Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1940 — Page 1

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JOLY 15 SET ‘AS DEMOCRAT

PARLEY DATE |

Farley’s Selection Assures Streamlined Presidential Race of 15 Weeks.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (U. P.) — "Major political parties were set today for a streamlined 15-week Presidential campaign: shortened a month from the period alloted .io that purpose in 1936. Chairman James A. Farley of the Démocratic National Committee

waited - fewer than 24 hours after Republican decision to open the G. O. P. convention June 24 in Philadelphia to announce Democratic plans. He fixed July 15 for the opening of the Demgqgratic National Convention in Chicago. -

Garner in Coast Primary Other political developments included: 1. Decision of Vice President John N. Garner to enter the May 7 California Presidential preference primary. 2. Continued speculation over President Roosevelt's third term and fishing vacation plans, especially whether the latter include any diplomatic contact with foreign officials and, if so, where, Why and whom. 3.In Columbus, O , today the Ohio Democratic Central and Executive Committees went on record in favor of a third term for President Roosevelt and indorsed Senator Vic Donahey as the state’s “favorite son” candidate for the Presidential nomi= nation. 4_The name of Mr. Roosevelt was entered in the Nebraska Presidential. primary April 9. Mr, Farley, who announced the Democratic convention date from Coral Gables, Fla, has outjockeyed Republicans, who had hoped to hold their convention after the Democrats and take advantage of any unpopular reaction to the Democratic candidates or platform. It was understood Mr. Farley would have called the convention on July 8 except for the fact that some Seltsates would have to travel on July 4

Hopes Party Keeps Control’

He ‘reiterated: his belief that the Democratic nominees would be successful in the November elections. - “I believe the people want the “Democrats ‘to continue in control,” he said. The third-term resolution in Ohio was presented at a joint meeting of the committees by James A. Reynolds of Cleveland, a State Central Committee member. The only dissenting vote was cast by James Huffman, Columbus lawyer and son-in-law of Senator Donahey. Ohio Democratic leaders have indicated that delegates to the Democratic National Convention will be instructed to support President Roosevelt, if he is a candidate, after discharging their obligation to Senator Donahey. Mr. Roosevelt has announced he will not be smoked out on his 1940 . political intentions.. But if smoke would do it, the Garner fire in California might suffice because that state's primary is binding. If antithird term forces win the state's delegation, they must be counted out of the Roosevelt convention column—if there is a Roosevelt convention column.

Garner Wires Approval

Mr. Garner had California in 1932 and it was only when he gave telephonic authority fm Washington that William Gibbs McAdoo was able to release them to Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Garner released Texas simultaneously eight years ago and the New Deal began its victory march. A telegram from Zach Lamar Cobb, Garner California leader, brought the Vice’ President into this year’s race there. “This has my full approval,” Mr. Garner wired Mr. Cobb, “since it is in conformity with my public announcement that the Democratic candidate should be selected at primaries and conventions.” Draft-Roosevelt or New Deal supporters on the West Coast may adopt the strategy of Illinois and other New Dealers who have en(Continued on Page Three)

MRS. TEVEBAUGH, 95, 0. E. S. LEADER, DEAD

Mrs. Effie E, Tevebaugh, believed to be the oldest active member of the Order of the Eastern Star in Indiana, died last night at St. Vincent’s Hospital at the age of 95. Mrs, Tevebaugh had bzen active and in good health until Jan. 31, her 95th birthday, when she slipped and fell in her home, 24 McKim St., fracturing her hip. Complications set in from which she never recov-

ered. In addition to her Eastern Star activities, in Englewood Chapter 483, Mrs. Tevebaugh was an active member of the Roberts Park Methodist Church and the George H. Chapman Post 10 of the Women’s Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic.. She was a member of the ‘Past Presidents’ Council Unit 1 of

the Women’s Relief Corps and a]

honorary member of Temple Rebecca Lodge 591. Mrs. Tevebaugh was born in ' Petersburg, Ind, and married in ~ Vincennes during the Civil War to William Fletcher Tevebaugh, a rail- : Joad man. The Tevebaughs moved to Indianapolis in 1874. Mr, Tevebaugh died 32 years ago. Mrs. Tevebaugh is survived by a . son, Harry W., and a brother, D. Smith Osborn, Petersburg. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at Hisey & Titus Funeral Home, with burial in Crown Hill Cemetery.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1940

1. Swappin’ yarns and talking

2. Fertilizing fields now makes

R. 4. Box 555.

spring, Mr. Indiana Farmer bustles eye.

BOOKIES USING HIT:MISS SETUP

Turn to Radio.and Phone To Get ‘News.’

Indianapolis bookmakers ~~ were operating on a strictly hit-and-miss basis today, exercising their unflagging, if questionable ingenuity, in providing patrons with racing information “while it’s hot.” The last shred of legitimate service vanished at 6 o'clock last night, when the Western Union discontinued information it had been providing by leased wire to the Capitol City Publishing Co., local outgrowth of the dismembered Nationwide News Service formerly operated in Chicago ‘by M. L. Annenberg. Elimination of thc service to Capitel City, for reasons the telegraph company would not divulge, effectively devitalized the known “nerve center” of racing distribution in the state. Capitol City, under its arrangement with Western Union, had disseminated odds, entries, run downs, scratches and running descriptions to bookies in nine cities outside of Indianapolis. Those cities were Anderson, Ft. Wayne, Logansport, Rensselaer, Connersville, Princeton, Washington, South Bend and Vincennes. Several days ago, it is reported, Western Union threatened cancellation of the leased wire on the grounds that Capitol City, contrary (Continued on Page Three)

BLOCK'S OPENS NEW STORE IN IRVINGTON

John- R. 0’Connor Manager At 13 S. Ritter Ave.

The Wm. H. Block Co: opened its new store in Irvington today. John R. O'Connor, who has been identified with the electrical appliance business 10 years, is manager and William C. McConahay ‘is assistant manager. The new store is in a new one-story buliding at 13 S. Ritter Ave. Opening of the East Side branch was the result of the success of the North Side store at 38th and Illinois Sts, company officials stated. The new store has 1000 feet of floor space and will handle all types of electrical. appliances, including ranges, refrigerators, washers, vacuum cleaners, radios and phonographs.

TRADING MODERATE ON N. Y. EXCHANGE

‘New York stocks closed from fractions to more than $1 higher in a today’s short session. Trading was moderately active. Bonds gained irregularly. Chicago wheat. was lower and cotton futures held steady. At Indianapolis, hog prices remained

unchanged from yesterday.

Wire Service Lost, They

Times Photos. about the favcrable 1940 farm out-

Jook+<at Sutton’s Grocery at Smith’s Valley . . . seated (left to right), Ernest Day, E. E. Sutton, G. B. Briggs and Claude Doty; standing (left to right), James Doty and Ray Day.

corn grow taller, next Summer . oo

Raymond Robbins (left) and Leslie Hobbs on Milton O. Murphy farm,

3. Future pork chops . . . not'such a pleasant picture t the farmer now with pork prices low and corn prices high.

Hoosiers’ Spring Song Is Sung ~ By Experts to Tune of Plenty

: By EARL RICHERT As Old Mother Nature starts turning the ‘heat on Old Mother Earth once again, bringing faint but sure rumblings of forthcoming

around with a happy gleam in his

He spreads fertilizer on his fields, sharpens the shares on his plow, watches farrowing sows closely, eats and sleep well, secure, in the knowl= edge that 1940 will be prosperous

for him. He has that assurance from the experts. | course, but: it isn't: likely,

that:both the Bureau of i. De feels Al

Economics in Washington and the

Purdue University « Extension Desi QJ partment would be talking through

their hats about ‘gising farm prosperity.” They know what it’s all about, if anyone does. *

Some Prices May Drop Mr. Indiana Farmer hasn't been told to expect a 1918-19 when wheat hit $2 a bushel and prices of other farm products soared accordingly. He has been told that his farm income will continue to rise, but that some prices may be lower than in 1939. “Farm families Had Took forward

to higher incomés in 1940 than in 1939 as a whole,” say the Purdue specialists, “providing, the present favorable business conditions continue as anticipated.” The Bureau of Agricultural Economics sees a ‘rosy picture” too. “The demand for fa products— measured by volume and by price— continues good, despite the recent downturn in industrial production,” it reports. “Farm income and the average prices of farm products in January were the highest in two years and cash farm income will continue higher than a year ago.”

Credit Terms Favorable -

Another boon to the farmers, say the Purdue specialists, is the low terms on which they may obtain credit, the most favorable in the history of American agriculture. Farm real estate prices are ex-

pected to remain stationary, farm wages and the costs of building materials are expected to be higher, while . prices of farm machinery probably will ‘not show much change, they add. (Officials of Indiana -farm machinery companies report that they expect 1940 to be a bumper year for their, sales). As to the 1940 outlook in crops and livestock, the Purdue specialists have the following te say: HOGS—“With hog numbers approaching record levels, and the probability of an unfavorable feeding ratio before the end of 1940, Indiana farmers are warned to exercise caution in further increasing numbers where the finishing of the hogs is dependent upon the 1940] (Continued on Page Three)

They can be wrong, off.

Happy Days Are Here Again—Down on the Farm

Entered as Second-Class Matter 9% Postoifice, indianapoils, Ind.

Texas Pupils in Farm Homes As’ Blizzard Halts Six Busses.

LUBBOCK, Tex., Feb. 17 (U. P.). —Two hundred school children who failed “to reach ‘their homes ‘when school busses were blocked by snowdrifted ‘highways in yesterday afternoon’s blizzard, found shelter ‘in farm homes and are safe. | S. G. Anthony, superintendent of schools, said he was informed that all the children and the drivers of the six busses found shelter and that none had suffered from the storm. All were expected to reach their homes this afternoon, The snow and wind broke communication lines. The high winds swept. the light snow into great drifts, blocking highways almost. as rapidly as they: were cleared. Three special trains put out from Lubbock and rescued motorists marooned last night in‘ their automobiles on. snow-choked roads.

Rain on Way Here and It May Snow, Too

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m. ... 2 1l a.m. ... 40 7a. m .,. 28 12 (noon)... 43 Sa mm... 30 1pm , 6 44 9am ... 33 2pm. ... 45 10 a. mv. ... 37

After two days qf welcome sunshine, the Weatherman reluctantly told Indianapolis today to prepare for rain or snow tonight and tomorrow. He said the lowest temperature tonight ‘will be about 30 degrees, but if the mercury drops any lower (Continued on Page Three)

LIMESTONE PACT REACHED BEDFORD, Ind. Feb. 17 (U. P). —A wage agreement to last until Jan. 31, 1941, has been reached between the Limestone Industry Industrial Relations ‘Committee and the Federal Council of the Limestone Trade, IL. P. Corey, chairman of the relations committee, and D. B. McCartney, representing the

council, said today.

Army Plane Speeds Airacobra Motors Eastward—Just in Case

By SAM TYNDALL

‘Every two or three days at about the same hour in the morning, a large silver two-engined whi drops out of the sky from the East onto a Municipal Airport runway. It looks like one of the airline passenger ships, being the same model ' as Douglas DC2, but it doesn’t unload or take on passengers. Instead it taxies over ito one edge of the apron near the fence, out of the way, and idles its motors. The entrance “hatch” swings open and a mechanic gets out. Then an Army sergeant jumps out, and a few seconds later two Army Air Corps second lieutenants emerge. They wait by the plane for a few|N minutes until a big truck speeds over to them and comes Jo a stop by the plane. The plane's crew then hurries to

Ynload three args. erates rom the}

truck. The sergeant in the meantime unhooks a lock on the hinge side of the plane door and opens another slab of the plane's fuselage. The three crates are lifted, swung and shoved inside the plane cabin and half of the huge door is shut, The plane crew climbs back in and a minute later ‘the plane engines begin to roar. The ship takes off and disappears to the East, The Army ‘Air Corps is speeding three new 400 mile-an-hour Allison motors, just off the line, to Wright Field, Dayton, O., where they will be prepared for mounting in the

sensational new .Airacobra pursuit- |

Sghiers. being made at Buffalo, “The Amy is not attempting to : La 2 Allison : 3 he

asi “Mt Kills Father |;

{required to report all earnings of

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So Finds 'Toy;"-

CHICAGO, Feb. BL a. P= pe Frank Miller, 29, took his wife and two sons .to a hardware store to shop for toys.. He told the boys to look around while he helped another boy in the store solve an arithmetic problem. Frank Jr. 7, strolled from counter.to counter. He was not interested in the displays of shovels, wrenches or garden tools. He dug “his hand into a bin of nails. :

“This is: what I want!” shouted. There was an explosion and his father fell wounded fatally by a "bullet from the revolver in the ~boy’s hand.

STATE SLASHES J08 TAX ON EMPLOYERS

Only. First $3000 Subject to Levy, Board Rules.

An annual saving of about one million dollars for Hoosier employers is expected to result from a rul-

ing that after Jan. 1, 1940, only the first $3000 paid an employee is subject to Indiana unemployment compensation taxes. The rule was adopted yesterday by the Indiana Unemployment Compensation Board, after a public hearing, to conform with the amendments to the Social Security Act adopted by Congress last summer. It will become effective with the report for the first quarter of 1940, which must be filed with the Compensation Division ‘on or before April: 20. Wilfred Jessup, Division director, said that the Social Security amendments limited the Federal unemployment tax to the first $3000 paid to an employee during the calendar ear. y “The Indiana Legislature has not met to consider the problem’ of bringing the State law into con-’ formity with the Federal statute,” he said. “However, a section in the State law empowers the Board to| adopt rules to secure for either employers or employees greater rights or benefits resulting from amendments to the Act.” In making q ly contribution reports, he said, @mployers will be

their employees and take a deduction for wages in excess of $300Q.. Even though the first $3000 is able, there has been no change in the ‘benefit structure and all wages

benefit rights.

f. D. R. MAY REACH CANAL TOMORROW BALBOA, C. Z., Feb. 17 (U. P.).—

official confirmation that President Roosevelt will arrive in the Panama Canal Zone tomorrow. The reports added that such an announcement might be issued at the Governor's office tater. The President sailed today into warm Caribbean weather aboard

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REDS SAY FINN

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Helsinki Paper H Hints Plea For Aid May Be Taken Even to Germany.

BULLETIN

MOSCOW, “Feb. 17 (U. P.)— The Red Army today claimed to have cracked the Mannerheim Line, Promising “utter annihilation of the enemy,” the Red troops were said in Soviet Army communiques to have broken the Finnish first lines of defense along the Karelian Isthmus and occupied 161 strategic positions.

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR. United Press Staff Correspondent HELSINKI, Finland, Feb. 17. — Finland may have to ask. for help “elsewhere” unless the Scandinavian countries come to its aid, the newspaper Socialdemokraatti, organ of the dominant Democratic Socialist Party, warned today. The warning was taken as an indication that an appeal for direct, official aid might be made to Great Britain and “rance. But so imperative was Pinland’s| need for help that in some quarters the statement was taken to mean that in an extremity Finland might even offer Germany far-reaching concessions if it compelled Russia to halt its war. , Commenting on Sweden's refusal of direct aid, the newspaper said: “Finnish troops are still fighting. They have got the right to know that they are not giving their blood in vain. . . . It is hoped that this is not Sweden’s final decision. “Those people (who refuse aid) apparently do not realize that if help is not received in time and on a sufficient scale from the northern countries, it will be necessary to look for help from other quarters. This would be the last resort. “So far the Finns above all are looking for help from Scandinavia. Whether we think with the brain (Continued On Fage Three)

Manual Alumni Converge on

FINAL

PRICE THREE CENTS

BRITISH

ANGERED REICH 10 SINK ALLIED SHIPS ON SIGHT

Warn That Passenger Craft No Longer Will Be Safe In Submarine War.

BERLIN, Feb. 17 (U. P.).—An authorized German source declared today that henceforth German submarines would conduct unrestricted warfare against British and French ships. The statement, made amid great German anger over British seizure

‘lof the German steamer Altmark,

meant that in the future German U-boats would torpedo any British or French ship—passenger or freighter—on sight without warning. The authorized source explained also that unrestricted U-boat warfare would be the result of the statement -by British First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill that

{in the future all Allied ships would

be armed. Protests to World

Earlier, Germany had protested to the world and formally to Norway against the “rape” of the Altmark in Norwegian vaters by the British destroyer Cossack which, the Gere mans said, had ordered “wild machine gun fire” on German sailors

| fleeing to cover,

Predicting “unforeseen consequenc ,” an official Government statement protested Great Britain's “extreme breach of international law” on a “completely unarmed German merchantman” and demanded that Norway pay full indemnity for the vessel's loss and

sailors. The statement pointed out’ that German authorities had asked for and had been granted assurances of an adequate escort for the Alt-|S

-Imark by the Norwegian Admiralty.

German Version Given

The German yersion of the attack on the Altmark by the British destroyer Cossack was then included in the Government statement. It confirmed té a great degree the previous unofficial -accounts of the attack, but added that after the]. British sailors had been rescued and

ish crew opened “wild machine gun fire” on German sailors. Some of the sailors, the statement: said, were swimming in the icy waters off the Oesund fjord and (Continued on Page Three)

HAGGARD BUT HAPPY. SEAMEN COME HOME

Thousands Cheer on Shore; Charge German Cruelty.

LEITH, Scotland, Feb. 17 (U. P.). —Three hundred or more haggard, but happy mariners, came back today from a “living death” when the British - destroyer Cossack brought them into Leith after a dramatic: rescue last night in a nav:l engagement off Norway with the German steamer Altmark. The rescued seaman, as they were helped to waiting ambulances, told of suffering and mental agony aboard the = Altmark—which they described as a “hell ship” and aboard which they had been prisoners for two to four months. Thousands on shore cheered the liberators of the seamen aboard the Cossack and then yelled themselves hoarse in greeting to the liberated. Weak and emaciated sailors stag-

gered down the gangplank and into

25 ambulances and 20 motor busses (Continued on Page Three)

School for Its 45th Birthday

Hundreds of “old grads” converged on Manual High School today to help the ivy-walled South Side school celebrate its 15th birth- | day. Scores of former pupils, many of them silvery-haired now, were expected to register in the school library this afternoon and partici pate in the dinner and program tonight. The celebration gave many of them an’ opportunity to get to

gether with school chums they sl,

SO eaci veun being Held reunions are the classes of 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910. 1915, 1920, 1930 and 1935.

Attending tonight's dinner in the

school cafeteria as special guests

will be many veteran teachers, some of them retired but others still

teaching at Manual or other schools. Among those invited were EH Kemper McComb, and a teach

er at Manual for many

death “and injuries ~o: German:

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Destrovers Go Into Norway’s Waters; Kill 56 Germans.

Drama of the Altmark

London—In bold dash into Nore wegian fjord, British destroyers drive German ship Altmark ashore, kill five Germans in hand-to-hand : fighting on Alte mark’s deck and rescue- 326 Brite ish seamen prisoners battened below decks.

Oslo—Norwegians protest British violation of Norwegian territorial

mans have established precedent by sinking two British and one Norwegian steamers in Norway waters. Berlin—Germans, enraged, demand that Norway return Altmark in same condition as it was before BritiSh attack, warn of unrestricted submarine war. .

Leith, Scotland—Destroyer lands 328 British seamen seized from Alte mark; British say they were from freighters seized by the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee before the battleship was scuttled by its crew when bottled up at Montevideo, Uruguay. Copenhagen—British and German naval vessels reported active off Norwegian Coast and possibility of clash imminent.

By SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS | United Press Staff Correspondent ' LONDON, Feb. 17.—British dee stroyers, deliberately entering neue tral waters, drove the German naval auxiliary ship Altmark ashore on- the Norwegian coast, killed five of its crew and wounded five and rescued more than 300 British mer~ chant seamén whom they found battened down under its decks, the Admiralty announced today. - The British seamen had been take en prisoners by the German pocket

it sank seven British merchantmen in the South Atlantic before Christe mas and placed aboard the Alte

of the prisoners, the British have described the Altmark as a helt ship. ” Meanwhile, in. Copenhagen it was reported that British and iis naval vessels were active off the coast and it was feared that a clash might be imminent. News of the audacious naval ace tion was disclosed in an Admiralty communique which said the British warships acted upon Admiralty ore ders to enter Norwegian waters and rescue the prisoners. As part of “the engagement the British destroyer Ivanhoe ordered the German tanker Balder to halt outside Norwegian waters and. the Balder’s crew scuttied her “in Gere man fashion,” the Admiralty said.

Stage Hand-to-Hand Fight

The Admiralty communique said one of the British destroyers, the Cossack, chased the Altmark through the three miles of Nors wegian territorial waters until it ran aground. Men of the Cossack went ashore and in a hand to hand fight killed five of the Altmark men and wounded five. One Briton was wounded. Part of the Altmark’s crew fled inland. The remainder, the Ade miralty said, “submit The British prisoners ‘were taken off, and the Cossack proceeded at full steam toward the British Isles, Explaining its amazing order to its warships to pursue the Altmark into Norwegian waters, the Ade miralty charged that a Norwegian gunboat commander had informed the British ships that the Altmark was unarmed and that it knew nothing of any British seamen aboard.

Tried to Ram Cossack

This captain, the Admiralty said, insisted that the Altmark had been searched at Bergen the day before and had received permission to use Norwegian territorial waters en route to Germany. Upon these assurances, it was

withdrew from Norwegian terri(Continued on Page Three)

|ASKS ABANDONMENT

OF PARKING METERS

SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Feb. 17 (U, P.).—The Shelbyville Merchants Ase sociation today recommended that a new parking limit law be adopted to replace the parking meter system when the trial period of the meters,

‘|recently installed, expires. .

The Association opposed installa tion of the meters and during the Christmas holidays secured a tem porary suspension of the parking ore dinance.

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Financial .... 9, Pyle celiethey

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waters; British reply that Gere

battleship Admiral Graf Spée when.

mark, which. served ihe Graf Spes a .{as a tender. ; Because of reported mistreatment

Si the British destroyer force.

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