Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1940 — Page 1

FORECAST: Mostly cloudy with occasional light rain tonight, and LNOrYOWS, rising temperature; fovest tonight about 35.

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STORM IN EAST

Ships Battered, Schools Closed, Roads Blocked In Several States.

By UNITED PRESS +A storm which for almost 24 hours battered the Eastern Seaboard from North Carolina to Ontario and left ‘most of it buried under three #to 20 inches of snow, moved 'ocean-ward today after taking at least 28 lives and causing property damage esimated in the millions. The forecast was for clearing skies and colder weather, dissipating for the moment fears of devastating floods which would be certain to follow a sudden thaw. The storm, originating in the Southwest, produced violent northeasterly gales which lashed the stricken area at velocities ranging from 30 to 80 miles an hour.

. Tanker Is Periled

The 3262-ton tanker Aztec rolled in heavy seas 50 miles southeast of Sandy Hook, N. J, today, her rudder loose and threatening to

tear a hole through the stern. The Coast Guard cutter Pontchartrain, rushing out in response to an SOS, found the steamers Exmoor and Hoxbar standing by the stricken ship, each about two miles away. The Aztec, owned by the Aztec Petroleum Corp. of Baltimore, sent the SOS at 10:50 last night. She carried a crew of about 30. At , 12:05 a. m., the Aztec radio oper- ! ator messaged: “Don't know how fong we can keep this up. Ship without steering is subject to battering by high seas.” Mackay Radio reported today that the Diamond Shoals. Lightship . had parted her moorings off Cape Hatteras, N. C., al 8:55 last night ‘and was now adrift.

Small ‘Boats Wrecked

Bcores of small boats were pounded to pieces at their moorings, highways in. a half a dozen states were blocked, thousands of permany of ‘them school children — were marooned all night, rivers were choked with ice and snow, electric service to scores of communities was disrupted at the height of the storm, and gale-lashed fires caused inestimable damage. Mrs. Franklin D. ‘ Roosevelt and Mrs. Henry S:. Morgenthau Jr., wife of the Secretary of the Treasury, were among those caught on New York highways in the storm. They had left Syracuse in the face of warnings, headed for Ithaca where Mrs. Roosevelt speaks today. Their car broke down and fear was . felt for their safety for a time. But they reached Ithaca last night after having their car repaired at Homer. The storm took at least five lives in Pennsylvania, four in Ohio, four in New York City, two in upstate New York, three in New Jersey and 10 in New England.

Parents’ Bodies Recovered

The bodies of two small children drowned with their parents when the family automobile crashed ‘through the Lake Erie ice at Put-in-Bay, O., were found huddled. together on “the rear seat today when rescue workers raised the car from 30 feet of water, The rescuers smashed through the jce in “ironclads” — flat - bottom, metal-sheathed boats used for carrying mail between Put-in-Bay and other island points—and raised

_ the automobile with an improvised

n:arinie “sling.” The automobile carrying Dr. George Edam, 33, of Put-In-Bay, his wife, Loretta, 33, and their children, Barbara 2, and George Jr., 3, plunged through the ice last night while they were driving across a “winter road” between Lake Erie islands. The bodies of Dr. Edam and his wife were recovered when they floated to the surface. Perhaps the worst damage was in New England where coastal shipping suffered, and five major fires were reported. In snowbound southern (Continued on Page Three)

SHIDELER’S PETITION TO START TERM 0. K.’D

Federal ‘Judge Thomas W. Slick . of South Bend today notified the Federal Court here that he had granted William A. Shideler’s petition to begin his eight-year prison

term Judge Slick presided in the trial of Shideler, local investment broker who was convicted of using the mails to defraud in violation of the Federal Security Act. The trial was held in January. Shideler will be taken to Federal prison after an appeal, pending in =the Seventh Cireuit Court of Ap[3 peals in Chisago, is withdrawn.

LUISA TETRAZZINI, OPERA STAR, IS ILL

MILAN, Feb. 15 . P.).—Luisa “petragzini, 67, famous opera singer, was seriously ill in a hospital here

‘She had 8 cerebral hemorrhage last night, when her condition was ded as grave, but physicians t the;

Talks With Aids

» James A. Colescoit . . . former Indiana veterinarian “doctoring” K.-K. K. now.

MERGURY RISE DUE WITH RAIN

Aged Woman Dies in Blaze; 10 Degrees Warmer Is Predicted.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES am ... 25 10a. m. ... 30 a.m ...24 lla. m.....33 a.m. ... 26 12 (noon)... 35 a.m ... 26 1pm... 38

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A 10-degree rise in temperature, accompanied by light rains, was promised Indiana tonight and tomorrow by the Weather Bureau today. A 90-year-old woman died today in a fire that burned her home, and 12 persons were forced into the cold in sleeping attire by another fire that damaged their home. Indiana ducked out of the severe eastern blizzard yesterday by a scant 118 miles—the distance from here to Louisville. Louisville and Cincinnati: were on the effective edge of the orm and today. reported from five to seven inches of

Snow, according to J. H., Armington,

meteorologist. Luck, Says Armington. Mr. Armington said it was just a case of luck that Indiana escaped— luck and the fact that the storm was no larger than it was. The center of the storm was over the middle Atlantic coast. The fire victin was Miss Ellen Helm, 919 Hudson Firemen, summoned by neighbors when they saw smoke coming from the cottage where she lived alone, found the body on the floor near a doorway through which she had attempted to escape. Miss Helm kept a hot fire in a stove near the cot on which she slept. Firemen believe that the stove set fire to the bed clothing and that the woman, who was afflicted with rheumatism, collapsed in her attempt to get out.

12 Flee Rooming House

The fire burned a large hole in the floor near her body, but did not spread to other parts of the cottage. Firemen were unable to estimate the loss from fire at the rooming house operated by Miss Priscilla Wilson, 218 W. }1th St., from which 12 persons fled. : The blaze was discovered by a boy who was awakened by the odor of smoke.

2 WOMEN GRANTED ‘PARKING PRIVILEGE

1-Day Concession Awarded For H. S. Tournament.

two parking concessions for a small strip of «City-owned property near the Butler Fieldhouse for the State high school tournament March 30. Mrs. Myrtle Hinesley, 4735 Rookwood Ave., received the cencession for 30 feet along the south side of the street between Sunset Blvd. and Hinesley Ave. Mrs. W. P. Crockett, 419 W. 49th St., received a concession for a similar strip between Boulevard Place and Hinesley Ave. Mrs. Hinesley is 21st Ward Democratic vice chairman. » The Board awarded the .concessions without comment, but Mrs. Hinesley: said there would be a charge for parking on the property. She said that the parking probably would overflow from the municipally owned property onto her property and Mrs. Crockett’s and therefore the charge was made necessary. No charge was asked by the Board

City Park superintendent, said that both women had had concessions for basketball games and tournaments at the Fieldhouse for several years.

HOG PRICES GAIN AS RECEIPTS HERE DROP

A 20 to 25-cent gain was made in hog prices at Indianapolis today as receipts declined. Top price rose to $5.85 on 200 to 210-pound weights. Low-priced issues were in brisk demand on the New York Stock Exchange where securities worked Fregularly higher in dull trading.

. |series of conferences with about 40

half million aliens on the relief

The Park Board today awarded]

for either concession. A. C. Sallee,

REBUILT KLAN |] EYES ELECTION, FIGHTS ALIENS]

Imperial Wizard Here for ‘Talks Refuses to Estimate State Membership.

America today needs a new crop of politicians, sincerely interested in the welfare of the country, James E. Colescotf, imperial wizard of the Ku-Klux Klan, said here today. Mr. Colescott came here for a

or 50 Indiana klan leaders to further the reorganization of the group in the state. He said the klan plans to take an active part ingthe coming elec-

organized by districts. Mr. Colescott said the klan doesn’t care for “any part of the old political organization of 1924 to 1928.” Asked if this included former Senator James E. Watson, he replied that it did. “I think Jim is a loveable old soul,” he said, “but the people found

they dumped him.” . Declines to Give Figures

Mr. Colescott said there is one klan charter in Indianapolis and about ‘35 in the state, including Lake County, Logansport, Muncie, Evansville, Terre Haute, Kokomo and Ft. Wayne. He declined to give any figures on the present active membership, but said there are roughly 150,000 in the state who have been members at one time or another and ‘“presumably still believe in the klan ideals.” At present, Indiana klan affairs are being directed out of the imperial headquarters at Atlansa, Ga., the imperial wizard said, but a number of potential leaders are being trained in Georgia and Florida, and one of these will be sent here soon to ftensify the Indiana drive for organization. Today’s klansmen, Mr. Colescott said, still wear the traditional regalia, except for the visor. He laughingly denied that the klan had signed up the Finnish Army, but said the organization recently .had urged all members to

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nish Relief Fund, Fight Unnaturalized Aliens

Discussing ‘the objectives: of the klan under his leadership, Mr. Colescott, former Terre Haute veterinarian, said the klan had abandoned its “opposition” to Catholics, Jews and Negroes, and was opposing only those who advocate overthrow of the Government by force or “those who want to combine the church and state.” He said his organization would seek to elect congressmen next fall who favor deportation of unnaturalized Americans. “The Government estimates; ” he said, “that there are three and a half million aliens in this country illegally, and that there are another four million aliens legally here but who have-taken na steps to become citizens. “We believe Congress should pass a law setting a certain date after which those aliens legally here but not seeking citizenship should be automatically deported.” “There are probably one and a

rolls. If we deduct that number; from the 7,500,000 aliens here, that leaves 6,000,000 who we may presume are holding jobs that some of the nine million unemployed Americans should have. “Employers should be required to give preference to native barn or naturalized citizens.” The klan never has had any fight against the Roman Catholic Church, he said, except over the question of the separation of the church and state. He criticized President Roosevelt's recent appeintment of a representative to the Vatican as a Step in (Continued on Page Three)

Boys Drop Off

While Gene Autry. crooned of the Colorado moonlight last night, two boys in rear balcony seats silently dropped off “South of the Border.” When H. R. Teepe, custodian, reopened the Fountain Square Theater this morning, he heard noise in the balcony. Philip Kelly, 14, of 948 Elm St., and Leroy Townsend, 13, of 1010 Hosbrook St., had awakened sorhe time before and were eager to get out of the theater" At last reports they were finishing their sleep in comfortable

tion and for this purpose is being |

they didn’t believe him sincere sof

contribute generously to the Fin-

South of Border|

THERAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1940

Tntered at Postoffice,

. REFUSES 10 DENY HINT 0 “Hci SEA

PETITIONS ASK HE BE NOMINEE

‘Deeply Touched,” Says County Chairman at Visit - Of 15 Republicans.

County Republicans ™ in * the 1938 ‘campaign, today. accepted candidacy for re-election as County chairman. A group of 15 prominent ‘Marion County Republicans “drafted” Mr. Vandivier in special ceremonies &t G. O. P. County headquarters, 525 Indiana Trust Co. Building.

lican County Veterans’ Organization chairman, presented him with petitions urging his candidacy. They were signed by several hundred Republicans. In accepting .the candidacy, Mr. Vandivier said: “All of you know that no man or woman can get greater satisfaction than to receive the confidence and support of fellow party workers. .I am deeply touchéd. If I am drafted, I would gladly serve. I hope that the precinct committeemen and vice committeemen will feel about my candidacy as you folks do.” The petitions said that his candidacy was urged in recognition of his “honesty, integrity and ability as

County chairman.”

In asking his candidacy, Capt. Livengood pledged the support. of a large group of Republicans and predicted that progressive Republicans would support the chairman. Short addresses. praising Mr. Vandivier’s record in the 1938 campaign were made by Mrs. Eileen Kidd; Mrs. Harry Barnard, Indiana (Continued on Page Three)

WAR MINOR TRADE FACTOR, AYRES SAYS

Idle Men and Dollars Stil Called Basic Problems.

CLEVELAND, Feb. 15 (U. P.) —A new business relapse is under way because businessmen have acted in this war as they found it wise to act in 1914, Col. Leonard P. Ayres, vice president of the Cleveland Trust Co., said today. “It often is said that the only war for which military men successfully may formulate plans is the last war,” he said in his Monthly Business Review, “The same is true of husinessmen. The real reason why we have just] had a little business boom lasting four months is that when war broke

beds.

A 12-year-old boy’s good Tusk the Music Appreciation Campaign

Readquariers, 245 N. Pennsylvania|-

He stood before the counter holding a fistful of change. “I want to buy Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony No. 8 in B Minor,” he said to the clerk. The Schubert Symphony is the first issued in the state-wide campaign through which Hoosiers may obtain 10 symphonic masterpieces at fractional costs. The second set-— Beethoven's “Pastorale” Symphony

piece helped him out yesterday at}

No. 5 in C Minor—will be available ,

beginning Saturday. clerk: handed the

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“How much?” he asked. “One dollar and fifty-nine cen the clerk replied. “Carefully the boy laid a half dollar, some dimes, nickels and pennies on the counter. “I got even change,” he said. “I counted ‘it at home. ‘The young woman counted the money, It was two pennies short. “Oh, I—" The boy searched his pocksis, “Say, that's all the money | 1 go ” “Why, you have a silver dollar in your hand,” the clerk laughed. That) makes more than enough.” “Oh, no, 1 couldn't give you the bo SIplained. ha see, Shae

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ont Vandivier. wh led ‘Marion 2

Capt. Frank E. Livengood, Répub- |

G. O. P. leaders confer with their choice . « « (left to right) Capt. Frank E. Livengood, divier, Siete L. t Denny and Mrs. Harry E. Barpard.

Vandivier Drafted for G. O. P. Post

Carl Van-

City Smoke Group Stresses Need for Public Education

Decides to Study Teaching Methods and Investigate Ways To Extend Smokeless Fuel Use.

By RICHARD LEWIS

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i Stoke Abatement Advisory Committee members today -bece smoke abatement. education and to _Teduce “the City’s perennial smoke

"Meeting for the first it yesterday at City Hall, committee members held an informal discussion of smoke abatement efforts in the

DEADLINE NEAR FOR AUTO TAGS

650,000 Have Only 2 Weeks To Get Plates, Bureau Officials Warn.

More. than 650,000 Indiana automobile owners must get 1940 license plates within the next two weeks or face arrest, State License Bureau of - ficials warned today. - Although exact figures on sales of new plates are unavailable, bureau officials estimated that only 40 per cent of the auto owners had purchased them. The deadline for use of 1939 tags is March 1. Last year licenses were sold to 1,050,000 auto owners and officials estimated that the sale so far this year totals only about 400,000. Sales in the State House headquarters total 28,000. The normal sale there is about 65,000, leaving about 37,000 * Indianapolis auto owners without new licenses. Under the law, the deadline for use of old licenses was Jan. 1, but Governor M. Clifford Townsend extended the deadline by executive order. License bureau officials also estimated that thousands of drivers are still without 1940 operator's licenses, although the deadline for use of 1939 permits was Jan. 1 and was not ex-

tended. Mark Rodenbeck, assistant license

‘| bureau director, warned motorists

that they must present a poll tax receipt to get auto licenses, although they may have presented it previously when obtaining a driver's license.

Bulletin

LONDON, Feb. 15 (U. P.) ~Men 23 years of age, totalling 250, will be called to the colors Saturday, it was learned officially today. Exemptions for reserved occupations will reduce the number in the class actually to bear arms to about 200,000.

Boy Music Lover's Lucky Dollar Brings Luck— In Fact, a Free Album of Coveted Symphony

"rand I'll come back with the 2 cents

»itomorrow. But you be sure and save THAT dollar for me. I mustn't ‘lose it. ”»

The clerk thought something | “%4r

ought to be done about that. She called executives of the campaign.

They decided that a lad who would

save his nickels and pennies to buy a set of the records must have wanted them pretty, badly. - Perhaps the fact that one of the executives also had carried a silver dollar as

he was a 11 boy might have had

: something to do with their decision.

They told him to keep his dollar and the $157

pocket-piece ever since

had. saved. Then |,

past 20 years and agreed to study all aspects of the problem. Chairman Albert O. Deluse said he would appoint subcommittees to make specific studies before the group’s next meeting in March. The committee, composed of many veteran smoke abatement campaigners, was appointed last week by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan as a permanent civic group to aid City officials in their smoke fight. The necessity for public education was stressed by B. E. Clatworthy, plant manager of the R. C. A. Manufacturing Co. here. Individual home: owners, he said, fail to realize - the waste caused by inefficient firing. Miss Mary Winter, Wihter Apartments owner, said that education has been tried for two decades, has failed and has pointed to necessity of adopting’ other methods toward smoke abatement. Miss Winter said she believed the Committee should

‘determine whether coke prices nere

can be reduced and investigate the possibilities of - piping . natural gas here. Miss Winter’s position was upheld by Mrs. Lowell S. Fisher of the Civic Pride Committee. She urged investigation of the possibility of eliminating smoke through the use of a (Continued on Page Three)

JAMES ROOSEVELT SUES FOR DIVORCE

Charges Wife Deserted Him More Than Year Ago.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15 (U. PY). —James Roosevelt, eldest son of President, Roosevelt, today filed suit for divorce here in Superior Court. He charged that his wife, Betty Cushing Roosevelt, deserted him more than a year ago. Friends said Mrs. Roosevelt would file a counter ‘action.

SUIT AGAINST BALL FOUNDATION DROPPED

Federal Judge dge Robert C. Baltzell today sustained a motion to dismiss a $5,000,000 damage suit against the George ‘and Frances Ball Foundation. The motion contended that the action for the suit, if any exists, should be instituted by the Cleveland Terminals Building Co., and that only the Cleveland Federal District. Court has jurisdiction in‘ the matter since the company is undergoing organization under Section 718 of the Bankruptcy Act in that

The f dation was sued by creditors of “the Terminals company, who sought the difference between the purchase price of, the building companies collateral and profits fccruing to later owners.

REPORT 2000 JAPANESE DIE

CHUNGKING, China, Feb. 15 (U.|pared to-|revealed that .the Reich has stored

{seven million fons of wheat as a

P.).—Chinese sources 1! day that 2000 Japanese - drowned when Chinese artillery sank a big Yangtze |

as Second-Clase Matter Indianapolis, Ind.

PRICE THREE CENTS

Starts Mystery Cruise

tion, Mr. Roosevelt did not

he disembarked.

Great Britain or Italy.

FINNS HOLD OFF FURIOUS ATTACK

Use Captured Tanks Against Reds Whose Casualties Are Put at 45,000.

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR. “United Press Staff Correspoirdent

HELSINKI, Finland, Feb. 15—A war communique today said that the Mannerheim Line still held against

the thunderous attack of Fed Army shock troops and that weapons captured by the Finns had been used to drive back the Russian offensive in which casualties are how estimated at about 45,000. Heavy fighting continued all of yesterday at the Muolaanjaervi and Taipale sectors, on the Karelian Isthmus and at the Central Front Kuhmo sector, where the communique said a total of 4000 dead was added to the Russian casualties. The attack was Peported renewed with new vigor sby shock troops this morning in what appeared to be a drive designed to break through the Finnish main defenses by ¥eb. 23— the Red Army anniversary.

Reds Attack Each Other

At one point, the communique said, “it was established that the Russians attacked each other” inf aerial fighting and one of the Russian planes was shot down on Fin-|g nish territory. A total of 16 Russian ‘planes was shot down yesterday and dozens of

Finns claimed. The Russian High Command is reported by the Finns to have given orders for a break through at any cost. The communique indicated that fighting was less severe yesterday on the Summa sector, the “blood-

. |iest 10 miles on earth,” where the

Russian - attack had been concentrated, but that the main force of the offensive had been shiited to Muolaanjaervi and Taipale.

‘More Tanks Captured

stroyed as the Finns repulsed the Russian thrusts at Muolaanjaervi, according to the communique, and at one point two tanks were captured from the Russians and immediately put in use by the Finns to strengthen their own defenses. Attacks continued less intensely on the Summa sector, but all were described as repulsed. The Finns also said they repulsed attacks on (Continued on Page Three)

NAZIS CANNOT LOSE, GOERING DECLARES

Claims Reich Has 7,000,000 Tons of Wheat Stored.

BERLIN, Feb. 15 (U. P.).~-Mar-shal Hermann Goering told Germany in a radio speech today that the Reich “cannot be beaten militarily, economically or morally” in the war against Great Britain and ‘France. “The English should recognize this,” the No. 2 Nazi and economic dictator said in upon German farmers to redouble their efforts in the coming year in order to offset the extreme cold of this winter and the Allied blockade. Herr Goering emphasized the preness of Germany for war and

grain reserve.

tanks captured or destroyed, thej

. Thirteen Russian tanks were de-|

in Gulf Amid Rumors

He May Contact Representatives of France, Britain or Italy.

PENSACOLA, Fla., Feb. 15 (U. P.) .—President Roose velt today refused to deny the startling possibility of a high seas conference during his vacation cruise that might have bearing on the European war and world affairs. In a last-minute press conference before boarding the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa for a cruise to an undesignated destina~

deny the possibility that he

might make contact with British or French officials before

In a serious mood, he maintained the abiolits secrecy with which he had surrounded his cruise plans, and told reporters that he could not comment on a report that during the cruise he may contact representative of France,

Rumors of Conference Persist be The President was reminded that his “no comment” response would inevitably lead to varied interpetations and would intensify the mystery of his cruise. that he could not offer any comment on that possibility. He cautioned reporters, however, not to 0 80 far out on a limb that they might be sawed off. His intimations of diplomatic implications in his trip. was purely negative, but his refusal to dismiss! the reports: of a possible conference developed despite persistent ate

He replied

tempts of reporters to elicit from him a denial or a clear statement. Intensifying the mystery, Mr. Roosevelt said that he

would fish only sporadically during the cruise, would be fair to assume that he might . combine business with his

vacation. Refuses to Explain

“Routine bufiness or otherwise?” asked a reporter. The President said he could not go beyond the original statement. He refused to disclose into what waters he might-cruise, or to explain the circumstances which he said made it impossible for him to disclose details of his cruise. Under questioning, he kept ‘sn straight face and told reporters that he had heard reports that he might touch at any number of islands— Andaman, Celebes, the South Shete lands or the Cheruble group. Discusses U. S. Defense Some of these isiands won’t be found on most charts, Mr. Roosevelt added. It appeared possible that Mr, Roosevelt might extend his cruise to inspect the offshore neutrality patrol and even cruise far into the Caribbean. He refused to discuss.the possibility, but talked at length on important lessons for national defense from activities of the patrol during the last six months.

President May Inspect

Panama Canal Defenses WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U. PJ), ~President. Roosevelt may make a k inspection of America’s newly ngthened defenses in the Pane 0s Canal Zone and the Caribbean during his secrecy-shrouded vacae tion interlude, it was learned today. It was learned that before leave ing Washington Mr. Roosevelt said that he is very anxious to inspect work which the Navy and Army have done since outbreak of the European war to strengthen U. S, defenses" in the Caribbean and pare ticularly the vital Panama Canal. ~ It was said that when he left Washington yesterday the President had not finally determined whether he would be able to go as far as Panama.

JOSEPH RE-ELECTED - HEAD OF PARK BOARD

Jackiel W. Joseph today was reelected president of the Park Board for 1940 and Albert Gisler was named vice president at an election held after the board's regular meeting. Paul. E. Rathert was appointed Park Board representative on the City Plan Commission and Miss Gertrude V. Brown was named chairman of the Park Department Appraisal Board. Mr. Joseph said that it would be his policy this year to “concentrate on the department's recreational facilities and extend their use as widely as possible.”

HEARTS ARE TRUMPED

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15 (U. P.).— Ralph M. Valentine was divorced yesterday by Marie I. Valentine, who charged before Judge Dudley Vale entine that her husband was habite ually intemperate. ‘He even drank heavily on Valentine's Day, she said,

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