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3 GOALS LISTED FOR CHAMBER
Home Rule Proposal Among Those to Be. Offered to Legislature,
The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce legislative committee today recommended to the board: of
to the Legislature opening Jan. 9. Among them were: :
1. Earlier tax rate reductions for employers in she state unemploy-
2. A constitutional amendment which would enable Indiana muni-
ager form of governmant. 3. Elimination of | fexorbitant” fees from the offices of county sheriff, county clerk and county treasurer. On the latter point, the commit-
that these three officials “now re-
ceive profits: through fees esti-|*
mated to exeeed $25, 000 annually, The committee has been working under the direction of George L.
sence of Chairman | George A. Kuhn. Committeemen also are studying proposals , of retail groups for “pelief” from the 1 per cent gross (Continued on Page Three)
Accident Fails ToHaltWedding.
THANKS TO his cousin, Hugh Flynn, 851 N. Rural St., got to his wedding on time today. He and his brother, Edward, « who was best man, were riding to SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral , when their car and another ¢ol-" | Jded at 13th St. and Cornell Ave. The Flynn's cousin, Mrs. Gertrude Kores, 804 N. Rural St., happened . by and agreed to take Edward's driver's license and wait for the lice. The Flynns hurried to the Cathedral where Hugh Flynn married Miss Dorothy Keene, 2134 Central Ave.
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Hijackers Bind
left in the vehicle.
The driver's hands were taped pulled over his face. By burning
off the tape with matches, he managed to free his hands and, after an hour and a half’ pried open the truck door with a steel plate. $ Overpowered Driver The driver, Johnson Weddle, 46, of Brazil, Ind., told deputy sheriffs and State Police: that four men in ‘a "car drove alongside his vehicle last night near Bridgeport and pointed a red flashlight in his face. Thinking it was a police ear, Mr. Weddle halted. The men overpowered Mr. Weddle, blindfolded him and put him in their car. One of them got into the truck and’ according to Mr. Weddle, they drove for “a good while.” State Police said the two vehicles were driven out the Millersville Road about a mile northeast of the city to a wooded thicket, where a
fifth hijacker ‘waited with another truck.
Calls Sheriff’s Office
The merchandise was transferred. After running his truck into a ditch, the hijackers threw Mr." Weddle into the back end and locked the door. His hands were placed behind him and bound with adhesive tape. After freeing himself, he went to the Roberts dairy nearby, where he telephoned the Sheriff's office. Company officials said the merchandise ;was en route to Terre Haute, Ind, and that some of it probably was for Christmas trade.
‘COLDER TOMORROW’ 1S BUREAU FORECAST
So Button Up Your Coat and Stoke Furnace.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. .., .. 50 Yam .... . 51 8 a. m. . 52 9a m. . 53
and
4 12 (noon), . aT 1pm...
Button up your overcoat stoke that furnace! “Considerably colder tomorrow” was forecast today by the Weather Bireau. The lowest tonight will be about 25 degrees. State roads south of No. 1 were
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7|Side Glances. 8 2 Society ... 4 7| Sports . 10, 11 8 State Deaths,
6|is Sicating the vighway, the Gom-
reported clear by the Indiana State Highway Commission today. Ice and a two-inch snowfall yesterday has made State Road No. 14 slippery, but a rising ture
Fruck Driver.
Flee With $2000 in Tobacco
- An Indiana Railroad Co. truck lodded with general merchandise was hijacked last night near Bridgeport, Ind, and the driver. bound: and
Company officials said today the value of the loot—cigarets and smoking tobacco—probably will amount to $2000 to $5000.
behind his back, and his cap was
FOOTBALL CAMPAIGN GOMES T0 A CLOSE
3 Perfect Records at Stake; . Army, Navy Clash.
NEW YORK, Nov. 30 (U. P)— The 1940 football campaign reaches the end of the trail today with
Stanford, Tennessee and Boston College, ‘all driving toward New Year's Day bowl games, risking their perfect records for the last time, In one of the day’s major games, Army and Navy clash at.Philadelphia before a crowd of: 102,000— largest of the season. Navy is favored. . Tennessee risks its perfect record against * Vanderbilt, Boston College faces its traditional rival, Holy Cross and Stanford tackles California. With the Texas Aggies removed
of their Thursday defeat:by Texas, Tennessee and Boston College have a chance to go to Pasadena even, though Stanford is reported to favor Nebraska. And if Stanford decides on the Cornhuskers, then B. C. and Tennessee would make a natural for the New Orleans Sugar Bowl. In the only important Midwest game, Nebraska will take the Big Six crown if it beats Kansas State.
‘WITH NUTS?
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 30 (U. P.) —Police today were investigating the theft of a ton of fudge
‘Department into = single year-
-| tion. The City now has more play4grounds and more Community
from the Rose Bowl running because].
CONSOLIDATION OF RECREATION UNITS FAVORED
City Hall Envisions a Council To Co-ordinate Private And Public Projects.
By RICHARD LEWIS
A movement to consolidate activities of public and private recreational organizations in Indianseolis under the direction of a City-wide co-ordinating council has been
launched at City Hall, The plan is to pool the recreation resources of a dozen private agencies, the School City and the Park
around program. It got underway at a ing of a joint School-Park Boa committee this week. To its exponents in the Park Department, the idea means the more efficient distribution of recreation facilities. It means that more people will have access to planned. pro-
grams. Idea Is Year Old
The idea of co-ordination was an outgrowth of Park Department efforts to. develop community cooperation in City-sponsored recreation. For more than a year, Mayor Sullivan’s Recreation Advisory Committee, the Park Board and the School Board have examined the idea. At this week’s meeting, the Joint committee discussed ‘a plan for closer Park-School co-operation next year as a starter. While School officials made no commitments, they viewed the idea favorably. Behind the plan is the belief that City Hall has.gone as far as it can go financially in expanding recrea-
houses operating than ever hefore. Still, the ‘éxperts feel, the program should grow. It can do so, they believe, with the help of School and private organizational facilities. Hope For Council Looking wistfully into the future, the experts hope for the eventual establishment of a City-wide Coordinating Council which would line up every recreatioh activity in the City and avoid duplication of effort. Starting with the School City, the Park Department has made this kind of a proposition: The School City has the buildings for meeting rooms, the gymnasiums for evening sports, the playgrounds for summer ‘outdoor activity and the physical education teachers to help run a program. To what extent can the School City lend these facilities for adult recreation? No immediate answer is expected. Like the Park Department, the schools have their financial probems, being required to operate within a budget. The same proposal will be repeated to the YM.C.A,, the Community Fund Recreation division, the Kirshbaum Center the Parochial Schools and other religious and fraternal organizations. Leaders Confer The sum total of these proposals is, the experts believe, municipal recreation second to none in the country. : At the meeting, Albert Gisler, Park’ Board vice president, and Miss Gertrude Brown, Board member, who represented the City, conferred with Mrs. Carl Manthei and Evans Woollen Jr. of the School Board, DeWitt Morgan, City Schools Superintendent, and A. B. Good, Schools Business manager.- H. W. Middlesworib, City Recreation ditor, represented the Recreation Department. ;
A Lot of Work To Cast No Vote
RECOUNT commissioners, . in chécking the voting machines, found that an ‘unrecomstructed Hgvendens had been in one of
The commissioners discovered that one voter had pulled the party lever where no party was indicated but where the name of Otto Ray, independent candidate for sheriff, was placed. The voter then scratched Mr.
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Leaves, So Pretty on Trees, Harass Our Mr. Winship.
NATURE, observed Streets com-| missioner Wilbur Winship, is thej biggest handicap the City Streets| Department has to contend with, Not human nature, he added, but Mother Nature, Mr. Winship was pessimistic. ‘He
sat at his desk in his dimly-lit, sub-
terranean ' office . at City Hall, slowly making out his leaf collections report. for the Works Board. . Sometimes he paused to wonder: Was his de-" partment fighting nature or was nature fight- = ing him? He con- Mr. Winship tinued working." ‘The cause of Mr. Winship’s gloom, as he admitted, was leaves. Thousands and. thousands of leaves which unfeeling nature had scattered over the streets for taxpayers to complain about. % » ® . “TROUBLE . Fl trouble,” he muttered. “This is one trouble outfit. First there’s the mud and then the leaves. ‘Nature put them on the trees and nature takes.them down. “But nature stops right there. And we've got to pick them up.” ‘Mr. Winship sighed and shook his head. Someone mentioned snow and ice. He winced. “Don’t,” he pleaded, “don’t mention snow and ice at this time. If it’s not leaves, it’s that or something else.” 2 The Commissioner sadly reviewed the tricks that nature plays upon him. Spring, he said, holds no joys for the Streets Department. 8s Rn ” RAINS AND melting snow ruin all the painstaking work the Streets Department has done to grade the unimproved streets. And, again, the residents are on the telephone. There is little joy in summer, either. The dust, a Winship .explained. And when the Department has fihished the weary work of oiling the. stress to deal with the dust... The leaveigs’-gin to “trickle down. “I tell you,” saig Mr. Winship suddenly, “it’s just a vicious circle.”
NO NEW TAXES ON "40 INCOME
Retroactive U. S. Levies Are Ruled Qut at White House Session.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (U. P.. —Individuals and corporations were assured today that general tax revision of the next Congress will not affect 1940 incomes. Decision to refrain from imposing retroactive taxes on personal and)
corporate incomes was reached at a 3% hour White House supper conference last night between President Roosevelt: and ‘Treasury, Budget Bureau and Congressional tax experts. Chairman Pat Harrison (D. Miss) of the Senate Finance Committee said on leaving the White House that “we can say definitely that there will be no additional taxes on 1940 income.” The conferees held a general discussion of means of financing the
country’s huge national defense
budget, agreed that levies must be increased, but reached no decision on policy. It was indicated that results of the March 15 income tax returns would guide legislators in determining the extent to which the next Congress would have to boost. taxes. Conferees said that they . had not discussed the possibility of a general sales tax, which Mr. Roosevelt denounced at his press conference yesterddy. They indicated, however, that there had been considerable talk about the possibility of broadening the personal income tax base and of increasing corporate taxes. The group also considered boosting the national-debt limit beyond its present $49,000,000,000 ceiling, but those who participated. in the
from the J. O. Wexh Co.
Ray, who had withdrawn a day or so earlier.
meeting said that. Hp Gecision was Teathen:
Tr sony FOUND,
FEAR 30 MEN | DEAD IN MINE
Explosion in Ohio Shaft Believed Result of Slate Fall, Short Circuit.
CADIZ, 0., Nov. 30 (U. P.). —Officials of the Ohio-Penn-sylvania’ Coal Co. abandoned virtually all hope today of reaching alive 30 men still trapped by an explosion in the ‘Nelms mine near here after one mangled body. had been brought to the surface. Rescue squads were reported encountering tremendous difficulties and company and state mine inspectors reported that they might not reach the entombed men for several days. A rescue squad brought the body of Pete Speicher, 38, one of the 31 men buried by the explosion yesterday, to the surface. Li Fears Brother Dead
E. W. Finn, a member of a rescue squad, said that he had been working in another, section of the mine at the time: of the explosion. He said his brother, Mike Finn, was one of the men trapped in the affected: section 12, north. “I don’t think that I shall see him alive again,” he said. “The rescue squads are making good general progress, but there is still a great amount of debris to be cleared away before fresh air. can be forced into the place where the men. are trapped.” Frank St. Clair, chief clerk of the mine company office, said the searchers ' within the mine ‘were “real close,” ‘but he declined | to say how ‘long it would require to reach all ‘of ‘the men. He believed a large mass of debris still had to) be _removed. Reseue parties themselves 3 ere in peril. One group narrowly escaped being crushed by a mass of rock loosened by the explosion which fell near them. Five others were carried out of the mine unconscious from the effects of gas, but were quickly revived. °
Blast Cause Unknown
The explosion occurred | yesterday afternoon in a part of the mine known .as Section’ 12, North. Its cause was not known, but officials suggested that a te fall broke electric cables, creating a short circuit that .set off a pocket of gas. There was ‘no. evidence that there had been a fire, ° Two full mine _érews evidently were caught by the collapse of the tunnel that followed the explosion. They were imprisoned about 500 feet below the surface and some 2000 feet off the main shaft two miles inside the main entrance. | Approximately 150 other men were at work in the mine when the explosion occurred, but those in other sections escaped. The company emqploys: 600 men, working in ‘three shifts. The mine is about ‘one-fourth of a mile off a main highway deep in the hills of Harrison County in southeastern Ohio.
M'NUTT MAY BECOME PUBLIC HEALTH CHIEF
Appvinimetit by by ‘Roosevelt Likely Next Week.
Times Special _ . WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt will be assigned a leading role in national defense next week, 4it was learned today.
President Roosevelt is expected to make public an Administration order making the former Indiana Governor co-ordinator of Recreation and Public Health with the National Defense Advisory Commission. . He will move ‘with his staff from his present headquarters in the National Institute of Public Health to the National Defense Commission headquarters, it was said. He retains his post as head of the Federal Security Admission, however.
NE hundred forty-two children clothed. That is the first day's accomplishment of the 11th annual Indianapolis Times Clothe-A-Child campaign. Those 142 children clothed are the echo—the biggest echo—of last winter's Times-Legion Golden Gloves. Clothe - A - Child's share of that amateur boxing tournament was $1426.87. It was all spent yesterday on the opening day ‘of this community’s greatest Christmas enterprise — Clothe-A-Child. EB But 142 can only be a start. There are thousands more young-
look forward to missing school on
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sters in Indianapolis who still
haven’t ‘the necessary clothing to
venture outdoors in zero weather.
Last year 2638 children were clothed through The Times campaign. Even more are in need this year. And Clothe-A-Child is again attempting to meet this ever-growing need. It is easy to participate. You can clothe a child directly yourself or you ean provide the
money and The Times will clothe hild for you. We provide the
and ask for Eiottiondi-Cutid” You can make an appointment to meet the child at the campaign headquarters, 44 S. Capitol’ Ave. and go with the youngster direc into the store. "2. If you want The Times to act for you, mail a check or money order to “Clothe-A-Child, The Indianapolis Times.” Experienced shoppers will do the rest. 3. You join with others in “your club, church, sports
team, fraternity, sorority or lodge.
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Clothe-A-Child Aids 142 With Golden Glove Receips
Schools, the parochial schools, by the , social service agencies and all “children clothed are reglstered to avoid duplication.
The cost of outfitting depends upon the child's needs—usually fron $8 to $12. The average is It’s really simple to help these under-privileged youngsters. They need help. And you—either personally or through Clothe-A-Child—can give them a real
RUMANIA FEARS CIVIL WAR NEAR
BULLETINS LONDON, Nov. 30 (U. P.).~— Devastating British air raids before dawn today on the German ‘submarine base at Lorient, France, ‘and last Thursday on Brindisi, Italy, in which 13 tons of bombs fell, were reported by the Air Ministry today.
SAARBRUECKEN, Germany, Nov. 30 (U. P.).—~German High Commissioner Joseph Buerckel announced today that Hitler had made the French province of Lorraine into a part of the Reich for all time.”
By JOE ALEX MORRIS ° United “RBress - Foreign News Editor : The threat of civil strife and tightened German control mounted
and Greece claimed two minor naval Victories and the armed forces of Thailand (Siam) invaded Indo-China. / Reports of continued terrorism, murder, and fighting in five Rumanian towns circulated abroad as the powerful Iron Guard organization participated in funeral services at Bucharest for their slain leader, Corneliu . Zelea .Codreanu, whose bones were recovered from a prison yard grave.
Is Michael ‘Prisoner’?
Young King Michael was under protecgtive guard of German soldiers, according to one of many reports circulated abroad without confirmation from Bucharest. These reports said that strife in which as many as 2000 persons, mostly Jews, allegedly had been killed and Iron Guards fought Rumanian troops had created almost a stateeof civil war, threatened the position of Premier Gen. Ion Antonescu and increased the. possibility. that Hitler might intervene directly, perhaps making Rumania 8a Nazi protectorate. Greeks reported they’ had sunk an Italian submarine. | The British said that the destroyer Javelin, commanded by Lord Louis Mountbatten, a cousin of King George, and other ships had driven three German destroyers hack to the French coast after hitting them “repeatedly” with shells. - | The invasion of Indb-China followed Japan’s action in recognizing the China regime of Wang Chingwei at Nanking, indicating that further southward expansion was to be expected in the “new order” in| Asia. Snowstorms Ald Greeks
In Albania, the Greeks “reported that stiff fighting was in progress all along the front and that snowstorms in some of the mountain passes were aiding their operations against the reinforced Italian lines. German bombers centered on London again, although raiders struck at Liverpool, Birmingham @ and Kentish targets as well. An estimated 300 Nazi planes dropped a record number of bombs—said by Berlin to have totaled 860,000 pounds—on London. | Other outstanding developments: (Continued orl Page Three)
U.S. TOLEND CHINA | 50 MILLION DOLLARS
$110,000,000 More May . Soon Go to Chunking. -
GTON. “Nov. 30 . P). —President Roosevelt, announced today that the United States has decided to make a $50,000,000' ExportImport Bank loan fo Government. In addition, the President said in a formal statement, this Governmerit is considering the “early allocation” of an additional $50,000,000 to the rency
in Rumania today as (Great Britain |-
the Chinese|
AFTER BATTLE; "CAMACHO SAFE
‘Foreign-Inspired” Plan to Assassinate N ew, President at Ceremonies Attended
"By Wallace Reported.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 80 (U. P.y.—Authorities took drastic precautions today ‘against an allegedly foreign-in-spired plot to bring about an insurrection at President-elect Manuel Avila Camacho’s inauguration tomorrow in’ the
presence of Vice President-elect Henry A. Wallace of - ‘the :
United States.
The plotters had planned to assaasinate Cantacho due ing the esremonies, poitée charged.
Two gun battles slready : had been fought between police and alleged subversive’ elements.
A high police official was killed in one which occurred at the head Jlaiies of the Mexican Communist Par
Hundreds of Shots Fired
. Both battles were intense and fierce. Several hundred shots wera fired in each. Police tried to prevent details from getting out, but four persons were wounded in one, 12 in the other. Approximately 60 persons were arrested and at least two large arms caches were uncovs. ered. ] The battles occurréd 24 hours after ‘a violent demonstration in front of the Unitéd States Bmbassy just. before Mr: Wallace arrived there. This demdnstration was antie American and the followers of Gen, Juan Andreu, Alrazin, unsuccesse ful Presidential candidate, staged it. They apparently were not involved in last night's fighting.
Wallace Misses Fight
Mr. Wallace was at an official function in his honor last night while the battles were occurring and ‘had no way of knowing of them. He .presented his credentials to Presie dent Lazaro Cardenas yesterday along with the envoys of 31 other foreign nations. - Federal soldiers and police raided Communist headquarters in an old Spanish Colonial building at No. 10 Brazil St, a half block from the National Palace. The street doors were closed and persons. in a big window above the arched doorway began shooting at the soldiers and policemen.
Break Through Windows °
They broke down the doors and Maj. Guillermo Garcia Gallegos rushed along up the stairs, shouting demands for a surrender. Near the top sof the stairs, ‘he was shot in the back and Tolled. down them, dead. The battle followed. ‘Police broke . into the Communist meeting room through windows and doors and are rested approximately 50 persons, ihe cluding, five women. , They - were taken to a police station, and, early today, were singing the Internation. ale in their cells. . The second fight occurred’ ‘at a private house in 12th St. in outlying residential district. Police raiders were met by bullets. They fired ba broke into the house, arrested ws number of (Continued on Page Three)
DR. ROBERT CONWAY, . 57, DIES AT HIS HOME. Dr. Robert. Conway, a resident ofy Indianapolis 20 years, died today at his home, 1320 N. Delaware St., of a heart attack. He was 51 and maine tained an office in the Hume Mansur Building. . He ‘was born in Goodland, Ind, and was a | uate of the Indiana University was a member of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral and the Knights of Coe lumbus. Survivors are his sister, Mrs. John P, Cranford, of Indianapolis, and a brother, John E. Conway, of Chi= cago. :
‘BIG STEEL” LEADER IN MARKET RALLY,
NEW: YORK, Nov, 30 (U. P.).= “Big Steel” led the stock market rally today with a gain of more than $1. Trading picked up. Senator Harrison’s announcement that any tax bills passed by Cone gress will not affect 1940 income: pro= vided the chief stimulant. ,
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