Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1940 — Page 1
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REDS REPULSED, FINNS DECLARE
Russians Pound Mannerheim Line 12th Day Despite Heavy Losses.
* HELSINKI, Finland, Feb. 13 (U.
P.) —A war communique today said |
that Finns had “successfully” coun-ter-attacked Russian units on the Karelian Isthmus after repulsing
new Red Army smashes against the |’
Mannerheim Line.
The Russians used infantry, tanks and armored sledges in attacking for the 12th straight day. over bloodstained snow, - heavy losses. Russian planes were reported to have’ bombed’ Porvoo, setting many
houses afire, Porvoo ison the South|
Coast. - Fighting continued on the Karelian Isthmus Front in a mighty offensive to break through Viipuri. Twenty-three Russian tanks were destroyed in fighting yesterday, the communique ‘said. 3
Claims Reds Driven Over Border
Russian troops also were driven back on the Raate sector on the Central Front, the Finns forcing them to retire across the Soviet frontier, according to the communique.
The communique also reported
that “most” of an enemy column of 100 sledges had been destroyed at Pitkaeranta Islands, on the northeast shore of Lake Ladoga. Finnish officials said that the Russians there were attempting to break through to relieve Red Army units trapped for some days. Finnish successes also were reported in the Kuhmo, Aittojoki and other sectors north of Lake Ladoga. Four Russian airplanes were brought down and another was reported shot gown, the communique said. The most severe fighting was in the Summa Sector in the éenter of the Mannerheim Line; at Taipale, on the left flank of the line; and between -Lake Muola and Lake Punnus,
Thousands of Shells Used ¢
Trench * mortars threw tens of thousands of shells into the Finnish positions and shells from three, six and even- 12-inch guns smashed into the pine forests. ‘It was believed the Russian High Command had decided that any losses were warranted if the far smaller Finnish defending force was finally overwhelmed. New tanks were brought up from Leningrad, dispatches said, to replace 60 or smore which the Finns had destroyed in the Summa sector. Finnish officers have begun to call the attack “the anniversary sector.” Some of them believe that the Russians when they started this . higgest offensive of the war planned to: break the Mannerheim Line in
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"GRAND JURY INDICTS “TAMMANY LEADER
NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (U. P.).— William Solomon, Tammany Hall district leader and one of the organization’s most powerful figures since the decline of James J. Hines, was indicted today on seven counts of extortion, bribery and the acceptance “of unlawful fees The .indictment, returned by the New York County Grand Jury, resulted from District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey's. investigation into the award of state printing contracts to the Burland Printing
Co. Solomon. figured yesterday in the extorton trial of Louis (Lepke) _Buchalter when a labor racketeer ‘named him as the recipient of $1500 for his efforts in ending a “shake down” strike,
WORKER BREAKS LEG Flentoil Leggs, 28, of 414!; Bright Bt. received a broken’ Yor today when a stone he was helping remove in the old Women’s Prison at Randolph He New York Sts. fell on’ him, ° was iaken to City Hospital,
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Leap Year ‘Babies’ Wait Four Yec t
3. Ruth Elizabeth Shewmon. , and is awaiting the seventh.
Good or Bad? Just How Old
Having -birthdays on Feb. 29 is older.
or fortunates, as their age may be.
1. Frank. ‘Wiles Hudson. . . » “Two or eight, he wi, ts. his birthday so he can ride like this. 3. Virginia Alice McKhann. ... Leap year ‘chests he
That’s the opinion of some Indianapolis leap year
A woman in her 40s, trying to ignore the gray hairs;
PUBLIC HEARING HELD
Study Committee Sponsors State House Meeting.
The first public hearing on methods of establishing the manager form of government for Indiana cities was conducted at the State House this afternoon by the City Manager Study Committee created by the 1939 Legislature. At the first meeting of the committee in the Governor's office a month ago, members discussed two possible procedures to give cities the right to try the city manager form of government. One was legislation authorizing cities to set up city manager governments, and another was an amendment to the State Constitution authorizing home rule government. 4 ; Some governniental experts fear that new legislation might be held unconstitutional and that a constitutional amendment would be the only way to assure this form of home rule.
day were members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, who sponsored the city manager study resolution in the last Legislature; Indiana Municipal League members, the Indiana League of Women Voters, and the Indiana Taxpayers Association. Members of the Study Committee are Prof. Clarence W. Efroymson, Butler University; J. W. Esterline, Indianapolis manufacturer who was a leader among the original supR Tos of .the plan: Eli Lilly, president of Eli Lilly & Co.; Rep. Roy Harrison (R. Aftica); State Senator Albert Randall (D. Ft. Wayne), and Virgil Sheppard of the State Welfare Department.
BURGLARS STEAL FURS WORTH $1160
Burglars last night broke into the Jacob Wohlfeld Fur Co., 312 Occidental Building, and escaped with fur coats and jackets valued at $1160. Mr. Wohlfeld, who lives at 4350 N. Meridian St., told police the store was closed at 5:35 p. m. yesterday and opened after 7 this mornihg when the Burglary was
tdiscovered
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25s the calendar to the winds + = light eight tapers. 5 Frank’s the ald: §. family. Oddly enot ter, Maybelle, is a "§ be 6 tomorrow. So Miss Ruth Eliz: '€¢5 Shewmon, 2906 Washington B'' ci} ikes parties on her “real” birth '3)% but admits that in the past so’, leh. 28s and March 1s have best x: ised as excuses for parties. , Miss Shewmon, v' “das born in 1912, thinks it pec ‘that when a student at Denis Aollege she learned that the fat! J her roommate was a leap wy by.
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COURT REJECTS
| Attorneys Sought $22,500
| sought to be paid out of the bank’s
.| creditors protested allowance of the
break for * daughter
‘microscope, provided the surgeons|g mysterious of all the phases ‘of their heart, little more than a thin-walled
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1940
for Birthdays
CLAIM FOR FEES
For Services in MeyerKiser Bank Case.
A Marion County Circuit Court ruling which allowed $22,500 to six attorneys representing creditors in the Meyer-Kiser Bank liquidation case has heen reversed by the Indiana Supreme Court. The attorneys who filed the claim
liquidated assets totaling $198,110. Thomas E. Garvin, receiver fom the bank, and several general
fees in Circuit Court on the ground that all creditors should not have to pay attorneys Tepresenting only a few. The attorneys. who were allowed the fees in Circuit Court represented 16 of a total of 150 creditors. The Supreme Court stated: “There is no contention on the part of the creditors or the receiver
that the services of the six attorneys}.
HOME ROBBERY NETS $10,000
Retired Ft. Wayne Grocer Reports Theft of Cash, Bonds, Gems. FT. WAYNE, Ind. Feb: 13 (U. P.).
—Burglars ransacked the home of a retired grocer here last night and
-| escaped - with loot valued at more
than $10,000, police announced. today. Theodore Brandt, 57, discovered the robbery when he returned home
{about midnight last night after
spending the evening ‘with friends. He told police the loot included $5000 in Government bonds .and
'1$5000 in cash. In addition he said.
jewelry which he valued at $10M and a coin collection which he ‘esti fated was worth $20,000 were miss-
Fhe loot was taken from the roem aceupied by Mr. Brandt's mother prior to her death last month. Mr. Brandt said the room had been closed since her death. : Mr. Brandt: told police he returned home about 11 o'clock last night, but did not discover the burglary until an hour later. Then, he said, he noticed the back door of the house was open. Investigating, he found ‘that someone had searched his mother’s room. Police said the burglars apparently knew just what they were seeking. None of the other rooms in the small home had been searched, they said. The money represented the life savings of Mr. Brandt and his mother. ‘Mr. Brandt had lived alone since his mother’s death. He retired several years ago because of ill health.
were not worth $22,500. The creditors claimed the attorneys should be paid by their own clients who’ employed them, . “The lower court erred in making the ' allowance. The court, in requiring only a few attorneys to present the case, cannot have the effect of burdening those who had no counsel. or those who employed counsel of- their own choosing with the expense of paying attorneys they did not employ.” The Supreme Court instructed Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox to deny the attorneys’ petition. The six attorneys who filed the claim were Leo M. Rappaport, Albrecht ‘R. O. Kipp, Harvey A: Graybill, William H: Krieg, Roland Obenchain and Ernest R. Baltzell,
FILM STAR ‘BECOMES 'ARTIE SHAW’S BRIDE
LAS VEGAS, Neév., Feb. 13 (U. P). —Artie Shaw, the orchestra leader, and Lana Turner, film. star, were married here today by a justice of the peace, They flew from Hollywood. Mr. Shaw recently gave up his orchestra because he was fed u with being the leader of a jitterbug band.” Miss Turner is under contract at M-G-M. - She is a native of Wal-
‘LAST’ INTERURBANS FAGE ABANDONMENT
Court 0. K.’s Move to Dis- | card Two Lines.
‘Bowman Elder, receiver for the Indiana Railroad, today was granted authority in Superior-Court 5 to petition the Public Service Commission for abandonment of the Indianap-olis-Ft. Wayne and the MuncieNew Castle traction lines. - These are the last remaining units of the 400-mile system once operated by the Union Traction Co. of Indiana, known a quarter century ago as the world’s largest interurban railway. . Mr. Elder said he plans to substitute bus and truck service to carry freight and passengers between points now served by the lines. He said the Indianapolis-F't. Wayne line was operated at a loss of $51,322 in
plthe first nine months last year,
while the other line lost $17,883. The 25-mile section between Bluffton and Ft. Wayne is owned by the Indiana Service Corp. and leased by
Ei MONEY
Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,
| Army Ace Saved
at: Postoffice.
BILL FOR NAVY GOES TO HOUSE
} $966,772,878 Provided for 19 Warships, 352 Planes; Cut $111,699,699. :
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (U. P.)»—The House today received a record-breaking
funds for 19 new fighting ships—among them two 45,000-ton super-dread-
naughts-—and 352 airplanes. The measure was reported to the
{House after Admiral Harold R.
Stark, chief of naval operations,
|warned that “a world conflagra-
tion” is threatened by European dictator nations and conditions in the Far East. Committee Chairman .James G. Scrugham (D. Nev.) told the House that “civilization itself may be at stake in the European war.” He declared that the huge fund was necessary to protect America in a time of shifting foreign perils and
noted that every great power in the world is now or has been at war in the past five years and “this year may see every power in Europe at war.” Despite the huge total of ‘ the bill—$51,412,629 more . than last year’s Naval apprépriation—the Appropriations Committee - slashed $111,699,699 from President Roosevelt's recommendations. This brought the current total of cuts under the budget to about $270,000,000.,
Chief Provisions Listed
Chief provisions of the bill: 1. Funds to start the 19 warships, including two super-dreadnaughts. The fund for. the 45,000-ton ships was cut to $1,500,000 from a Presidential recommendation of $7,800,000 on the ground that only a little preliminary work could be done during this year. The Navy was instructed to attempt to build warships which would be the superior, rather than the equal, of foreign super-dreadnaughts, 2. Funds for 352 airplanes, “including 805 replacements. - The Navy now has- 2428 planes in service or on order. 3. Authority for the Navy to entér
Navy appropriation bill carry-|. ing $966,772,878.. It included
HOME
Ind.
PRICE THREE CENTS
Airacobra, Says Ex-City Tester
Times Special BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 13.—In the clouds over Buffalo Capt. George E.
the Army’s ace test pilots, was flying the newest, fastest, most formidable military pursuit plane in the world, and he was stuck with it, He couldn't get it down. In the control tower of the municipal airport, Homer - Berry, only man outside the Army who had ever
help him by radio. After an hour he gave up and told Pilot Price to bail out, if he wanted to, and abandon ship. “And then he Wrought, her in!” said Mr. Berry today, his voice jubilant with the pride of a man who is talkihg about his profession. “He knew the landing gear wasn’t working, but he brought her in, anyhow. It was one of the most magnificant exhibitions of courage I've ever seen.” At 46 Mr. Berry is probably the oldest . test pilot in the United States. He learned on old Wrights and Martin seaplanes, flew the early Heinkels and Fokker F's and tested the first plane Sikorsky built. During the World War he flew on night bombing missions, afterward {Qowriinued on Page Fou on Page Four)
RAP NEW DEAL IN STATE TALKS
Candidates Assail Demoratic Policies in Lincoln Day Addresses.
War, farm prices, European “isms” and the future of the G. O. P. were the chief subjects of Lincoln Day orations by Hoosier Republican leaders in Indiana yesterday. Gubernatorial candidates called for a return to Republicanism in Indiana while other G. O. P. leaders assailed the New Deal and its economic policies. “The party -that serves progress in an orderly manner ig the liberal party,” Donald H. Hunter of Anderson, a student of Lincoln, told the Irvington Republican Club.
will win. the ‘national election in
| the fall.
Attacks Trade Treaties
Former Senator James E. Watson, speaking at Rushville, criticized the Administration’s reciprocal trade
into $32,553,250 of contracts for air- | pacts
craft, ordnance and other purposes, items to be paid for out of future appropriations. This was a $16,316,250 cut in the budget recommendation.
Guam Defenses Limited
4. A $1,000,000 cash item to construct controversial = harbor improvements at Guam, Pacific Island 1500 miles from Japan. A limit of $3,000,000 was placed o nthe eventual total to be spent for Guam improvements. Congress last year refused to authorize such work, because it might antagonize Japan. 5. Funds to continue the Navy at 150,000 enlisted men and 25,000 marines. The Committee pointed out that the two new - proposed 45,000-ton warships will give the Navy four of these craft, since two were started last year. “The committee has inquired as to the speed, armor, and armament of these vessels as compared with the latest available information on the characteristics of ships being constructed by other “nations,” its report said.’
Keep Up With Foreign Nations
“Information. supplied indicates that the battleships, as well as two (proposed) cruisers, will be practically the same as to speed, armor, and armament as ships now being constructed by other nations. In cutting the Navy's plane re-
there will be on hand July 1 next
planes. The committee ‘allowed’ 305 replacement planes, and 47 new planes for the Naval Reserve. It disallowed a requested 224 new Navy planes. The Navy asked for two small training airships at a cost of $350,000. The Committee allowed one‘at $150,000. An item proposed because of the emergency created by the European war was eliminated entirely. This was $21,971,140 for nets to protect harbors and fleet anchorages against submarines. Meanwhile, President Roosevelt signed two deficiency bills to provide additional funds to the Army and Navy for the current year and for other purposes. Total of the meas-
face, Ida.
VENICE, Fla. Feb. 13 (U. P)—A motion picture of the origin of life— the formation and ‘first beat: of the heart of an “embryo : chicken—was
shown today at the assembly of the International College of Surgeons. ‘The film, photographed through a
an exciting drama of the most
a|work. ‘It covered a 10-hour interval, 3) from the time the incipient chicken’s
It showed the spasmodic twitching become a’ pulsating; the blood cells and blood vessels Begin to fom, and the heart gain s sirengtl
trator of the Wage. 4
Indiana Railroad.
versity “of Michigan's Anatomy Department, gave the demonstration. In a paper prepared for delivery he explained that he and his associates had cut a tiny w w in the cell of a fertilized egg and exposed the embryo, the size of a pin head. This preparation was transferred to a glass chamber and supplied with nutrient fluid. The embryo af the time was 30 hours old. The first flutterings. of the tube, later to become the heart, are not rhythmic or ‘orderly. Different parts of it merely contract and there are periods as long as five minutes when there is no activity. Then comes a series of fibrillations and gradually, after two or three hours, the twitches seeth to combine, although
mostly on the right side’of the tube. | scattered
After another ho
ures was $309, 882,076.
Motion Picture Dramaiizes Origin of Life; First Heart-Beat of Chicken Is Depicted
tract. Then, right and left sides twitch in time with each other. Still there is. no regular rhythm wd the movements as a whole. Three hours later there is a change, so gradual it is impossible to tell when it starts. The motions| are starting at one end of the tube and rippling in waves to the other end. The motion originates in what is to be the auricle of the heart. The rate of the beat increases, becomes stronger. : Then the blood starts to form. At first there is just fluid; then a few corpuscles appear within the heart tube. They shuttle back and forth at each beat. The beating increases, the blood. “cells Jopooms more -nu-
| areas of the left side.
quest, the Committee noted that an estimated 2863 serviceable Naval ;
“Secretary Hull has. the ides that we can increase the prosperity of the American farmer by flooding the country with the same kind of foreign products he produces, all of it produced by people who receive
that the American farmer does,” he said. “This just doesn’t make sense.” State Senator William E. Jenner, Shoals, candidate for the G. O. P. gubernatorial nomination, criticized New Deal “theories, extravagance and waste” in an address at Marshall. Calls for Study
At Logansport, Judge James A. Emmert of Shelbyville, gubernatorial . candidate, criticized -administration of the State’s insane hosptals which he charged were overcrowded. He declared that the operation of the hospitals has been turned over to “political job seekers” and urged a study be made to improve hospital administration. “Politics always has: been first (Continued on Page Three)
SECOND SYMPHONY AVAILABLE SATURDAY
Praise. Received for First Beethoven Album.
The second symphony to be released by the. Indiana committee of the National Committee for Music Appreciation will be available Saturday. It Swill be Beethoven's Symphony iNo. 5 in C Minor, consisting of four double-faced, 12-inch records. The symphony will be distributed at the campaign headquarters, 245 N. Pennsylvania 8t., with the entire album available at a fraction of its usual cost. Campaign directors today pointed out that thousands of Hoosier families already had acquired the first of the i0 symphonies to be made available—Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B Minor (unfinished) —and that the widespread interest throughout the state in the campaign was evidenced in the letters coming to the N. Pennsylvania St. office. Music instructors, students, minister, presidents of fraternities and sororities, professors and home: makers have written their congratulations, campaign sponsors said. A number of letters from out of the state also have come in, it was said, from people whose Indiana friends have told: them. of the campaign. 8
CHEMICAL AND AUTO STOCKS ARE STRONG
Chemical ‘and automobile shares were strong in an irregular, narrowmoving New York stock market today. Volume, except in a few issues, was light. Wheat firmed after selling lower ‘at Chicago, other grains were mixed in price trends. At Indianapolis, hogs weighing
more than 200 pounds sold 15 cents lower, sold--10 ) 1
Price, a lanky Texan who is one of |
flown the Airacobra, was trying to
He predicted that the G. O. P.
one-half to one-third of the pay
ON ALLEGHENY
Water Enters Homes, Busl ness Places as Ice Causes Sudden Rise.
PARKERS LANDING, Pa., Feb. 13 (U. P.) .—After forcing scores of families to flee
waters backed up by a miles long ice gorge in the Alle gheny River receded slightly, today, relieving a critical site uation in this Clarion County;
community. =F Rising with lightning suideniioss «Ea
last night, the floodwaters’ within a few hours had risen three feet above flood ‘level, pouring into the basee ments of homes and business estabe lishments. This town was virtually" isolated for a time as telephone and: teles |graph facilities were cut off. : As the ice gorge, stretching from Monterey, five miles below here, to
water behind it, the river here rose six feet in a half hour and lowlard dwellers fied to higher ground. After reaching a depth of four fee} in streets and cellars, the waters
flowing downstream. Through fissures in’ the ice, as
still was holding.The municipal water system ag ‘West Monterey was threatened as the waters poured into the main reservoir, which supplies the town,
offices of the Wightman Bottle & Glass Co. were flooded despite sande bags which had been placed around the structure. With the sudden rise of the waters, other merchants quickly ‘boarded -up. their places of busi ss and fled. steel bridge across the river at Pe Landing was threatened as
structure to tremendous pressure, The ice reached a height of from 20 to 25 feet at other points.
Navigation Resumed On Ice-Filled Ohio
CINCINNATT, ‘ ‘Féb. 13 (U. P) ~~ Ohio River traffic was resumed here today for the first time in thres
weeks. : Despite great ice floes from ‘ths Gallipolis, O., pool, Maj. Fred Bass, District U. S. Engineer, said the river was suitable for navigation to Madison, Ind. Maj. Bass and U. 8. Meteorologist W. C. Devereaux agreed the danger of flood had been removed by the breaking of ice jams near Madison ‘and Louisville, Ky. - Two towboats from Huntington,
here today.
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Weather Outlook
Fair Tomorrow
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6 a.m. 29 10am .. Wam.. 29 11a. m. ... 28 8am ... 28 12 (noon)... 28 9a. m. ,.. 28 lpm... 2
Fair skies were promised for toe morrow by the Weather Bureau. The lowest temperature tonight will be from 20.to 25. The lowest in the last 24 hours was 28.
TO ABANDON APPEAL
tiie ‘William A. Shideler, former ine vestment broker, ' today notified
{Federal Court that he wished to
abandon his appeal and begin: serve ing his eight-year. prison sentence, Shideler was sentenced in Jane uary after a Federal Court Jury convicted him of using the mails to defraud by violating the Federal Seturities “Act. new trial and arrest of judgment were overruled by Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick of South Bend, Judge Robert C. Baltzell had dis qualified himself, Following the ruling, Shideler appealed to the Tth Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago, and that appeal is pending.
is serving a seven-year term at Leavenworth Penitentiary ‘on the same charge.
VACATION THIS WEEK
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (U. P).— President Roosevelt will leave this week on a vacation trip that may take him to the southern seaboard, i was learned today.
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their homes, ice-laden flood=
Emlenton, above the town, held fast - despite tremendous pressure of the
receded during the night, apparently
latest reports indicated the ice gorge
The basement and first floor
the ice piled up behind it to a. heighth of 25 feet, subjecting the -
W. Va., were scheduled to arrive.
W. A. SHIDELER SEEKS.
Motions asking ‘a.
His father, Frederick W. Shideler,
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