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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 233 ©

Roosevelt Ple dges Grock Aid;

ITISH WARS

Lown to Spain Discussec

Entered as Second-Class at Postoffice, Indianapolis,

be FACTO HAKEIVER FOR “1944 CONTROL

It: Appears to Be a Contest]

Between Jenner and Tucker Suporters.

By NOBLE REED | Factional alignments for the 1944 campaign have be-

gun to appear in the ranks of’

the Indiana G. O. P.

The lines are expected [to be drawn behind the legislative maneuvers during the coming Creneral Assembly session. J .The factions jockeying for fontrol will get in their groundwork (during enactment of legislation to reorganize the executive setup of the State Government. Already opinions as to how the reorganization bill should be written are beginning to differ among fac“tions, especially regarding who should control what departments. . And therein lies the key [to- the “big stick” in party control.

Insurgents Forming An insurgent bloc is being in the Republican majority m ship of the Lower House. Just how much weight it will have the organized leadership {is not known at this time but some are predicting that it will reach [sizable proportions if certain kinds of legis- . lation are pressured. z One Republican leader. in the House, who was shoved aside during reorganization of the leadership three weeks ago, was reported to be drafting a State House reorganization bill of his own, without consulting the new leadership. : His bill is said to provide for considerable expansion of Secrelary of

formed

State James M. Tucker's executive

powers.and attending patronage. ¢ 'Tucker, Jenner Jockey

This would put Mr. Tucker out in the front line p combat the growing strength of Senator William E. Jenner, whose associates will go into the Legislature with the uppér hand -on all legislation. | Both Mr. Tucker and Mr.|Jenner are known to be jockeying their forces for the 1944 campaign. The latter wants to run for Governor again and Mr. Tucker is eying the U. S. Senate and they both can’t head the ticket since they come from the same southern Indiana district. So the showdown for the whip hand in party control may |develop in the Legislative chambers. |

OMAHA, KANSAS CITY GET PLANE PLANTS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (U. P.).— Plans were virtually completed today for the construction of four aircraft assembly plants to turn out 12,000 bombers from parts manufactured by the automobile industry.

Omaha, Neb., and Kansas City, |;

Mo., were selected as the first two sites; the remaining two also will be located in the Middle West. Authoritative quarters said the four - plants would have a capacity of 400 planes monthly, a production rate that would require two and .a half years to complete the 12,000-plane program.

BURNED ERITICAL AS CLOTHING BLAZES of 1917

Mrs. Maggie Maudlin, 84 Union St., was burned critically this afternoon when flaming paper fell from "a cogk stove in the kitchen of her home, igniting her clothing. Her daughter, Mrs. Grace Leyenberg, heard Mrs. Maudlin’s and rushed to her assistance. She threw a bucketful of water on the

flames. The policy emergenty squad.

administered first aid. Mrs. Maudlin was takes to the City Hospital, where her ¢ondition was reported as critical.

{ ———— HOFZS FOR RELEASE WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 ( Maynard B. Barnes, charge d’affaires at the U. S. Embassy|in Paris, told the State Department today he is hopeful that Mrs. Elizabeth Deegan soon will be released [by German authorities who have [detained her in a small private hotel.

- | . STEELS LEAD STOCK RALLY

NEW YORK, Dec: 7 (U. P.). — Steel shares led a rally on the stock in” today but trading No very 1

- TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

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Crossword ... 12 Pegler wa

Editorials .... Binafcial cave Forum ....... 8 In Indpls. .. 3

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All dressed up in cellophane, the famous Allison liquid-cooled warplane motor, is posed for an

smber-1 unusual closeup. The cellophane

is not a Christmas wrapping but a practical cover to keep dust off the precious power plant while it

It's a Closeup of An Allison Motor

makes a trip from the Allison plant to an aircraft plant to be . mounted in some speedy pursuit plane. The Allison motors are now

rolling off production lines in Speedway City at better than 280 per month. The engine, which

The cellophane protects precious power plant from dust.

costs aperoRlinatoll § $15,000, is Vtype, 12-cylinder and develops about 1050 horsepower with a weight of less than one pound per horsepower. The picture was . taken at the Murat Temple at the General Motors, Chevrolet Commercial Body Division, display.

5 DIE IN CRASH OF SCHOOL BUS

4 Army Men and Pupil Are Victims “of Collision in" Mojave Desert.

LANCASTER, Cal, Dec. 7 (U.P). —The toll of a coilision of a school bus and an Army station wagon rose to five today with the death of 14-year-old Howard McCaleb. Three other occupants of the bus were seriously injured, including the driver, Albert Guthrie, 42, Lan-

caster. The other 10 passengers, all high school students, were injured slightly. All the occupants of the station. wagon were killed. They were: EDWIN SMOND, 48, Riverside, Cal. NEEL URLING, 49, Riverside. CLIFFORD NOYES, Crestline, Cal. PRIVATE WILLIAM GRANT SCARTH,-19, Muroc Field, Cal. Osmond, Urling and Noyes were cividan Army construction . inspectors. They were killed instantly. Scarth, driver of the station wagon, died a few hours after the accident in Lancaster Hospital. The cars collided at a Mojave Desert intersection northeast of Los Angeles as the bus was homeward bound from - the Antelope Valley Union High School to the Wilséna residential district. Both vehicles were demolished and witnesses said escape of-~the. -other ‘pupils was a “miracle.” The Army men were returning to March Field, Riverside, Cal, from the Muroc bembing field where they had been inspecting construction of barracks.

SINGLE G, FAMOUS PAGER, DEAD AT 30

Harness Champion Raced For 16 Years.

Single G, in the opinion of horsemen one of the greatest pacers that ever lived, died last night on the Float Jolly farm at Tipton, Ind. The pacer, active in racing until] his 16th year, was 30, and had been at stud for the past seven years. Owned by W. B. Barefoot, of Cambridge City, Ind., the horse was foaled in 1910 from Anderson Wilkes and Little Gyp. He started racing as a 3-year-old and in 1918 at Toledo, O., pacéd two of the fastest miles recorded up to that time. Single G paced the distance in 1:59.5 and 1:59.75 to beat Miss Harris M, champion pacing mare and another Indiana-bred horse, wha

in 1:58.25. Single G won 100 races in his 14 years of competition and for more than 20 years held the world’s rec-

track. The record, 2:01, was beaten last year by Billy Direct in 1:59.75. The medium-sized, dark bay, who stood a little over 15 hands high, held a record of 1:58.5 for the miile.

WINS $20,000 BALM WELLSBURG, W. Va., Dec. 7 (U. P.)—A_ 52-year-old steel worker, Harry J. Mellon, today had won $20,-

A Brooke County, jury deliberated only 20 minutes before returning the verdict against Joseph Carfagna, 38,

captured the first heat of the race]

ord for the mile on a half-mile|

3 000 for the loss of his wife's love. |

Just Ducky, but Not for Owner

POLICE WERE ducking around today searching for two missing or stolen :ducks valued ‘collectively at $3.50. William Burns, 242 8. State St... " sitid "he . returned home - from work at 2 a.m. and found four ducks waddling down an alley near his. home. He recognized them right away as his ducks, but "he noted, too, that there should have been six. Mr. Burns went to the duck shed, and found it open and empty.

GRIFFITH NAMED ON UTILITY BODY

Head of Udell Works Fills Post Vacated by A. Dallas Hitz.

Howard T. Griffith, 5760 N. Pehnsylvania St, head of the . Udell Works, has been named a’ member of. the ‘Indianapolis. Utilities District board of trustees.

Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. Mr. Griffith fills the unexpired term of A. Dallas Hitz, who resigned after moving his residence to outside the city limits. The term ends Dec. 31, 1941. The new utilities member has served as president of the.National Association of Furniture Manufacturers and formerly was president of the Associated Employers of Indianapolis. : - Active in civic and busines§ affairs of the city, Mr. Griffith is a member of the Rotary Club. His appointment was recommended by the other board members of the utilities district... They are Charles S. Rauh, Merle L. Sidener, Edward W. Harris and Thomas D. Sheerin. - The Citizens: Gas and Coke Utility is operated by the Utilities District Board.

TWO ARMY FLIERS - KILLED IN CRASH

CAMPBELLSBURG, Ky. Dec. 7) | (U. P.).—A military plane, wrecked iso badly that neither it nor its two occupants could be identified, was discovered by a farmer today two miles south of here. .Officers at Chanute Field, Rantoul, Ill, said that the plane took off there late yesterday and that the two officers killed in the crash were Second: Lieut. Gordon V. Kiltmer, Flint, Mich., the pilot, and Staff Sergt. Owen E. Cecil, Texas National Guard.

The announcement was made by |

2 BANDITS ASK

QUICK JUSTICE

Pair, Captured in 60 M. P. H.

Chase May Bé'on-Way to fog

Prison Next Week.

The 23-year-old bandits who were captured in‘léss than 15 minutes after a holdup here yesterday asked today for “quick justice.” They are the gunmen who robbed the Colonial Finance Co., 115 E. Michigan t. A Appearing before Alex M. Clark, judge pro tem. in Municipal Court, Alex Martin, one of the gunmen, asked: “Judge, is there any chance of getting sentenced today— or: getting sentenced as soon as possible?” Martin's partner, Harold Higgie,

then spoke up: “Judge, that’s what I want, too.” The Dayton, O., youths previously had ' waived examination to be bound over to the Grand Jury. After their plea, City police explained. to the judge that they already had planned to take the bandits before Criminal Court early next. week. Judge Clark approved this action, stating, however, that the record would have to show the men were bound to the jury. This will make it possible for (Continued on Page Three)

SKIES WILL CLEAR DURING WEEK-END

Lowest Tonight to Be 25 to 30, Bureau Adds.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am ....40 10a. m..,.. 7am ....41 lla m. .... 8a. m. .... 40 12 (noon) .. e sues 40 l1pm,....

40 40 40 40

‘The Weatherman’s story today is of sunshine and mild temperatures . . later. Méorolopist J. H. Armington said the skies would clear this afternoon and stay that way tonight and tomorrow. The lowest temperature

fonight will be between 25 and 30,|

he said. Although Mr. Armington predicted a little colder tomorrow, he was not much alarmed about it. He didn’t believe it. would be enough colder to. mention in his official forecast. There is a cold area in the Northwest, but it's effect here will be

small, Mr. Armington believes.

JON PLEA FR

ANEW POLICE STATION HERE|

Civic Club Federation Also Asks Improvement of Bates St. Tunnel.

Construction of a new In-

|dianapolis police station was

advocated last night at the monthly meeting of the In-

|dianapolis Federation of Com-

munity Civic Clubs. : The group also voted to continue |. the fight to eliminate the Bates St. tunnel or have it improved. The Works Board yesterday termed the tunnel “satisfactory.” The new police station plans were brought into the open by W. Rowland Allen, personnel manager of the L. S. Ayres & Co.

Damages Morale, He Says

dated, "disgraceful and disgusting and the conditions are damaging to police morale,” said Mr. Allen, a member of the police and firemen’s merit board. Mr. Allen asked Federation support for the new structure. In the past, discussions by city officials and civic leaders have mentioned locating a new building on the present site or across Alabama St., just north of the County Jail. Police Chief Michael ¥. Morrissey for the past few years has heen forced to keep carpenters busy almost continuously altering the interior of the present building to make room for growing departments. While no one disputes the need for a new building, City officials have Bok seriously considered its er the cost. in-

‘Hope for Sub-Stations Police officials hope eventually to establish several sub-stations in various parts of the city equipped with several squad cars and a combination emergency and hospital vehicle. The sub-stations would have emergency hospital equipment and a room to-be used in forming clubs and activities for youth in the neighborhood. These stations would be connected to police headquarters by radio. In taking dction on the Bates St. tunnel, Paul C. Wetter, Federation president, . appointed an. eightmember committee to inspect the tunnel before contacting the Mayor and the Works Board. The members are John F. White, Harmon A. Campbell, Thomas A. Daily, E. O. Snethen, C. C. Livingstone, Mrs. Florence K. Thacker, Dr. Walter E. Hemphill and Mrs. George Q. Bruce.

. Board Denies Request

The Works Board yesterday refused to provide additional lights for the tunnel, stating that new light globes were installed three months ago when the tunnel was painted, and adding that drainage is adequate. Residents in that area assert that the. tunnel is unlighted, and drainage inadequate. Children attending Public School 7 are often “accosted by drunks,” residents say. The P.-T. A. of School 7 already has sent a resolution to Chief Morrissey requesting police protection at the tunnel during periods when school children use it.

TOWNSEND RENAMES JUDGE DAN WHITE

(Another Story, Page Seven.)

" The reappointment: of Dan V. White, a Republican, as judge of Municipal Court 2, was announced today by Gov. M. Clifford Town‘send. His present term) expires Dec. 31. Judge White, recommended for.reappointment by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and other Marion County Democrats, has been on the Municipa] Court 2 bench since 1928.

FOG BLANKETS HARBOR

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7 (U. P). —A blinding fog tied up San Francisco . Harbor early today, spread inland to the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, caused at least three traffic deaths, canceled all airplane traffic and kept seven large

vessels at their docks.

Matter

PRICE THREE CENTS |

Ind.

‘NAZI RAIDER

Knox Asks Protection

.Against Planes for

U. S. Ships.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (U. P.).—As a part of a fast-mov-ing series of diplomatic events today, the State Department revealed that President Roosevelt has promised American assistance to the Greeks TR their fight against

‘|aggression. “The present building is dilapi-|.

Other developments were: 1. Secretary of State Cordell Hull confirmed reports that Spain is negotiating = for a = $100,000,000 American loan, but said there was ‘not a word of truth” in reports from Mexico City that a trade of over-age U. S. destroyers for Mexican naval base sites was imminent. 2. Navy Secretary Frank Knox asked Congress to authorize $300,000,000 worth of alterations on American naval vessels to afford them greater protection against air attack.

3. Treasury aids corordinatihg

| American defense needs with for-

eign orders sought means of making some. part -of American plane and arms production available to the Grecian Army.

«Mention Red .Cross. Help...

tween President Roosevelt and King George II of Greece, took place tw= days ago. Paying tribute to Greek valor, the President advised .the Greek monarch that it is the settled policy of the United States Government to extend aid to those governments and people who defend themselves against aggression. The President’s message was sent in response to one from King George, expressing appreciation for the “warm sympathy and the kéen

tion whose destinies you guide.” Mr. Roosevelt said that the Red Cross had “already sent substantial amounts of funds and supplies for the relief of suffering in your country and 1 am sure that my countrymen will give generously to the new organizations which are being established for the same purpose.” Will Spain Be Neutral?

Negotiations for Greek purchase of some of this nation’s ‘arms output are being handled through Philip Young, an aide to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. Although an announcement is expected in the near future, no defijee program has been worked out

s yet. Me retary Hull dovtinei to discuss details of the negotiations, saying that he had nothing to add to already published reports. There have been frequent reports that the loan (Continued on Page Three)

Draft Evader, 7 Of Kin Convicted

DULUTH, Minn., Dec. 7 (U. P.). —A Minnesota farmer who served a prison term for draft evasion

during the World War and seven members of his family were under conviction today of violating the Selective Service Act. A Federal District Court Jury fast night afirmea the Government’s charge that the seven men “of draft age had failed to register ior military service upon advice of Pere Marquardt, 57, Pine County tarmer. They professed religious objections, the defense which failed Marquardt on a draft-eva-sion charge in 1917. All but Marquardt were sentenced to a year and day in Federal Reformatory. He was released until March 1, 1941. The sentenced men were Marquardt’s sons, Karl, Robert and George, and his four nephews, Archie Soderocck, Arnold Patzoldt, Delford Chapin and Elmer

ratzolds.

By WILLIAM R. CRABB ’ Times Staff Writer

live on streets too narrow for two cars to pass each other?

I found it out today when I drove out to notify three mothers that Cloth2-A-Child would provide for their children if they would bring them downtown Monday. 1 started in the morning, because I was afraid that if I waited till late afternoon I wouldn't be able to find some of the addresses.

Hoilidays Cove, W. Va, contractor. |

It was a good thing I

DID YOU know that people:

I had trouble right at first. I drove into a filling station and asked the®attendant where the street was.{ He was glad to help because he saw’ the “Clothe-A-Child” sign -.on the front ef the car. - But he seemed puzzled. He asked for the house number. : “Well, buddy, I'll tell you,” he said. “The nouse you're looking for is only a& hundred yards from nere, but you'll have a dickens of * a time finding it.” EJ » 2

HE GAVE me some directions; 1 drove one block up,

Sung tomy

right a block, turned to my left a half block, turned to, my right again and slammed on the brakes. A big truck blocked my path. I ‘tooted the horn but the truck didn’t move. I got out and saw the truck was parked there. © So I put the notice in my pocket and left the car where it was. I walked around the truck —there was just room enough for “a footpath between it and a house. I found two shanties in what by all rights should ‘be the backyard of the house

to where the truck was parked. of them was the house 1 was 4

Clothe-A- Child's Light Brightens a Narrow Lane

1 knocked at the door. A little girl opened it. She said her mother was home but I couldn’t see her. She would call her father, though. | A man came to the door. read the notice. “The kids sure need clothes, but « I don't know how I'll get them down there. My wife came’ down with pneumonia Tuesday and I have to stay with her. :

thea figure out someway fo g t them down phere. The kids So

clothes too. bad to pass up a §

The exchange of telegrams be-

interest manifested by the great na- | - wards;

|| anapolis Te

King George II of Greece ... appreciates American “sympathy.”

FORT HOSPITAL FUND ALLOTED

Construction: oniohs 1000- HA ‘Cantonment Type Build- - ing to Start Soon.

ATHENS HINTS ATTEMPT 10 INVADE SOUTH ITALY: MEXICAN ‘DEAL’

ENI D

Bristol ‘Blitz-Raided'; Fascist Shakeup

Spreads. (Today's War Moves, Page Two)

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

A British naval search for a powerful German warship

lin American waters was re-

ported today as Greek armies smashed slowly forward on the Albanian war front and Rome disclosed another military shake-up affecting - the

strategic Dodecanese Islands.

Dispatches from Montevideo said that the 30,600-ton British battleship Warspite, carrying four aire planes and making 24 knots, was racing northward along the coast of Brazil, possibly within the American “safety zone,” in search for the Nazi raider that battled the Brite ish merchant cruiser Carnarvon Castle on Wednesday. The second surprise announce~ ment at Rome in ‘two days disclosed that Cesare Maria de Vecchi, one. of the original Fascist leaders, had resigned as governor and military commander of the Dodecanese and that Gen. Ettore Bastico has been named to ‘succeed him. da - Reinforcements Flown om

There also were reports ii Los" don that a British naval sommanid

The War Department today. alloted $1,525,000 for the construction of a 1000-bed cantonment type hospital at Ft. Harrison. Fort officers here said that the hospital would be built soon.

Designed to treat practically any type of illness, the hospital will include the following units: Surgical, medical and isolation physio-therapy - building;

shake-up was impending, with Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, first sea lord, slated for retirement. Some British sburces recently have urged a much more aggressive naval pro gram, especially designed to knock out Italy as quickly as possible. - In that connection, Athens’ sources suggested that the Greek seizure of Porto Edda, opposite south Italy, might open the way for British and. Greek forces to strike across the Strait of Otranto at the Italian’ mainland but British experts doubt-

dental and eye, ear, nose and throat ed the port was big enough or

clinics; infirmary for sick call and modern enough to provide facilities

first aid; administration and, surgery buildings: mess halls for patients, officers, nurses and enlisted men; complete laboratory building: quarters for officers, nurses and medical - detachment personnel; workshops and storage buildings; power plant; post exchange; fire station and other necessary facilities.

ANNUAL HOME SHOW T0 OPEN MARCH 28

‘Greater Than Ever,’ Is the Outlook.

~ The 20th annual Indianapolis Home Show will be held March 28 to April 6*in the Manufacturers’ Building at the State Fair grounds. With a great building boom in progress, officials of the show predicted it would be “greater than ever.” Robert L. Mason, president of the exposition, said “the | presentation this year is well advanced end calls for the most pretentious program in the history of the show.” Hoosiers look to the show as a harbinger of spring and the time to build new homes or remodel old ones. The exposition is sponsored by 10 civic and {trade organizations. Homes. completely furnished are built in the Manufacturers’ Building and they are inspected. by thousands.

1941 CONVENTION OF N. E. A. SOUGHT HERE

The National Education Association will be invited to hold its 1941 convention in this city by the Indihers Union. Winifred Brill, union secretary, who made the announcement said that the Indianapolis Teachers Federation, the Indiana” Federation of Public School Teachers, and ‘the School City will be asked to co-oper-ate in issuing the invitation. Superintendent Donald DuShane of Columbus is president of the National Education Association,

4 DROWN IN AUTO MISHAP WILLIAMSON, ‘W. Va., Dec. 7 (U. P.)—A 27-year-old mother and her three children drowned last night when their automobile pl ani the Guyan River near G: Mingo. County. Victims. were Are ‘Flossie ‘May Taylor;

Taylor, 13; Betty Doris and Phyllis Ann I

[for such a venture. On the Albanian front, the Greek armies that captured Porto Edda and sought to close in on Argyrokastron and Elbasan were reported making slow progress but Italy was said to have flown 'many reinforcements to the Albanian front in the last four days.

Truce Reported Soiight

In London, displomatic circles heard that Nazi Ambassador Franz von Papen, in Turkey, was ate tempting to persuade the Turks to undertake mediation or at least to arrange an armistice in the GreekItalian war. Nazi bombers “blitz-raided” Brise. tol, Britain's seventh largest city with a population about the same as Indianapolis, last night while British planes dropped high exposives on 15 German airports in songuered territory.

Naval Warfare

The Warspite was seen by offi cers of a Uruguayan cruiser ox Wednesday, the day of the battle betwen the Carnavon Castle and the raider, indicating that the big British battleship was leading “a hot pursuit of the Nazi ship. The oper« ations of both German and British (Continued on Page Three)

PLANE LEAVES MIAMI ON U. S. MERCY HOP

MIAMI, Fla. Dec. 7 (U. P).—A U. S. Army “fiying fortress” carrying Senora Carlos Davila, wife of the former President of Chile, to * the warm sunshine of her Santiago home, took off at 4:15 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) today for Panama. City. President Roosevelt ordered the “mercy” hop when he learned Senora Davila was ill. The big four-engined plane flew here from New York yesterday. It was expected to reach Albrook Field at Panama City about noon far another overnight stop, arriving at Santiago Monday after a third stop at Lima, Peru. ‘ AUR

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