of the situation. A reporter sitting at the next table said he heard her say: “All I want is 24 hours with you, John. I do not want you back for keeps.” She wore a low-cut, gold lame evening dress. She spoke low and ardently. lk “This is not the gown I first wore this evening,” she continued. “I

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COLD GOOD NEWS ®

SPLIT IS FEARED

Rome-Berlin Pressure Believed Increasing on Eve

BULLETIN LONDON, Feb.1 (U. P.).—Prime. Minister Neville Chamberlain refused today proposals for a British economic dictatorship.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Economic conflict overshadowed military operations in Europe: today except for continued sharp and indecisive fighting on the Eastern Front in Finland. In Jugoslavia, the Foreign Ministers of the Balkan Entente—Rumania, Turkey, Greece and Jugoslavia—were gathering for an important meeting that some observers feared might result in a split because of increasing pressure from e big powers. .Gérmany is dependent upon. supply lines into or through the Balkan states. An expanding Soviet Russia has created fears in Southeastern Europe. Italy, long seeking a sphere of dominant interest in the Balkans, has rallied opposition to communism but ‘wants Hungary and Bulgaria included in any general agreements. The Allied powers are workiflg— and methods will become less subtle as the war progresses—to cut into Balkan supplies to the Reich. The Balkan Entente is meeting primarily to attempt to increase its safeguards against being drawn into the war, to guard against invasion (communism, naziism or any other influence) in the southeast. In a formal way, the meeting is not likely to accomplish anything important. In informal conversations, the ministers hope to discover (Continued on Page Three)

STONE AND PLYWOOD LEADERS INDICTED

W. L. Hutchinson and M. A. Hutcheson Named.

CHICAGO. Feb. 1 (U. P.).—Federal trust-busters today obtained Grand Jury indictments of 25 companies, unions. trade councils and

persons in the cut stone and plywood industries. William L. Hutchinson of Indianapolis, president of the United Brotherhoods of Carpenters and Joiners of ‘America, A. F. of L., was among those named in the plywood group. : M. A. Hutcheson, Indianapolis, vice president of the U. B. C. J., also was indicted. : It was the second blow struck here against alleged restraint in the building trades. Forty-one defend-

indicted for alleged violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Seventeen defendants in the cut stone industry were charged with conspiracy to prevent sale in Chicago of fabricated limestone from Indiana and to require the work of fabricating to be done in Chicago by local contractors’and stone cuters. . : Eight - in the plywood business were accused of restraining trade in

had on a white one, John. I looked (Cor : Four)

plywood . manufactured in the state |of Washington,

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PRICE THREE CENTS

ISSUE. APPEAL

President Repeats Willing ness to Negotiate; Describes War as ‘Senseless.’

HELSINKI, Feb. 1 (U. P.), — President Kyosti Kallio told Parliament today that Fine land is ready to negotiate an honorable peace. " - Before Kallio’s statement to Pare liament the censorship here had = been tightened suddenly. But it was not known whether the action had been taken in anticipation of the important announcemet. 3 Kallio early in the war had said that Finland at all times was ready" to negotiate an honorable with emphasis on the honorable.” = Addressing Parliament, Kallio said

that the Russian invasion was & “barbarous, senseless attack.”

Thanks Given to League

The speech was made on the oe casion of the last session of Parlige ment. “... We are ready to negotiate = an honorable peace,” he said. = Kallio thanked the League of Nations and all nations “which have helped us in many ways.” 2 tie extended especial thanks te Sweden. . pia The venerable farmer-president appealed for additional war material and help from abroad. AE

‘We Sorely Need Help’

He deplored the Russian attack on a civilian population and praised Finnish national unity and courage, “But we sorely need help, seeing hat we have against us the military forces of the Soviet Union,” he said, In connection with Kallio’s ex= pression of readiness to negotiate an “honorable peace” while, at the same time calling for help to con: tinue to fight if necessary, it v recalled t does nob-recoge nize the Helsinki Government and that it has established a revolution ary ‘government on the Karelian Isthmus under Otto Kuusinen. : Kallio said that in the war so far Russia has lost “several divisions of her best manpower.” Referring ,to the Swedish: volune= teers, Kallio said that they had come well equipped to Finland's assistance. bea “This is an example which cers tain other countries seem to be fols lowing,” he said. ] Kallio said that because of Russian attack Finland had beeta compelled to destroy “people innos cent in this war.” He referred, Finns said, to the Russian masses, .

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Attack Near Kuhmo

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Feb. 1

crack ski troops into the Kuhme front in North Central Finland toe day to.extricate its 54th Infantry Division from a threatened trap. - Dispatches said that the new: Russian troops were the best. ever seen on that front. They worse white parkas, such as those the Finns had made famous, to minie mize their visibility against the Snow. : p It was indicated that the battle was still developing, and that with their reinforcements the Russians hoped to extriéate themselves from their present difficult position and, if they succeeded, to essay another. attack in hope of breaking through to the Gulf of Bothnia, thus cutting ‘inland in two. i Fighting was reported to be bitter, with the advantage definitely on. the Finnish side so far but with the : outcome still admittedly in doubt, - The sectdr opposite Raesti, north of Kuhmo, was the center of heavi« est fighting and it was reported that the Russian 54th Division had suffered heavy losses. : ; The Russians were reported te have lost five tanks yesterday. Dee spite the lake barriers, and the heavy forests, the Russians were able to use some tanks on . front, it was said, because the snow was not so deep as on the fronts farther north and farther south. Some Scandinavian reports said that the Russians had lost between 10,000 and 12,000 dead on the field in the battle northeast of Lake Ladoga, in which they Were still make ing mass attacks but feeble ones. I§ was forecast that mnless the Russ (Continued on Page Three)

KING GEORGE IS ILL LONDON, Feb. 1 (U. P.).— George has a slight cold and is cone

fined to his room, it was announced today.

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