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STATE, COUNTY PROBE WRECK FATAL TO TWO

‘Schleppey Child and Tipton Woman Killed at 71st St., Spring Mill Road. Sheriff Al Feeney and State Highway Department officials

today were conducting separate investigations into an

auto collision at 71st St. and| Spring Mill Road yesterday|™

which claimed two lives.

The victims were: JOHN SCHLEPPEY, 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Bloor Schleppey, Zionsville. : MISS GRACE RAINES, 23, Tip= tofh Critically injured in the accident were Mrs. Geraldine Schleppey, mother of John and the driver of one of the cars, and John B. Mitchell, 43, Tipton. driver of the other car. Both are in St. Vincent's Hospital. » Deputy sheriffs who investigated the crash yesterday were reported to have criticized the location of stop signs at the intersection. However Sheriff Feeney, after a preliminary check today, said the signs are located properly and that warning signs, calling attention to the stop signs, are located about one block on each side of the intersection, on Spring Mill Road.

Signs Changed Recently

The signs were changed recently, 71st St. instead of Spring Mill Road being made preferential when the State took over the street -as a part of state Road 434. Witnesses. said. Mrs. .Schleppey, whose husband is an Indianapolis attorney and secretary of the Indianapolis Newspaper Publishers’ Association, was driving on Tist St, and was entering the intersection at a speed of about 10 miles an hour. 3 Mr. Mitchell, in whose car Miss Raines was a passenger, was reported to be driving on Spring Mill Road. Mr. Schleppey was at home at the time of the accident and was notified there. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W. Griffith, Henderson, Ky., parents of Mrs. Schleppey, were notified and came to Indianapolis last night.

Burial at Crown Hill

Funeral services for the Schleppey child will be at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the Flanner & Buchanan Funeral Home, with burial in Crown Hill Cemetery. Mr. Mitchell, proprietor of a radio sales and service business in Tipton, was en route to Indianapolis to visit his daughter, Mrs. Lloyd E. Bogan, 1407 W. 29th St. Miss Raines lived with her mother, Mrs. Henry Raines, Tipton. Another week-end traffic victim was Barton Whiteford, 58, of 919 . (Continued on Page Four)

FEENEY’S PET DIES IN DOWNTOWN TRAFFIC

Downtown trafic today had chalked up another victim — this time one close to the heart of Sheriff Al Feeney. The Sheriff’s pet wire-haired terrier, “Bing,” was tied in the jail yard Saturday morning for an airing. A short time later, he broke his leash and disappeared. The entire force of deputies was placed on the lookout, for “Bing,” but no word was received until today, when the Dog. Pound notified Sheriff Feeney that Bing was killed beneath the wheels of a car on Washington St. between Pennsylvania and Delaware Sts. He was identified by the license tag on his collar.

FDR TO BE GUEST OF WOMEN OF PRESS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U, P.).— President Roosevelt will break an--pther precedent by being the guest of the Women’s National Press Club at luncheon on Jan, 6, Mrs. Roosevelt announced: today. No other President has attended a function given by newspaper women in Washington. Mrs. Roose- - yelt is the first wife of a President to be an active member of the Women’s Press Club. She also wilt attend the luncheon. Ty

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Dies in Accident

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John Schleppey . . « a 2-year-old victim of traffic.

SHIREY OUSTED AS SCHOOL HEAD

Some Middletown Pupils Leave Classes for Second Time. MIDDLETOWN, Ind. Dec. 9 (U.

tendent of Schools, was ousted from

his post today when a School Board member, accompanied by Henry County . Sheriff, . Cash Robinson, called at his home at 7a. m, Two State Policenten were stationed at the high school to keep order. : 2 In charge of the school was C. R. Young, formerly of Frankfort, Ind., appointed to replace Mr. Shirey. Mr, Shirey resigned last week after a dispute with the board, but

did. He said today that approxi-| mately two-thirds of the 250 pupils had left the school. Referring to his present stand, he said, “I am not active. I am just going to wait.” Reports from the school house were “school as usual.” Mr. Young said not more than a “few” of the pupils had walked out. School Board Member J. D, Greenlee, accompanied by Sheriff Cash Robinson, presented the board’s - dismissal notice to Mr. Shirey, who made no comment af the time. Mr. Greenlee refused to comment also. Mr. Shirey said the teachers told him they were behind him but he knew of no contemplated action. The difficulty started last week when Mr. Shirey appointed a teacher to fill a vacancy created when Miss Maylah Kress left for a post in Kokomo. He contended his position gave him jurisdiction over school personnel, and resigned when the grade school principal and the School Board disagreed with his action. Students staged a downtown parade with “No Shirey—No School” banners. A protest meeting was held and Mr. Shirey returned, although his teacher appointment was not upheld. J

Andrea Leeds Mother of Boy

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 9 (U. PJ). —Andrea Leeds is the screen colony’s newest actress-mother. An 8-pound son was born f{o her Saturday. Both mother and child were reported to be ‘doing well.” Miss Leeds’ husband is Robert S. Howard, a son of C. S. Howard, sportsman and wealthy automobile dealer. They were married at _DelMonte, Cal., Oct. 25, 1939,

P.).—Wilbur Shirey, City Superin-}

returned after the pupils walked out and refused to return until he

VICE CONDITION

"DISGRACEFUL,

Methodists Urge Backing For Local Option, Taking Liquor Out of Politics.

. By SEXSON HUMPHREYS ‘Methodist ministers charged here today that local liquor conditions are “disgraceful” and resolved to “call attention of their people to the dire conditions in the city.” Their resolution also charged that far too many auto accidents are diréctly or indirectly due to liquor and hat “gambling still remains in open violation of the laws.” {The ministers declared that “scarcely a day goes by without some record in our daily papers of 8 disgraceful happening in one of dur taverns.” They added that “bingo parties, stopped for a while, are again in operation, evidently with the knowledge of officials of

the city.” Back Local Option

The ministers urged that “all good citizens call on the Legislature for a local option law and such provisions as will forever take the liquor itraffic out of politics.” | The resolution was written by Dr.

‘Guy O. Carpenter, Methodist dis[trict superintendent, and was preisented at the monthly meeting of Indianapolis district Methodist ministers by the Rev. B. F. Morgan, pastor of the Barth Place Methodist Church, “The meeting was held at the Roberts Park Methodist Church. The resolution said that “almost every day there was a murder, fight, dranken brawl or assault in one of the taverns.” It said further that more people have been killed in Indianapolis by auto accidents this year than in any other year in the city’s history. It said the crime wave, “which threatens to (Continlied on Page Four)

WARMER TONIGHT, GOLDER TOMORROW

The Weather Is Norma! for The Time of Year.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a.m....33 10a m....45 a.m. .... 34% lla m.....48 8a.m..... 35 12 (noon) .. 54 9am. ....42 1pm. ....56

The weather today is just about what it usually is on Dec. 9, the Weather Bureau said. It will be somewhat warmer tonight, Meteorologist J. H. Armington predicted and the lowest temperature will be about 35. It will be cloudy tonight and tomorrow afternoon, he forecast. : : At 7 a. m. today the temperature was one degree above normal—33. Storm warnings were posted over the Great Lakes as a weather disturbance moved east from Minnesota. i Forecaster A. C. Connell at Chicago said moderately cold temperatures were coming with winds. Light snows were forecast for Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, In the Chicago area, today’s warmer temperatures were to be succeeded by cold becoming general throughout the Plains and Upper

Mississippi States tonight.

'Bat’ Halstead,

Charles Earl (Battling) Halstead, 51, who became a policeman ‘and Army Air Reserve officer after a career as a barnstorming prize fighter, died in his sleep yesterday at his home, 108 S. Butler Ave., just a few hours after he left work at police headquarters.

his nickname years ago when he took up fighting and battled all comers from Edinburg, where he was born, to California. Po He started as a lightweight; and after making himself known in the preliminary ranks, fought @s a welterweight and middleweight throughout the Midwest. He campaigned around Chicago for seven years, battling in carnival tour fights with anyone who would meet him. “Bat” was matched with Jack Dillon, former light heavyweight champion of the world, several times after coming to Indianapolis in 1913 and was an opponenf, nine times against Chuck Wiggins, then among the best in heavyweight circles. i He joined the police force in 1921

and the same year started his flying

'Flying Cop,’

Dead After Colorful Career

Known as the “fiying cop,” “Bat,” : as his friends knew him, received :

Charles Earl Halstead . . + flew supplies fo flood victims.

career in the Indiana National Guard's 113th Observation Squadron. - After he was advanced to the - (Contiaued on Page Four)

MINISTERS SAY

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The British cruiser

Enterprise, which is speeding German sea raider, seeking revenge for the Canarvon Castle attack.

re in Sea War Off the Americas

northward in the South Atlantic on the trail of the

Times-Acme Radiophoto.

Bearing the marks of her battle with a German sea raider in the South Atlantic, the British auxiliary cruiser, Carnarvon Castle, docks at Montevideo, Uruguay. A destroyed funnel and other damage is being repaired so that she can resume the hunt for her Nazi enemy.

SES SEAR

|closed in to give battle.

TOWNSEND ON. DEFENSE TRIP

Confers With U. S. to Learn “What's in. the Cards’ For Indiana.

Times Special : WASHINGTON, Dec, 9.—Governor M. Clifford Townsend today conferred here with members of the National Defense Commission's staff to learn what additional defense industries, if any, “are in the cards” for Indiana. After his conference, the Gov= ernor said “there is nothing definite enough yet to report.” He said he didn’t believe he would have any announcement prior to leaving here ‘tomorrow for Baltimore to attend the annual meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation... Asked about the rumor that he may join the Department of Agriculture after leaving office, Jan. 13, Governor Townsend said, “the story is absolutely without foundation.” The Governor also discussed housing and sanitation problems which have arisen in connection with Indiana's fast-expanding defense industries.

PERFORM OPERATION ON D. G. STEPHENSON

Ex-Klux Chief in Hospital At La Porte.

LA PORTE, Ind, Dec. 9 (U, P.).— D. C. Stephenson, former Ku Klux Klan leader serving a life term for murder, today underwent an operation for gall ‘bladder trouble in Holy

Family hospital. Stephenson was granted a temporary parole by Governor Townsend Nov. 29 so he could be released from Michigan . City state prison and taken to La Porte.

GUARD’S DEPARTURE FACES 15-DAY DELAY

Indiana National Guard units

about 15 days following induction into Federal service before entraining for Camp Shelby, Miss., according to induction plans. The Hoosier units, a part of the 38th Division, are expected to be formally inducted into Federal service sometimes next month. Although the latest scheduled date for induction is reported to be Jan. 6, it is be'ieved by Guard officers that induc..on may be delayed until

| |later in the month. -

The service at home armories is necessary to make adequate plans for the mass movement of troops to : LEWIS SUBPENAED WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U. P)— John L. Lewis, as chairman of Labor’s Non-Parfisan League, was subpenaed today to appear Thursday before the Justice Department’s special Grand Jury investigating

election.

will remain at home armories

Rain Falls on

ARGYROKASTRON, Albania,

tall churchman who performed legendary feats of heroism in Greece’s War for Independence. The rain washed down on the town as it did yesterday when I followed Greek storm troops into the city. It fell on the bodies of the Italian soldiers who lay in the streets and in the pillboxes where Greek fire had mowed them down. Ambulance men and women volunteers bandaged their wounded with strips of linen torn from sheets and peticoats.

. Italians Fight Heroically

Many of the women cried as they came up from the cellars where they had huddled while the battle raged and saw the Italian bodies strewn in the streets. - They were those of young men in their early 20's for the most part.- They were clean-cut, good-looking boys. I heard one woman sob as she tore strips of linen to make bandages for the wounded. “They're too young to die,” she said. She said that over and over like a refrain. : : Greek officers told me that the Italian troops were members of the Fascist Preaetorian guard— the Arditi—and that they had fought bravely and well. Townsfolk were helping the

to the wounded. I watched paities of Greek forage troops collecting guns and ammunition that the Italians left behind. They stored the supplies in the central fortress over which the blue and ‘white flag of Greece had been hoisted.

Peddler’s Mule Killed

An old street peddler stood over the body of his déad mule on the outskirts of town. The mule, laden with vegetables, had been caught in cross-fire from the Greeks and Italians. Some of the small boys dashed about tearing down great posters of Mussolini which had been . (Continued on Page Three)

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100 SEEK TO ENROLL FOR PILOT TRAINING

More than 100 youths applied for enrollment today into the second CAA non-college ' civilian pilot training course. The ehroliment was held at the Indiana World War Meniorial Building. Those unable to enroll today may apply fomorrow from 7:30 p. m. to 8:30 &. m, Those eligible are Indiana youths between 18 and 26, not enrolled in any college or university and who are in good physical condition.

REPORTS BIRTH OF QUADS MOSCOW, Dec. 9 (U.P) ~The newspaper Pravda today reported the birth of quadruplet sons to

campaign expenditures in the 1940

Maris Galiktionova, a sailor's wife, "in a village on the upper Volga.

Greeks bury the dead and tend :

Italian Dead:

Greeks Celebrate With Mass

“They're Too Young to Die; Woman in Argyrokastron Sobs as She Tears Bandages for Wounded.

By PAUL PALEOLOGOS United Press Staff Correspondent

Dec. 9.—Black-bearded Archbishop

Spiridion, the fighting churchman of: Janina, celebrated a Thanks giving mass today in this mountain fortress town, captured yesterday after a Fascist “Legion of Death” unit baitled almosf, to the last man. Rain fell on the hundreds of civilians and mud-stained Greek troops who knelt before the Cathedral to receive the’ blessing of the

NAVY ESTABLISHES

Active Duty.

Acting Secretary of the

James V.

Marine Corps in various yards and naval establishments.

Service list. |

District of New York.

Navy Lewis Compton.

METALS LEAD STOCKS

Trading was. light.

GIVIL POLICE CORPS

New Unit Frees Marines for

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U. P.).— Navy Forrestal today announced creation of (a 2500-man civilian - police corps to take over guard duties now performed by navy

Mr. Forrestal said formation of the civilian corps would relieve the Marines for active military duty. Personnel for the civilian guards will be selected from the Civil

Jerome Doyle, who will liead the organization, is a former FBI agent and has been an assistant on the staff of John T. Cahill, U. S. District Attorney for the Southern

Mr. Doyle will be attached to the office of Assistant Secretary of the

NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (U. P.)— Stocks were irregular this afternoon after a rally led by metal shares.

ush Past Argyrokastron i

Expected to Win

have sighted the German sea

BOMBS FALL ON. LONDON 8 HOURS

R. A. F. Claims Fires Started At Nazi Submarine Base; Danish Riots Flare.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

Great Britain stabbed at. Italian defenses in . North Africa today; Greek armies pushed on toward two important! Albanian war bases and Royal Air Force bomber pilots reported heavy damage inflicted on Nazi-held submarine and air bases along the coast of Europe. The British Air Ministry said one two and a half hour attack was directed at a new German submarine base at Bordeaux. Huge fires were reported in the Dusseldorf area after a shattering raid on steel works and war factories. A sudden renewal of the war in ‘Egypt, with Britain on the offensive, was reported in‘a communique issued at Cairo, where it was said that Fascist troops had been contacted “on a broad front” in the western desert facing Libya and that 500 Italians had been taken prisoner. - In London, experts said that the Egyptian operations appeared designed to test the Italian morale at a time when Greek victories have raised a demand in Britain for a big-scale offensive in an effort to knock Italy out of the war. The possibility of a knockout blow, however, was considered doubtful in neutral circles at present, Experts pointed out that the British operations in North Africa, in< cluding new air attacks on Italian targets, might serve any number of purposes, including an attempt to weaken reported Axis preparations for an “all fronts” offensive in the

{spring.

On Saturday, the London Times suggested the probabily of such a

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dren was clothed. So far this year, 474 children have been assisted. '. Scores of questions are asked each year concerning the opera tion of Clothe-A-Child, and tor day The Time§ presents a comprehensive question -and -answer series. designed ‘to answer the questions most frequently asked. » » » ‘Q—ARE THE children checked A—Yes., Thousands of applica~ tions are received but no case is listed until a check has been made. Applications are referred to the Social Service tment of the Indianapolis Public Schools and to the Parochial Schools System. Only after a family is listed as being in need is the child's name placed on the Clothe-A- . Child lists. hp To '‘Q—What does it cost to clothe ‘a child? i in A~—The cost var Some children have been aided in part by

| Here Are the Answers to Clothe-A-Child Questions

ELEVEN WINTERS AGO The Indianapolis Times opened a December campaign to provide warm, new clothing for the suffering chil- . dren of depression-afficted families, Clothe-A-Child drive and 280 needy youngsters were aided. ; Since that time, Clothe-A-Child-has grown to be this community's dominant Christmas campaign. Last December, a total of 2638 chil-

That drive was labeled the

the year-round welfare agencies and need only a few items like coats and ‘shirts and shoes. In these cases the cost may run as low as $6. In most cases, however, the child needs much more and the- cost may run as high as $15. The Times puts the average at $10 a child. | al Q—1Is Clothe-A-Child a recogs nized agency, legally? A—Yes. It is licensed by the Charities Solicitation Commission of the City. Most of the Clothe-A-Child office furniture has been provided by the Indianapolis Community Fund and the chairs are loaned by the Indiana State Board of Agriculture. . ;

J ® 8 Q—WHAT STEPS arz taken to children? : A—Not only is the individual

ws checked, but a chec

By UNITED PRESS

The British cruiser ‘Enterprise today

spring offensive, in which German.

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prevent duplication of clothing :

REPORT SPEEDY CRAFT CLOSES IN | T0 GIVE BATTLE |

Enterprise, Carrying Superior Firing Power,

Clash Off Brazil's

Coast; Nazi Freighter Sejzed,

Cos reported to raider that damaged the Car-

inarvon Castle in the South Atlantic Thursday, and to have There also were indications that the British battleship- Warspite was ready to join in the tight. The new development was a part of the sea war which raged inside the Western Hemisphere’s safety belt. |terday another British cruiser captured a Nazi freighter off {the coast of Cuba while attempting to run the blockade from Tampico, Mexico. | According to a reliable source, in Montevideo, officers |of the Carnarvon Castle, laid ] '|from the Enterprise last night that she was overtaking the {fleeing German raider. : Capt. H. N. Hardy, commander of the Carnarvon Castle, said earlier that he was confident the<raider would be unable to escape the speedy Entorprie. Soma

Yes-

up for repairs, received word

se the cruiser had picked up the Carnarvon Castle shortly after its engagement with the German vessel, and immediately had

speed, -

}..The opinion was expressed

that the raider could not escape destruction, if overtaken by the Enterprise, be-

{cause of superiority of the

latter’s firing power. The fact that official quarters had received no tonfirmation of the re= port of a“ battle between the Enter= prise and the raider was considered logical, since British ‘naval units do not reveal positions duritig their South Atlantic patrol duty.

F. D. R. in Vicinity

In the vast theater of operations, steamed the cruiser Tuscaloosa with President Roosevélt aboard,

off the French island of Martinique yesterday while the President parleyed . with American representa tives stationed there. . The United States is concerned lest Martinique come under German control and become a center of German naval activity in Western Hemispheric waters. : But the neutrality zone set up by the American nations from which they sought to bar all belligerent activity had been violated four times in the last week, and a fifth violation seemed to be impending. The Carnarvon Castle was dams aged in battle with a German raider

ity zone. Before the battle, she had halted two Brazilian ships off the coast of Brazil and removed German passengers. Brazilian authori ties were protesting these alleged violations of the zone. :

Heard Distress Calls

German freighter Idarwald came to an end off the south coast of Cuba yesterday afternoon when she was boarded by sailors from the 4850-ton British cruiser Dio= mede. The German crew had tried to

taken prisoner. This information came from the United States Navy in Washington and vas made public as authentic. "The Navy ree fused to say where its information came. from or to give further details. yoy i o The Navy announcement came hours after Cuban radio stations heard on the Idarwald radio that “we are being fired on by a British cruiser,” and later, that the Idarwald was sinking and the crew was taking to liftboats. Fa Unaccounted for was the 6000«

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rushed northward at full

The Tuscaloosa had dropped anchor :

which occurred within the neutral-

The adventures of the 5033-ton

scuttle her, and, presumably, was

ton German freighter Rhein, which

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