Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1940 — Page 1

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FORECAST—Partly cloudy and somewhat colder tonight, With lowest temperature 15 to 20; tomorrow fair and continued cold.

VOLUME 52—NUMBER 3

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THURSDAY, MARCH 14,1940

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Finnish Defeat a Boomerang for Allied Propaganda in U.S.

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, March 14.—The Finnish affair is apt to cramp President Roosevelt's policy of helping the Allies in all ways short of war. Certainly it has brought disillusionment to those Americans who still clung to the myth that the Allies were fighting to save oppressed democracies from totalitarian aggressors. : So Americans blame the British for leaving little Finland to her fate and the British blame the Swedes, and meanwhile European neutral nations observe again that it is suicide to count on the Allies for help. Even an old hand like David Lloyd George shouts bitterly: “It is the old trouble—too late. Too late for Czecho-

slovakia.

SENATE VOTES $5000 LIMIT ON GIFTS TO PARTY

‘Ban khead Amendment

‘Passes in Astounding New Turn to Hatch Debate.

. (Another Story, Page Eight)

WASHINGTON, March 14 (U. P.).—The Senate today adopted, 40 to 38, an amendment to the Hatch “Cléan Politics” Extension Bill defining any political contributions of . more than $5000 as constituting “pernicious” political activity. Adoption of the amendment was a stunning surprise to advocates of the pending bill, which would extend the present ban on prenicious -, political activity by Federal employees so as to include state em‘ployees who are paid with Federal funds. Advocates of the bill previously . had been successful in their efforts to keep the measure free from all amendments that they feared would confuse the ‘issue and cause its ultimate defeat, : Provides Prison Term

, Under today’s amendment, any ‘person or officer of a corporation furnishing more than $5000 during any calendar year for use in any political campaign would be sub-

jected to a Ine of not less than!

$5000 and possible prison terms of not less than five years. The amendment was offered withbut advance notice by Senator John H. Bankhead (D. Ala.). Senator Bankhead yesterday lost a fight to ban political contributions of more than $1000. Immediately after the amendment was adopted, an effort was made to reconsider it. But the Senate voted 41 to 38 against reconsideration and She amendment remained in the The political amendment contained and unusual clause directing the courts to assess fines higher than, $5000 on the basis of a viola- - tors’ ability to pay. Senator Hatch and other supporters of the measure did not know immediately what the effect on the ultimate fate of the bill would be.

Pepper Amendment Loses

Earlier, the Senate defeated, 50 to 28, an amendment by Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) to eliminate from the Hatch Bill a proposed ban ‘against political activity by state workers paid from Federal funds. Befcre the vote, Senator Pepper cited the extension of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s police powers as one of the “sinister” encroachments of Federal power on state rights. ¢ Further debate is due today on an amendment by Senator Prentiss M. Brown (D. Mich.) to define “pernicious political activity” as meaning activity outlawed by the Civil

Service Commission in dealing with |

‘ Civil Service workers. The Civil . Service rules range from a prohibition on participation in “national, state, county and municipal politics,” to a ban on “betting or wager-

ing upon the results of a primary or general election. »

Debate in 10th Day

Asked if he would accept such an amendment, Senator Hatch said: “I ‘have never had any objection to any amendment which would strengthen or clarify the bill, but I have strenuously opposed, and will -continue to oppose, all amendments offered for the purpose of killing the hill.” The Senate was in its 10th day of debate on the Hatch Bill with opponents offering the same. crippling amendments and making the - same speeches with the same oratorical gestures that have marked their tactics since early in the fight,

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Too late for Poland. Certainly too late for Fin-

Let's ‘ide

Tomorrow Comes the Ides of March and Evil Won’t Ide.

TOMORROW WHEN you do things, watch your step. Tomororw is the Ides of March. Tomorrow is the last day for paying Federal Income Tax. .

Tomorrow is the 1984th anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar. According to Central Library references any old Ides is bad enough. It was the middle of any month in the old Roman Calendar, equally removed from any payday. Tomorrow is the Ides of March, according to the dictionary — an inauspicious day.

Tags the Mayor

PROVIDENCE, R. 1, March 14 (U. P.). — Patrolman Stephen C. Malley had a new heat today. Patrolman Malley tagged Mayor John F. Collins’ automobile yesterday in a “no parking” area.

Mr. Adams Sighs

WHEN LOUIS ADAMS, prosecutor in the Municipal 2Court which handles traffic cases, left court he found his car parked near police station where a sign said “No Parking.” On the car was a sticker which said he had parked where it said “No Parking,” and inviting him to explain to the Court of which he is prosecutor. Mr. Adams sighed, entered: the car, pocketed the sticker, and drove away with no comment.

— Good Food

BOSTON, March 14 (U. P).— The proprietor of a Boston lunch wagon pondered today the licensing board’s ultimatum either to get rid of his electric sign which “offends good taste” or shut down. The proprietor said the sign had been displayed - for seven years and had the approval of the Boston Better Business Bureau. “Dam good food,” it promises customers.

Towel Comes Home

THE CLAYPOOL HOTEL today received a package containing one of its own towels and containing: the following note: “Please accept this towel. I am sorry I wilfully. and without thought took it during the races of 1930—May 30. “Praise ye the Lord.” Hotel officials said the towel looked every bit of 10 years older.

CITY ENDURES LAST GOLD SPELL--MAYBE

Weather Bureau Predicts Warm Week-End.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES .m. ... 27 10a. m.... 28 m, ... 27 29 m ... 27 29 m ... 27 28 -

What may be the last unseasonable cold this winter came to Indianapolis today and the Weather Bureau predicted it will be even colder tonight. But tomorrow will be sunny, if cold, and the week-end may warm up. The U. S. Weather Bureau at Chicago said that the cold period, which has brought temperatures here more than 10 degrees below normal, will be the last of the winter season. Tonight, the bureau here said, the mercury may go as low as }5, and it will remain cold tomorrow. Nevertheless, the storm that brought the cold out ‘of the Canadian northwest is moving east today. Cold weather was forecast for the South from the Mississippi delta through Tennessee and Kentucky, the Carolinas, Maryland and Virginia,.

STOCKS EDGE HIGHER IN QUIET TRADING

New York stocks edged higher today after earlier irregularity. Trading was quiet, with selected issues, r | especially air line and, aircraft securities, meeting good demand. There was heavy selling of Indian 7| Government shares at London as traders construed the assassination of Sir Michael O'Dwyer as something more than a mere episode. Wheat and corn gained moderate5|ly in trade at Chicago. Hog prices

a. i a 11 a. m. ... a. 12 (noon)... a 1pm...

at Indianapolis retained ‘yesterday's 15-to-25-cent advance,

¥.

land. It is always too late or too little, or both, and it is

‘the road to disaster.”

That any American should have expected the Allies to fight for Finland after they deserted Czechoslovakia to save themselves (a bargain Adolf Hitler didn’t keep) is evidence that we are still suckers for Allied propaganda. The difficulty now is that this Allied propaganda about * another war to make the world safe for democracy is a boomerang, wounding American faith in Britain and

~ France.

Not since Britain defaulted on her debt to the

United States have the credulous been so shocked. ‘Maybe it would have been better for the Allies to have tried to sell their war to us on facts rather than on hypocrisy. They have some* potent facts to parade. The Allies are fighting in defense of the British and

French empires—no more and no less.

It's Moving Day at Tech

NOLAN STOPS ‘DRAFT-NOLAN

‘No Circumstance Induce Me to Run,’ He Declares. ; (Other Political News, Page 7)

By NOBLE REED U. S. District Attorney Val Nolan

* |has eliminated himself from the field of possible candidates for the

Democratic nomination for Govyernor.

of any such movement in my behalf but if there is talk of my candidacy, I definitely wish it known now that there are no circumstances that could induce me to be a candidate or accept the nomination for Governor,” he said. His comment followed reports from Washington that a group of Indiana Democrats was starting a movement to “draft” the district attorney at the state Democratic convention. Talk of the “Draft-Nolan-Move-ment” was started in Washington by Earl Crawford, former state highway commission chairman, who said,

assets which the Democrats could use with ‘great benefit during the coming campaign.” He added that

character we can muster and that is exactly what Mr. Nolan has to. offer.” The Washington dispatch said that various Democratie sources are being credited with planting the seed for Mr. Nolan’s candidacy.

FOR GOVERNOR |

Could ;

“I have not been informed directly |

“Mr. Nolan has some very definite| §

it looks like we will need all the|}

Sometimes the in-

1° “wis moving day: ‘today at Tech High School.

French classes moved from the old

when the grounds was a U. S. Arsenal, and converted later into. classrooms. ‘They are moving to the new Milo H. Stuart Memorial: Hall, where 17: rooms’ have been completed and were. occupied today, The barracks ‘building will be used from now on as‘a storeroom,

terests of democracy and the cide.

Sometimes théy conflict.

interests of the empires coin~ When those interests

conflict, the empire interests dominate. When empire interests are believed to be at stake, the British Government does not hesitate to ditch democracy —not only in Finland, Czechoslovakia, Spain and India, but in betraying the United States in the Manchurian

guarantees.

This may seem sordid, but before Americans assume

a holier-than-thou attitude

they should remember that

this is the same policy of selfishness pursued by all nations,

including the United States. .

We don’t have to go back

to our breach of the long line of Indian treaties, or our Mexican and Spanish War imperialism, or how we got the Panama Canal or invaded Nicaragua.

FINNS’ LEADER

CALLS FOR AID OF NEIGHBORS

Military Pact With Sweden And Norway . Necessary,

Kallio Declares.

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE Jr, United Press Staff Correspondent

HELSINKI, Finland, March 14.— A Finnish military alliance with Sweden and Norway is necessary, President Kyosti Kallio said today

mourning people. Finland, he said, lived on, a free nation, and “our heroic Army is still ready to protect our work in future hand watch our new frontiers.” “It was a huge insolvable problem to fight against this huge enemy, and expected help did ' not come,” President Kallio said. “This circumstance proves clearly what value a military alliance with Sweden and Norway would have had. Now we know the way. It will be necessary in future to have an alliance with these neighboring countries.”

~ Thanks Herbert Hoover Kallio thanked the Swedish

‘|people “for their unselfish help in

{time of need, for equipment for the

{mer President ‘Herbert Hoover for|f

"Time Photo, - Spanish and barracks building, used for troops

90 FEARED DEAD IN TRAIN-TRUGK CRASH

Texas Workers on Way to Work in Orchard.

M’ALLEN, Tex., March 14 (U. P.). —A truck, carrying citrus workers from one orchard to another, was crushed by a passenger train at a

grade crossing today and it was Jeared the death toll would exceed

Reports varied as to the number killed and because of the confussion’ an accurate check was impossible. Dead and injured were carried away in the same ambulances, and the injured were taken to hospitals in three towns. The dead and the injured were in hospitals or morgues in McAllen, Weslaco and Edinburg. Jose Ramon, driver of the truck, was among those killed. Most of the workers were Mexicans and all lived in Starr County, 40 miles west of here. They had been picking fruit at Sinton, north of McAllen, and were going to another orchard. Most of them were packed onto the big open platform on the truck,

WOMAN HURT WHEN TRAIN HITS TRUCK

Mrs. Nona Hughes, 839 Lyndhurst Drive, was injured slightly today when a milk truck she was driving was struck by a train at Harris St. crossing of the Big Four railroad. Mrs. Hughes told police she did not hear the crossing bell. Two other vehicles have been struck by trains there this year.

By JOE COLLIER

About two years ago a certain N. Meridian St. squirrel with a pronounced appetite for sunflower seeds

_|laid siege to a "bird feeding plat-

form in the wooded front yard of an Indianapolis bird lover. The lady, who was trying to cultivate the red birds which had begun to.look upon her place as a sanctuary; assumed that the squirrel would rather have nuts than sunflower seeds. So she put out a liberal helping’ of nuts. The squirrel ate all the nuts, seeming to be properly grateful. Then-he ate the sunflower seeds— all of them—and chattered for more. The lady then called a tree surgeon and he put a hook on the bottom of a limb about 20 feet high and about 20 feet out from the tree trunk. This. was near the house.

Dillinger Pal's Escape Balked

COLUMBUS, O., March 14 (U. P.) .—Russell - Clark, only surviver of the Dillinger gang, was one of. seven Ohio Penitentiary convicts ‘who planned to escape by holding Warden Frank D. Henderson and - guards as hostages, it was revealed today. The escape plot was. thwarted last week when prison officials rounded up seven ‘convicts believed to have been implicated. Clark entered the penitentiary March 27, 1934, to serve a life | sentence for first degree murder in the slaying of Sheriff Jesse Sarber at Lima while delivering John" Dillinger from the county jail. . The convict were ‘said by the warden to have planned to meet at the Protestant chapel while the classification board was in session, take Henderson, two chaplains, a doctor and guards as hostages for an attempt. to get over the wall with a rope. An automobile was supposed to have been waiting outside.

OHIO WOMAN DEAD, 3 HURT IN CRASH:

WARSAW, Ind., March 14 (U.P.). —Mrs. F. L. Warner, 55, Circleville, O., was killed and three other ‘persons were injured yesterday when the automobile in which they were riding crashed into the rear of a transport truck, about 10 miles ‘east of here. , Earl W. Leist and his mother, Mrs. Florence Leist, both of Cireleville, were cut and bruised ‘and the Rev. Paul Jones, Columbus, was bruised and shocked. Charles J. Bohn, ‘Fostoria, O.,

{Most Troops Sent Home;

DAM WORK GOES ON IN SPITE OF MILITIA

Less Than Dozen Stay.

DISNEY, Okla., March 14 (U. P.). —Adjt. Gen. Louis Ledbetter today demobilized most’ of the 70 National Guardsmen maintaining modified martial law at the $20,000,000. Grand River Dam. Work at the dam went on almost as usual under supervision of less than a. dozen Guards-

men. Mr. Ledbetter ‘slnt “home five truckloads of ‘Guardsmen who had arrived as reinforcements. He took this action after a conierence with General Superintendent I. N. Towne, who promised that there would be no need of the troops. Governor Leon Phillips continued his dispute with Federal authorities by asserting at Oklahoma City that he was tired of “being wooled around by bureaucrats.” His mention of “bureaucrats” referred to his controversy with the PWA over $850,000 damages which he alleges are due Oklahoma for relocation of bridges and roads necessitated by construction of the dam. Federal officials offered him $350,000 or the alternative of submitting the controversy to litigation. The Guard reinforcements ‘augmented Maj. Harry Parris and two asssitants, who established modified martial law at the dam last night. Mr. Parris told Mr. Towne that the project’ was under martial law, ‘although work Soula proceed

Army and for many other things,” and “the western powers for the in-

The President also. thanked for-

his work in dirécting Finnish relief in the United States and said that “without his grand aid we could not have secured new homes for evacuees.” Finns® today began evacuating Hanko, their southwestern port and peninsula, which must be ceded to Russia by March 22. In Copenhagen the newspaper

Stockholm that one million persons had been made homeless by the war. Of that number 450,000 were evacuated from territory now. ceded to Russia.

Listeners Weep

Others were made homeless, the newspaper said, by aerial bombardments in Helsinki and other cities. Many refugees were reported living in mere holes in the ground and in the forest. “Our future is in our own hands and we will rebuild,” Kallio said. “We are now carrying out a mission for western culture.” “The Government’s aim in making peace was to prevent the Finnish nation’s vitality from being entirely destroyeds” he said. Those in the broadcasting auditorium wept without restraint as the President sald: “The peace terms have shown us how the imperial tendencies of Peter the Great have been renewed.” Viipuri and other national areas (Continued on Page Three)

TWO LOCAL .TRUSTIES FLEE STATE PRISON

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, March 14 (U. P.).—State Prison officials reported today that two Negro trusties, both serving life terms for murder, walked away from an outside dormitory between 6 p. m. and 8:30 p. m. last night. No frace of them has been found. They were LeRoy Moss, 37, sentenced in January, 1920, from Indianapolis, and Eddie Perry, 42, sentenced in January, 1929, frum Indianapolis. State police officers were ordered to watch for them and it was thought they might have

driver: of the yuck, was not held.

about 10 feet long and on the end of the wire tied a feeding platform. The lady Yhought she had the squirrel. The squirrel, how ver, Loss no time in climbing the and scooting out on the limb to where the hook was fastened, making a th and complete examination. Then he set up an indignant chatter and went home. ; . He was back the next day, and the next, looking over the situation. Then one day the lddy saw the squirrel put his back ‘paws on the hook and take a good hold. He carefully brought his front paws from the limb and put them on the wire, so that he was head down. Then he to the platform, ate the sunflower

seed, jumped to the ground and ing platform to

dashed away.

gaily slid down the wire|plt

“short of inundation.”

some 45-inch glazed linoleum and tied’ it around the base of the tree. The squirrel started up it. and, of course, slid back again. He set up an enraged chatter and went pouting home where he stayed for a whole day. ~~ He ‘was back the next day for a moment and then the lady lost sight of him. Several hours later, while walking in the yard, she saw the squirrel tearing up the linoleum so he could get up the tree. He had been working cagily on the side of .-the tree away from the window, and thus he had been un-

From the hook hp suspended a wire soles Shi penton Jad pel

made their way into Chicago.

about half way up the standard. It took the squirrel two weeks to perfect a technique of getting past that—a delicate, but quite successful maneuver. How? She doesn’t know. She then bought some flypaper and spiraled strips of it around the standard. Although she never saw the squirrel attack that :trap, she found some tail hairs on it and noticed the squirrel was staying away. About the time the weather returned ‘and ate the ‘Sunflower | seeds.

pipe and put it around standard like a Sasing 3 with - wire. = The stove

ed- | about three feet long and stumpe

the squirrel for several ie ly h a claw hold

in a national radio speech to his

calculable aid which came to us|§ [from them.”

Berlingske Tidende reported from}

Today we will not even

listen to Puerto Rican inde-

pendence pleas because we think we need that island as a naval and air base for self-protection. = |, : . Once the disillusioned Americans andaretand that Britain | is fighting to protect herself, as the United States

would fight to protect itself,

Britain’s failure to save Finland. Britain could not fight |

Russia in the north without

they will not be bitter over

bases, and at the same time

protect herself against Herr Hitler. If she ever takes on. Russia, while fighting Germany, it will be in the southeast to protect the British Empire. : mE [ On the plane of “idealism,” ‘Britain’s obligation to .

send an army to Finland against Russia was no ho less than her obligation

re and to send an army to’ China |

{Continued on Page Four)

KREMLIN SHAD

Russian Poland

German Poland

@ Soviet Bases

Scale of Miles

5 Rumania

had ruined the flypaper, the squircel |

Then she got a length of stove]

v The arrows show the limits of Soviet domination achieved through successive military or - diplomatic victories over Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Esthonia and now. Finland. Rail rights across mid-Finland and the Hanko naval

base take Russia to the Gulf of Bothnia.

FINN RESISTANCE IN FUTURE RESTRICTED

Military Experts See Russia Stretching Tentacles.

By WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, March 14.—The Scandinavian peninsula and Finland are fated henceforth to live under the shadow of the Soviet ‘military power. . Even the projected triple Nordic defensive alliance of Finland, Norway and Sweden, cannot, for practical purposes, offset the strategic advantage to the Soviets imposed by the peace treaty. Evaluation by military experts of the military implications of the treaty reveals the extent to which the Soviet demands have undermined Finnish powers of defense in the future and how Russian tentacles have been stretched towards Scandinavia. The cession of the Karelian Isthmus has deprived Finland of the Mannerheim Line, which was situated precisely in her strongest, natural defensive region. Behind the (Continued on Page Three)

Slick Trick Spoils Squirrel’s North Side Seed Siegeg:

The lady was nearly desperate by this time and, as a last resort, smeared the whole: standard, stovepipe and all, with lard. The squirrel returned, - ‘apparently did not notice the lard, and started up. He got lard on his face, and could get no claw hold. The lard on the face

made him angry ,. and he went about the yard swearing squirrel

curses and wiping his face in the d

He made his last visit three

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Into Sweden and Norway at Will.

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Cable Editor

Russia’s enforced peace on Finland is having three ime portant repercussions: In Norway and Sweden, in

Europe. Norway and Sweden are

fallen over their land. They are frantically trying to work out a defensive alliance with:

bruised and battered Finland.

Moscow shows signs of paternally tolerating such an alliance. Josef Stalin now holds the Mannerheim Line, in some respects as strong as the Maginot Line or the Westwall,

11.

In the Balkans, the faith of the smaller nations has been shaken still further in the willingness or ability of the Allies to protect the weak. They have seen what hape pened in Austria, Czechoslovakia,

| Poland and now Finland. Germany

and Rusisa are quick to take advan tage of it to solidify their position in the southeast. British Press Indignant In Great Britain, there is a burst of indignation against the Governs ment’s “let down” of Finland that found its first expression in Parlia~ ment yesterday and may burst into a storm next week. : This morning’s London papers, including the Times, jumped on the Allies for their course. The Times suggested a secret session of Pare liament to make a “searching exame ination” of the matter. The Gove ernment is accused of muddling and procrastination. ! The net result lof this pressure of public opinion may be that if a similar situation; arises in the fuse ture, there will be decisive action instead of vaccildtion. It may pose sibly tend towa Government to ing more vigoro Germany, | Cabinet members and men in re< spongible positi in Britain are getting keenly sensitive to criticism. At the start of the war, members of Parliament adopted a - hush-hush attitude. storms of criticism.

Seeks Check on Rising Prices Several political reputations have

nd means of strike sly and directly at

London political writers believe there is about to be another Ministerial shakeup in which eight members of the War Cabinet will go out, . The British public is making heavy sacrifices in this war and it wants action and dividends on ite investment. One of the paramount issues of the day, illustrating the sacrifices the public is called on to make, is the scheme of J. M. Keynes to pre vent inflation prices by compulsorily borrowing from the Jublie a portion of their earnings, ich. would be repaid at the end of the war. With the standard income tax rate up to 37% per cent of taxable income, this proposed “raid” on wages and salaries by an outstands ing economist startled the public. A

lost their posts. -

Red At Can Sos

Britain and in Eastern

just plain frightened. The |shadow of the Kremlin hag

His vast army ‘could sweep into Scandinavia at’

s influencing the:

Now (there are violent :

been damaged and ministers have.

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