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ernment was still collecting evidence of the Russian bombing, machine gunning and sinking of the Swedish . steamship Virgo. Upon completion of its investiga-

tion the Government purposed to make a formal protest to Russia, incorporating in it a further protest against the torpedoing of a Swedish ‘steamship in the Gulf of Bothnia last month. Capt. Anders Anderssoh of the Virgo reported to the Foreign Office on his arrival at Stockholm last night. that Russian airplanes dropped bombs on his ship from a low altitude. When the crew fled to the ice off the Aaland Islands, he said, the planes machine gunned them and the crew saved themselves only by using white cloths to hide under,

Soviet Parachute Troops Believed in Mid-Finland STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb, 8 (U, P.)—Frontier reports indicated today that several Russian parachutist patrols were still at liberty and operating In the Kemi River Valley in mid-Finland. It was believed, the reports said, that former Finns who fled to Russia after the War of Independence in 1921, were among the parachutists and were under instructions to mingle with Finns, obtaining military information and spreading defeatist propaganda. Reports suggested that each patrol had specific duties, such as blowing up communications and harassing isolated points. The Finnish Government was believed to attach some importance to the patrols because it not only published a report that the patrols had been dropped Monday, but broadcast through newspapers and the radio warnings to citizens to cooperate with the authorities in eliminating them.

Thousands of Russians

Killed, Finns Declare

HELSINKI, Feb. 8 (U. P.).—An official communique today said that several thousand Russians had been killed in thrusts against the Mannerheim Line on the Karelian Isth-

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The communique sald that the Karelian Isthmus attacks, in which several Russian divisions participated, were repulsed and that Finnish troops scored new successes northeast of Lake Ladoga and in the Kuhmo sector of the Central Front.

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ticularly violent on the Karelian Isthmus, and on the Central front where a battalion of Russians was reported destroyed near Suomussalmi.

Chamberlain Says More Aid on Way to Finland

LONDON, Feb. 8 (U, P.).—Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons today that further aid was en route to Finland. The Prime Minister's statement followed repeated British and French official references to dispatch of war materials, especially. airplanes, to Finland and the recruit-

. ing of British volunteers, including

retired army officers, to fight with the Finns. The first volunteers are expected to leave England next week. ¢

MOHAWK MILLS HEAD

{ NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (U. P)—

vows L. Shuttleworth, vice presi-

ent of Mohawk Carpet Mills, Inc., ince 1930, has been elected presient of the concern, it was anounced today. The new president succeeds his

| brother, the late Arthur W. Shuti tleworth, who died Jan. 27.

At the same meeting Herbert L. ‘Shuttleworth 2d, a son of the former chief executive, was. elected to the board of directors, filling the father’s death. He also was named for the post of .vice president.

Schubert's Unfinished Symphony.

Crowd Lines Up fo Obtain Symphony Records

Some of today’s crowd at 245 N. Pennsylvania St. . . . they were among the first to get the album of

40 PEDESTRIANS

Unless They're Careful, Records Indicate.

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Ibe used in presenting Municipal!

Court traffic cases. They also will be used in pedestrian education. Pictures .of jaywalkers, boys hopping trucks, and children darting from the curb into the path

J of cars will be snapped.

These pictures will be shown by the accident prevention squad at schools and before meetings of civic and other groups.

Pedestrians are largely an urban problem. Fewer are killed in rural sections. Of Indiana’s 1029 traffic deaths last year, only 286, or about 28 per cent, were pedestrians. In Marion County, outside of Indianapolis, the problem is largely the

BERLIN, Feb. 8 (U. P.).—France as well as Great Britain must be defeated so thoroughly that neither

will ever be either eager or able to menace Central Europe, Voelkischer Beobachter, official organ of |the Nazi Party, said today in perhaps the bitterest Nazi denunciation of France since the war started. “No one in Germany has illusions anymore,” it said. ‘We know that this decadent, corrupt France and her unscrupulous tutor, . Britain, must be struck down so thoroughly that for all time they will lose both the inclination and the ability to extend their gouty fingers toward Central Europe.” Adolf Hitler, in. a speech Jan, 30

power, had for the first time joined France with Britain in his denunciations. But what he said was almost friendly compared to today’s denuneiation. Voelkischer Beobachter devoted its leading editorial to the execution by France of Karl Roos, Alsatian separatist leader, as a spy.

Hitler and Goering Confer

Newspapers generally gave almost their entire first pages to the execution of Roos at Nancy and of two members of the so-called Irish Republican Army at Birmingham, England. Headlines were such |as “Bloody French Justice” on the Ro0s case and “They Swore Innocence Right Up to the Gallows” on the Irish executions. Voelkischer Beobachter called the execution of Roos legal murder. Germany, it continued, had now entirely given up hope of coming to an understanding with France. “Reluctantly we have had to bury these hopes in these six war months,” said the newspaper. “Silent are the voices of common sense in the French camp, which once recognized the limitations of French capacity. “Germany—Germaay, witich made almost superhuman efforts to allay the old enmity on the Rhine—has become the ‘hereditary enemy’ again. We know what to expect of this France, today more than ever, for the hate of the weak is more dangerous and more vengeful than the repugnance of the strong.” It was learned that Adolf Hitler conferred for several hours Tuesday with Field Marshal Hermann Goering, economic dictator and Nazi No. 2. Economic plans were the chief topic, it was said. Herr Goering was reported to have been working for several days with his experts on large scale plans for re-

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cerns, especially in the arms industry. Measures for distribution of raw materials alsd were discussed, it was said. A dispatch from Praha reported a sudden shortage of - small coin. Within the last week, it was said, such coins had been vanquishing until now they had almost’ entirely disappeared. Nazis attributed the sudden = shortage to “war time hoarding” by Czechs.

French Say Roos Gave

Germans Defense Secrets

PARIS, Jan. 8 (U. P).—A War Ministry communique issued last night said of the execution of Dr,

Karl Roos, Alsatian autonomist lead-

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record,

DEATHS TO DATE County City Total 1939 ravsatesiineriv 4 6 1940 EEE EEE EEE EEE 3 4 7 —Feb. T— Injured ....... 3|Arrests Dead cians 0jAccidents ..... 2 WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid = $00 10

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Speeding Reckless driving. . Failure to stop at through street. . Disobeying traffic

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signal Prunken driving. 2 All others .......17

Totals .........23

MEETINGS TODAY Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade,

ne rma lis Real Estate Board lunchIndian 2 Eg Washington. n Advertising Club of tndiasiapolis, 1 luncheon, Indianapolis Athletic Clu Carivan Club, luncheon, Murat Termple,

noon 0il Club, luncheon, Hote! Severin noon. ion League Indianapolis, puncheon, Architects nd Builders’ build“fadianapotis © Camera Club, meeting, 110 m. Ea Nint 'heta “Pi, "iucheon, Canary Cot-

en i Al ha Alumni Association ny baa on afeteria, noon ?

Russet lunes ubllee Scoutmasters’ Recognition, mass meeting, . Cadle Tabernacle, night. on i ———

MEETINGS TOMORROW Exchange Club, luncheon, Xutel Severin, nos ntimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Res Serve Qitieers Association, luncheon. Sar iE of. Jndiana, annual ne

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MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times therefore, 1s not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)

Arthur McClure, 21, of Beech Grove: Mignon Aldred, 0) of Beech Grove. oh Gra 36. of 239. Lansing: Mary Mildred Watters, 22, of Ps Ducher. Alon Welcher 65, © of

Wesely Munden town: Cora Elizabeth Sohitson 18, of 315 S. Hamilton Floyd Herbert Kelley, 21, of 250 S. State: Lois 1a Voune Sheemaker, 18, of 25 N

ohn E. Batkin Jr., 24, of 702 Berwick: Ruby Montgomery, 23, of 1225 Haugh,

BIRTHS - Boys John, Laura Wiley, at Methodis Theodore, Marjorie Cooley, at oS oleman. William, Myrtle Tuggle, at Si. James, Hannah: Turman, at City. Theodore, Frieda Losche. at St. ‘Francis. Sussell, Thelma Owen, at 315 N. Ham-

Girls

Howard, Beulah Arnold, at St. Francis. Haryey, Eva Cors, at St. Francis. Paul, Mary Hendricks, at St. A rancis, Robert, Dorotha Shaw, at Methodist. Earl, Esther Russell, at Methodist. Everett, Helen Colber. at Methodist. ° James, Lois Burke, at 245 N, Keystone,

DEATHS

Joseph Johnson, 26, at City, pulmonary tuberculos! Ethel Watson, 50, at City, myocarditis. Emma Popp. 72, at 1821 N. Alabama, cerebral hemorrhage. Theodore Brodeur, 64, at 5015 E. 14th, chronic myocarditi

dian, rear, aortic aneurism. Melvin Lee, 1, at City, monia.

broncho-pneu-

Donal cardiac dilatation Kissie Williams, 61, at 1138 Pennsylvania, cerebral hemorrhage. Ei 3 743 W. 11th,

mma Dehorney, 47, at chronic myocarditis. oa Kay Morris, 48, at Methodist, brain Shaster Sisrrett, 75, at 1102 N. Ogden, coronary occlusio! FIRES

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|Wipe Out French Menace, Nazi Official Organ Urges

er, that the permanent military tribunal of the 20th region had unanimously found him guilty of having been for several years in contact with important agents of} German “special services” and of having given them, or having caused to have been given them, information concerning defense. It was charged that during the Nazi re-occupation of the’Rhineland in 1936 and the Munich crisis of 1938 he gathered and took across the frontier information of French troop movements, numbers of troops and emplacements of heavy artillery batteries.

INTENSIFY ACTIVITY ON WESTERN FRONT

PARIS, Feb. 8 (U. P.).—Intensified activity: on the Western Front was reported by the War Office today. French patrols were active late yesterday and throughout the night. A military - informant said three French patrols penetrated deep into German territory in the -MoselleSaar Rivers region and returned with valuable information.

Violent machine gun eXxchanges|:

were noted in Upper Alsace, north of Strasbourg,

BERLIN, Feb, 8 (U. P.)—Increased artillery and patrol activity in the Saar sector was reported in a communique of the High Command today. It reported also that during the first five months of the war the German Naval activity resulted in the loss of 409 Allied and neutral ships.

LONDCN, Feb. 8 (U. P.).—German claims that in the first five months of the war Allied and neutral shipping had lost 409 ships totaling 1,493,431 tons were challenged in authoritative quarters here today. Up to midnight last Sunday, the British said, the Allies and neutrals had lost 274 ships.

NAZI SECRET WEAPON IS GAS, WRITER SAYS

PARIS, Feb. 8 (U. P.) ~The military expert of the Petit Parisien reported today that Adolf Hitler's long-awaited “secret weapon” was a new kind of gas. The expert, Charles Morice, said that Hitler believed the new gas would force the French troops to abandon the Maginot Line. His information was received from a friendly neutral source, M. Morice sald, adding that the Germans were determined to employ the new gas on a large scale whenever they start an offensive on the Western Front.

MONEY FLOW DECLINES WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U. P.).— The Treasury said today that money in circulation on Jan. 31 totaled $7,375,813,451 a drop of $222329,612 from Dec. 31, 1939. This represented per capita money circulation .of $55.99, a decrease of $1.72 from the previous month.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Rain probably changing to snow tonight; mostly cloudy tomorrow; colder late tonight with jowest . temperature 20 to 2 25 by morning.

pureed 6:45 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE -==Feb, 8, 1939— 1 p. m BAROMETER 6:30 a, m...30.02

Precipitation 24 hrs, ending 7 a Total precipitation since Jan. A Deficiency since Jan,

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Moderate’ snow or rain treme north, rain changing to_ snow. in sonth and central portions tonight, colder SNOW flurries in extreme north, much colder,

Illinois—Moderate snow in extreme north, rain changing to snow in south and central portions tonight, becoming gen< colder late tonight and tomorrow with a cold wave Ih.» West-central and extreme north porion

Sunrise

Tower Michigan—Light snow 1 exiremes ,

north, moderate in south and central por- | tions otnight; tomorrow snow flurries, much colder, with a cold wave in north

and west portions late tonight and tomor-}

row and in southeast portion tomorrow,

Ohio—Light rain over south and rain lor snow over north portion: warmer in east and colder in exireme nothwest portion tonight: rain turning to snow and colder tomorrow. Kentucky—Cloudy, rain in west and in extreme north portions, warmer in east portion tonight: tomorrow rain turning to isnow . flurries and colder.

(WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M.

Station. Weather Am: rillg, Tey ssvie.. RAIN 29.68

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BOY, 14, BREAD WINNER CHICO, Cal, Feb. 8 (U.P.)— Henry George Johnson, 14, arrested on a charge of driving a truck without a license, revealed that for the past five years he has-supported his mother and six brothers and sisters with truck driving and the delivery of a newspaper route. The matter of the license was quickly taken care of, with the judge's congratulations. .

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speeder, drunken driver and reckless ldriver, says Sheriff Al Feeney. | The Sheriff, too, is taking action to cut down the, traffic toll in his territory. One of the most important steps, he said, is equipping of ‘two Sheriff's cars with two-way radio communication. Similar equipment will be placed in two other cars and on a motorcycle which is to be purchased soom. These radios will permis the Sheriff to have his cars cruising the county: roads jnstead of remaining parked at the Jail awaiting emergeney calls. The cars will’ be assigned to cover the roads where the most accidents occur.

ON ‘DOOM LIST’,

They'll Die in 1940 Traffic

WL L. Elder Dies

William Line ‘Elder, who engaged in real estate business until 1932; and was a lifelong civic leader here, died today at his home in the Spink Arms Hotel. He was the father of Bowman Elder, prominent Democratic leader active in the McNutt-for-President campaign and receiver of the Indiana Railroad.

UNWED MOTHER, 18, GUILTY OF MURDER

PATERSON, N. J., Feb. 8 (U. P.). — Virginia d’Amore, 18, who was raised in an orphan asylum and said she never had a friend until she met the married man who betrayed her, will be sentenced today for smothering her 5-week-old baby daughter, born out of vedlock. She was found guilty yesterday of second-degree murder, punishable

“by 30 years' imprisonment,

COL, ROOSEVELT

‘HERE FOR TALK

Scout Leader to Address

Jubilee Meeting at Tabernacle.

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| given by the Very Rev. Msgr. Henry

F. Dugan, chancellor of the Catholic Diocese of Indianapolis. Rabbi Morris Feuerlicht of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation will deliver an appreciation for Mr. Belzer’s 25 years as scout executive. Appreciation: will also be given by Wallace O. Lee, scout commissioner, to all scoutmasters and assistants and medals will be presented to all who have been active more than five years. Following the President’s talk and others by national scout executives | Walter Head and James E. West, speaking from Detroit and Florida, the local meeting will be closed by a benediction by the Rev. Howard J. Baumgartel and the singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The Rev. Mr. ‘Baumegartel 1s Indianapolis Church Federation executive secretary. ‘Col. Roosevelt, who was taken to the Columbia Club today by Chief Morrissey, will fly back to New York tonight.

DIES IN TRUCK-TRAIN CRASH COLUMBUS, Ind., Feb. 8 (U. P.). —Allen Grecian, 37, of Flat: Rock, was killed yesterday when a truck he was driving was struck by a

Pennsylvania railroad passenger train near here. Train crew mem-

bers said his fruck apparently stalled on the track.

Tomorrow Is Day TWO... of the Sweeping, Smashing...

The Half Price Sale is held earlier for TWO reasons « s « (mostly yours—partly ours).

nefit Sa because

by bringing it forward there are more goods in

WE BENEFIT—because Easter ‘comes early this year and

enabled to get into

“our stride quicker.

(We noticed in an Almanac that

not be an Easter

as early as this one within the next 75 years . . . that’s as far as we checked.)

~ WE'RE AWFULLY SORRY that | we had to close the doors on you time and again— (but there was no help for it— the cubic content of our

couldn't contain you).

WE'RE AWFULLY SORRY—that service at times collapsed—but we did all that was humanly possible to serve you.

L. STRAUSS & CO.

LAW OF SALE

FIRST COME | FIRST SERVED

POSITIVELY!

als or layaways. No phone or mail orders. No exchanges or refunds.

No C. O. D.'s, approv-

EXCUSE! Owing to the congestion in alteration and delivery departments, we cannot guarantee our usual prompt deliveries.

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U.s. Watch Set on 'Pot o' Gold"

WASHINGTON, Feh. 8 (U. P.), —Complaints against the nation ally broadcast “Pot 0’ Gold” radio program were turned over to the Justice Department by the Federal Communications Commission foday for such action as is found : “necessary and warranted.” The Department will determine whether the program violates the prohibition against broadcasting information concerning any lottery, gift enterprise or similar scheme. ~~ On the “Pot 0’ Gold” program, a telephone number is selected by spinning a wheel. The number then is called, and $1000 is given if the family having thai number answers the telephone call, Complaints against other similar programs also were turned over to the Justice Department.

MONSANTO CHEMICAL INCREASES OUTLAY

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 8 (U. P).— Monsanto Chemical Co. plans 1940 expenditures for expansion in excess of the $4,200,000 spent for new construction last year, Charles Belknap, executive vice president, said today. In 1939 the company carried on the expansion program chiefly in its plants in St. Louis; Monsanto, Jll.; Anniston, Ala.; Monsanto, Tenn.; Springfield and Everett, Mass.: Nitro, W. Va., and Norfolk; Va. Yearly investments in construetion work is in line with the company’s normal policy of continuous improvement of its plants and

processes, Mr. Belknap said.

Not On half-price suits there can be

NO alterations, other than changing sleeve or trouser lengths.

Despite the rush and the crush—there is still P-L-E-N-T-Y. There are still many $50 SUITS at $25. | There are many $25 SUITS at 12: 50.

There are still many 19.75 Suits at ~9.98. You'll find some TOPCOATS and OVERCOATS, quite a few OXFORDS, some HATS, plenty of SHIRTS, a raft of

PAJAMAS, quite afewTIES ... about 50 pairs of TROUSERS, me GLOVES

And there is plenty (more than pent)

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on the BOYS’ FLOOR... particularly SLACKS, wools and cerduroys, sizes 10 to 22 , . ., particularly KNICKERS (wools and corduroys}—sizes & to 14 . +. and junior LONGIES, wools and corduroys, sizes 6 to 12 , . . and JACKETS, mostly

corduroy—sizes 6 to 22,

fn the WOMEN'S SHOP

« «+ quite a few SUITS, a few SWEATERS and SHIRTS and GLOVES.

we. THE MAN'S STORE

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