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Clothe-A-Child Drive Launched by
COUNTY BOARD WELFARE QUIZ OPENS MONDAY
Judge Cox Charges ‘Apparent Inefficiency’ in Local Department.
The Marion County Welfare Board will begin an investigation Monday into charges made today by Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox of “apparent inefficiency” in
the County Welfare Depart-
ment.
Judge Cox’s statement was made following similar charges yesterday by two County Department employees who testified at a hearing before the State Welfare Board on an appeal of the dismissal from the county department Nov. 15 of Miss
Mary McFadden, 1516 N. Pennsyl- . vania St.
Cox Names Members The investigation Monday, it is said, will be made as another attack on the State Welfare Laws, which give the State Welfare Board power to appoint the Marion County welfare director over the heads of county welfare board members. Judge Cox, who names rhembers of the board, said “apparently there is something wrong with the whole set up in the county department, and I'm for finding out what it is.” Thomas Neal, County Welfare director, at whom the “inefficiency” charges were flung, said se would “carry on his own” investigation in the circumstances surrounding the
Miss M McF! adden, “to make dismissal. of. ditions ‘can not
arise again.” Plan Thotguth Inquiry The Marion County Board has called a meeting Monday. ostensibly to review Miss McFadden’s dismissal, the State Board having returned the appeal case yesterday. But, it was learned, the Board will begin a thorough investigation into, inefficiency charges with a view, it is said, to creating ammunition to be used in an attempt to repeal the provisions of the laws which permit the state-control over county di-
irectors,
ROOSEVELT OPPOSES DEFENSE SALES TAX
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (U.P.) —
" president Roosevelt said today that
he would oppose any proposals to enact a sales tax to finance new Government expenditures resulting from the national defense program. Mr. Roosevelt will explore the entire fiscal: situation tonight at a supper conference with Congressional, Treasury and Budget Bureau tax experts. He left no doubt that should a sales tax proposal emerge, ‘he would oppose = The tax Drath tonight, said Mr. Roosevelt, probably will not produce any major decisions on the new fiscal ‘policy which will be
- evolved in the ® Congress which . meets Jan. 3.
The meeting, rather, will be explanatory, he added, explaining he wants to look into all phases of the situation. The conferees, he continued, will ook into the matter of Government expenditures as well as the new tax program. He already has announced that he has established a policy of cutting all non-defense programs and expenditures to the bone in the coming fiscal year.
DIES OF WOUND IN
TERMINAL SHOOTING
Harry Roberts, = who wounded himself early Sunday morning at Traction Terminal, died today at City Hospital. He was 33 and lived at 3232 Graceland Ave. The shooting occurred after Roberts met Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Smythe, 95 W. Michigan St., at a freight yards near the ierminal. Police said they had learned that Smythe had warned Roberts to cease his attentions to Mrs. Smythe. When the two men met Sunday a fist fight ensued and Roberts was peaten up. He staggered to his feet
"and walked away. While Smythe
and his wife still were talking, Roberts returned with a gun. He shot Mrs. Smythe, who is still in a serious condition at City Hospital, Mr; Smythe and then him-
self.
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FRIDAY, IN OVEMBER 2, 1940
The Times Eleventh Year
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campaign. Clothe-A-Child has been
aiding an incieasing number of children. From a total of 380 youngsters given warm clothing in 1930, the campaign last Christmas-time reached a high of 2638. Altogether, a total of 11,976 children have been
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The -Clothe-A- Child campaign serves a double purpose, not only furnishes a real Christmas for the children of needy families, but it provides these under-privileged youngsters with warm clothing for® the chilly days of January, February and
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Thousands of Indianapolis children are unable to attend school in zero weather because of inadequate clothing. Hundreds of these children actually have no underwear; hundreds more have no overcoats and trudge to school shivering in skimpy and ragged
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COLDER WEATHER BY TONIGHT IS FORECAST
Frigid Wave Moving East
From Rockies.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a.m ....3 10a m.,...36 a.m. ....40 11am. ....35 8am. .... 38 12 (noon) .. 37 9am ....38 1pm.....37
Colder weather tonight was forecast for Indianapolis as a cold wave swept across the northern tier of states from the Rockies to the Atlantic Seaboard. The U. S. Weather Bureau here said Indianapolis will miss the brunt of the storm, although the mercury probably will drop to 25 tonight. Accompanied by snow, the cold wave dropped the mercury to the sub-zero mark in the Dakotas and Minnesota, and even in the south thermometers registered freezing. Temperatures dropped as low as 20 degrees below zero in the Dakotas and Minnesota. At Chieago, 25 degrees and colder was forecast and at New York temperatures near 20 degrees were predicted. The snow generally was light and not unusual for the season. Heavier snow which had fallen earlier this week was drifting six inches to more than a foot over Wisconsin,
Michigan and Minnesota as the new snow fell
Proddly, Second Lieut. “Robert
tional Guard plane for a landing at
a triumphant visit.
civilian’ fliers were killed.
who had taught his son to fly last summe?, stoically said today: “Bob lived a pretty full life—so I have no regret.” Lieut. Shank received Fedefal permission to fiy an Indiana National Guard plane only Wednes-
Stout Field and was bound for Hoosier Airport, his father’s. Landing gear down, he was ma-
$iwpen the planes collided in mid-ain
Bruce Shank headed his trim Na-
day. Yesterday, he took off from.
Dog Hides When ‘Burglar Enters
The diminutive dog of the Arthur Brandenburgs at 4111 Pleasant Run Pkwy. S. Drive, doesn’t like burglars, but he saw his third today, when one broke into the home and stole jewelry valued at $500. Mrs. Brandenburg, returning to her home this morning, saw a man
. smash a glass panel in. a cellar
door and enter the house. She ran to a neighbor’s house and phoned police, and then returned to watch for the burglar. Police arrived and surrounded the house but the burglar already had fled from a rear door. Four rings were missing from a bedroom. It was the third burglary attempted, Mrs. Brandenburg told police. The first two attempts failed. : The diminitive dog was still in hiding after police completed their investigation.
FAINT HEART? NO—FEINT
NEW YORK, Nov. 29 (U. P.).— Der Deutscher Weckruf Und Deobachter, official organ of the Ger-man-American Bund, today explained Italian reverses in Albania. ne whole thing is a feint, » it said.
GOEBBELS IN NORWAY OSLO, Norway, Nov. 29 (U. P.).— German Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, alTiveq here today.
his father’s airport. It was to be §
This was his: first flight with his new commission: It ended abruptly § a few seconds ‘later in tragedy. His i plane collided :in mid-air with a little training ship, and the recent : Army school graduate ‘and two 5
And the 21-year-old flier’s father, oldest of the U. 8. air mail pilots
F.D.R. MAY USE STRATO PLANE
Plans Defense Trip Next Week; Refuses to Reveal / Destination.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt disclosed today that he hopes to leave early next week on a defense inspection tour which may take him more than 12 hours rail travel from Washington, but he added that if
return to the White House by
airplane.
Such a trip would shatter all precedent and represent the first time in history that a President has fraveled py plane, velt has not flown since 1932 when he went to Chicago from Albany N. Y., to accept his first nomination as President. Refusing to disclosé the destination of the projected trip, the President said that, in . effect, it would not violate his 12-hour rule if he could be certain of being able to get back to the White House by plane in such a period.
* . Wide Flight Area
He admitted that this arrangement might open the entire continental United States to his possible future trips and, perhaps, the
its of the couniry. Asked about the possibility that| he might fly: in: a “naval flying boat, the. President -countered with a reply that he might fly in a stratosphere plane. Under the 12-hour flying rule, flights could be made over a radius extending ‘from Newfoundland, south to Puerto Rico, and west to Spokane, Wash. K It was understood that the U. S. Cruiser Tuscaloosa was at Norfolk, Va., ready for the President’s use if he desired
it. Speculation that he might witness the scheduled fleet maneuvers off the Puerto Rican Coast, which start | Dec. 7, met with no comment at the Navy Department. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox has announced that he will witness the war games.
Hints No Rule Needed
President Roosevelt said the Secret Service never has told him directly that he could not fy. Therefore, he indicated, he assumed he could fly in case of an emergency. He said he felt that the question of a Presidential flight could be worked out amicably without laying down a rule. He suggested with a grin that the Secret Service might want .to put a convoy of protecting planes around his ship should such ‘a flight actually develop. He joined in the general laugh when a reporter asked him: “When was the last time you were up in the air?” The President said he is. satisfied with progress.of the defense program and that invocation of priorities may be unnecessary in getting production of military = airplanes right of way over commercial airoTafL,
DIES IN COLLISION BREMEN, Ind., Nov. 29 (U. P)).— Clarence Emery, -45, of Kalamazoo, Mich., was killed’ today: when his creamery truck crashed headon with a freight truck one mile east of here.
BRIDGE HEARING SET . The hearing for the injunction suit to block the purchase of a bridge at New Harmony by the Indiana State Toll Bridge Commission was set for next Friday morning by Judge Herbert E. Wilson in Superior
Court today.
We Had Great Dreams,’ Says Father of ~ Lieut. Shank, Killed on Flight of Triumph
Shank’s ship exploded and both craft fell. ‘Willard Kenneth Mount, 26, of 88 S. 11th St., Beech Grove. in tr as & national defense civilian flier since Nov. 19, and Harold, King, 29, of N. Emerson Ave., Hoosier Airport employee and licensed Civil Aeronautics Authority trainer, were the other victims. Today a three-way investigation
‘into the crash was proceeding as
National Guard and CAA officials inspected. the wreckage of the
planes and interviewed witnesses.
When the planes collided, the National ‘Guard ship exploded, whirled in the air, burst into flames and fell with Lieut. Shank inside. The training ship, much smaller, flew into three parts, throwing Mr. King and Mr. Mount into the air.
= The crash ripped Mr. Mount’s para-. -- chute cover and the chute streamed : out but did not open open enough
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neuvering to set the plane down Lieut. Robert Shank Ie. . . died: The planes fell in a garden field,
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SPECIAL PAROLE TO STEPHENSON
Ex- Klan. Leader to Have
Operation in Hospital™ At La Porte.
D. C. Stephenson, former Indiana Ku-Klux Klan leader now serving
a life term for murder -in the Indiana State Prison, was granted a temporary parole today by Governor Townsend so he may undergo a gall bladder operation at the Holy Family Hospital, La Porte. The . parole will:-be effective tomorrow, and Stephenson will: be taken immediately: to the hospital were the operation will be . performed by Dr. W. W. Ross, La Porte. Physicians believe it will be necessary for Stephenson to remain in the -hospital five weeks. He was sentenced to the State Prison Nov. 16, 1925, for a life term after his conviction on a. charge of second: degree murder in connection with the death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, State House stenographer. Stephenson this month completed the 15-year minimum period required by the State Clemency Board before it will consider parole. He filed a parole petition several
considered tite petition, since Stephenson has 8 petition for a writ of error, coram nobis, pending in Hamilton Circuit Court. The policy: of the Board is not to consider parole petitions of pris(Continued on Page Three)
INDIANA AVE. BRIDGE ‘REPAIRS SUGGESTED
{Urged to Replace Plan for New Structure.
Father Awakens Two Boys Charles Eddleman Says He Will Rebuild House; Even Auto
Four years ‘ago Cecil Eddleman built a “two-room “Ave. and his wife and family moved in. In his spare time, Mr...
Today the result of Mr. Eddleman’s four years’ labor was leveled \by fire as the couple saved their three children.
months ‘ago, but the Board has not |
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Home at 5218] this year he finished it—a cozy five-
But Mr. Eddleman hasn’t give up his desire to have his. own home. He said he will start building another one on the same site as soon as he can get his family settled. - . “And I'll have to start from scratch,” he explained, Mr. Eddleman came home about 2:30 this morning after a ‘night's work as garageman for the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. He sat down and talked with his wife, Whomlied waited up for him.
Wife Smetls Smoke
Suddenly Mrs. Eddleman smelled smoke. Her husband went to the garage which adjoins the house,
and opened the door. Flames leaped out and burned his face. With only minutes to spare, Mrs.
baby, Sandra Jean, 3 months old, and ran outside while Mr. Eddleman rushed his two sons, Harry, 9, and Robert, 10, to safety.
went to a neighbor’s house, while her husband tried to save the home. There are no fire hydrans near 5218 Mathews Ave., in Perry Township, and the 550 gallons of water which one fire” truck brought was not enough t6 quench the flames.
Wells Are Dry
‘ Almost all the wells in the neighborhood are dry and the family had been foreed to carry water to their house. ; | The Eddlemans managed to save the clothes they were wearing—that was about all. The family car also was destroyed. “I had some insurance—but not much,” Mr. Eddleman said today. Firemen estimated the loss at $2500. To Harry, the young son, is was
“We lost all our toys,” he said. The only thing saved from the household was one basket of damp wash which Mrs. Eddleman was ironing. Last year the Eddleman home was struck by lightning. No damage was done .to the house, but both Mr. and Mrs. Eddleman were
tered at: Postoffice; Indianapolis, Ind.
Eddleman picked up her sleeping iP:
Mrs. Eddleman and the children|"
a particularly bitter night. “1
knocked down by the bolt.
A proposal to repair the Indiana Ave. bridge over Fall Creek instead of building a new bridge costing $500,000, was presented to the Works Board today by Louis C. Brandt, Works Board president. Showing preliminary plans to patch the structure, condemned as unsafe more than a year ago by the city, Mr. Brandt told* the Board he believed needed. repairs would ‘not exceed $9000. The proposal to reinforce and resurface the bridge was the result of insistent demands of West Side reésidents for exits to districts in northwest Indianapolis. Mr, Brandt said that it would be virtually impossible to finance a new bridge next year as the city had hoped to do when it condemned the present structure. Repairs should add from six to 10 years to the life of the span, he said. Board members “withheld action pending approval by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. Repairs would include a superstructure with asphalt. pavement and reinforcement of piers and
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Parents Save Children as Fire Razes Home
The Cecil Eddleman family (left to sightiRoburt, Mrs, Eddleman and Sandra Jean, Harry and Mr. Eddleman , , . ‘I'll have to start from scratch.’
RELIEF PROBED AT VINGENNES
‘Questionable Administra--tion”--Reparted Following ‘Audit -of Books,
Edward P. Brennan, chief examiner of the State Accounts Board, announced: today that an audit of the books of I. Gran} Beesley, Vincennes Township Trustee in- Knox County, “showed.a questionable administration of poor relief aggregating more than $20,000.” The audit was placed in the hands of the Knox County Grand Jury yesterday. Specific charges of misapplication of $13,000 in poor relief funds is set up in the audit, and Mr. Brennan said Mr. Beesley and his bonding firm will be proceeded against civilly to recover-the amount. The audit was made by Examiners Byron B. Nickels and John G. Willis, and covers the period from Jan. 1, 1939, to Oct. 31, 1940. Mr. Brennan said that from Jan. 1, 1940 to Oct. 31, a total of more than $30,000 was spent in Vincennes Township for medical - assistance, while only a little more than $27,000 was spent for food, fuel and cloth-
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“That is just. exactly the opposite of the way it should be,” Mr, Brennan said. The report showed practically the (Continued ‘on Page Three)
REPORT 2000 SLAIN IN RUMANIAN TERROR
Iron Guards Battle Troops, ‘Budapest Hears.
BUDAPEST, Nov. 29 (v. Py Diplomatic information received here from Bucharest today .alleged that : 2000 persoms, many of , them Jews, had been slain in Iron Guard outbreaks in Rumania and that Iron Guardists had fought pitched battles with Rumanian Army troops. Information received here indicated that the Iron Guard outbreak in Rumania had been of a more serious charaeter than admitted in dispatches passed by the Rumanian censors. (There has been no indication in Bucharest censored dispatches ‘of disorders on the scale reported in Bucharest and there has been no mention of anti-Semitic outbreaks in’ Rumania.) :
Win Court
Leniency for Son, 16, Thief
Her 16-year-old high school son towered over the little East Side mother” as they appeared before Judge John McNelis in Municipal Court today. Mother and son hooked arms and the mother rubbed her son’s hand with hers. The son, sentenced to 180 days on the State Farm for unlawful possession of an auto, had been in jail all night. “But Judge,” the mother said, “I didn’t know his case was to be up yesterday morning. I was in court all afternoon, and when nothing happened I went home. Just he was sentenced with no one of his own in court.” The youth’ said nothing. “Young man,” Judge McNelis said... “You have been sentenced and I would let the sentence stand
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if it were Bok dor your: mother, You] .
‘ought to be as good to your mother
as she is to you. ‘She works so you can go to school. Then you stay out, against her wishes, every night,
ITAIN CLAIMS SEA TRIUMPH
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POWER CUT TO 2 BATTLESHIPS
Nazis Chased From Chane nel, London Adds; Axis |
* By JOE ALEX MORRIS {| United Press Foreign Newy Editor |
Italy, rushed more reine forcements battered ‘Albanian battle lines today as both the Axis and Great Britain claimed impor-
nean to the Irish Sea. While Nazi bombers hammered at Liverpool and the R. A. F. attacked Germany’s Ruhr, Valley war induse tries, there were naval engagements in the English Channel and in the Mediterranean, with air bombers participating. Germany claimed a triumph in a warship skirmish in the Channel but London asserted that it chased the Nazi ships to France; while both Britain ‘and Italy claimed successes in the Mediterranean, The engagements in thé: ‘Medie
terranean were of special importance because they spurred British agita<
Italy and may vitally affect the war
continued successes and reportedly were threatening the Fascist main base at Elbasan, “Heré are the conflicting Britishe
sea battles; BRITISH
Italian dreadnaught strength had been cut to two warships by: the Taranto raid and Wednesday's ac-
off Serinia ‘8 35,000-ton . Litkario class battleship was. a fleet airplane, three larpedo Cruise ers and two destroyers were dame aged. Italian losses at Taranto are scored by the British as three-bate tleships, two cruisers, two auxiliaries, This leaves two 23 622-ton Cavour class battleships available for Tale ian use.
ton Berwick, suffered two. hits and lost six men in the Wednasgay. action. Bombs dropped all around the famous aircraft carrier Ark Royal—often claimed to have been
cause damage or casualties,
off Malta. ITALIAN—
One British battleship badly dam« aged Wednesday by an airplane bomb, one British aircraft carrier and three cruisers damaged. In Thursday’s attack another Sih battleship squarely hit by airplane bomb of heaviest caliber, five Brite ish planes shot down, four more damaged. Italians suffered one destroyer badly damaged, one cruiser lightly hit in the Wednesday. ene gagement, lost one plane Yesterday, .The' English Channel fight w apparently a skirmish eri small forces of German and British destroyers. ‘The Germans claimed a destroyer flotilla made a sortie toward the British Coast and suce ceeded in torpedoing two British destroyers, At the same time other German destroyers claimed’ to have sunk a
ship and two smaller yessels. Corfu Coast Shelled
port of the action, said the German destroyers were ‘chased back to
British light forces. They admitted indicated belief that one or more
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tons, reported today that she: was being approached by a submarine
according to a message picked. up by Mackay Radio. ;
and you steal. “The next time you want to steal go home and ask your mother tg help you steal, and then see if you do.” He paused.
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put you on probation. The conditions are that you are in your home by 8 p. m. every day in the week but one, when you may stay out ,juntil 10 or 10:30. You must report weekly to the probation officer.” The judge stopped. The mother, struggling to keep tears back, said: “Never, mover can I find . way to thank you, Judge.”
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REPORTS ROME
ins English Version. 1 into Fascism’s
tant vigtories in sea and air fighting from the Mediterra-
tion for a “knock-out” blow against:
in Albania, where Greeks claimed
Italian claims on the Mediterranean. ‘
tion. In the Wednesday encounter
One British cruiser, the 10,000-
sunk by the Germans-but failed to: There was no British report yet on the | Italian reports of a fresh air attack '
9000-ton and a 3000-ton merchant’
The British, in an incomplete re-
Brest as soon as sighted: by the bid damage to one British warship, bus ~~ | Ussrinen destroyers also. ‘had been |
The third naval action was. ree ported in the Adriatic where Italian *
REPORTS SUB NEAR NEW YORK, Nov. 20. (U.P)~— The British steamer Harpasa, 5082
about 400 miles of the Irish coast,
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