Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1940 — Page 2

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: 3 Hoosiers in Washington—

IMNUTT GROUP | 1S CONFIDENT OF ‘STRONG FINISH

F Hope in Presidential Race | Based on Candidate’s if Past Performance.

~ By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Foo Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 13.—Al- | though neither newspapermen nor | politicians in Washington today

| believe that Indiana’s entry in the presidential race has lived up to . the promise shown in the early winter books, Paul V. McNutt's friends still are hopeful. That hope largely is based on * performance. They contend that their white-maned thorough- ; bred is a mudder and can run best | when the going gets rough and slip-

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pery. If such is the case, they have one consolation—there is no lack of mud. Never in recent campaign history has a potential presidential candidate been so smeared. And ‘the silent fanfare of the Treasury's tax investigation has been no help either.

Talk of Second Place

: Tire is talk here that the former Hoosier Governor might be taken for second place on the ticket with either President Roosevelt or \ Secretary of State Cordell Hull But the political bookmakers are pointing out that if the Administration men had any notion of his beipg in the race they would see that he promptly got rid of some of the weight he now is carrying. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau plainly indicated that his outfit is in no haste to unload. The more optimistic of. the McNutt men here explain all this by saying that Mr. McNut{ never was a Washington favorite, in the sense of having outstanding support here. They point with pride to his sec-| ond choice delegates in various states, which have been rounded up by the ubiquitous Frank M. Mcj Hale, and contend that it is silly ; to say that he has been scratched.

Cite Recent Reception

Democrats in Milwaukee and Minneapolis gave him a rousing welcome only this week, they de-

clare. The fact that his rousing New Deal speeches get little notice in the press either here or in New York City, they attribute to the bad news judgment of the men who make the newspapers. Since it has been spread abroad that Mr. McNutt will come out for universal old-age pensions some time soon, he undoubtedly has gained some ground with the Townsend Planners and thelr various + off-shoots. 3 The General Welfare News-Advo-vate, official organ of the General ‘Welfare Federation which is sponsoring a universal old-age pension bill (H. R. 5620), gave him page one with a picture in the issue for

pril 8. Headlines read: «McNutt Drifts Toward GWA, ‘Advocates Floor Under Pensions, and Equality, ‘Theyre All American Citizens’ He States.” The text consisted of Mr. McNutt’s New York City speech, which he delivered instead of a rescinded one in which he was coming out flat-footed for a universal old-age pension plan. Speech Being Held

Since the speech was delivered before the National Industrial Con-

ference Board at the Waldorf-As-|

toria, March 28, the Federal Security Administrator decided at the last minute that it was not the time nor place for his original manuscript. He has it on ice, but may bring it out shortly, it is predicted here. That canny Emporia Editor, William Allen White, anticipated such a swing in writing of Mr. McNutt in the spring number of The Yale Review. He wrote: “McNutt, youngest of the Democratic candidates I am mentioning, may go a long way to the Left before he turns his corner.” 8 ” o

Reps. Forest A. Harness, Noble J. Johnson, Gerald W. Landis and Raymond S. Springer, Republicans, and Eugene B. Crowe, Democrat, are enjoying the annual cherry blossom festival in Washington ‘more than the other six Indiana Congressmen. They have no primary opposition. . © G. O. P. House leaders are at a loss to understand why Rep. Charles A. Halleck, dean of the Hoosier Republicans and rated as one of the most able and distinguished men on the minority side, should have to contest his seat. Rep. Halleck is among the two or three being mentioned for Floor Leader, should the Republicans take

: Rep. Louis Ludlow thinks that | the Fraternal Order of Eagles are

|. about the smartest birds in the|

: business of sighting future social bs trends. GEL " The Indianapolis Congressman this week inserted into the Congressional ‘Record an ariicle written by Frank E. Hering, South Bend, editor of the Eagles’ magazine. In the article Mr. Hering advocated taxing machines to support the vic1 tims of technological+« unemploy4 ment. : Such a plan also was advocated by Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.), TNEC chairman, recently. Calling attention to this, Rep. Ludlow pointed out that the Eagles’ magazine piece appeared in

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March, 1938. : Introducing it, Rep. Ludlow

Fraternal Order of Eagles in re‘spect to governmental and social trends has been almost uncanny in its accuracy. This great order was » many jumps ahead of any other group in America in respect to the inevitability of old-age pensions— Ran | so much so that it may rightfully 5% be called the sponsor of the oldE age pension movement in America.”

BABY ENOOKS’ ‘DADDY’ WEDS HOLLYWOOD, April 13 (U. P.) — Hanley Srasiond = British actor and re dio 84 y” 0 Baby Snooks, ‘was heneymooning . today with his

21-year-old “actress bride, Vyola

over the House in the next Congress.

wrote: “The vision manifested by the|

Carl Vandivier is striving to unify all elements of the Marion County G. O. P. and has no desire %to be “boss,” George L. Denny, Indianapolis attorney, declared last night

in urging Mr. Vandivier'’s re-elec-tion as G. O. P. county chairman, Speaking at the First Ward Re-

publican Club at 25th and Station

Sts., Mr. Denny declared that the chairman should be retained “to permit him to enjoy the party victory which we are determined upon this year.” : S “The group that is opposing his re-election will have, and has now, an anti-organization slate,” Mr. Denny declared. “As a practical matter, there will have to be an organization slate, but it will not be Mr. Vandivier’s personal slate. ™ will répresent the joint opinion of hisiadvisers and lieutenants in the pafty organization. - “Above all, it will represent what they believe iwll be the ticket most acceptable to Republican voters of all classes.

Interested in Party Success

“I believe Carl Vandivier is primarily interested in the success of the party of which he is the present leader, rather than in retaining the office of county chairman. I am sure that he is trying to unify and harmonize all elements of the party and that when he is re-elected county chairman will bear grudges against those who may have opposed his re-election.”

The new women’s ward building) at equipment before its dedication May 13, week. The building will increase the capacity

Re-Elect Vandivier G. O. P. County Head, Denny Urges

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masses are opposed to party bossism just as they are opposed in this country to dictatorships and for much the same reason.” Declaring the chairman worked for passage of -the central ballot counting system, the attorney declared that “you know that no county chairman who aspires to be a! boss is likely to exert himself for an open primary and an honest count of the primary ballots.”

‘Let’s Avoid Bitterness’

Mr. Denny said that while the chairman may have made mistakes, “I do claim that any mistakes he may have made ... cannot be charged to any lack of party loyalty nor to any selfish ambition to become party boss. | “Above all,” let’s avoid bitterness in these primary contests. We can have honest differences as to the merits of candidates for office and of party leaders without making faces and calling names at each other. It is no. time for poison squads in the Republican Party to attempt to malign. other Republicans. We have a job to do in November and when we lay the foundation for that job next month, let us lay it well.” | ™N Referring to state and national politics, Mr. Denny said that. Indiana Republicans “are aroused. by a lot of things, but especially by this subservience of Paul McNutt and the Democratic State House gang to the President.” He aded that a Democratic friend has asserted that the former Governor “. . . has no principles he

Mr. Denny declared that

CLASS TODINEON 20TH BIRTHDAY

The 20th anniversary dinner of the Girls’ Federation Class of the Third Christian Church will be Friday at 7:30 p. m. at Whispering Winds. Mrs. Ross J. Griffeth will speak on “Women of Jerusalem” and Miss Betty Jane Hurt will give readings from “Mary Carey” by Mrs. K. L. Bosher and “Rusty” by Gladys Malvern. The 16 past presidents have been invited. Mesdames Fred Keithly, Henrietta Erzinger and Armand Reed, and Miss Orpha Bodle are in charge of arrangements. Miss Bernice LeMaster is class president. Parker Jordan, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A., will address the Christian Men Builders Class of the Third Christian Church tomorrow morning. - The Columbus, Ind., Gospel Four will sing. The Fidelis Class of the Lynhurst Baptist Church will be hosts for the Breakfast Club for unemployed men tomorrow morning at the Wheeler Mission and conduct gospel services- preceding breakfast. Mrs. Stella’ Jones is class teacher and Williari Boles, president. “Passover” will be the subject of study and discussion of classes in the religious school of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation for the next two weeks. There will be a special Passover assembly program Sunday, April 21, at 11 a. m. -Ladies’ Day will be observed to-

“the

|morrow by the Christian Fellowship

Builders of the Memorial Christian Church with the women’s Bible class, wives, mothers and friends of members as special guests. James Morris and Thomas Pearson are leaders of the divisions competing for the plaque in the membership drive now in progress in the 101 Men’s Bible Class of the Broadway Baptist Church.

Charges Germans Tricked Norway

PARIS, April 13 (U. p.)—German soldiers disguised as travel-

ing salesmen swarmed into Norway for a week before the Nazi invasion, Baroness de La Chaise, wife of a French manufacturer, charged on returning from Oslo. “] have never seen such duplicity,” she said. “Every port for weeks had been filled with German merchant ships which concealed troops. | “Every commercial traveller— and there had been waves of them—was a spy or a soldier yho was suddenly transformed to the service of the invader.

would be willing to perish for.” 'All's Quiet on The Home Front

CHICAGO, April 13 (U. P.).— “All quiet” and “No special events” is the way the communiques from the Maginot and Siegfried Lines read—and that’s the status too in a small apartment where Winnie and Walter Ludwig Krueger live. Winnie's brother, Edward Tinsley, 27, is “somewhere in the. Maginot Line” with the British forces. | Walter’s brother, Heinz, 30, is “somewhere in the Siegfried Line” with the Germans. Winnie and Walter are Americans by naturalization but they have their arguments. x Generally we try to steer clear of war talk because my husband believes. Germany is in the right ang I think England is,” Winine said. “I think,” she aded, “that we've shown that the people of England and Germany could get along in harmony and friendship.”

CROWDING OF AUTO ROADS DESCRIBED

FRENCH LICK, Ind., April 13 (U. P.) .—The 1940 motorist has less than half the road space that his 1930 brother had, Illinois Road Builder Association officials, in convention here, were informed today. Results of a nation-wide survey on driving were pointed out to the officials. The survey showed: Gasoline consumption doubled in the last 10 years; average use of automobiles increased with gas consumption jumping from 560° gallons per car in 1930 to 700 in 1939. The number of cars increased 17 pér cent and the total annual appropriations for highway purposes decreased slightly. And, the officials continued, ‘“projecting this into the future shows the possibility of our. having millions of cars and no roads on which to drive them.” |

FORMER WIFE OF ACTOR FOUND DEAD

NEW YORK, April 13 (U. P).— Helen Derby Meredith, former wife of the actor, Burgess Meredith, was found dead in her basement apartment today, apparently a suicide by gas. ; j Mrs. Meredith wrote a will on a kitchen memo | pad before opening the jets of the stove. As she died

she wrote this postscript: “I'm feeling fine except for the fumes.”

C ® a J | oe incinnati Members of Boy Scout Troop 83 will take their second overnight hike of the 1940 camping program next

Saturday and Sunday, going to the

42-acre Camp Edgar Friedlander of the Cincinnati Scout Council. It will be the first time the troop has left the State on a hike. Sunday afternoon the Scouts will visit the Cincinnati zoo and attend a broadcast at WLW. Adults. who will furnish cars to transport the Scouts are Scoutmaster Arthur J. Williams, Delbert O. Wilmeth, Howard Sutherland, John Knox, Claude McLean, John Smead, Joseph Foltzenlogel, Ernest Lindenberg, Arthur P. Holt, Arthur F. G. Gemmér and Scoutmaster John Gavin of Troop 67. Phil Caito will

plays furnish a truck to haul the

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Scout Troop 83 Will Visit

On|apolis and Central Indiana Boy

Group's Camp

which will be taken on a hike to a state park. The second-place winner will be given a theater party. Troop 83 is planning a broadcast over WIRE on May 4 as part of its observance of National Youth Week. Harper J. Ransburg, executive committee member of the Indian-

Scout Council, has been named chairman of arrangements for the appreciation dinner tu be given for

in June. He will be assisted by committee chairmen, including Arthur R. Baxter, council president; DeWitt S. Morgan, schools superintendent; Harry T. Ice, council secretary; F. Elbert Glass and L. J. Badollet. The entire Scout ¢ here will pay tribute to service

tion

F. O. Belzer, chief Scout executive,|

mpleted

the Logansport State Hospital has been completed and awaits as a part of the open house program in state institutions that of the Logansport hospital by 160 beds..

OWENS ASSAILS CROP CONTROL

Likens Government Contests To Plebiscites in Hitler Regime.

* The average farmer has no alternative except to vote for continued controlled production, Ernest E. Owens, Republican candidate for. Congress from the 12th District, said at a G. O. P. meeting last night at 6556 W. Washington St. The farmer “cannot resist against an avalanche of Government propaganda,” he said. “These so-called ‘contests’ are much like Hitler's plebiscites.” “I am against any plan that involves individual regulation of every individual farm,” Mr. Owens said. “Any good that might come from such a system is counterbalanced by the loss of liberty and freedom which is the very cornerstone of this Republic.” He assailed price-fixing and the corn loan program, and promised if nominated and elected, to “sit down with the farmers and work out solutions of their problems which will work, emergency or: no emergency.” :

Collins Urges Plank |

To “Save Constitution’

“Save the Constitution” should be the first plank in any Republican platform for 1940, James A. Collins, former Criminal Court judge and G. O. P. candidate for Congress from .the 12th District, said last

night. 4% Speaking before a group of party

Collins urged that plank in reply to a Democratic Presidential candidate’s recent charge that “the Republicans have no platform.”

Democrats adopted a platform under the Constitution, but put it aside and substituted 12 planks from the Socialist platform upon. which to base New Deal legislation.

White Challenges Stark to Debate

Harrison White, Republican candidate for Congress from the 12th District, last night challenged Judson L. Stark, an opponent, to debate the merits of any New Deal agency. | | Mr. White, who spoke at 9837 W. 26th St., made the challenge after charging ' that -Mr. Stark favored retention of New Deal agencies described as having “contributed sane relief and sound progress.”

Protect State Schools, Jeffrey Demands

Indiana's state universities and colleges must be maintained free from political influences, George R. Jeffrey, Republican candidate for Governor, told the Kappa Sigma

Mraternity and alumni at a luncheon

in the Columbia Club today. "He declared that the patronage system ‘must not be extended to educational institutions ‘by either major political party. E Mr. Jeffrey said that “attempts of thé Communist Party to spread its subversive influence through colleges has been checked and that it is no longer a fad to be known as an intellectual support of Russia.”

Stark Urges Check On New Deal Setup

Business and labor will remain in a state of fear until it is deter‘mined whether Federal regulation or individual enterprise should prevail, Judson L. Stark, G. O. P. candidate for Congress from the 12th District, said last night at a Fifth Ward meeting. ; “I do not condemn everything the New Deal has done,” he said. ‘We should continue every effective ageney developed in the past seven years, but we should stop the New Deal extravagance and its tendency to render too much service.”

DRIVE FOR SYMPHONY WILL BE CONTINUED

Workers in the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra maintenance fund campaign have decided to continue informally the drive which has terminated its most intensive phase At the final report meeting yesterday, 175 campaigners agreed to continue solicitations until the goal for the next two seasons’ maifhtenance fund budget had been achieved. The intensive campaign was begun by approximately 250 volunteer workers pn March 25, and ended yesterday. | Percentage of the goal already subscribed will be made public when pledges have been allocated to the years for which they are subscribed, the symphony orchestra office stated today. ‘

LAWRENCE EXONERATED HARRISBURG, Pa., April 13 (U. P.) —Democratic State Chairman David L. Lawrence and seven party associates yesterday were found not guilty of political coercion charges by a Dauphin County jury. The

Mr. Belzer for 35 years’ ss an exe

eight had been charged with forcing state smplayess to c Jtribute

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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Indiana Politics—

6.0.P. INSISTS

PAY GROSS TAX

Demand to Be Included In Future Speeches, - Leaders Say.

Republican strategists today lai the groundwork for an entirely new

Cent. Club. They said they will demand that the club pay Indiana Gross Income

seven years. ; ab “If the Federal Treasury collects income taxes from the Club’s receipts, we will demand that Bigte taxes be paid, too, because the State Income Tax Law covers more receipts than the Federal law,” declared Richard James, deputy Sceretary of State, who is a Fourth District G. O. P. leader. - =

U.S. Action Reported :

The U. S. Treasury is said to be preparing. a report in Washington showing alleged “tax deficiencies” in

more than $250,000. The State Gross Income Tax reads that taxes must be paid on «all receipts whatsoever.” * Republican leaders said they will include the State tax angle in future campaign speeches. :

monthly wages, were getting in ar-

creasing rate. Dues Boost Rumored

Fqur clerks in one’ State office that is directly under the patronage control of the Governor’s office said

more than three months.

da; blast at the Democratic Two Per | mou

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| Rail Group to Meet—In-| dianapolis Chapter 2 of the Inter- * | national Retired Railroad Employees Railway Postal Clerks will hold r meeting at 2 p: m, Mon‘on the ninth floor office building.

omes 13 On 13th—If Pauline r, 1880 Singleton St., were supershe have a. . | uncomforfable time of day. Today 13th birthday. That's not so bad, but it also happens that today is Saturday, 13.// That makes little more complicated. So s the fact at she is an nor student at School 31 ckward—get it?) ghter of Mr. and Mrs. John Farr, to give a party today for some of her schoolmates.

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og Pack Attacks Goats—Police ay were asked to corral a pack

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of 10 to 15 vicious dogs who yesterMeanwhile, is was reported that a |q4y attacked two goats in a pen at arge percentage of State employees, | the home of Russell Fox, 37, of 316 who pay dues to the Club at the |g pearborn St. killing them. The rate of 2 per cent of theiriagats were valued at $35. Mr, Fox 1d police he kept the goats to prorears in their payments at an in-|yige aes for =» sick gens pr fam :

| Prison Exhibit Arranged—Indiana niversity will sponsor an art exibit of work done by the inmates Michigan City Penitentiary April Brothers on MonuIt is believed that

they were in arrears in their dues(i5 at Lyman

ent Circle.

Dropping revenues, together with |this is the first exhibit of this type the possibility that heavy Fedesal|to be held in the country. |

Democratic Club to Give Dance— The Center Township Outside Dem-

at the Chatterbox Ballroom next Saturday night. Jesse Goodwin. is chairman and will be assisted by Amos Stevens, O. C. Steigerwald and Jack Walton. Bob Hennis and his orchestra will play.

Teachers to Meet April 20—The Indiana Council of Teachers of Mathematics will hold its annual meeting at 9:45 a. m. April 20 in the World War Memorial audito-

| rium. Frank Ross will preside. Dor-

othy Rucker is council secretary.

Patrick J. Smith fo Speak—Patrick J. Smith, Indianapolis attorney, will speak on “The Art of Public Speaking” at the luncheon of the alumni chapter of Sigma Delta Kappa, legal fraternity, Monday noon at the Canary Cottage. Members of the fraternity who are candidates for public office will be invited to tell “what the country needs besides Tom Marshall's famous 5-cent cigar.”

Robinson to Address Club—A talk by Dr. Daniel S. Robinson, president of Butler University at a banquet at 6 p. m. at the Central “yy” tonigth will end the meeting of approximately 75 persons who are guests today of the Indianapolis

held this morning and Lawrence Koehring of Richmond, Ind. central regional director, presided at the luncheon. :

Young Peoples’ League of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church, Post Road and Troy Ave., will celebrate its 45th anniversary with a banquet at the church next Saturday at 6:45 a. m, Past presidents will be special guests.

taxes may have to be paid, has led to rumors of an impending boost in the dues to three or four per cent. Democratic leaders and offi- | cials of the Club deny this, however. | |

in an editorial released today, made | several sarcastic remarks about

Homer E. Capehart’s recent accept- men we

Armored cars, each carrying three

aring holstered revolvers and

workers at 2424 Shriver Ave, Mr.|

He charged that in 1932 the

'| fore coming to Indiana in 1937. Two

| 25th and Station Sts. last night. |

ance of the chairmanship of an organization to sponsor the campaign of William E. Jenner, of Shoals, for the G. O. P. gubernatorial nomination. The editorial referred fo Mr. Capehart, a wealthy manufacturer who has financed several Republican spectacles, as a “renegade Demo‘crat.” : “Donations apparently were not coming in fast enough for the Jenner managers,” the Democratic Committee’s editorial stated. “The swath of cash strewn to the four winds by the Hillis dogh boys (supporters of Glenn R. Hillis for Governor) was bogging down the Jenner machine. It was literally: becoming mired in Hillis money Hence Homer was lassoed.” = The statement charged that Mr Capehart was registered as a Democrat in Erie County, New York, be-

years ago the manufacturer

financed a huge Republican rally on his farm in Daviess County.

Two Per Cent Club Inquiry Promised

‘with rifles and shotguns in racks

beside them, travel Indianapolis

streets each day.

These war-like machines receive hardly a glance from passersby despite the fact that inside the cars neatly piled white canvas bags, con-

taining small fortunes, are carried

from place to place—a city’s wealth in cash. These Merchants Armored Car Service units will be the subject of the National Armored Car Association, Inc., annual convention being held here for the first time at the Hotel Severin Monday through Wednesday. ; | ma No Holdups Attempted

It was in 1926 that Indianapolis first got its armored car |service. However, a privately owned armored truck appeared on Indianapolis streets in 1925. There has never been a holdup of an armored truck here and a close inspection of the trucks will quickly show the reason why. ~ The trucks, which weigh from

A promise to “ferret out and b: i to Nght” the activities of the Per Cent” Club was made by Russ 1. Richardson, Republican candidate

for Prosecutor, to party workers at

Repeating that the office of Pr cutor can be used for “great g d or to cover up the political sins of a predatory gang,” he questioned why “every prosecuting attorney s 1933 failed to compel complian with the Corrupt Practices Act.” | The real issue before the G. O. P, Mr. Richardson said, “is simply one of honesty and decency in goverpi= ment. It is local to Marion County. It has made the office’ of Marjon County Prosecutor stand out jas the office in which the public must take great interest or forever lose the self-respect of the great State of Indiana.” gi

Urges Two Per Cent | Gross Tax Checkup

Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., April 13.—*1 Federal deficiency tax to charged against the Two Per Club, then it should also have to State Gross Income taxes,” De uty Secretary of State Richard James declared in an address here last night. : ‘He referred to Washington reports that the U. S. Treasury was preparing a “deficiency tax” list a inst Two Per Cent Club officers. “One question Hoosiers are entitled to have answered is whether officers of the Two Per Cent Club have paid Gross Income taxes on the club’s receipts,” he said. [‘According to the 1939 Act a tax of 1 per cent must. be paid on ‘all receipts from any source whatsoever.” {

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TRUCKMEN CAPTURE LIQUOR HIJACKER

COLUMBUS, O., April 13 (U. P.). —After a mile and a half chase over Columbus’ icy: streets early today, Vern Burbridge and Grant Black of South Bend, Ind. caught a man who bad stolen their truck carrying a $2500 rum cargo consigned to the Ohio Liquor Control Department. | Mr. Burbridge and Mr. Black left New York Tuesday with a shipment

for Cleveland, Toledo and Colum-

bus. They made their deliveri Toledo and Cleveland and ps the truck here today while the

Robert Gilbert, 48, of 570 W. Wilkins St., an employee of the ] sylvania Railroad, died in t Hospital yesterday an hour af fell under the wheels of movin cars at Warman Ave. and the Pennsylvania Railroad coal docks. Owen Garnett, 1622 Cornell Ave, another employee working with Mr.

Gilbert, told police they were on

three and one-half to five tons, are made of three-sixteenths of an inch steel especially processed so that a high-powered . rifle fired at close range cannot penetrate the metal. The driver, who also carries the

to the guard who is never without a 12-gauge shotgun. Entirely separate from the driver-guard compartment is the actual strongbox of the truck, the place where the money is kept en route. | The interior of this compartment is rather dark because only a small window, made of inch and a half bullet-proof glass, and two observation shutters let in the daylight.

Switch in Rear .

‘There is a switch in the compartment which allows the man in back to shut off the motor and also a handbreak to stop the car in case of trouble. : To enter the compdrtment one must first go through a narrow steel door and then crouch in a small vestibule while the outside door closes and another door opens to’ the compartment itself. These doors

belare so constructed that it is im-

possible to have them both open at once. Each man has certain specific moves to make and locations to

20 MAN ‘WINNING’ IN DEATH CONFESSIONS

ROCHESTER, Minn., April 13 (U. P.) —Detectives from Ft. Wayne, Ind,. holding confessions of two men for the same- murder, left for Ft. Wayne last night with Anson Hafer, 28, Indiana ex-convict whose confession they believed indicated he was the slayer. : Meanwhile, Ft. Wayne police held Clyde White, 32, implicated in the slaying. of Asbury Bunting, 60, Ft. ‘Wayne filling station attendant, by ‘the confession of Hafer. Arrested in Rochester as a rob‘bery suspect, Hafer readily confessed the robbery-slaying in Ft. Wayne March 6. Indiana detectives, however, doubted his story

a confession, obtained from Ralph Williams, 22, on March 31. After grilling Hafer, Detective Horate W. Smith said the ex-con-vict showed more “detailed knowledge” of the crime than Williams and that he was inclined to believe Hafer and discredit Williams’ confession. Gost As 3, result of the second confession Ft. Wayne police arrested White as an accomplice of Hafer’s. Smith said Hafer served several years in the Indiana Reformatory at Pendleton for robbery and grand larceny. . | :

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Don't Ever Try fo Stick Up = 'A Merchants Armored Car

The State Democratic Committee, ||

watch at every delivery. They never | deviate from this routine nor relax their caution.

W. E. Willams, governor, National Armored Car Association, Inc., said: “To successfully loot one of our trucks, bandits would haye to kill three men and break into the steel compartment before police arrived.”

Each Man Bonded

Fach of the men who work on these trucks must be approximately six feet tall, weight at least 160 pounds and pass rigid tests in the use of firearms. The men also are chosen on a character and personal appearance. Each of the men is bonded for $1,000,000. The men have one complaint about their. jobs. The trucks, which ride about as comfortable as a tank attacking the Maginot Line, are not insulated against heat or cold. Temperature in winter inside the trucks is a duplicate of the weather outside and in summer the temperature sometimes reaches 125 degrees. : The armored car convention will open at the Severin Monday with an address of welcome by Governor M. Clifford Townsend. Law enforcement officials and others will be guest speakers. The convention will close with a luncheon Wednesday.

BLOCS RISE

ocratic Club will sponsor a dance|

Y’s Men's Club: Registration was/|

League to Note Anniversary—The |:

treasurer and |

BOTH PARTIES ' T0 STOP DEWEY

} “Too Young,’ Democrats Cry

And Some G. 0. P. Fear Unknown Quantity.

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up public psychology and reactions, are afraid that, in a critical time, the people would turn, when it came up to the election, -from so young and untried a candidate.

Can Taft Stop Dewey?

With Senator Vandenberg outdis-. tanced by Mr. Dewey in two Midwestern states, the “stop Dewey” movement now ‘is centering about Senator Taft of Ohio. Mr. Taft has no counts against him through such

| popular tests as Senator Vanden=-

berg dared in Wisconsin and Nebraska, and is not likely to go into any of the remaining primaries, though the Dewey forces would like to lure him into a trial of strength with the voters. Herbert Hoover, it was learned toe day, probably will line up with Sen% ator Taft. What the titular lead. er @f the party, Alfred M. Landon, will do, he has not yet indicated clearly, though he struck out*‘re- - cently at the Eastern G. O. P. group - symbolized in the Pennsylvania triumvirate, Joseph N. Pew, Ernest T. Weir and Joseph R. Grundy, which is expected to back Senator Taft in a showdown with Mr. Dewey.

Ickes Gives ‘Solution’ The general argument of the New Dealers in connection with the New Yorker and the third-term movement was laid down by Secretary Ickes in a speech to the so-called Southern Policy Committee. Speaking to. a group of about 50, Mr. Ickes sketched the present critical international situation today and said the country could not afford to have in the White House

Dewey. Therefore, in order to be sure to defeat Mr. Dewey, the Democrats, Mr. Ickes said, must renominate President Roosevelt.

FOUR INJURED IN2

* TRAFFIC AGGIDENTS

sponsible today for three accidents in = Indianapolis and vicinity in which four persons were injured. Noel C. Neal of Noblesville, fore mer Indiana Appellate Court judge, and C. Oliver Holmes of Rockville, forfher State Senator, were reported in “fair” condition at Methodist Hospital after an accident on Road 40 near Bridgeport last night. A car driven by Kenneth Lea Siddons, 16, of Greencastle, skidded on. icy pavement and crashed into their automobile, according to State Police. The accidént occurred less than

Pennsylvania Railroad viaduct. Mr. Holmes has a chest injury, hospital |

‘officials said, and Mr, Neal has a |

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