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MONDAY, SEPT. 16, 1940

~ DEFENSE ISSUE Schricker Receives

SPOILED 6.0.P. |§ ELECTION PLANS

Roosevelt Took Play After Being Handed Gift" He Didn't Want.

By BRUCE CATTON

Times Special Writer SHINGTON, Sept. 16.—One of ueerest varns in modern polithis |

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Roosevelt swiped the big issue which |

e Republicans were getting ready | to use against him and made it his! cwn—the pre- | paredness.

of defense

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1 extra-long session of Congress. Adjournment Changed It Congress had adjourned early publicly

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“Good luck!” The well-wishes of Paul V. McNutt (left), Federal Security Administrator, and Governor M. Clifford Townsend (right), were heaped upon Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker, Democratic nominee for Governor, at the fall outing Saturday of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association at French Lick

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AUTO ACCIDENTS

None in Marion County; Four Killed in Crash Near Lafayette.

en Hoosiers were killed in weektraffic, all of them in accidents foutside Marion County. No Indianapolis or Marion County person was reported seriously injured usands took to the roads to fall countryside a preview The dead are: MR. AND MRS. ELMER HILDEBRAND and MR. AND MRS. W. M. SINGLETON. all of Mooresville, killed their car and another collided five miles south of Lafavette. They were hound for Fairbury, Ill, to attend annual celebrations of Townsend Clubs at birthplace of Dr Francis E. Townsend. JULIUS TF MESARON. South Bend when struck by an auto he walked across street near home. He was her of three children RGE WASHINGTON 47, PHILIP HAT3 of Rushville, car went out south of vesterday Hl, and 13, both of four and a half on the struck bicveles

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Y Plans Citizenship Series—The Y. M. C. A. will sponsor a series of eight lectures, beginning Sept. 24, on “How Citizenship Works,” intended to encourage a stronger subdport for Democracy. The first lecturer will be Dr. Franklin Burdette, Butler University assistant profesI'sor of history and political science. { Robert McGinnis is chairman of the { committee in charge.

Brown Legion Post Installs—Ed E McLary has been installed as commander of Hilton U. Brown Jr. Post 85, American Legion; Ray McLean, is first vice commander; L. J. Perry, second vice commander; C. J. Bruns, adjutant; J. B. Korkeopoulous, | finance officer; Alva Nisley, chaplain; Rav E. Harris, historian, and Elam Williams, sergeant-at-arms.

CONSENT RULING ENDS MILK CASE

Decree Wipes Out 3-Year Prosecution; U. S. Drops Charges on Eight.

CHICAGO, Sept (U. P.).—The Federal Government today a consent decree with Chicago area milk producers distributors wiping out a three-year prosecution price-fixing charges. The was entered before Judge Charles E. Woodward, who once had quashed the indictment against a farmers’ co-operative, distributors, wagon union and city health officials on a contention that agricultt empt from provisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act The U. S. Supreme Court ruled Judge Woodward and stated the charges. Meanwhile, the marketing area has under administration of a Federal marketing agreement whereby the prices paid producers are regulated and adjusted seasonally. 45 Inder the

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Enter Agreement

agreement, in effect just a year, distributors are compelled to supply records of purchases and sales of dairy products to the Marketing Act Administrator. | Distributors pay differentials between the recommended market

|price and the current market price

into a pool, from which produ~ers share in proportion to milk produced. Special Assistant Attorney General Leo F. Tierney said 45 corporations, associations and individuals actually engaged in production and distribution of fluid milk n the fourstate Chicago area entered the agreement, which grants the Government an injunction against alleged price-fixing activities charged in the indictment. The Government charges against eight others, including Dr. Herman N. Bundesen chairman of the Chicago Board of Health: David S. Riskind and Leslie G. Goudie, officers of the Chicago Milk Wagon Drivers’ Union; Capt. Daniel A. Gilbert of State's Attorney police; William J. Guerin and Paul Krueger of the City Health Department, and W. A Wentworth, New York, and Dr. Leland Spencer of Cornell University Ithaca, N. -Y.

Precludes Similar Conspiracies

“This decree not only will prevent continuance of the conspiracy charged in the criminal indictment, but will preclude further conspiracies of a similar type,” Mr. Tierney said. The indictment charged that the [Pure Milk Association and dealers set the price farmers should receive for their raw milk and that the |dealers and drivers’ union set the [price to be paid by consumers. | The Health Department was made a ‘party through its licensing of {dairies qualified to sell milk in the Chicago market.

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‘Heroism of Britons Clears Way for Worshipers at

| St. Paul's Cathedral.

| By BRYDON TAVES United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 16.—Worshipers knelt in prayer today in great "Paul's Cathedral, saved from

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de-

struction by the heroism of Britons

risked their lives for many

to remove a German

who hours {bomb.

The cathedral, masterpiece of Sir resuming

Christopher Wren, was

normal routine for the first time in

five days. Services were well attended. At noon I saw individual worshippers kneeling in prayer, but the usual peace and quiet of the cathe{dral was shattered by the chatter of

pneumatic drills repairing under-

leround damage caused by the bomb. |

Faced Death Calmly “It is amazing that the cathedral standing.” a church official “The men who removed the bomb deserve the Victoria Cross Thev hag a providential escape when a cable snapped as the bomb was being lifted out. The last I saw of it, two of those boys were sitting atop it as their lorry raced away ’ Under a voung engineer lieutenant, volunteers who had a much better chance to die than they did to live, dug one ton bomb from a crater 271, feet deep beside the cathedral vesterday and took it through cleared streets to the Hackney marshes, the northeastern suburbs. where they exploded it. It blew a hole 100 feet wide in the ground and loosened plaster in houses over the area..

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every minute at risk of being blown to pieces. The bemb squad {bomb had broken a six-inch main. Three men were overcome Gas companv volunteers were called in when the gas caught fire. No one

found that

{knew how close the bomb was to the

flames. The gas was cut off and volunteers dug down 27!: feet fore they unearthed the bomb. Special tackle was necessary {raise the bomb. Two trucks

be-

took the wheel and drove it as fast as he dared through streets which police had cleared of all traffic.

‘MOTORIST ENDS WILD CAREER OF TRUCK

LAFAYETTE, Ind. Sept. 16 (U. I'P) Mike Martz, 30, Cincinnati, truck driver, is the principal character of this story but an unidentified motorist is the hero Mike, so sav state tempted to drive his “under the influence.” The fact {that the truck was of the 10-ton variety, loaded with steel, made the havoc of his erratic driving greater Weaving through Newton and Benton Counties, Mike struck three automobiles. Our unidentified hero saw him hit the first two and tried to stop him by putting his car across the road in front of Mike's truck. That was accident No. 3. State Policeman Robert Fowler finally stopped the truck when Mike slowed down in front of the West Lafavette State Police Barracks. He | jumped on the running board and seized the ignition kevs—and Mike.

police, attruck while

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1941 WELFARE BUDGET GIVEN | .K. BY BOARD

Adjustment Body Goes In Closed Session to Study $231,000 Food Bill.

| After less than an hour of study, the County Tax Adjustment Board today tentatively approved the $3,200,000 County Welfare budget {for 1941, and then turned its attention to Center Township's poor relief. How to pay off the $231,000 in |poor relief bills owed merchants by ‘the township was taken up by the | Board in a closed session. At lunch time board members indicated their |decisions would be revealed later | today. The Board mem ling the Welfare budget without change, asserted that the County {Council did a good job in paring the proposed budget a couple of weeks ago. { Cut $225,000 Then

At that time. the Council cut | more than $225.000 from the amount to be raised by property taxes— $1.175.000—and reduced the requested tax rate from 20 cents to 115.5 cents. A substantial portion of the Welfare budget is financed by the State and Federal Governments. Before approving the Councils action, the Adjustment Board heard a brief explanation of budget items bv Welfare Director Thomas Neal, land an appeal that a proposed increase of 20 welfare workers to the present staff of 132 be granted Circuit Court Judge Ear! R. Cox, a member of the County Welfare | Board, defended the personnel increase. The larger staff, he said, will permit reinvestigations of the needs of Welfare assistance recipi- | ents In this way, he said, many cases lof persons no longer needing aid {can be uncovered and the depart{ment’s costs reduced many times { the extra worker's salaries Gisler Represents Merchants

Closeted with the Adjustment Board in its private session on relief was Albert H. Gisler, Park Board member and an officer of a wholesale grocery firm. He was there as a representative of the scores of merchants to whom Center {Township is indebted for food and other relief 1tems Plans to pay this debt last spring were blocked when a group of taxpavers successfully remonstrated against a proposed poor relief bond issue, Two plans for paving the have been suggested. Under the merchants would file suits and obtain judgments, which would be paid through the issuance of judgment funding bonds.

Center Asks $1,286,000

bers, in approv- |

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{ The other suggestion, championed bv Fabian W. Biemer, chief depun County Auditor. calls for obtaining the needed funds through temporary loans. Center Township's budget request for next year is I'he trustee allowed only $1,100,000 year, but it is estimated that current vear's expenditures will run $1.460.000. The proposed 55-cent {tax rate is 15 cents above rent 40-cent levy.

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WEIRTON ACCUSES "NLRB OF PREJUDICE

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (U. P —The Weirton Steel Co., in a 129page bill of exceptions plus 93 pages of appendixes, today accused the National Labor Relations Board of being biased and prejudiced in its 97-page proposed decision finding company had violated the Wagner Labor Act In theri exceptions to the Boar proposed decision filed Jul: Weirton attorneys challenged right of the Board to make decision in the case because alleged the Board issued a com-| plaint against the company in an effort to aid the C. I. O. Steel Workers Organizing Committee, which filed unfair labor charges, to organ=ize Weirton employees. Today was the deadline set compliance with the Board's order directing Weirton to disestablish | {independent organizations among its | {12.000 workers at Steubenville and} | Weirton, W. Va.; aging membership in the S. W. O. and to reinstate with back pay | 17 employees discharged in 1936. { If the exceptions fail to change) (the Board's decision and the company does not comply with the Board's order, the case is expected to go to a U. 8. Circuit Court of Appeals for an enforcement order, and perhaps later go to the U. S. Supreme Court.

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M’NARY TO ANSWER WALLACE SATURDAY

CHICAGO, Sept. 16 (U. P.)—Sen- | ator Charles L. McNary (R. Ore)),| Republican vice presidential nominee. will make the first of six campaign speeches at Aurora. Ill, next Saturdav. state party headquarters announced today. Justus L. Johnson, Republican candidate for Secretary of State,| said Mr. McNary would attack the] New Deal farm program and answer |

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| Local Woman Gives Warm And Human Biography of Once Famous Actress.

By ROSEMARY REDDING

A once famous actress of the Hungarian stage and her goddaugh- | ter meet and thereby hangs a tale. It is called “Hungarian Rhapsody,” the portrait of an actress, published today by the Bobb-Mer-rill Co { The tale is told by the goddaughter, Indianapolis’ own Bertita| Harding, the author of “Imperial| Twilight,” “Golden Fleece” andi “Phantom Crown.” | It was a strange and happy acci-|

dent that the book was written. peartita Harding gives ‘one a

warm feeli ‘ami the toast of European capitals, she 4 Reeting “Yor ‘Camille,

formed a friendship with a stage-|advertising man, and lives at 3545

struck voung girl named Sari, who | Evergreen Ave. soon abandoned her love of the “Hungarian Rhapsody” is appealstage and left for Mexico as theling in its picturization of an era bride of a young mining engineer. which is fast disappearing in EuTrue to a promise at the moment of rope, one when kings and queens parting, Sari named her actress idol | were in fact not name and as godmother of her daughter, who art was free art. now is Bertita Harding. w—

pany sears ate, woe wins [ENGLAND HAS ONLY TO ASK, CLARK SAYS

California, the once noted actress discovered that the author of a WASHINGTON. Sent aU. P) Bennett Clark (D Mo.)

current book, “Phantom Crown,”| was her godchild. ' The two met.| The vears had not been kind to! Camille, so to keep her mind occucharged today that the “British have only to ask the President’ to receive such “vital American military equipment’ as the flying fort-

pied, Bertita Harding suggested ress bombers, the “mosquito fleet”

that her godmother write her memoirs. Little did Bertita Harding torpedo boats and the closely I guarded bomb sight.

think that two years later she would receive a manuscript, written in four languages and containing word pictures of an era only recently passed and full of anecdotes of the roval and the famous.

Mrs. Harding translated the man-| Bobo The result is Madame de | Stroyers to Great Britain was con-

Vernet's own story with no loss of | SUmmated,” Mr. Clark declared. “I authentic material. But it is Ber- | predicted that this would be the tita Harding's book, containing her| case When we began this business discerning historical

{ NIVEN IS ENGAGED | LONDON, Sept. 16 (U. P.) =David Niven, movie actor who returned from Hollywood to fight for Britain, will soon marry Miss Primula Rollo, (22, daughter of Flight Lieut. William

Mrs. Harding's other novels in comparison are like great canvases depicting the life of royal personages by whose actions whole empires were moved She Took Relief This new biography is warm and human. One feels a little closer to Camille as she accepts Government relief to feed her ailing brother than to the royal personages whose exploits she relates | The lacks nothing in mance. Camille came {rom the] prominent Ruffinyi family of Doband Slovakia. She showed early talent for acting but her de-| velopment was retarded by a tem- | porary paralysis, her mother's un- | happy second marriage and her own | brief marriages. She became |

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