Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1940 — Page 1

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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 232

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mA YULE BUSINESS

HEADS TOWARD 10-YEAR MARK

Just More Buying, Say Store Chiefs; Prepare for ‘Big Rush’ Next Week.

By SAM TYNDALL Indianapolis Ch ri stmas shoppers have - launched a buying boom which, if it continues on the present scale,

will break a 10-year record. With 15 shopping days left, this is the report of sales i and other executives of the city’s largest stores. The sales manager of one store said, “It has never been |bigger and if it continues we’ll have to call out _ the reserves.”

Just ‘More Buying’

Sales “executivés and retail merchants in geygéral have anticipated a 10 per centfincrease in business this

year compared to last, hut two de-| “Tt he

partment stofe heads admitted: looks like that will be a gongervative guess. ” The increase in business isinot the result of unusual early buying, the executives agreed, but Just “more buying.” These statements by the leading merchants hold an unusual signifi~ cance in view of the fact that the annual.rush (when shop pers “take over” the stores) will not! begin until next week.

Outlook Is Cnontia

Merchants in the past have been |

reticent to express even privately, a prediction this early in the shopping period. But a quick check of the sales receipts in the past two days warrants the most cheerful outlook, they: said. One store executive |sagd there is “lots and lots of buying” that “as of today it's about neck and neck with last year, » Although he found no remarkable increase as reported by several othet store heads, this executive said “the shoppers should start to take-over this week-end.” - I

Revise Estimates Upward

Several merchants said they had revised upwards the estimate of the amount of extra help they would put behind counters next week, the normal time when the merchants eall for “hcip!” It’s still too early to a ‘termine the focal point for the buying rush, but if any item leads the way it will be toys. over all their stocks to the stores, and “that’s all there is.’ Retailers, in expectation 6f the he Yule season business, loaded their shelves heavier this year hap in many ears past. And if present indications are any .* eriterion, the old warning “Shop early” might be more than just words to the wise. |

F. E. ALLEN CHOSEN AS TRUSTEE AT I. U.

Frank E. Allen, superintendent of schools at South Bend, was made a member of the Catrslly of Indiana board of trustees to fill the unexpired term of the late Val Nolan, U. S. District Attorney here. The appointment was made by Governor M. Clifford Townsend. Mr. Allen’s term will ekpire July 1. The new trustee was born in Summitville, Ind, and graduated from Indiana University in 1916. While at I. U. he played varsity football. He served later as principal ‘of .schools in New Castle and Muncie. He served as a member of the State Board of Education during the McNutt administration.

WHY NOT PUT E ‘EM ON ROLLER SKATES?

NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (U.P.).—The Columbia Broadcasting System reported hearing a British radio announcer say today that pigs are so under-nourished in Crerman-pceu-pied Denmark their bones are fragile and many break their legs on the way to market. |

STOCKS RISE IRREGULARLY NEW YORK, Dec.!6 (U. P.)— Stocks were irregularly higher in quiet trading today. | Most gains were small, but Prefered stocks showed wide rises in several instances. |

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I Clothe-A-Child Solves. a Problem for Kenneth's Dad ny

NO FATHER'S love [for his son could be greater than that of Kenneth’s Dad. He’s not Kenneth’'s real dad. He's his stepfather. But his own misfortune—and he has had more. than his share—is secondary to his concern for his son. So he asked Clothe-A-Child fo do what he would like to co himself more than anything in the world—to see that 11-year-old Kenneth has a merry Christe mas. "This is what he wrote:

“I am ‘a patient at Sunnyside and I can’t do anything for my boy this year for Christmas. He is’ very frail and needs some warm clothes. He is in the fresh air room at his school. “If someone would help us in this way we would have a much happier Christmas. My wife is on the WPA now, but she has not been emploged very leng and she has a lot of kills to pay because I was out of work so long. She will not be able to buy Kenneth any clothes because she is ‘hot making enough to pay all the

bills as it 1s, and we would certainly appreciate help for the boy.” . Kenneth’s father will have to spend the winter months in a hospital bed. But:his mind can be at ease. Because Clothe-A-Child will see that Kenneth is provided with all’ the warm clothing he needs for school and play at the same time. And hundreds of other children just as needy as Kenneth also will be able to face the blustery days ahead with higher spirits. And the worried looks of hun-

dreds of parents will vanish at the same time, - But the 1ith annual Indianapolis Times Clothe-A-Child campaign needs your help. It was with your aid that The Times was able to clothe 2600 children last year. Reports of deserving cases are more ' numerous this year than ever before. Here are the ways you can take pert in the (Clothe-A-Child cam= bafgn 1. If you want to shop with a "(Continued on Page Nine)

Here's the Car That Can't Be Sold

but| j : PT rT Mr. Tucker's former automobile , . . four fiat tires, layers-of dust and only. 11,134 ‘miles on the speedometer.

Tucker Turned In State Auto

21°70 CONTINUE RECOUNT ACTION

Machiie Check to Start Tomorrow; Plan to Drop Suit Discarded.

The recheck of voting machine totals in 21 races for county and legislative posts won by Republican candidates will be started at 10 a. m. tomorrow at the voting machine

warehouse. Decision to continue with us recount (the paper ballots ady have been checked) was reached today when attorneys for the 21 Democratic’ contestants, ‘were unable to agree whether to continue or: drop their suits: : It was reported that some of the Democrats, discouraged by the results of the earlier recount in the Treasurer's race, favored dropping their contests and saving expense. The Recount Board yesterday certified Walter C.. Boetcher, Demoératic incumbent, as the successful candidate for County Treasurer with a majority of 206 votes over his G. O. P. opponent, Faul E. Tegarden. The majority was a gair of 11 votes over the official election returns, which Mr. Tegarden had contested. The certification of Mr. Boetcher’s victory will not be final until after the Recount Commissioners’ results have been submitted to and passed on by Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox. Among the Democrats insisting (Continued on Page Nine)

SKY'S BEAMING AND MERCURY'S GOING UP

Comfortable Weather to Stay Tomorrow, at Least.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. .... 27 10a.m. .... 40 7am:....27T lla m . 45 Sam. .... 29 12 (noon) .. 48 9a.m. ....35 1pm. ....5

Beaming skies brought comfortable temperatures back to Indianapolis today, and the Weather Bureau promised more of the same tonight and tomorrow. Temperaiures were rising everywhere from the Rockfes to the Atlantic seaboard. A small mass of frigid air which developed over Minnesota and the lake Superior. region yesterday whipped eastward into Pennsylvania and the New England states, but fresh, warm winds from the Southwest were in its wake. Temperatures in the Midwest jumped from 10 to 40 cegrees. A maximum of 50 degrees was forecast for Chicago. Ranges of 40 to 70 degrees prevailed across the pliins’ states. Ey

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‘| For 22 Months It’s Been Gathering Dust in Garage as Officials Say They Have No Power to Sell It.

By EARL RICHERT In one corner of the State Highway Commission garage, 500 W. Market St., stands a State-owned 1938 Chrysler Airflow which hasn’t been driven a mile since it was placed there in February, 1939. Day by day the car loses value. But it seems that nothing can be State officials say the law gives no one or no departAnd no one wants to violate the law to

done about it. ment authority to sell it.

WORKS BOARD TURNS ‘DOWN TUNNEL PLEA

Brandt Denies Drainage and Lighting Poor.

Works Board’ members decided.

today to take no official action to

improve the Bates St. tunnel which has been the subject of complaints by neighborhood civic groups. Louis C. Brandt, Board president, denied civic group charges that the tunnel is inadequately lighted and that drainage is poor. The tunnel, built in 1918, provides pedestrian passage beneath five tracks of the Big Four Railroad which cross Bates St. The tunnel is used by pupils of School 7 and the P.-T. A. there and the Indianapolis Council’ of Women have complained to City officials of water in the tunnel, poor lighting and children being molested. Mr. Brandt and City Engineer M. G. Johnson said they believed that lights. at both entrances provide

sufficient illumination and that an

existing drainage sewer carries off the water. New light globes were installed about three months ago and the interior of the tunnel was painted this summer, they said. air

KENNEDY DENOUNCED BY LONDON WRITER

LONDON, Dec. 6 (U. P.)— Former United States Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy was deneunced today by the News Chronicle’s political writer, A. J. in his. column “Spotlight On the War. » Commenting on Mr. Kennedy's statement that he intends “to devote all his efforts to helping President Roosevelt keep the United States out of war, Cummings wrote: “It 1s all to the good that the British people now know just where Kennedy stands. His suspicion that his ‘standing in London is gone,’ is justified. While he was here his suave, monotonous style, his nine over-photographed children, and his hail-fellow-well-met manner, concealed a hard-boiled business man's eagerness to do a profitable business deal with the dictators and

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THRILL BANDIT

Fulmer Surrendered by Father, Confesses Holdups to Police.

Kenneth Emerson Fulmer, 18-year-old son of Assistant Fire Chief H. H. Fulmer, was held by police today as a self-confessed thrill ban parted from his bride -of two

In Municipal Court Fulmer waived examination on a charge of robbery, and was bound to the grand jury under $2000 bond. None of his family was in court... - His father brought him to Police Headquarters early today and surrendered him to detectives. The youth had been the object of a widespread search, which was: fea-

tured yesterday by his escape under

Economy Move

save the State a few dollars. The car was purchased for August Mueller when he was Secretary ‘of State, .and was turned over to his successor, James M. Tucker, when he took office on Dec. 1, 1938.

Tucker Turned Car In

As an economy move, Mr. Tucker turned the car back to the state the following February and an-

nounced that henceforth he would drive his own automobile. And the car has been standing in

the garage since. All four tires are

flat and it is covered by several inches of dust. The speedometer shows that it has been driven only 11,134 miles. Edward Brennan, secretary of the State Budget Committee which now has control of the automobile, said that it, with some other cars now at the garage, had been referred to the State Auditor for sale, Auditor Declines

Buf the State Auditor declined, he reported, because the statutes only give him authority to dispose of State-owned real estate. Mr. Brennan said that the. Budget Committee had no power to dispose of the automobile, but could trade it in or give it to some other elected state official upon request. But all other elected state officials have their own cars and there have been no requests for trade-ins. since the car was placed in the garage. Other officials pointed out that the car could not be given to some minor state employee for use in state work since the 1939 law prohibits anyone but an elected state

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Bracelet Leads to Arrest Police said the youth has c¢on-

|fessed tg 13 holdups in and near In-

dianapelis, starting in July and ending only yesterday. He began his activities for the: thrill, detectives said he told them. A year and half ago, young Fulmer quit his studies at Broad Ripple High School, and since then has been ‘wandering over the country at intervals, police said. Last summer he spent some time in Mexico, and there acquired an unusual bracelet, which featured a dangling half dollar. That bracelet proved to be his downfall, because it was noticed Nov. 15 on the bandit who held up the United Rubber Workers Union, 203 S. Noble St.

Mother Invites Them In

and robbed of between $400 and $700 described it for police, and they began a search which led to Fulmer. Detectives said that Fulmer left the city last Monday and went to Charleston, W. Va., where he met his bride. They went to Kentucky and were married Wednesday be(Continued on Page Three)

GOVERNOR REJECTS AUTO TAG APPEAL

Has No Authority to Do So, Commissioners Told.

’ Governor Townsend today declined the request of Indiana County Commissioners that he extend the deadline for the purchase of 1941 auto license plates and drivers’ licenses beyond Dec. 31. The Governor: told a delegation that he has no authority under the law to extend the deadline, and that as he is going out of office soon, he did not think he should grant an extension. William A. Brown, a Marion County Commissioner and secre-tary-treasurer of the Commissioners’ state association, said he thought the Governor had a good reason for declining to extend the deadline and that he did not believe the matter will be carried further, The demand was made on the grounds that a Dec. 31 deadline would take “thousands of auto-

gasoline taxes to the extent that proper maintenance of roads would be impossible unless “additionally unfair” taxes were levied against

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property holders.

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AEE APPEALING FOR 1.5. WAR LOAN

Prepares ‘Balance Sheet’ Following Conference ‘With Morgenthau.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (U. P.) —Sir Frederick Phillips, British Undersecretary of Treasury who is seeking American aid in British financial problems, said today he was In the process of preparing a balance sheet of his na-

tion’s finances for presenta-|

tion to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. : Sir Frederick disclosed his intentions ‘after conferring for an hour and 13 minutes with Mr. Morgenthau and other ranking American fiscal experts. - He said the meeting was devoted to “the state of our resources and the cost of supplies.” He denied that he Had asked for an American loan and repeated that the talk was limited to “the statement of facts and not policy.”

Denies Debts Mentioned Sir Frederick added that the conversations: covered the questions of British war purchases in the United States and the cost of future war supplies. He declared that there ‘was “no mention made of World War debts.” : Asked if he would consider. sale of British Western Hemisphere possessions in return for American dollars, Sir Frederick replied that such a question was “outside my scope.” Attending the meeting today were Merie Cochran, director of the Treasury’s stabilization fund; Undersecretary of the Treasury Daniel W. Bell; Harry D. White, Treasury monetary research director; and G.

of the British Embassy here.

Another Meeting Planned The presence of Mr. Cochran gave rise to further belief that the Administration may draw on the stabilization fund if and when financial aid to Britain is decided upon. Funds from that source recently were made available for the purchase of Chinese and Argentine currency. ; Sir Frederick said he would remain in touch with the Treasury officials while preparing his balance sheet and probably would have another meeting with them Monday. British resources in. this country are estimated at between $4,000,000,000 and $5,000,000,000, with their present buying here approximately $1,000,000,000 a year. Sir Frederick has said that Britain was “never in better” financial condition. Lord Lothian, Ambassador, however, said last week upon his return from England (Continued on Page Nine)

Peggy Jokes as Her Rescuers Dig

A SOUTH COAST TOWN IN ENGLAND, Dec. 6 (U. P).—~— After an all-night search .in the ruins of a home struck by German bombers, rescue squads finally discovered 13-year-old Peggy Byng buried beneath an avalanche [of rafters and plaster.

Throughout the 12 hours that squads were working to free her, Peggy kept up a running conver-. sation, sometimes kidding her rescuers. Peggy was sheltering in a cellar with her mother, sister and two brothers. She was the only survivor. With her arms around the neck of her rescuer Peggy explained that her dead mother had been lying across her knees, pinned to debris. Alfred Byng said that af first rescuers were able to talk to his wife and the children but “then there was an explosion and fire and we could speak. only Wo

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California Flu Epidemic Speeding East; Thousands of Country's Soldiers 1

By JANE STAFFORD Science Service Medical Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—California’s influenza epidemic can be to reach the Midwest and Eastern cities ‘within a few days. “Influenza travels as fast as transportation,” Dr. Frank L. Horsfall Jr., Rockefeller Foundation flu fighter, asid today: “That means the speed of airplanes,” he added. A large supply of the new doublevirus vaccine against influenza, developed by Dr. Horsfall and Dr. Edwin H. Lennette through a lucky accident in which influenza-infect-i got distemper at the same

California, but Dr. Horsfall is not sure it ‘will be used. The vaccine has not yet had a trial-by-epidemic

of its protective value, Vaccinating in the face of an epidemic is not likely to provide such a trial, nor to be effective as a conLtrol measure even if the vaccine is vindicated. For influenza travels so quickly it would be ost impossible to get people vaccinated before fihey were exposed to the disease. Among those iil are thousands of (he nation’s soldiers mobilized in| epid

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National Guardsmen were hospitalized in wood-floored tents and it was estimated by officers that 5000 others have suffered some

symptoms: of the mild form of influenze has swept the west. Thousands of civilians have been stricken and the epidemic: has spread fanwise into the Pacific Northwest .and Southwest into Arizona. Los a ae City Health Officer Parrish said that at least| 500 Farin in his city at the | Denk. ii than 20 deaths had X | been the

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U.S. to Buy 60, 000 Acres in Jefferson, Ripley and Jennings Counties.

MADISON, Ind. Dec. 6 (U. P.). —The War Department has selected approximately 60,000 acres of land in Jefferson, Ripley and Jennings Counties as the site for a major ordnance proving ground, it was reported today. Plans for the pov ‘development were outlined last“night at a meeting of state, Federal and local leaders held in the Jefferson County Court House here. Guns, explosives and other military materials would be tested at the proving ground. Officials said that 15 to 20 million dollars would be expended at the start of the project, but it was not revealed what the total cost would

‘be. - Purchase of the land is expect-

ed to start Monday. The site is approximately. 17 miles long and three to seven miles wide. It extends from near Wirt in| Jefferson County to a point near Butlerville in Jennings County. Present. plans. call for the work to begin with construction of an airplane landing field, administration offices and storage units in the southern section of the project. One of the major problems will be removal of approximately 400 farm families from the district. Part of the towns of Belleview and Bryantsburg, five county schools and half a dozen churbthes lie within the boundaries of the. planned site. It is presumed that these would be removed. :

NAZIS DETAIN WOMAN AID IN U. S. EMBASSY

Charges Unrevealed, Washington ‘Takes Action.’

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (U. P.).— American Embassy officials in Paris today advised the State Department that German secret police have detained Mrs. Elizabeth Deegan, an Embassy reception clerk in Paris, at the Cherche Midi‘ Prison since

Dec. 1.

The charges against Mrs. Deegan were not revealed and the Embassy has received no word directly from the German authorities concerning her arrest. Embassy officials are investigating the matter and “taking appropriate action.” ro allio from Vichy said that Mrs. Deegan was held pending investigation of charges that she organized an “underground rail to aid British soldiers in ping from France.

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BULLETIN

STRUGA, Jugoslayia, Dec. 8 (U. P.).—Frontier advices late today reported that Greek advance skir‘mishers had pushed to within 13 miles of Elbasan, central bastion of the I falian forces in Albania,

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Other outstanding developments included: In the ‘South Atlantic, a British merchant cruiser battled a German sea raider within the American safety zone northeast of Montee video. The Carnarvon Castle, a 20, 122-ton vessel, finally caught up with one of Germany's armed comemerce raiders but apparently was unable to put| the speedy warship out of action. Both British and German ace ounts agreed the Carnarvon Castle suffered damage in the encounter and the British admitted some case ualties, | The German air force attempted a “blitz” | attack on a south coast British city last night, apparently Portsmouth.. Much damage was inflicted but casualties were said to be low. Some 50 persons were trapped when a bomb hit a movie house. | Sub Base Attacked

The British force attacked the submarine b at Lorient and obe jectives at Eindhoven and Rottere dam in Holland. The German high command Tee ported sinking of four more British pone of | 13 tons. Berlin said that eight Bri planes were shot down yesterday with a loss of five German airplanes. . Ships in Dover Harbor were. said to have been shelled by cross-channel guns. In Bucharest the death penalty was decreed for military rebellion and an “impressive” display of Gers man military forces was conducted outside the capital. In Shanghai, the Japanese Army organ, Sin Shun Pao, demanded a “smashing blow” against the United States and contended that the United States should be “extine guished” because of its aid to China, Bulgarian authorities were ree ported to have closed the new Bule garian-Rumanian frontier at ‘Doe brudja to further repatriations. It was estimated that the action 4 8000 Bulgarians in northern Doe brudja. Rumanian authorities said that under the Craiova agreement under which Rumania ceded souths

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OBSERVATORY DAMAGED LONDON, Dec. 6 (U.P.).—Gers

Groff St., died today at City Hoshad |