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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1940

VOLUME 52—NUMBER 209

; British Drop Bombs and Bricks on Munich as Hitler Speaks

ERICAN FREIGHTER SUNK BY MINE

SAFENARGIN 1 DROWNED, 37 RESCUED: PREDICTED FOR U. S. RIDICULED BY AXIS

R. A. F. to Get Flying Fortresses Like This

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Schricker, Only Democrat,

To Win by 3600, Tucker Estimates.

By NOBLE REED Official election tabulations on state office contests will show Republicans winning all offices except the Governor by majorities ranging from 5000 to 15,000 votes, Secretary of State James 'M. Tuck-

er announced today.

In the Governgr contest the official tabulatio will show Henry F. Schricker, Democrat, winning by 3600 votes, he said. "Mr. TucKer estimated the majorities after the State Canvassing " Board had checked official tabulations from 79 of the 92 counties. "Final results in some of the state office races had remaiend in doubt since the election because of wide variances in unofficial tabulations.

Recount Actions Studied

With official tabulations expected "to be completed Monday, Republican and Democratic officials began considering the advisability of asking recounts because of| the slim majorities. The State Constitution provides that a legislative committee must act as a court in conducting any recount of votes for Governor or Lieutenant-Governor. A

that the Legislature charge of recounts in state office election®

provides that any defeated candidate for a state office [seeking a recount must file petiti both houses of the Legislature within 20 days after it convenes. Then the Senate and House must appoint seven members| each to make up a Legislative Recount Committee of 14 members who would have complete charge of the con-

st. Bobbitt Names Co ittee

State Republican Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt already has announced the appointment of a special committee to study the official returns to determine whether a recount in the Governor contest should be conducted. “We hope to determine [as soon as possible whether recommendations will be made to the State Commit-

tee for further examination of the|-

Governor contest votes,” | Mr, Bobbitt said. “The special committee has full authority to make whatever investigation of existing [records it sees fit.” Members of the investigating committee are Dr. A. R. Killian, of Lafayette; Virgil Coffal, of Kokomo; James L. Bradford, Marion County Republican chairman; Robert Armstrong, Indianapolis, and Edwin Steers Sr., of Indianapolis.

Schricker Would Serve

During any recount proceedings in the Legislature, Mr. Schricker would serve as the Governor becouse, under the law, the Secretary of State must certify the Governors election pefore Jan. 1 when he| must be sworn into office. : If a recount should reverse the results of the Governor contest, the

Legislature would have to pass a (Continued on Page Three)

JOB SERVICE AIDS MEET AT SEVERIN

More than 200 members of Indiana chapters of the International Association of Public Employment . Services convened this affernoon at the Hotel Severin, Speakers were to be Ewan Clague of the Federal Social| Security Board; W. Rowland Allen, personnel director of L. S. Ayres "» Co, and Richard W. Bunch, director of the Indiana Bureau of Personnel.

MAN, GRANDSON KILLED

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Nov, 9 (U. Pp.) —Elmer Reed, 70, Prajrie Creek, and his grandson, Lloyd Keith McCosky, 5, Terre Haute, were Killed \ instantly last night on State Road 63 when their car crashed headon into one driven by Carl Burton, 51, Merom, Ind. Burton was held for

investigation.

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Mrs. Ferguson 8 Music Obituaries . Pegler Pyle. .. Radio Mrs. R Serial Side

Churches ....

Crossword ... Editorials .... Financial ....

State Deaths. il

U. S. Army Bomber XB-15 . . . will permit Britain

to bomb any place in Germany.

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COUNTY 6. 0. P.

TAKES SENATE

West Beats Shaw for Representative; Tegarden Asks Recount.

(Official table, Page Two)

By SAM TYNDALL

Three changes the Marion County legislative lineup were made today with the releasing of

official canvassing board figures for Tuesday’s election. All four Republican State Senate candidates were declared winners, while the Democrats grabbed one of the 11 State Representative spots. Unofficial figures had shown two Democratic Senate winners and all 11 House seats going to the G. O. P. Albert J. Beveridge Jr. and Robert Lee Brokenburr were declared winners in the State Senate race, nosing out two Democratic incumbents, E. Curtis White and Joseph Sexton. Jchn W. Atherton and Harry O. Chamberlin, Republicans, won by apparently safe margins, ousting Jacob Weiss and Dr. Theodore Cable.

Beveridge’s Lead 67

Mr. Beveridge’s edge over Mr. Sexton was only 67 votes, and his margin over Mr. White was 104. Mr. Brokenburr received only nine more votes than Mr. Beveridge. The only Republican to lose out in the House race was Lawrence Shaw. He was beaten by Judson West, who received a majority - of 608 in the final tally. Mr, Shaw said, “You can say that I am contemplating a recount.” Mr. White and Mr. Sexton said they had not decided whether to ask for a recount. Other losing candidates could not be reached for comment, but it was indicated that a mass recount of the (Continued on Page Three)

$75,000,000 PLANT - CONTRACT AWARDED

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (U. P.).— The Navy today awarded a $75,313,000 contract to Consolidated Aircraft Corp., San Diego, for an undisclosed number of airplanes. The contract was cleared by the Defense Advisory Commission. The Navy would not state the type or number of the planes but it was pointed out that Consolidated is one o fthe major producers of large patrol bombers.

ARKANSAS VOTERS 0. K. PENSION TAX

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Nov. 9 (U, returns indicated today that Arkansas voters had approved, 4-to-1, a two-mill sales tax in cities designated as first and second class to pay retirement pensions to firemen and policemen. The Rottenberry proposal, bitterly opposed ‘by welfare and educational forces, to place old age pensions under a pommission director apparently was defeated, 3-to-1,

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McNelis Raps

Drops Charge Against Woman

‘Duty of Court to Protect

Reported Discourtesy; Convicts Her on 3 Counts.

Municipal Court Judge John L. McNelis today “emphatically discharged” a 28-year-old woman motorist on charges of resisting an officer and reiterated his previous complaint of a “lack of courtesy” against a police officer who had arrested the defendant. The motorist, Frances Eva Miller, 5302 E. St. Clair St. however, was convicted on three other charges.

IT'S DADS' DAY ON HOOSIER GRIDIRONS

I. U. Meets Michigan State; Butler vs. Ball State.

By J. E. O'BRIEN

Dad had a chance today to see what his son has been doing in the way of football at the university. Both Indiana and Butler were observing Dads’ Day, the Hoosiers opposing dangerous Michigan State at Bloomington, and the Bulldogs out to preserve their perfect Indiana Conference record against Ball State in the Fairview Bowl.

Their prestige down a notch after last week's scare by Army, Notre Darhe’s Irish sought to bounce back into favor at Navy's expense. The sellout game was to be played in Baltimore's Municipal Stadium. Purdue also had invaded the East for its sixth meeting with Fordham at the Polo Grounds. Other state college contests matched Manchester with Valparaiso, DePauw with Earlham, Evansville with Franklin, Wabash with Lake Forest and Hanover with Louisville, St. Joseph's will meet St. Norbert’s tomorrow, while Rose Poly and Milton will tangle in an Armistice Day game on Monday. National interest today focused on the Minnesota-Michigan game at Minneapolis. It was definitely a battle of the Gophers’ power against Tom Harmon.

were: Northwestern-Illinois, Texas

- | Aggies-Southern Methodist, Wash-

ington-Stanford, . Alabama-Tulane, Penn State-Syracuse, Iowa-Nebras-ka and Cornell-Yale.

Other headliners.

Police Again,

You,” He Tells Driver Who

Judgments were withheld. “I feel sorry for people like you— it is the duty of the Court to -protect you,” Judge McNelis told her today. Morrissey Called In

The defendant, who was tried a month ago, told Judge McNelis at that time that a motorcycle police sergeant had pulled her feet first from her automobile after stopping her car. At that time Judge McNelis reprimanded the officer, Sergt. Nolan Hill, and asked Chief of Police Michael F. Morrissey to listen to the case. After hearing the charges of “lack of courtesy” against the offier, Chief Morrissey left the courtroom and said: “Sergt. Hill

acted perfectly as an officer should have acted.”

Punished Enough

Today Judge McNelis told the defendant that “I made recommendations to Chief Morrissey after I had heard the way the officer acted and

my recommendations, I am sorry to say, were not accepted by the Chief. I can’t tell him what to do, I can only make recommendations.” The defendant was found guilty of failure to display lights, intoxication and driving while intoxicated. “I think you were punished enough before you were brought to trial,” Judge McNelis said.

POND STUDY EXPLAINED

What one man can see in one pond with one microscope was to be described this afternoon by H. Merrill Underwood for the Indianapolis chapter of the American Society of Amateur Microscopists,

W. L TAYLOR, ATTORNEY, DIES

Served as Attorney General Of Indiana; Funeral to Be Monday.

William L. Taylor, who served as Indiana attorney general from 1898 to 1902, died early today at Methodist Hospital. A lifelong Republican, Mr. Taylor for many years had served as a

Methodist Hospital trustee and for about 40 years maintained the same law offices in the State Life Building, Room. 622. He lived at the Marott Hotel.

Born in Walcottville

Following his term as attorney general, he was defeated as the Republican candidate for Governor. He was elected city attorney for Indianapolis in 1885 and served three terms. : Born in Wolcottville, Ind. Mr. Taylor was graduated from Indiana University in 1877 and from the Indianapolis Law School in 1880. He immediately entered the law office of Stanton J. Peelle, where he remained until Mr, Peelle went to Washington in 1890 as judge of the U. 8S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Floyd Woods then entered the office and the firm became Taylor & Woods. Subsequently the firm became Taylor, Woods & Willson, and later Taylor & Willson.

Became Ill in Michigan

ried only Mr. Taylor's name, Jackson Carter became a partner in 1924, and when Mr, Carter died in 1930, Mr, Taylor carried on under the firm name until Feb. 1, 1940. Then it became Taylor & Kurrie, Thompson Kurrie having become associated with Mr, Taylor in 1936. Mr. Kurrie still maintains the of-

fice. In July, 1910, Mr, Taylor married Grace Wescott, who died on March 21,.1939. Among his other civic contributions, Mr. Taylor gave a plot of

meeting at 940 N. Bancroft St.

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Four Youngsters, 11, 12 and 13, Confess They're California's $1,000,000 Arson Gang

SANTA ROSA, Cal, Nov. 9 (U. P.).—Police today asked four boys— two of them 13, the others 11 and 12, respectively—to repeat for District Attorney Toland McGettigan con-

fessions to holdups, purse-snatch-ings, petty thefts and a million dollars worth of arson, “just for the thrill of it.” : Police Chief Melvin Flohr was, at first, reluctant to believe the confessions. But his files listed cases of arson in which property, valued at more than $1,000,000 had been destroyed since 1936. None of the cases had been solved. Moreover, Mr. Flohr said, 13-year-old Eddie Gonzales, leader of the gang, had voluntgered the informa-

tion that he and his “pals” had

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planned to slug Night Desk Sergeant H. D: Huntington and steal the impounded belongings of prisoners in the city jail. Eddie and his gang, consisting of Vernon Cohen, 13, his brother, Erland, 12, and Bobby Jones, 11, have been in trouble with Juvenile Court authorities for nearly six years, Mr. Flohr said.

Eddie was arrested Thursday when found with a stolen bicycle. After questioned at length on petty matters, he suddenly “broke,” Mr. Flohr said, and admitting firing, with the gang’s aid, the Laws Lumber Co. yards, the Pacific Gas and Electric Co., the Hotel Occidental

annex, the big Rosenberg department store and: the “Wpeveland

For nearly 24 hours the other three youngsters derided Eddie's story as “applesauce.” Then Mr, Flohr said, they were questioned separately, and each confessed.

Eddie told about hiding in a park, grabbing a woman's purse and pedaling away furiously. He had held up another woman, he said, by pretending he had a gun. But Vernon Cohen admitted he “packed a rod,” two in fact; one in his coat pocket and another tucked inside his waist where police wouldn’t think of looking. “I figgered I'd have a chance to shoot it out with the cops then,” Vernon said. Mr. McGettigan said the boys will be certified to the Juvenile court for

Brothers’ packing plant,

[further action.

From 1915 to 1924 the firm car-’

Italy Talks Reprisals After Heavy Raids

Damage Turin.

By JOE ALEX MORKIS United Press Foreign News Editor

Great Britain and Germany paid special attention to the United: States and Soviet Russia today as they battled to speed up the war on military, diplomatic and economic

fronts.

British pilots recalled the bombing of Buckingham Palace as they unloaded high explosives, bricks addressed to “Adolf” and other objects on Munich last night coincident with Adolf Hitler's speech at a beer cellar memorial meeting. . One British report hinted the beer hall was bombed, but Nazis said the raid did not disturb the Fuehrer other than preventing a broadcast of the speech. Fly 600 Miles The British Air Ministry said the Munich raid was one of the heaviest and most concentrated attacks ever launched by the R. A. F. and that railroad yards within a quarter mile of the beer cellar were engulfed in a mass of flames. The

aided by bright moonlight. Germany answered the R. A. F.’ audacity today by sending roaring planes low over London despite heavy anti-aircraft fire in the earliest night alarm yet experienced by the British capital. A mine laid by an unidentified belligerent off the Australian coast sank the American freighter City of Rayville, with loss of one life, as the first United States marine casualty of the war.

Churchill Praises F. D, R.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, speaking in London, declared that the “matchless: workshop” of America would aid the British war effort. He praised President Roosevelt's aid to Britain in contrast to Hitler's declaration that Germany was too strong for any combination of foe and referred to Mr. Roosevelt as “the illustrious American statesman who has never failed to give us a helping hand.” German and Italian sources indicated that Hitler was rapidly organizing European productive capacity in an effort to offset what(Continued on Page Three)

WEEK-END FORECAST PRETTY PESSIMISTIC

Light Showers Tomorrow, Colder Monday.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6 a. m. 10a. m. .... 42 7a m. 11a. m. .... 4 Sam. .... 12 (noon) .. 46 9a.m. .... 39 1pm. .... 46

The Weatherman had little to offer today in the way of good weather. It may get a little warmer tonight and tomorrow but occasional light showers figures in tomorrow’s reckoning. Monday's forecast also was pretty dubious: floudy, colder and possible showers.

Heavy Snow Storm

Swoops Into Montana

BUTTE, Mont., Nov. 9 (U. P.). — Winter swooped into Montana today with a heavy snowstorm and temperatures which dropped, in some sections, close to zero.

Helena, Great Falls, Livingston and Billings. Most of the northern half of the state was blanketed. Temperatures throughout northern Montana were .around.5 to 10 degrees above zero, while in the southern half the mercury stood at from 25 to 30 above. !

STOCKS SPURT TO HIGHS SINCE MAY

NEW YORK, Nov. 9 (U. P.).— Stocks spurted $1 to $3 today to new highs since May 11. It was the most active Saturday trading since May 18. Steel shares were bought heavily because the industry is working at record levels. Shipping issues -also were featured on the belief that their facilities will become more valuable as British shipping is reduced. Many shorts covered rather than risk inflation developments over the long week-end dpused by the

600-mile flight and the raid was|

Heavy snow fell here and at]

Contract Signed For Shell Plant

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—(U. P.).—The War Department today signed contracts totaling $38,300,000 for construction and operation of a new shell-load-ing plant at Union Center, Ind. The plant will be one of the major units in the chain of munitions factories now being built under the defense program. Bates and Rogers Construction Co., Chicago, was given a $11,500,000 construction contract on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis, while Todd & Brown, Inc., New York City, received a $26,800,000 contract to operate the plant on a similar

CHURCHILL HAILS F.D.R.

Two Ships Go Down. Off Australia, Liner Feared Hit.

By UNITED PRESS The United States freighter City of Rayville has been sunk by a mine off South Australia with the loss of one life, the first American

marine casualty of the war. The 5883-ton vessel, owned by the United States Maritime Commission and chartered by the American Pioneer Line, became the first ship to carry an American flag beneath the water's edge as the result of a

basis.

BRITISH SHARE:

England to Spend 2 Billion For Aircraft, Billion More for Arms.

mately 26375 American

American defense production between this country and Britain, informed officials said today. :

planes before that time, aeronauti-

mately 40,000 planes on order.

orders would total almost $2,000,000,000. Orders on hand from Brit-

planes which the priorities board of the Defense Commission has authorized the British to negotiate for would cost about the same amount. They ,will include a larger proportion of expensive heavy bombers. Defense commission officials said British deliveries would be staggered so as to utilize both present productive capacity and the facilities now being developed. There are no figures on arms and ammunition production, making it impossible to determine how much of those supplies Britain is getting in this country. Something less than $1,000,000,000 probably is being spent by the British for- arms and ammunition here. . Arms and ammunition production capacities are regarded as secret information by the War and Navy Departments.

DEFENSE PROGRAM HELD VITAL TO U. S.

BUFFALO, N. Y,, Nov. 8 (U. P.).

—Assistant Secretary of War Robejt P. Patterson said today that the national defense program is vital

not only in guarding this nation against attack but also against attempts to spread foreign “isms.” Speaking ~ at ground-breaking ceremonies for a new unit of Cur-tiss-Wright Corp., Mr. Patterson said the project marks the beginning of “an undertaking to which the stern necessity of the nation's security compels ys.” He added that{ the rearmament program is dependent upon the “munitions citadel” of western New York State becauséNof its production of many types of defense materigls.

Mr. Mason

cellar. The fact that the Fuehrer would not risk broadcasting fipm Munich, 600 miles away from gland, would seem to give the German people room for some doubt about his claims to invincibility and divine protection. . Hitler's assertion that with all continental Europe at his command he can outbuild the British Empire and America has little practical meaning. He has plants but

Armistice Day holiday Monday.

_iquality. He has men but not suf-

not all the basic materials of h |

26,375 PLANES

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (U. P.).—~ Great Britain will receive approximade

planes before July, 1942, under the arrangement for a 50-50 split of

American plane plants will. be geared to produce more than 66,000

cal sources indicated. The Army and Navy already have approxi-

It was estimated that the British

ain for 14,375 planes will cost about $1,000,000,000. The additional 12,000

hostile act, since the gunboat Panay was unk in the Yangtze by Japanese bombing planes in 1937. Near the scene of the Rayville sinking, 120 miles from Melbourne, a British liner, unidentified, also wag sunk by a mine yesterday and the Australian Naval Ministry cone sequently closed the Bass Straits, sepagating Tasmania from the Ausrai mainland, to shipping until further notice.

Australia Blames Nazis

Dispatches from Australia said “i$ was assumed a German submarine had sown the mines. ‘At the same time, on the other

that the crack 26,000-ton Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Japan was being attacked by German bombing planes 100 miles west of Galway, Ireland. A Japanese vessel near the scene reported having heard the liner’s SOS this morning saying that she could not navigate under her own power. The Japenese message said it was believed the big liner was carrying troops from Canada.

No Action Expected

United States State Department officials studied the Rayville inci dent but pointed out that there was little this country could do in the matter. Although Australia is a belligerent, the waters surrounding it have not been designated a combat zone. American vessels are barred by the neutrality law from entering the European combat zone, but! there is no prohibition against American vessels carrying passengers, mail and cargo —except arms, ammunition and implements of war— rts of belligerent nations outside the com- . bat zone. The President has the power. to extend the combat zone at any time he deems an area dangerous. but it was not believed there would be any such move regarding Australian waters unless naval warfare increased. Maritime Commission officials were checking records to find the names of crew members aboard the ship. :

Ship Afire in Caribbean

Meanwhile the sea war on the Atlantic increased in fury and moves closed to the American conti nent. Mackay Radio in New York picked up a message from the British steamer Ridley last night saying she was on fire 340 miles off St. Vincent, British West Indies, and needed immediate aid. Her direction ..om St. Vincent and the cause . (Continued on Page Three)

F. D. R. ASKS CO-OPERATION WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt today telegraphed Roger W. Babson, Prohie bition Party Presidential candidate, that he would welcome the cooperation of all citizens during the “four great years” which Babson said. lie ahead of him.

War Moves Today

By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert

Hitler's beer hall assurances at Munich last night of his divine mission and the supremacy of the German war machine could not be broadcast, as originally intended, because of a few British bombing planes roaring overhead. | Reich Marshal Goering’s: prewar promises of immunity against air attacks thus had | another breakdown, necessitating the Fuehrer’'s speech bei ing recorded by gramaphone for later distribution to the ‘German people. Had the plans for broadcasting been carried out, the British airmen might have been guided to the exact source, prepared to test the bomb resistance strength of Hitler's beer hall

ficient nourishment to keep all of them working at high productive levels. The present reserves of war materials in Gerrany are undoubtedly great. But, Hitler has found no way of using them to win the war, His war machine is standing idle in northern France and the Low Countries, unable to get into Great

Britain. He has large forces fully. equip: at home but ig bas de~ (Continued on Page Three)

side of the world; it was reported ~