Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1940 — Page 3

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CITY THANKFUL FOR PEACEFUL THANKSGIVING

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There is one school in the state, in Richland Township of Monroe County, which will not observe to-

day as Thanksgiving Day—that is,|

not officially. :

Fritz Ryan, Republican trustee of |

the township, dissented wnen the Governor proclaimed Nov. 21 as the holiday. Mr. Ryan said his school would vacation on Nov. 28. The 11 other township schools let out their children to eat turkey today. But though the doors of Richland Township School remain open, it appeared highly possible there would be little traffic through the portais. Many residents said they would keep their children home, holiday or no holiday.

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At the Indiana State Prison at | Michigan City it was a day of Thanksgiving too. Here's the feast the 2596 inmates sat down to: Roast chicken and oyster dressing, giblet gravy, candied sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, celery, dill pickles, raisin bread, pumpkin pie, apples and coffee.

GIRL POLITICOS

SET FOR FIGHT

City Hall Lassies Ready for Rumored Invasion by

State House Gals.

By RICHARD LEWIS

There was a little flurry in femfnine circles at the| City Hall today. Just between us girls, the City

Hall contingent has “heard” that if and when the G. O. P. reorganizes the State House, the State House girls will migrate cross-town. From typewriter to typewriter at the City Hall today came the soprano watchword: “They shall not pass “cause they haven't got what it takes.” The City Hall girls aren’t worried about holding the| fort. The first State House girl that comes up the steps will get a very cold snub. And that’s not all. The City Hall girls know they outrank most of the State House girls in political experience, And that, girls, is what counts, Why, some of the City Hall girls have been precinct and ward officers for years and years . . well, years, anyhow. And that's not all, either. To work at City Hall, a girl has to live in the City. Most of the State House girls don’t live in the City, according to the City Hall girls. Another thing: At this, the City Hall girls smile a little smile. There is the matter of work. Could the State House girls stand up under the strain of a nip-and-tuck seven-hour day at the City Hall? It would be, say the City Hall girls, like transplanting a hothouse plant from the tender warmth of the greenhouse to the backyard. It’s rough-and-ready at the City Hall with barely an hour and a half for lunch. There aren’t any vacancies in the City Hall right now, anyway. Well, just the secretarial job in the Engineering Department. And four girls, each with plenty of “influence,” are after that job. So the City Hall girls are confident of holding the fort. But now and then, they have the feeling that the race is on and the track is fast.

WAIT VULTEE REPLY "ON TRUCE PROPOSAL

DOWNEY, Cal, Nov. 21 (U. P).— Union negotiators: today awaited a reply from Vultee Aircraft Co. to a proposal that a truce be declared, so the strike-closed plant could get pack to work on 84 million dollars’ worth of warplanes for the United States, Great Britain and South America. | Maj. Sidney Simpson of the War Department, who has been presiding at union-company conferences, advanced the proposal, the terms of which were not disclosed. Spokesmen for the United Automobile Workers’ (C. I. O. Union said his proposition was acceptable, except-

specified. Vultee officials were expected to reply through Simpson when negotiations are resumed today. Simpson said he had “no comment” on the sudden return to Washington of a co-conciliator, N. Arnold Tolles, assistant to Sidney Hillman, labor representative on the National Defense Commission. Tolles boarded an airliner, a few hours after L. H. Michener, regional director of the United Automobile Workers, had departed for the C. 1. O. convention at Atlantic City. The strike, now a week old, was called because Vultee refused to raise minimum wages from 50 cents to 75 cents an hour. *

IN INDIANAPOLIS

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Life in China, never casy for the “little people,” now bears down with the added weight of war-time privations. A wave of suicides is reported sweeping Shanghai. Two such were these two girls, who tied themselves together and leaped into the Whangpoo River. They are pictured being saved by alert rivermen, who frustrated their at-

tempt to die.

No Turkey for Yanks Abroad

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (U.P). —3Several thousand American nationals today were among the “have not” peoples about whom Hitler and Mussolini have had so much to say. They definitely “have not” turkey and cranberry sauce to eat on this Thanksgiving Day. They are the Americans still living in many foreign lands affected by war and the scarcity of any kind of food, but especially turkey. Officials estimated there are some 1200 Americans in the British Isles. There are believed to be 2500 or more Americans in Germany and the occupied areas. Italy. is believed to harbor nearly 15,000 American nationals. In China, Japan and Manchukuo there are still some 6000 or 7000 American nationals.

F. D. R. RETURNS T0 HYDE PARK

Grateful That War Has Spared U. S.; Plans to Attend Church.

HYDE PARK, N. Y. Nov. 21 (U. P.) —President Roosevelt came home today to Hyde Park House to participate in a national prayer of Thanksgiving that America has been spared the war that has brought

“calamity and sorrow to most of the world,

He was leading in observance of a tradition in which 32 of the 48 states joined today. But he ignored the refusal of 16 states to observe the holiday on the date he changed last year from the’ last Thursday of November to the next to last Thursday. With his wife, - Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, and his 86-year-old mother, Mrs, Sara Delano Roosevelt, the President expected to attend Thanksgiving services at St. James Episcopal Church near Hyde Park House to join in the prayer he articulated for the nation in his Thanksgiving Day proclamation,

Usually in Warm Springs

It was the second time in the seven years’and almost nine months of his Presidency that Mr. Roosevelt had failed to spend Thanksgiving Day at the Warm Springs, Ga, foundation for Infantile Paralysis. In 1936, en route to open the Pan-American Conference at Buenos Aires, he spent the holiday aboard the U. S. S. Indianapolis off the “hump” of Brazil, In all the other years of his New Deal, Mr. Rooseveilt has participated in the Thanksgiving celebration of infantile paralysis patients at Warm Springs. This year, however, he explained that the critical state of world affairs precludes his traveling so far from Washington, and sent his friends at Warm Springs a telegram of regret. Reflecting the critical war situation, Mr. Roosevelt's Thanksgiving proclamation was more austere than Hose of previous years of his New eal.

Repeats Prayer of Nov. 4. “In a year which has seen calamity and sorrow fall upon many peoples elsewhere in the world may we give thanks for our preservation,”

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And, thanking God for the American heritage of “this good land” he repeated the prayer with which he concluded his final preelection address to the nation on Nov. 4—the night he rested his case for a third term. Beseeching preservation from “violence, discord and confusion,” he prayed: “Defend our liberties, and fashion inig one united people the multiudes brought hither out of many Irodtrede tongues. , , .”

MOST OF NATION OFFERS THANKS

32 States Observing Holiday; Rejoice in Peace and Better Times. -

By UNITED PRESS

With feasting and prayer most Americans today gave thanks for a nation at peace, a nation in which the average citizen could rejoice. in a more secure economic position and a more promising immediate future than at any time in the past decade. The people of 32 states joined in this Thanksgiving observance, a week earlier - than the traditional last Thursday in November to which the six New England states and 10 others still clung despite the proclamation of President Roosevelt. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt hurried by train last night to their Hyde Park, N. Y., home for the holiday, just as thousands of others rushed by plane, train and automobile to family dinners. Dinner, a United Press survey showed, was to cost the average family slightly less than last year. The Standard meal of turkey and trimmings for a family of four was estimated at $4.32, as against $4.46 in 1939, And [tufkey, a survey of economic conditigns in the nation revealed, was expected to grace more tables than at any Thanksgiving : within the last 10 years. For the average citizen on this day enjoyed a better personal financial standing than in any year since the boom days of 1929. The coming week was expected to see the start of a record Christmas shopping season. It was in order to aid business by lengthening the Yuletide buying period that the President last year for the first time moved the Thanksgiving holiday up a week, Last year 26 states refused to fall in line. This year, in addition to the six New England states, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, South Dakota and Nevada clung te the traditional date. Kentucky was to celebrate both Thanksgivings.

Virkey Claimed By New Mexico

SANTA FE, N. M,, Nov. 21 (U. P.).—The Pilgrims may have made turkey the national Thanksgiving Day bird, but they weren't the first to ‘carve the bird by about 100 years. While the Pilgrim fathers and Indian allies stalked Thanksgiving dinners with musket and bow in New England, the Spanish Conquistadors were starting their second century of eating domesticated gobblers in sunny New Mexico, the New Mexico State Tourist Bureau has revealed. As early as 1540, New Mexico's Pueblo Indians had made peace offerings of turkeys. Just how long the birds had been around isn’t known. But Pedro Castronada, historian with Coronado who arrived at the Pueblo of Acoma 400 years ago; found the Indians raising “cocks” with great hanging chins.” New Mexico's Pueblo and -Navajo Indians continue an even more ancient custom of collecting turkey feathers for ceremonial purposes. The Navajos will not hunt turkey for their own table—even on Thanksgiving—but they will sell the birds to white men, retaining the feathers for ceremonial dances .and prayer-stick offerings.

LAVAL SAYS PERSHING MAY REPLACE BULLITT

VICHY, Nov. 21 (U.. P.).—Vice Premier Pierre Laval’s. newspaper, Moniteur, today announced: that there was some possibility that Gen. John J. Pershing might replace William C. Bullitt as United * States Ambassador to France. : ; The paper emphasized ‘ that Pershing’s task would be facilitated by the personal friendship that has bound him to Marshal Henri Petain for 22 years.” .: ww riod

| KNITTED MOHAIR TIES, while they

What with Winter Preparations at their pezk—znd with a hint of Christmas already in the ai— |

What with the great out-go of GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHES.

What with the After Thanksgiving Clearance Sales in the WOMEN'S SHOP and on the

BOYS' FLOOR— Al through the store, on every floor, you'll be aware of this greater activity!

What with the great PRE-CHRISTMAS TIE OCCASION— (and the featured presentation of Peach-Skin Pajamas).

These are the days!

IN SOME CASES, sweeping, spectacular reductions! IN MOST CASES, the

highlighting of the outstanding in What with many home from COLLEGE— bois, Eros 0 Voor ML and SCHOOLS released for the Thanksgiving

holidays—

CASES, tne fullest return for your

expenditure—regardiess of how much or how little!

300 SUITS, FASHION PARK. HOLLYWOOD. PRINCETOWN, $35

Taken from higher priced ranges—a few of these and ; that and those—great buys these are, gentlemen—and no two ways about itl

DON RICHARDS Suits, fine Worsteds, Special, 29.75

Designed in Hollywood—tailored in the East—young men’s (and older men’s) suits that have real smartness.

Stripe WORSTED SUITS, Special, $25

STRIPES—clear, distinct, on backgrounds of blue, brown, or gray—not “old pappy” suits—but just the right drape and lines—mainly “Double Breasters.”

COVERT SUITS, natural color, 19.75

Coverts are the class of the College field—and these are just right—in every detail of cut and fashion. ~*

ALPAGORA Zipper Coats, featured at 32.50

The Alpagora topcoat is famous the country over—with a zipper lining, that gives protection when the winter

really gets going. It's a coat that serves you always—and always with comfort and smartness.

WEARINGTONS, Suits, Topcoats, Overcoats, 19.75

At this price we have concentrated a lot of value—a lot of style—a lot of satisfaction.

Nand-Loomed WOOL TIES at 69¢

(3 for $2) Four hundred of them! Bright, sparkling colorings, various plaids, checks and stripes of different hues. (Usually $1).

WOOL HOSE, clear, sparkling Plaids 50c¢

Wools on the outside—lisle lined—clear, bright plaids (many Argyle types). They're from the Real Silk people—discontinued patterns—you’ll want a dozen pairs of them! 50c.

BRUXTON WHITE SHIRTS (remember

the name) 1.65

You'll hear a lot about this shirt. It’s fine. It was made under the supervision of a man who was a top executive in a concern that specialized on $5 and better shirts. Don’t miss seeing them!

Khaki Felt HATS, Dobbs 6.50

This is the new felt—with the GABARDINE band and edge—getting to be the lead hat in the College field (and among younger business men).

GAMESTER, swell mixture HATS at $5

The perfect hat to wear with your topcoat and overcoat. Soft, silky, rough finish, in Oxford, Sahara, and Mallard—and ten other swell shades.

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last 69¢

(3 for $2) - Cross stripes and diagonal stripes, also plain shades. (Usually $1).

Imported Moire-with-Satin Ties (Stripes), special at 1.35

(3 for $4) A find for those interested in fine neckwear. . Stripes—including raised. satin stripes on deep, rich backgrounds.

TIES, a spectacular showing at $1 Wool ties—in a choice selection—silks and the silks’ relatives—among them are “Visi-lined” ties, the type of construction that was formerly confined to 2.50 to $5 ties. ot

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