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2 APARTMENTS WILL BE BUILT

Speedway City Costing $500,000, to Start in Two Weeks.

Plans for construction of a multiapartment house project on the

west side of ‘Speedway City were!

announced today by the Aero Realty Co. of Indianapolis, a newly formed firm, and Walter T. White, real estate broker. : Work on- two buildings, to cost about $500,000, will be started within 5,40% was said. One of the buildings 1s so arranged that another wing-ean be added in the future bringing the ultimate cost to $860,000. ‘It- is expected that the first two buildings will be ready for océcupahcy by hext January.

' Faces 10th St.

The Aerd Realty Co., owner and general contractor for the project, | purchased the 20':-acre site from Hugh Carter, 5401 W. 16th St, with Mr. White representing both parties. The project will face 10th St. and will: be bounded on the east by Norfolk St. and on the west by Worth Ave. The buildings will be of colonial architecture, of brick with Indiana limestone trim. One. building will be three stories high with 84 apartment suites, and the other two stories. The three-story building is to contain four business rooms. The two-story building will be V-shaped and so arranged that, if a third ‘building is deemed advisable, it can be added to the twostructwe, making it Wshaped. < Financed Privately

The two-story building is to have 100 apartment units. If the third building should be constructed, it would bring the number of suites to 984.

The -work will be financed privately. The project will be known as the Winamac Apartments. Monthly, rentals were announced as $45 and $50. Each suite is to include a living room, dining room, two bedrooms, kitchen and bath, with adequate closet space.

ANTI-RUSSIAN STAND BY SENATE URGED

"WASHINGTON, March 15 (U. P.). The Senate today received new legislation designed fo aid Finland and to make plain U. S. disapproval of Soviet Russia. ; Senator D. Worth Clark (D. Ida.) introduced a resolution which would place the Senate on record as favoring severance of diplomatic relations with Russia. Senator Prentiss M. Brown (D. Mich.) “introduced a bill to grant Finland an unrestricted loan of $20,000,000 to be used for any purpose thé country desired.

POSTMASTER ARRESTED - James R. Smith, postmaster at Gosport, Ind, was arrested by deputy U. S. Marshals today on a Federal Grand Jury indictment charging. him with converting $997.55 of Federal funds to his own use. The ‘indictment was returned yesterday. ' He will be arraigned at 10 a. m. tomorrow.

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A City Pays for

Bumps in Streets

NATICK, Mass.,, March 15 (U. P.) —Fifty dollars worth of bumps—yes bumps—will be put in a. Natick street. The money was appropriated and the “bump” project approved after long debate at last night's town meeting. : The project was decided upon as the best means of forcing cars to slow down as ‘protection for children walking along West Street this summer to the town pathing beach at Dug Pond. Warned that the town might

Chamberlain ended a long debate by remarking: : “We shouldn’t quibble. when lives of children are at stake.”

PREVIEW OF SPRING, WEEK-END PROMISE

Eastern States Are Buffeted - By Wind, Rain, Snow.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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The feminine desire for hosiery

Mills here.

Women employees have been giving the synthetic hose actual wear tests. Other and more scientific experiments have been completed by

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Rising temperatures and clear skies by late tomorrow or Sunday were expected today by the Weather Bureau with the mercury expected to dip to as low as 25 again tonight. The cold weather here was blamed on wintry winds sweeping in from the eastern seaboard from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico. ‘ Meanwhile Rome, N. Y., reported the worst storm of the season. Strong winds snapped power and teléphoneé lines and left streets littered with tree limbs. Eight inches of snow was recorded there and a Syracuse. Heavy snow blocked highways in rural central New York and tied up trafic in more populated areas. Many aural schools were closed. Rochester and Buffalo, in the western part of the state, suffered from conditions so severe that all air traffic was disrupted. New England experienced drenching rains whinped by a gusty northeast wind. Four to six inches of snow fell in western Massachusetts. East of Newton, N. J., heavy rains caused a -landslide which buried a 200-foot section of the NewtonSparta road under six feet of POCKS and mud. The storm was attended by trois winds along the upper Atlantic seaboard and the Weather Bureau vosted small craft warnings from DelaWare Breakwater lo Block Island, R Precipitation was general over most of the eastern half of the United States. Freezing rains turning to snow were reported in the Ohio Valley, the Mississippi Valley and the upper Great Lakes region. Heavy rains moved northward along the Middle Atlantic Coast.

U. S. RULES OUT RIVAL OF SANTA CLAUS, IND.

MARSHVILLE, Wis, March 15 (U. P.).—The 60 residents of Marshville protested today refusal of the Postoffice: Department. to permit changing the village name to North Pole, Wis.

Postmaster A. H. Scheibe had]

3 ope to keep his office in existence by handling some of the Christmas mail which each year goes to Santa Claus, Ind., and the residents ex0|pecled to persuade a toy manufacturer to locate his plant. here. But the Pestoffice Department said that the change could not be

the company's research laboratory. Now they are ready to go. They know what American wonien may expect when .the hose are placed on sale on or about May 15.

Executives Cautious

Real Silk executives are overly cautious when it comes to claims for the new product. ' They are quick to deride such exaggerations as the rumor that nylon stockings will not run and that two pairs will last a year. But from facts and not fancy, the conclusion is. that women are going to get hosiery more beautiful and more practical than has been ‘thought possible. The: advantages of nylon are many. They result from the way it is made and the chemicals which compose it. . Nylon: first is formed® into icywhite ribbons which are broken into little chips. The chips are melted into a water-clear liquid which is. squirted through {tiny nozzles to form cobwebby filaments. The filaments harden in the air and are wound on spools. Then the filaments are stretched. This aligns the ,molecules into a chain which, because of intermolecular attraction, makes the thread stronger. Tests show that nylon threads ean stand a pull twice as powerful as silk. Size for size, a thread of nylon is nearly as strong as a steel thread. In abrasive tests nylon far outwears silk.

Women Demand Sheerness

There has been a craze for more and more sheerness. in hosiery, which has meant less wear. Silk has gone about as sheer as it can and still hold up. Now women can have hose that are not only stronger but sheerer. Under a microscope, pylon is as smooth and clean as glass while silk looks fuzzy and rough like frayed rope. Two pair of hose were laid on the desk of the head of Real Silk’s research laboratory for comparison. One was a pair of Real Silk’s highest quality three-thread full-fash-(Continued on Page 12)

CONTAGIOUS DISEASE. WARNING IS GIVEN

Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health officer, today warned parents to be particularly obseryant of scarlet fever, chicken pox or mumps symploms. These diseases are particularly prevalent at this of year, he said. Raw March weather has caused a

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- 1 :3..Mrs. Helen Uberta, 3733 Hillside Ave., places nylon hosiery om a ‘preboarding machine where it is steamed sa it will’ retain its shape. |

Place New Around May 15

By DAVID MARSHALL

that is surprisingly sheer, wrinkle-

proof, ringless and longer wearing has been fulfilled. Stockings made of a miracle yarn—spun from the same chemicals as are in coal, water and air—are being produced at the Real Silk Hosiery

For nearly a year Real Silk has been experimenting with Ayion.

CALLING ALL U.S. INCOME TAXPAYERS

Revenue Bureau to Remain Open Till Midnight.

Today is the last day for paying Federal Income Taxes. Although the Internal Revenue | Office here will be open until mid-

night, some employees of, the bu- amendment by ‘Senator Prentiss M.

reau believed there would: be fewer taxpayers today than earlier this week. An indication that most Hoosiers have paid their tax ahead of time is that yesterday's - crowd = was smaller than Wednesday's and Wednesday's = smaller than Tuesday’s. To handle today’s crowd more easily, Will H. Smith, Internal Revenue Collector for Indiana, put about 40 of his employees to helping the public make out their returns. Returns on which no tax is necessary can be dropped at a desk just outside the elevator at the third ‘| floor of the Federal Building.

$120,000,000 More Than in 1939 Expected

WASHINGTON, March 15 (U. P.). —An estimated 7,000,000 taxpayers have until midnight tonight to file income tax returns on their 1939 incomes, Experts figured that the Federal levy on incomes should produce between $560,000,000 and $625,000,000 this month. The latter figure is approximately $120,000,000 higher than collections in March, 1939, but $100,000,000 under the post-war peak of $723,002,013 collected in March, 1938. : The volume of taxes collected this month most likely will determine whether Congress will enact new faxes at Lhis session.

STOPOVER PLANNED BY MRS. ROOSEVELT

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt will pay

Indianapolis a brief visit tomorrow X

night while changing from train to plane. Mrs. Roosevelt, who is to speak in Terre Haute tomorrow, will arrive at Union Station about 10:45 p. m, and will leave for Washington

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and a half later.

rea ———————— WABASH BRIDGE APPROVED WASHINGTON, March 15 (U. P.). —The War Department today ape proved plans for the New Y cago & St. Louis Railroad e.

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0. K. KEY POINT OF HATCH BILL

Senators Vote 47-30 for Political Ban on Certain State Employees.

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WASHINGTON, March 15 (U. P.).—The Senate today rejected a move to sidetrack the Hatch “clean ' politics” bill. A motion calling’ for {ts return to committee was defeatedl. This appeared to indicate early passage of the bill, (

WASHINGTON, March 15 (U. P.). —The Senate. after days of accrimonijous. dispute, ‘today voted 47 to 30 to approve the key section of Senator Carl A. Hatch’s amendments to the clean politics law— a provision banning political activity by state employees paid with

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The Senate action was expected to bring to’ an; early close the con-

tinuous fire to which the. bill has

1 been ‘subjected ‘for 10 days. The section of the bill approved by the Senate was the principal provision of the amendments to. the clean politics act which was suamitted by the author of the law. The act, approved by Congress last summer, places a similar ban on poltical activity by all Federal employees except high policy-makit.g officials:

Foes Carry on Attack

* Opponents of the Hatch amendments had carried on. a vigorous campaign of harassment. They offered repeated amendments designed to cripple the act or incorporate such sweeping . provisions that its defeat would be assured. Hatch Bill supporters charged them with conducting a filibuster. The opposition declared that the amendments constituted an unconstitutional invasion of state’s rights. Some contended that the ‘political

{ban would enable the Republicans

to wrest confrol of the House of Representatives from the Demacrats. . Brown Amendment Passes

The Senate then approved an Brown (D." Mich.), which specifies

‘that to: be subject to the ban em-

ployees must be engaged in an activity financed in whole or in part by Federal loans or grants. The amendment has the effect of exempting some administrative and accounting office employees who may be connected only in a minor way. with work financed with Federal funds. Senator Sherman Minton (D. Ind.) has been an active opposition leader. ‘ An intensjve’ fight on the bill in the House is cértain. Senate opponents of the bill are predicting it will be bottled up in Homise Committee. They say the (Continued on Page Eight)

DIPLOMAT STOPS HERE R. G. Casey, newly appointed Australian Minister to the United States, stopped over for a half hour at the Municipal Airport today to make plane configetions: to Los Angeles.

By JOE COLLIER < Starting at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow, 352 young men from eight states will. be running in circles, jumpover fenees that aren’t there, and throwing scrap iron from a given point to a speculative point and - then lugging it back again. This will be going on in the Butler University Fieldhouse. The young men will have come to Indianapolis explicitly to do these things, partly because 10,000 ‘sons are expected to go fo’ Pe Fieldhouse to see them, and partly because these things have heen going on for several years. . “wy, are called the Butler Re5.5

to a teammate, who grasps it and runs to another, etc., etc., until -| the race is over. The ‘team which carries the pan 4 fastest and pith

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NAZI SURPRISE

HINTED WITHIN NEXT TEN DAYS

Diplomacy Turns Southeast; Germans Foresee Huge Economic Bloc.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

Nazis worked furiously today to bolster Germany’s defenses against

the Allied. economic warfare and, perhaps, to prepare for a major military stroke in Western Europe if peace on Adolf Hitler's terms is still impossible. ey The center of German diplomatic activity already has shifted from Finland to the southeast. In Berlin Nazis hinted that there would be important “surprises” for the Allies in the next 10 days. Neutral sources’believed that signitic#nt activity was in progress, centering chiefly around Bucharest, Rome, and Moscow, but said the outcome appeared to depend on future developments in an international diplomatic poker game.

Deny Pledge by Russia

Both official and reliable private sources in Berlin energetically denied reports that Russia had given any pledge or any fermal assurance to Germany that the frontiers of Rumania would be respected. Rus< sian sources also denied the sams reports. ’/

said, Germany obviously would welcome a Russian guarantee of the frontiers of Rumania in order to assure future supplies from Rumania for the Reich, but despite considerable wishful thinking in Berlin there still is a question as to how far Moscow will go in an agreement with Bucharest. Nazis also hinted at improvement of Turkish reiations with Russia, which would be welcomed by the German Government in view of the Turkish mutual aid pact with Britain . and France in the eastern Mediterranean. But information from neutral Turkish sources so far has given no definite basis for the Nazi hints.

® Talk of Huge Economic Bloc

Reliable information, however, was that a group of Russian military technicians headed by General Savchenko is now. investigating the possibility of purchasing armaments from Germany and that orders probably would be given to the Krupp and; ho a lesser extent, to the Skoda wor The Nazis ri been hinting for a week at the possibility of a vast economic bldc stretching from Moscow to Berlin .to Rome and including the small southeastern states. If that goal can be achieved, it was indicated in Berlin, then the war in the west will resolve itself into a military deadlock that can be decided only by- a hazardous armed adventure—or perhaps by a successful peace move after a military “demonstration.” The German viewpoint was that the Nazi forces were prépared to undertake demonstration of military might if necessary. Nazis were eager to promote better trade relations between Italy and Russia but their claims that an agreement was at hand.were viewed in Fascist and Soviet sources as over-optimistic, although the Italians indicated prospects for a future increase in commercial deals with Russia.

Rumanians Voice Doubts

The Rumanians, according to dispatches from Bucharest, were hopeful but not at all certain that. progress could be made toward a nonaggression treaty with Russia but they still were expegted to follow as nearly as possible a neutral course between the Reich and the Allies. Whether Nazi hopes can be translated into fact remains to be determined and certainly must be judged in connection with the Allied counter-offensive on the diplomatig¢ front. London and Paris, furthermore, have persistently declared that the real German goal is a new “peace offensive.” They take the viewpoint that the Nazis and Russians speeded up the end of the war in Finland and circulated reports as to nossible economic developments in the southeast—incl#ding A Italy—in order fo create a favorable back(Continued on Page Eight)

TAFT IN OHIO PRIMARY

COLUMBUS, O.. March 15 (U. P.).—Senafor Robert A. Taft today entred his name on ‘the presidential preference ballot in the Ohio primary election, May 14, as a candidate for

Relay races are where a 1 runner takes a baton and. runs

the Republican nomination. '

same location as the starting point, but is just a few minutes later. The jumpers put up two standards and then place a small bar across pegs certain distances from the ground like a fence only there is no fence, just the top of one.

. Then they jump over this. If they

get over it at one height, the officials, who will be in tuxedos, raise the bar. They keep on raising it untf! the jumpers can’t quite jump over it; and that ends the game. The scrap iron throwers stand in a little circle and heave the iron as far ds they can without themselves getting out of the circle. The distance, even in the most impressive performance, is not. far enough to be of any ecommercial value in the indystrial world. / Also there will be the hurdies, high and low, in vhith the run-

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Indian Assassin

Times-Aqthe Radiophoto. Wild-eyed Mohamed Singh, 37, is the Indian gunman who shot and killed Sir Michael O'Dwyer, 75, key figure in British administration of India, and wounded Lord Zetiand at a meeting of the India Association. in London. This exclusive Radiophoto shows the Indian assassin just after he was scized by British police.

FIRE KILLS 6 IN CHARLOTTE, N. C.

Elevator Shaft Becomes Inferno After Blast in Apartment.

CHARLOTTE, N. C., March 15 (yg. P.).—Fire caused by an exploding boiler in the basement swept

through - the three-story Guthery apartment building in downtown Charlotte early today, killing six persons and injuring a dozen others,

The ‘flames mounted ‘quickly from the basement fnrough ’ freight elevator shaft, spreading through the 24-family building and causing more than 25 persons to flee, clad only in night clothes, into sub-freezing weather, ] Four of the victims were. trapped on the upper floors of the building. The! other two were killed when they. jumped an: landed on the concrete sidewalk A score of occupants of the second and third floors of the build -

jumped: safely," : A fireman was injured when a woman jumped from a third-floor window and struck him. Firenfen said upward of a dozen persons were forced to leap from the windows and ledges of the second and third Hoors. Most of them were injured in falling, in addition to the two who were killed. -Approximately a dezen more persons were carried down ladders by firemen. ‘V. J. Guthery, one of the owners and ‘operators of the, apartment | building, estimated the damage at more than $100,000.

‘TORONTO, Ont., March 15 (U. P.).—Two men and a woman were burned to death and 20 others were injured, four seriously, in a fire which swept through the old Avonmore Hotel early today.

FINNISH WAR DEAD PLACED AT 15,000

Tanner Says Thousands of Others Are Wounded.

NEW YORK, March 15 (U. P). —Finnish Foreign Minister Vaino A. Tanner listed Finland’s dead at 15,000 with “tens of thousands” wounded or otherwise incapacitated in a speech broadcast to America from Helsinki today, Tanner said that despite Finland’s loss. of territory physical damage the country is preparing to “build ‘up a new nation” in the same spirit: in which “it took up. the battle in defense of its culture and civilization.” He cited the “peace under heavy terms” imposed by Russia and said that “by the time those responses came” to Finland's appeals for, aid “we could wait no longer.” He said Finland’s foremost task is to eare for the 450,000 refugees from former

battle’ areas now ceded to Russia.

Butler Relay Crowd to Dine and Dance But It's Early to Bed for the Athletes

shins a good deal if they hit them.

A great many gocial events have been scheduled in connection with the Relays, including a dance tonight at the Murat Temple, but the athletes don't get to go. They have to sleep. Far more than a month and a half they have been in rigid training for ‘the events, working out every day and eating only what the coaches tell them to. : There will be a buffet dinner for the cogches tonight at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, but - the athletes can't go and eat because they must eat as the Soaches say, not as the coaches’ ea There will be a parade this aft - ernoon in downtown Indianapolis, but the athletes won't see it because most of them will not have

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HIT- AND- MISS

PRACTICES END

IN CHILD CASES

Officials Agree to Center Detention Home Control - . In Juvenile Judge.

By SAM TYNDALL City, county and social welfare officials today announced a new set of policies govern ing the administration of the Juvenile Detention Home in an effort to settle a long standing conflict between offi«

cials and welfare agencies. The new policies, administration of which is placed in the hands of Juvenile Court, were described as the greatest forward step here in many years in the protection ot dee linquent, dependent and Reglectad children, They are expected to end the practice of “dumping” children into the home by various agencies without co-ordination and to ree store the home to its original pur=

pose—a place for temporary detention of unfortunate children. :

Officials Confer

Meeting today to approve the final draft of the new regulations were Juvenile Court Judge Wilfred Bradshaw, County Commissioners, Police Chief Michael F. Morrissey, Welfare Diréctor Thomas Neal and Miss Mildred Arnold, director of the State Welfare Department chil= dren’s bureau. All of the group are legally inters ested in the Detention Home but have agreed to place full control over the administration of. the policies in the Juvenile Court. Judge Bradshaw said he has cree ated a new court division, the “ine ° take division,” to serve as a clearing house for juvenile cases. Miss Elea~ nor Hack heads the division. Among the provisions of the new covenant, described as a “Bill of Rights” for the county's unfortus nate children, are: Children under 10 no longer will be admitted to the Detention Home unless in need of immediate tem porary care. No child .nay be detained in the home without a Juve« nile Court order, except. with [the parents™ consent, * ;

Foster Homes Is Goal

No child will bé réleased from the Home withéut a court order. Dependent children, where nege lect is not involved, will be referred to the County Welfare Department for placement in the Children’s Guardians Home, instead of in the Detention Home. Only neglected and delinquent children will be detained in the home, neglected juveniles only long / enough for an investigation, ree quiring probably less than 24 hours, After investigation, neglected chile dren, where delinquency is not ine yolved, will be cared. for in foster homes. -No delinquent child may be dee tained in the home without the filing of an affidavit, and delinquents may remain in the home only until after tiral, Only in emergency cases will girls awaiting motherhood be placed in the home. Two foster homes for (Continued on Page Eight) -

PROGRESS REPORTED . IN CANCER RESEARCH

NEW ORLEANS, March 15 (U, P.)—A second-year medical stue dent at the University of Rochester (New York) was credited today with discovery of a method in cane cer research which has been sought for years. He found that cancer cells placed in a low-sugar-content serum from insulin-shocked rabbits respire more normally. Whether the serum will arrest cancer growth remains to be ‘seen, Dr. John R. Murlin of Rachester told the Federation of Americah Societies for Experimental Biology in annual convention here, The student scientist is Richard H. Steckel, who is working” under the direction of Mr. Murlin. a “The experiments do not show that insulin will cure cancer,” Dr, Murlin emphasized. “We are works ing on further experiments to see if certain hormones will retard growth of tumors.”

WILKIN APPOINTED AS PRISON SURGEON

Dr. Thomas J. Wilkin is the newly appointed chief surgeon of the Indiana State Reformatory at Pendleton. He was appointed yesterday by: Thurman A, Gottschalk, director of. state institutions, and will succeed Dr. Elmer J. Kalal, indicted by 8a Federal Grand Jury yesterday ori the charge of illicit narcotics sales. . Dr. Wilkin has served for abouts eight years.at the Richmond State

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