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THURSDAY, Pe 28, 1940
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— JRORS MAY SCAN GOP
COSTS IN STATE
ft Would Be Sinister to Let Plutocrats Buy Election,’ Minton Says.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. —Republican campaign ex-
‘penditures in Indiana may fig- _ ure prominently in a -double-
barreled investigation soon to get under way here, Senator
Sherman Minton said today. The Democratic Senator was defeated for re-election when Indiana was carried by Wendell L, Willkie along with nine other: states. A Pederal: Grand Jury will convene here Tuesday to look into possible Hatch Law viblations throughout the United States. And either the Gillette Senate Campaign Investigating Committee, or a new one to be appointed in January after _ Henry A. Wallace is inaugurated as Vice President, also will take up the matter. “When
the Republican State
; Committee in Indiana filed expend-
itures of more than $500,000 it is high time for joint action by both the Justice Department and Congress,” Senator Minton asserted.
Mentions Contributors
“I understand that among the large contributors in Indiana were a du Pont, Joseph Pew, the Pennsylvania oil magnate, and Alfred P. Sloan, General Motors board chairman. What possible interest could they have in the Indiana “election? ce they gave several thousand dollars calf there how much did No I in other states? The Hatch Act limits individual contributions to $5000. It is up to the Government to track down its violators and that is what both the Administration | and Congress intends to do. “Truman Newberry was refused a seat in the United States Senate
. ‘and convicted of fraud for having
$300,000 spent. on his nomination “by the Republicans in Michigan a few years ago. Now the G. O. P. in Indiana can spend a half million to defeat President Roosevelt and, incidentally, myself. ‘Patching’ May Be Necessary |“This didn’t include the epidemic of Willkie clubs and it will be well for Congress to know what they cost in Indiana and throughout the
‘* country, too
“If there are any loopholes in the Hatch Act which permits wealthy people to buy an election, Congress geriainiy will want to patch them
Pp. x would be a sinister thing to
: permit a party of plutocrats to pur-
chase an election and go unpunished. Both; the Grand Jury and Congress should know all about such ‘an attempt to debauch the electorate.” Senator Minton said he had informed President Roosevelt of “some things which went on in Indiana.” He also conferred yesterday with (Continued on Page Three)
GREECE APPEALS TO U. S. FOR WAR AID
ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 28 (U. P.). —Constantinos Mandiadakis, Minister of Public Safety and right hand
man of Premier John Metaxas, ap-:
pealed to the United States for aid today. “We address ourselves, ‘particularly
to the great, strong liberal union of
the United States of America and all the peoples of the Americas, asking them to reinforce us by sending] - necessary materials and supplies in order to bring to a successful conclusion the great and strenuous fight we have undertaken,” he- said. There was no element of despair in his appeal. He said “the children of Socrates, Plato, and Aristophanes” were prepared to withstand any ordeal, preferred to die rather than submit.
DELAYS POSSESSION ACTION
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (U, P). —Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., today said that the question of the United States taking over Britishk Western Hemisphere possessions should not be considered until the British exhaust their liquid agseis. :
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HINT CAUGHRAN VANNUYS CHOICE
Opposes Donovan for D. A.; New Scrap Over Smith Post May Result.
Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. —Senator Frederick VanNuys-® has. turned thumbs.down on Clarence Donovan, Bedford, for United States District Attorney at Indianapolis, it was learned today. Instead, he likely will recommend Howard Caughran, Indianapolis, for the place. Mr. Caughran was assistant to the late Val Nolan and has been acting District Attorney since Mr. Nolan's death. PY This sult in a pew patronWe heh will keep Will H. Smith in ‘the office of Collector “of Internal Revenue at Indianapolis. For Mr. Donovan was the favorite for the district attorneyship of both Fred Bays, Democratic state chairman, and Senator Sherman Minton. - Smith Ouster Fails
The latter was expected to join in obtaining the Smith - ouster from President Roosevelt in exchange for Senator VanNuys’ aproval of the Donovan appointment. Then Senator VanNuys was expected to recommend Glen VanAuken, Indianapolis attorney, for the collectorship. _ Two previous attempts to oust Mr. Smith proved unavailing. Although Senator = VanNuys selected him originally, he warits him ousted now {and has for some time. -. Frank Thompson, defeated for re-eleciion ‘as State Auditor, also is being mentioned for the collectorship. He was on the same ticket with Mr. Donovan, who was defeated for.Secretary of State. Since Senator Minton was defeated, Senator VanNuys will have a free hand with Federal patronage on all jobs requiring Senate approval.
VanNuys Could Object
Should the Administration seek to appoint someone of whom the senior Senator does not approve, he
the Senate Floor and: it is unlikely the appointment would be sustained. But since Mr. Smith’s is not a term appointment, this power cannot apply. And since Senater VanNuys is on the outs with the White
could not unseat Mr. Smith.
DUBINSKY ASSAILS. LEWIS IN UNITY PLEA
Charges He le “Gambled With Lives of Workers.
(Earlier Details, Page Six)
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 28 (U. P.). —David Dubinsky, head of the International Ladies Garment Work-
the American Federation of Labor convention today that John L. Lewis had “gambled*with the lives of millions of workers” in allegedly blocking labor peace. » In an unexpected néw plea for unity in. labor, Mr. Dubinsky, who was suspended from the A. F. of L. for associating with the C. I. O., ‘vigorously denied Mr. Lewis’ charges
that he took the “easy way” in returning to the federation. He said that “the only true statement” made by Mr. Lewis at the C. I. O. meeting was that the organization was not strong enough » Bggviiale peace with the A. F, 4
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NO — ON AUTO TAGS, FINNEY RULES
Sale to Open Dec. 5, With Dec. 31 Deadline; GOP Sees ‘Fee Plot.’
Auto
sale Dec. 5, and the last legal date for displaying 1940 licenses will be Dec. 31 at midnight, Frank Finney, license commissioner, ruled | today.
Mr. Finney said, “because Dec. 31 is fixed by law as the last legal date for displaying 1940 license plates.” In previous years, Governor Townsend postponed the date for displaying new plated until early spring to give car owners a chance to pay Christmas bills and clear up yearend debts.
'G. 0. P. ‘Not Surprised’
Officials say no extension is needed this year because of the favorable employment situation. : Republican leaders said they were “not surprised” at this year’s refusal to extend the license deadline. They described it as a move to retain about $350,000 in fees for Democratic license branch agents over the state. If the deadline had been extended to March 1, the Republican majority in the Legislature could take over the bureau in January and Republicans would get the bigger part of the fees that would reach a peak during February,
Managers Get Service Fee The branch managers now.
Deniocrats; get a 25°¢ent service fee for each pair of plates sold and also collect a 10-cent fee on drivers’ licenses. The Republican-controlled Legislature is expected to repeal the Reorganizdtion Act, which placed the Motor Vehicle License Division under the Governor, so that Republicans can be named branch managers. Before passage of the Reorganization Act, the license division was under the Secretary of State. Governor-elect Henry F. Schricker said yesterday that he favors the Dec. 31 deadline. He said he believed state officials should follow the deadline set by law and that if a deadline change was neededs as it might well be, the Legislature should do it. The 1939 Legislature refused to change the deadline. Mr. Schricker pointed out that a Governor, in postponing the deadline for purchase .of the plates, might use the same grounds for postponing the deadline for pay-
ment of taxes.
YEGGS GET $400 AT MOTOR SALES OFFICE
Haul os the Stronghox in Stolen Truck.:
‘Thieves last night escaped with $400 in cash and $3600 in checks belonging to the Irvington Motor Sales Co., 5704 E. Washington St. in what police today described as a “professional” Safe cracking job. The yeggs entered the company offices sometime after 11:30 p. m. through a window, carried the safe to a waiting truck which earlier had been reported stolen. The truck was driven to the vicinity of Prospect and ,K Gale Sts. The safe was smashed and looted. T. G. Fleming, company officer, said .payment on the checks would be stopped immediately. The truck, police said, was stolen from Dirks Market, 5524 E. Washington St.
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In three months they will be scattered throughout: the world . , . below decks on some man-of-war—
350 Here fo Finish Course As Radiomen, Then Go fo Seq
Because of Need, They're Rushing Two-Year Training
. pounding out dots and dashes.
PAPER CARRIER KILLED BY AUTO
A-Plus Pupil on Cycle Struck On Road 29 at 62d St.
William S. Parke, 19-year-old Aplus high school pupil whose life was built on a winning-against od¥s pattern, was killed last night when an auto struck the bicycle he was a]
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struck when he was seven months old; recently he had all but con quered it and played football and baseball and rode a bicycle. Last night he left his home, on 61st St.,.a half mile’ from Road 29, to deliver newspapers ona route he| acquired only two weeks ago to help finance an advanced course in technical radio.
As he rode onto Road 29° from|
62d ‘St., he was struck by a car driven by Albert E. Reed, 75th St. and Road 29. Mr. Reed told deputy sheriffs that he did not see the youth in time to avoid the accident. He swerved his car off the road and through a hedge, in an attempt to prevent the crash. Walle deputy sheriffs still were interviewing witnesses and hefore an ambulance arrived, Hosea Parke, 51, the youth’s father, reached the scene. He is a trucker and was on his way home from his work.
Returned to Ripple
“When I saw the crowd,” he Said today, “the thought flashed through my brain, ‘I wonder if anything has happened to Billy.’ ”’ William' began his A-plus high school career at Bfoad Ripple High School and then transferred to Tech to take the radio course there. Within the last two weeks, however, he had transferred back to Broad Ripple from which he was to have been graduated this January. He transferred back, his father said today, because he would thus save $1.75 ‘weekly transportation fees that he spent while going to Tech. “He thought he was helping his Dad,” Mr. Parke said today. “And he expected to help pay- his way through a radio school in Chicago with part of what he saved and what he earned on his paper route.”‘The victim is survived by his father and mother; four brothers, James, Robert, Benjamin and Jack; and five sisters, Mrs. Mildred Love, Mrs. Frances Alis, and Nellie, Barbara and Betty Parke.
COLUMBIA, BROWN TIE
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Nov. 28 (U. P.).—Columbia and Brown battled to a scoreless tie today in their final
fects of ph Won which |
Into Four Months
: By SAM TYNDALL ‘
at Naval Armory.
Like a giant beehive; the halls of the Naval Armory are buzzing with the staccato chatter of 350 tiny Morse code instruments.
* Today it was like this: At each
Morse key was a blue-garbed youth
of about 20. His head was bent over his desk, and with phones clamped on his ears, he was concentrating for all he was worth.
With his fingers, he was shins out code words like QZMCA-
Lowest Tonight 20 to 25; New Storms Reported In Western Canada.
Local TEMPERATURES ...19 10a. m. ... 22 a i am... 23 .m. ... 18 12 (noon). m ...2 1pm... gi
It's good news today from the Weather Bureau—warmer tomorrow. Meteorologist J. H. Armington predicted increasing cloudiness late tonight and tomorrow and then warmer tomorrow. = Continued cold will prevail tonight, with oy lowest temperature
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20 to 25, but won’t be quite as cold as last night he said. And although he added that the cold wave is about over and he doesn’t expect any more immediately, other weather bureau offices warned tne relief was only temporary, and declared the Middle West could count on a “quick reaction” over the week-end.
New Storms Predicted
New storms, followed by masses of freezing air, are reported moving out of southwestern Canada and the northwestern United States. Part of Montana and the Dakotas felt the new chill today, while the upper Mississippi Valley ‘and the notrhern Great Lakes regions were promised their share tonight and tomorrow. - Warnings: are up’ on Lakes Superior: Michigan and Erie. The coldest here in the past day (Continued on Page Three)
LOCAL MAN DIES ON TRAIN
CINCINNATI, Nov. 28 (U. P.).— Byer F. Hofstatter, 44, of 5309
t., Indianapolis, died today on |
a Sou hern Railroad train approaching Cincinnati. He was en route home. It was understood he re-
football game of ‘the season.
cently had been ill,
QZMSA-QZSMA—over and over--doing it faster and faster—trying tof do it automatically, b+ Hes trying to-learn to bea radio- |= man for the U, S. Nayy in Ju months—trying to pack in those four months what is formerly re‘quired two years to'learn.
2000 Operators Needed By Feb. 15 all.of them will have a berth behind a radio panel below decks of some vessel, somewhere on
‘ |the seven seas, sending and recelv-
ing coded messages. By Feb. 15; another class of 350 will be started. - The Navy urgently needs more than 2000 radio operators. And the Indianapolis radio school is one of three lin the country (the only one not on a coast) which will supply the need. . ‘Every week, from every source, Uncle Sam is pressing into service additional vessels for his flar-flung fleet. Some are obsolete gunboafs, others are large yachts, both needed for patrol work; many are merchantmen to be used as troop transports. And all must be manned by the Navy, and each must. carry at ieast one radioman.
Quota from Midwest
The-Indianapolis school has drawn its quota of 350: from cities and towns in the Middle West. The school enrollment opened one week and /the school began the next. In the four months the young men niust learn to assemble, tear down and repair a sending and receiving set; know the Morse code 50 that its use is “automatic.” and be able to send, receive and type 17 code words per minute—using the touch system on the typewriter. For eight hours a day these lads sit at the long desks sending and receiving. So arduous is the work that the class periods must be broken frequently by five minute rest periods. At the end of the day, they have
: dinner and soon go to bed.
The stately rotunda: of the white (Continued on Page Three)
STOCKS ADVANCE NEW YORK, Nov. 28 (U, PB) Some leading siocks rose $1 or more today because of selective buying
but the market otherwise was irregular and dull.
By JOAN YOUNGER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov.-28.—The toy industry is going great guns. From all portents in the trade, Santa Claus will come down the chimney this year fully armed with miniature guns, cannon and all the munitions that go with them. According to a group of toy experts, factories manufacturing war toys have been oversold on their full year’s production for the last month. Working on a 24-hour day three shifts they cannot keep th the country’s demand for jlitary - playthings. t year’s tin soldiers are made
Play nurse outfits for tle girls are sold out for the first time in toy history. Anti-air-craft guns, toy submarines, baby battleships/and planes are as hard
of. kes and continuing an un- : > fight.” ¥
J gst in the yoy world as they are
Bathtub submarine cha
‘Expecting an increased demand for Anierican toys, manufacturers prepared for a 5 per cent increase in sales. To date toy sales show an increase of 25 per cent and expectations in. the trade look toward an unprecedented 300-mil-lion-dollar sales total. Part of this increase is credited to war blockades ‘which curtail imports; part of it is credited to new markets opened up hy the dwindling of toy industries in -
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Munitions and: Patiiohsm Corner 1940 Toy Market |
: Among the newer inventions, the fun-for-fun’s-sake toys get short An ingenious spouting whale that swims under ‘water
gets little attention among the
. it really goes under.
Few toys escape some touch of jingo. A new doll with* a mag_netic hand holds a flag. Blackboards are featured as shatter-
proof. Modelg of U..S. Govern-
ment planes jn wood, metal, rubber and paper zoom in most toy * stores, while children’s hooks and games feature ' the ' Stars and ‘Vit eagles and Liberty Bells and th es an traditional favorites as
baby submarines. While sleds, tricyles and bicycles still | hold their own, they threaten at any moment to become outmoded by the increasing output of tanks, imitation motoreycles and trucks, In the dress-up toys, the G-Man, policeman, and Indian suits are nearly out. Uniforms for young air pilots, and soldiers are taking
tlight instead. <f ’ only. the electric train reigns : ‘supreme as a plaything pure and
simple—and even it takes a chance at getting loaded with small guns and toy soldiers.’ This year it has a new attraction, too. A station announcer. shouts out names of ‘the cities it ‘goes through, and an electric button pe open iis fr doors to “out. ifs
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iest battles of the war. ported high.
BRITISH ADMIT FOOD D WORRIES
Report ‘Ratiofing May. Be Extended Because Nazis Cut Supply Lines.
LONDON, Nov. 28 (U. P.).—Nazi U-boat and surface raider attacks upon Britain's overseas supply lines have reached such intensity that authorities today were reported preparing plans for extension of rationing and communal feeding. The gravity of the shipping situation and the closely related problem of providing Britain with food was indicated plainly today by Lord |- Woolton, Minister of Food. | Woolton announced a ban of shipments of ap ples, apricots grapes, bananas and possibly other fruits due to lack of cargo space and said that “we may, indeed, find ourselves no longer able to afford space” for customary imports of meat. eat dicated that these drastic Phin were due to’ a shortage of refrigeration capacity in the British merchant marine, presumably due to sinkings by Nazi raiders and because of the need of refrigeration tonnage by Britain's overseas armed forces. t Woolton’s statement | followed closely. revelation in Parliament yesterday by ‘Arthur Greenwood, member of the inner war cabinet; that British. shipping losses have reached the World War peak of the dark days of April,»1917. At that time Britain was reduced to a three week’s supply of food. It was indicated, however, that food reserves are larger than were on hand then. Great Britain is completely . dependent upon overseas sources of food. The Parliamentary correspondent (Continued on Page Five)
|ABORTIVE NAZI RAID
ON CURACAO BARED
Repulsed by British on July! 28, Says N. Y. Paper.
NEW YORK, Nov. 28 (U. P.).— The New York World-Telegram said today tpat it had learned from an eye witness of an abortive Nazi attempt to invade the Western Hemisphere at Curacao, strategitally important oil refinery base in the Dutch West Indies. | The Nazis, landing from » raider,
tional force which killed or w ed 35 of the ‘landing party,
clined to estimate British losses or permit the use of his name,
the cover of darkness, apparently intent on destroying the Curacao oil
were repulsed by a British secypes
newspaper’s informant said. He de-1R
The battlé took place last July 28( when the Nazis came ashore under| {%
PLYMOUTH ND ‘COLOGNE CHIEF TARGETS
| | Capture of Avieyrokagiton: Reported After ~ Terrific Battle; Former Bucharest Pre- | mier Added to ‘Blood Bath.’
"(Today’s War Moves, Page Five)
By JOE ALEX MORRIS. United Press Foreign News Editor~
reportedly scored a smashing
triumph over Italy at the Albanian town of Argyrokastron
a Mediterranean naval victory,
|and London ‘admitted the increasing gravity of the Axis blockade of overseas supply lines to the British Isles. Most sensational reports of the fighting front came from the Jugoslav frontier where it was said the Greeks had captured Argyrokastron—important Italian: base on the south front protecting Porto Edda—after one of the blood-| Casualties oh both sides were re-|
Advices from the notthenst fighting front reported that, AiR Greek cavalry had cut off a “considerable Italian force™ which was believed to face the alternatives of surrender or ‘| escape over the Jugosiay frontier. No report in detail has been. :
made by the British Admiral ty regarding the engagement of the Italian and British war fleets in which Italy flaimed victory. | AR al PT 0 cr
naval cruisers, one of the 10,00 DOC |Kent class and one of the 9100-ton Birmingham class. A follow-up attack by Italian warplanes was said to have brought hits on. another cruiser, an’ aircraft carriergyand a8 battleship. . |
Jtalians Admit Losses:
The Italians admitted slight losses. | They said the 1620-ton. destroyer Lanciere was badly damaged by British shells and had to be towed back to port and that a British shell | struck the cruiser Fiume of 10,000 tons, but luckily failed to explode. Other Sevelopments today ine cluded:
Threats of further trouble in the Balkans came from Rumania where | the Iron Guard organization continued a reign of terror. Another former premier, Prof. Nicholai Jore da, and Prof. Vergil Madgearu, for= | mer Cabinet Minister, were found | shot to death and it was believed |
figures had been slain. Attacks on Britain Continue :
The air attacks on the British Isles’ continued steadily, coastal town identified as Plymouth being for eight hours during the night and new formations of planes attacking | southern England targets today. At Berlin, it was said that Cane terbury, London, and Folkstone were among targets bombed during day
that many other Rumanian Political | :
with. a | d.by Germans erely bombed .
light hours by steady relays of Ger-. ]
man planes. | British bombers hammered at rails | roads and other targets in the big | German city of Cologne until they |
a mile long and very broad, ” the Air | Ministry said. In the Far East Thailand sent its” air force to attack targets in IndoChina following alleged Frenchraids | oa Siamese town.
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War in Greece
The Jugoslavian veports concerne , ing the capture of Argyrokastron ! said that the Greek troops, aided by | British planes, battered their wa into the city after an houf of biter hand-to-hand fighting. As Greek troops fought their way | into the town, British ‘planes shot | down . three Fascist war planes ' Sie one British craft was forced | an
have cut off ‘Argyrokastron from - communication with Porto Edda, the | seacoast town close to the AlbanianGreek frontier ‘yesterday. It was und that the Italian comer in Albania, (Continued on Page Three)
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refineries from which England de<| rives much of its airplane gasoline.| The informant added that since| then, tension between Dutch nhah-
The Greeks had been reported to | )
started many fires, including “one | 43 i