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HIRE ENGINEER, CITY ADVISED IN . TRAFFIC DRIVE

Full- Time Expert a Must If Toll Is Reduced, | Board Told.

Indianapolis’ attempts to engineer safety into its streets have been largely ineffective and the only remedy is a full-time safety engineer with an adequate staff, a N ational Safety Council expert said here today.

The expert, Adam H. Lintz, was addressing the Safety Board, and he warned that Indianapolis’ safety rating, which has been 5th a group of 23 cities in its eh tion class, will fall this year because of the substantial increase in traffic deaths. “Any city the size of Indianapolis,” he said, “virtually must _ have a full-time, trained safely engineer and an adequate staff to regulate the flow of traffic and eliminate hazards. That's almost mandatory.” | Terms Judges ‘Vital’ | Mr. Lintz warned that other factors in safety were the enforcement activities of police and courts, the proportion of the police sonnel allotted to full-time es duties, and the traffic code. In the Jatier two, he said, Indianapolis | lis

As for the former, Mr. Lintz said he hoped to address a group bof City officials and traffic court judges tomorrow to stress the point that any laxity in enforcement immediately brings a sharp -increase in the number of accidents. “Traffic judges-have to be in any program you start,” he said. “They either make or break your carp paig n. ” 1 1 Point Below Average

Among the cities surveyed, Indian- :

apolis has a traffic death rate of 13.7 persons per 100,000 populatidn, exactly one point below the group average, but considerably higher than the leader, which is Kansas City with 7.8. Mr. Lintz said that Kansas City achieved a 30 per cent reduction |of trafic deaths this year from last through strict enforcement of traffic laws. Memphis, Tenn. with a rating of 11.5, also reduced its deaths materially through strict law enforcement, he said. Indianapolis stands 16th in safé ty . engineering in the 23 cities, and 10th among traffic codes. The chief deficiency in the traffic code, he said, is the lack of an ordinance requiring civilians to report accidents.

“Dollars or Lives” The Safety Council recommends,

Mr. Lintz explained, that cities the|

size of Indianapolis should have at least 33 per cent of their entire police force devoted to traffic. In Indianapolis, he said, only 24 per cent of the police force is assigned |to traffic regulation on a full- time _ basis. “I don’t believe the public is aware of the amount of protection it is getting already,” said LeRoy | J. Keach, Safety Board president. “But when you ask for. more men for trafiic work, the public cuts you down because it has to pay for them. “But you've either got to pay for "it in dollars, or you'll pay for 1 in lives.”

BLAST IN NEW- JERSEY

DOVER, N. J, Dec. 10 (U. P).--A small blast occurred at the Picatinny Army arsenal, four miles north of here today. State Police gaid there were no casualties and that “everything at the pant | is 0. KR”

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6.0. P. DRAFTS ATTY. GEN. BIL

Approves Act to Remove Office From Control of Governor.

By NOBLE REED A bill to remove the Attorney

Governor was indorsed today by Republican majority leaders of the Legislature. Drafting of a measure to make the office elective instead of appointive was authorized by the G. O. P. Steering Committees, according to State Republican Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt. “The bill will be a Republican platform measure and will make the office entirely a separate department of government,” he said.

Quotes Platform

Quoting the Republican platform, Mr. Bobbitt said: “HE dictatorial “Powers of - thy Governor under the Democratic Reorganization Act of 1933 have been grossly abused and we, therefore, demand repeal of all laws that tend to excessive -centralizatign of power in the State Government.” The Attorney General's office cannot be elective until 1942, and this fact will Governor-elect Henry F. Schricker to appoint the legal department heads this year unless a new G. O. P. reorganization bill takes that power away from him. The first formal drafts of other bills to be sponsored by the Republican majority will be completed this week for ratification of the Steering Committees.

\ Bills Are Outlined

The is are expected to provide for: 1. Fitaiting of the State Highway Department to “take it out of politics” through creation of ‘a bipartisan board. 2. Penalties for anyone in the liquor business who takes an active part in political campaigns. 3. A bi-partisan setup’ to take state institutions out of politics and place institution employees under the merit system. The proposals to take departments “out of politics” have not designated who would appoint the bipartisan boards. This is expected to be incorporated in the new reorganization bill which is not.« of pected to be made public until its introduction on the floor of the House or Senate after the session opens Jan. 9. A Republican factional fight over the provisions of the reorganization bill is developing in the G. O. P. and the outcome is expected to determine, to a large extent, the boss (Continued on Page Five)

THREE FACE ARREST IN RELIEF INQUIRY

4th Accused in Knox County Probe Is in Hospital.

VINCENNES, Ind., Dec.10 (U.P.). —The arrest today of I. Grant Bees-

g|ley, Vincennes Township Trustee,

and two other persons was planned following indictment yesterday - by the Knox County Grand Jury. The jury. returned the indict-]| ments in connection with the alleged misuse of more than $22,000 of

Vincennes Township poor relief funds. Named were Beesley, Elmer Winkler, poor relief investigator appointed by Beesley; Dr. Paul Arbogast, cornor-elect of Knox County, and Cris Kutter, manager of a woodlot owned by the township. Kutter was arrested yesterday on charges of conspiracy to present false claims and perjury, and was released under $2000 bond on each count. An attempt to arrest Arbogast was unsuccessful when officers were told that he was unconscious following an automobile accident. The Grand Jury also returned a civil suit asking that Beesley be removed from the trusteeship. County clerk Milliard Gilmore refused to accept the suit on the grounds that it was not signed by jury members or the foreman. The suit was signed

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Mayor Alexander Orr Jr. (left).

his American born Duchess back to

ARMY TESTS PLANE WITH ‘BLAST ENGINE’

Inventor Says It Will Give World Air Supremacy.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (U. P.).— E. B. Myers, 50-year-old New York inventor, said today he was perfecting a ‘blast engine” for airplanes which, he claimed, would give the United States absolute world air supremacy, possibly within a year. ‘The engine, which operates on principles - superficially similar to but essentially different from rocket power, has been tested by the U. S. Army Air Corps at Wright Field, Dayton, O., and’ its theoretical performance has been computed by Dr. Alexander Klemin, professor of aeronautical engineering at the Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, New York University. .'The Army, Mr. Myers said, has ordered a new model of the engine for further tests at Wright Field. The inventor, a research and development engineer, said his engine would prove invaluable in reducing takeoff times of heavily loaded bombers, permitting increases of bomb loads up to 85 per cent. For speed bursts in flight, Mr. Myers’ engine would increase the top speed of pursuit planes by 200 miles an hour or more, the computations indicated. Its power is derived from the intermittent detonation of two mixed liquid fuels, carbon disulphide and nitrous oxide. Unlike rocket engines, however, Mr. Myers’ plant does not involve continuous burning of the fuel but, instead, cyclical. explosions regulated by a valve.

35 GUESTS ESCAPE MARION HOTEL FIRE

MARION, Ind. Dec. 10 (U. P.).— Thirty-five scantily-clad guests were forced to flee from the DeSoto Hotel today when fire broke out, but no one wag injured. Guests on the second and third floors were rescued through windows by firemen on ladders. Firemen said the loss was only a few hundred dollars. The hotel is operated by E. E, Boston, formerly

of Columbus, Ind,

Duke and Duchess in Florida She Awaits Dental Operation

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Dec. 10 (U. P.).—The Duke of Windsor brought

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The Duke and Duchess of Windsor oo » greeted in Miami by

her homeland today and while the

purpose of the brief visit was a dental operation, both were in high spirits and said they were “glad to be back again.” It was the first time in 16 years that the Duke had stepped on u. S. soil. For the Duchess it was an abbreviated homecoming after

12 years absence from her native land. They stepped ashore from the yacht Southern Cross and .onto American soil at 8:55 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) on this, the fourth anniversary of Edward VIII's abdioaiion, and drove immediately with a police escort to the St. Francis Hospital in Miami Beach where Dr. Horace L. Cartee, Miami dental surgeon, will remove the Duchess’ impacted, abscessed wisdom tooth this afternoon. They left Nassau yesterday afternoon.

“The Duchess and I are very glad to be back again,” the Duke said. “It has been 16 years since I was here.” But she laughed away a question as to her reactions as an American returning home. “Well, I'm not off the boat yet,” she smiled as they stood side by

the yacht on which Axel WennerGren, Swedish industrialist who has a Bahamian estate, brought them to Miami. “I'll have to wait.” “It’s pretty tough on the’ Duchess having a dental operation, but we hope to be able'to see something of Miami and the vicinity before we leave,” the Duke said. Questioned whether she “hated to go to the dentist’s,” the Duchess replied, “That wouldn't be fair to Dr. Cartee.” . The Duke said that the war made (Continued on Page Three)

Ayres Predicts

CLEVELAND, Dec. 10 (U. P.)— Col. Leonard P. Ayres, chief statistical officer for the War Department, said today that for the next two years the industrial sections: of the United States probably would enjoy a “boom,” but that farm areas would undergo depression conditions Yueough loss of foreign markets.

Col. Ayres, now on leave of absence as vice president of the Cleveland Trust ‘Co, made his- forecast diying an address before the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. “We probably shall have areas of prosperity and depression, of boom and slump, scattered in strange fashion over our country,” he -said. “It seem most probable that we are going to have during the next two years or more a highly Special. ized and definitely localized boom

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STATE ORDERS 2 ARMY ROADS

Routes Will Allow Troops to * Avoid City on Way to Other Forts.

Construction of two “access” roads from Ft. Harrison to nearby main highways was approved by the Highway Commission today. The new roads will provide routes for troop movements to and from the fort, unencumbered by the heavy Indianapolis traffic. One road will run north from the fort to the Marion-Hamiltoh line and then west on the county line to Road 431 north of Indianapolis. The other road will run from Road 67 south on Shadeland Ave. to Road 40. Plan Extensions Later The first road will provide . a route around Indianapolis for troops going to Chicago or Camp Custer, Mich. ‘The second road will ‘move “south to Road 40 and then east to Ft. Hayes, in Ohio, without going through Indianapolis. Highway Commisison officials ultimately expect to xtend the north route westward td join with Road 52 and continue the south route to Road 29 where it can connect with Road 31 to Ft. Knox, Ky. The north route is to be taken into the state highway system as soon as Governor M. Clifford Townsend signs a Highway Commission resolution to that effect.

cording to present plans, as a part of the state feeder road system, thus leaving it to the Marion County Commissioners to assist in obtaining right-of-way. - Construction Undecided Approval of the Public Roads Administration must ‘be obtained before the Highway Commission begins surveying the routes, since present plans call for the use of Federal funds. But that approval is expected to be granted readily since Army officials at Ft. Harrison requested the roads “in the needs of defense.” The type of materials to be used on the new roads will be determined later, Commission officials said. The new roads will have two lanes. It is planned now to have the north route run slightly east of Castleton.

WINTER ‘REPRIEVE’ JUST ABOUT OVER

Mercury to Sink to Around 25 Degrees Tonight.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a.m. ....38 10a.m..... 38 Ya.m ....37 11a. m.... 40 8am. .... 36 12 (noon) .. 40 9a.m.....37 1pm ....38

Indianapolis’ Teprieve from winter is about over. Temperatures will be lower tonight—about 25—and tomorrow, but skies will be clear, the Weather Bureau predicted. Yesterday the maximum temperature was 61 at 2 and 3 p. m., within

Victory Sure, Fuehrer Says; Silent on: Greek War.

BERLIN, Dec. 10 (U. P.). —Adolf Hitler told German workers today that this war was a fight between two worlds, a world of special privilege in which he included the United States, and a world of real freedom and equality as represented by

Nazi Germany.

He described the world which Germany is fighting as based .on “lies” in which “wealth and riches benefit the privileged few while the masses labor in virtual slavery.”

“Work Is Our Gold”

Hitler declared in his speech that one of the two worlds must collapse but he added: “German work is our gold and our capital and with it we will beat any power on earth. We will show the world who the master is—capital or

state that will be an example and that will-be our final victory.” He promised that now Great Britain would get ‘harder and harder” blows every night from the air and that the war would be fought without compromise until German victory, but atgthe same time said . that Ger: y would fight on rational! military lines, without making attacks in search of prestige alone.

Silent About Greek War

The speech, it was disclosed several hours later, was delivered at the Rheinmetall Borsig works, a large factory in the suburb of Tegel, north of Berlin. The Fuehrer spoke in the main construction room to an audience estimated at 12,000 workers. He made no reference to Italy's | war on Greece and only passing reference to Nazi relations with Soviet Russia. “The war will how be waged uncompromisingly,” he said. “We will win. When the moment for decision comes we will win. But only we will choose the time.” But he added, as if the time had not yet come: “It was worth our while to wait (Continued on Page Three)

Sighdls Over— Harmon Offside

TOM HARMON, Hoosier AllAmerica star of the gridiron and banquet league, needs a social secTetary. Since the close of his brilliant football career at the University of Michigan, the Gary, Ind., youth has been much in demand as an after-dinner speaker. And he’s trying to attend as many as possible. In New York last night, he received the Heismann Trophy. He was scheduled to appear in Ine dianapolis today at two events— the Michigan Alumni luncheon and Park School dinner. About noon, he called from New York to apologize. “I got my dates mixed up,” he said. “I thought the New York Michigan Alumni Club dinner was last ight. It's tonight—and They won’t let me leave.” Capt. Forrest Evashevski, Harmon’s close friend, who cleared the path for Tom on the gridiron, was here to carry on in the

two degrees of the record for that

day of the year, set in 1879.

banquet league for him.

‘Strangely Scattered’ Boom

previous periods of prosperity that we have experienced. “The industrial regions that produce munitions will be prosperous and so will tidewater communities where ships are built. The whole iron and steel industry will be prosperous and that will be true also.of Great Lakes shipping and the coalcarrying railroads. “At the same time real or near depression probably will persist in agricultural regions which formerly sold important parts of their production to Europe. . . . There is little possibility that increased domes-! tic demand can make up for the loss of the export outlets.” Col. Ayres said prosperous conditions would extend from the heavy to the light industries as increased employment led to easier spending by i. wage earners

For Industry, Depression for Farm Areas

ever, to keep in mind the return of peace and the transition to normal, civilian der:ands. “Money,” he said, “should be accumulated during the boom period that lies ahead. it should be: accumulated by being cautious and conservative in making dividend payments. In time of war prepare for peace.” Col. Ayres predicted a general price advance, but added that “under present conditions we need not fear that we shall experience in 1941 the kind of inflationary price increases that result in large and sudden advances in the cost of living.” “One price that already is visibly advancing is the price of labor,” he continued. “And it is clear that further increases are on the way.

He cautioned ‘industralists, how=

rhis is partly because the labor mar- - (Continued on Page Five)

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War Moves Today——

Hitler Shows Strain, Lacks Confidence

By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert Herr Hitler's speech today before the German factory workers was a defensive utterance, showing the strain of the war. It was much less truculent than his usual declamations and lacked the usual Nazi note of supreme confidence. For the first time, the Fuehrer explained why. : the war has not

E the German people were led ‘to expect.’ He told the factory hands that it is better to wait for the right time to strike and so prevent sacrifices. * PreviousMr. Mason ly, however, Herr Hitler had indicated the offensive. was wholly in German possession and the right time was the Fuehrey’s to command. Now, sacrifice m be avoided, although hitherto. Her r Hitler had indicated repeatedly™ that the highest honor for a German was to make sacrifice for the fatherland. - The PFuehrer always has been sensitive to popular psychology. His emphasis on [the necessity for avoiding sacrifice, even at the cost of losing prestige, may be based on a changed feeling in Germany after (Continued on Page Three)

1ST LADY URGES AID FOR ‘OKIES'

Paints Dreary seary Pickve of Plight for House Committee.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (U.P.).— Mrs. Franklin D, Roosevelt painted a dreary picture today of the plight of “Okie” families—driven from dust bowl farms to a migratory search for odd jobs—and urged Congress to take steps to prevent the children of such families from becoming prison inmates or patients in tuberculosis wards. Testifying before the House Committee investigating the migrant worker problem, Mrs. Roosevelt said the “Okies” made poor farmers because they continued to work the land as their fathers and grandfathers before them. “You don’t feel,” she said, “that they have the remotest idea of what it is to be a citizen in a democracy.” She was questioned about complaints that many migrant workers found it difficult to obtain. jobs he-

they are unable to pay. The First Lady replied that she believed. any union which is not a ‘racket” would make ni in initiation fees and dues: for such workers. Mrs. Roosevelt's appearance { as a

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GRACK SOUTHERN TRAIN-IS DERAILED

Ten Are Reported Hurt on ‘Ponce de Leon.’

The Southern Railroad’s fast passenger train to Florida, the “Ponce de Leon,” was derailed about 12 miles south of here today. Ten persons were reported hurt, two seriously. The engine and seven of the 10 cars of the train left the tracks. The wreck occurred a few minutes after the “Ponce de Leon” had left Atlanta for its fast run to mi. Engineer Henry Garmon” and William Dodge, fireman, both of Atlanta, were reported to have been injured. - Several ambulances from Atlanta

jured to hospitals.

STOCKS OFF MORE THAN s1 NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (U. P..An attempt to rally the stock ket failed today and stocks more than $1 “afterndon. ing was light.

cause of exorbitant union fees which |

witness marked the second time

ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 10 (U. P.).—|

4000 ITALIANS SEIZED IN STAB TO MEDITERRANEAN: GREEKS RUSH OFFENSIVE

Fascists Send 80,000 More Soldiers to

Albanian Front.

BULLETIN

CAIRO, Dec. 10 (U. P.).~—A British military spokesman said "tonight that only “a few pockets” of Italian troops still are holding out in the western desert area following a British offensive.

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By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor .

A British blitzkrieg offen sive stabbed through Italian lines in North Africa to the Mediterranean Coast today and Greek soldiers were reported breaking up the Fase cist withdrawal from South Albania. As if in reply to Adolf Hitler's speech linking the United States and Britain as hatural foes of the “have not” nations,; British Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of ‘Commons that a sudden : offensive in the deserts of western

lines between Sidi Libya, but he declined to confirm {that Fascist « advance y forces had 'béen isolated. Four thousand Italians were reported captured. Airplanes using bombs and mae chine guns, warships bombarding the Italians along the coast and mechanized land units that dashed across 75 miles of desert “in a single bound” were used by the British in turning the tactics-of the Germans in the Battle of France against the Fascist forces. The attack was launched on a 30-mile front.

Attack Still Developing

Churchill confined ‘his report on the: Egyptian offensive to saying that the preliminary phase of oper ations had been successful but in military quarters it was understood that the attack was still developing ons rather large scale. e British Air Minist reported that 22 Italian planes or) been shot down or destroyed since the start of ‘the desert operations. Churchill also reported that Brite ain was striking back against intene

sified German air and submarine ate

tacks on shipping by reinfor the Royal Air Force coastal gm and linking it more closely with the Admiralty as well as by steady bombing of German bases in France, including Lorient, Boulogne, Brest and Bordeaux. The British were said to be presse ing the Italians toward the sea, pose sibly with the ultimate aim of pene ning Fascist armies close to the coast where they could be smashed by Britain’s powerful Meditere: ranean dreadnaughts which already have hampered communications bee (Continued on Page Three)

War Is Not Inevitable

‘As in 1917, England's back is to the wall—and this time her danger seems even greater. In 17, the A. E. F. moved in to turn the tide; must history repeat? The spreading conviction that we are once more. heeded ine exorably down the road to war is chal lenged in a series of are ticles by Lud-’ well Denny. "Whether “we get in the war or stay Denny out depends si not on inevitable fate," Mr. t Done "but shiny on cisions the President Is ab

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