Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1940 — Page 1

FORECAST: Partly cloudy and rauch colder tonight, with lowest temperature 10 to 15 5 depres fomorrow «pac dy and slowly Tising temperature, followed hy light Snow.

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POLICE, BENCH PASS THE BUCK ON AUTO TOLL

Privately, Each Blames Other for the 87 Deaths In City Traffic.

(This is the first of a series of articles describing what goes on behind the scenes as ianapolis acts to reduce its traffic death: toll, already a tragic all-time record high.)

By RICHARD LEWIS

Deadlocking official efforts|. to stem the rising tide of],

traffic casualties in Indianapolis, the Police Department

and the Traffie Courts are still ; playing the game of “pass-i: with the City's!

the-buck’ traffic mess.

It's a tug of war between two: schools of thought on how to solve:

the traffic problem. As indicated by rising traffic deaths, neither side is getting anywhere and both e# mit it.

Superficially, there has ‘been the:

appearance of sweet harmony between the two enforcement agencis. But underneath, each side is privately heaping upon the other the blame for the City’s traffic plight: 87 traffic deaths Sogfar this = Police Point to ‘Courts The police ¢laim they are Making arrests, but the traffic judges are permitting arrests to fizzle out in withheld judgments and insi t. fines. The judges believe the kentorce: ment prob m is primarily one of policing. ‘Prevention js better than punishment, they say. Police should patrol the streets in «full view of motorists to discourage violations, instead of hiding behind a bush to trap them. That's the point of view of the traffic bench. In traffic court yesterday, Mu- " npicipal Judge John J. McNelis took

occasion to answer Police Depart-|

ment and newspaper criticisn® that the courts are “too easy” on violators. . “PDislikes™ Fine at Christmas

Before him stood a young man

charged with speeding 44 miles an|

hour on the wrong side of Washington St. Said Judge McNelis in passing sentences: “I am going to suspend your license for 60 days. I dislike the idea of taking money away from you at Christmas time. But there are certain individuals who think the courts are too easy. “These individuals rarely come down to the co to see the situation for themselves, but their office buildings and criticize. I don’t like to do this, but to be free . of all this criticism Ill have to make you pay a fine. “Pay $2 and costs—that’s $12.” A few minutes later, the Judge jooked up to see the young man waiting in line to pay.

Solicitous Question

“Would you prefer {o pay after Christmas?® he asked the young man 'solicitously. The young man replied that he . ¥guessed” he would rather pay the fine now “and get it over with.” That was one case in which the Judge commented. Here is one in which he made no comment: Saturday night, a man was arrested for speeding on N. Sénate Ave. Sunday night he was arrest(Continued on Page Three)

TECKEMEYER HEADS REAL ESTATE BOARD

The directors of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board today chose these officers for 1941: Earl B. Teckemeyer, president; william A. Hackemeyer, vice president; Wendell M. Hicks, secretary, and Lorin Driscoll, treasurer.

TAKES UP $2 FINE WITH ‘TREASURER’

The Police Department received |. the following letter today: “Dear Sirs: “Please be advised ‘that I will pay my $2 sticker just as soon as my wife lets me have the money.” » « It was signed.

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Who'll ‘Pose for

Army's Champ Roe ruiter

Acme Teleohoto,

Elaine Bassett . . . “Maybe they think I'm the goddess type.”

But Blond Model Hopes a Feet Keep Hubby H ome,

‘My Heart Just Isn’t in This Miltary Stuff, Drawls Texan

Service Posters.

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (VU. P) ~The champion recruiter of North America was chosen today. She is blond Elaine Bassett, who posed for the Canadian “Join the Army” posters and now has been selected to

pose for Uncle Sam's.

A model, Miss Bassett is tall and statuesque; which she said probably

SEGOND STORM GOES A. W. 0.1.

Predicted Blizzard Fails to Appear; Snow Still “in Prospect.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ...3 10a. .m. ... 32 7am ...34 11am ..32 8am. ... 33° 12 (noon)., 31 9am ,.. 33 1p.m ...03

At this early date, one general characteristic of the winter of 194041 seems pretty well defined. It is likely to go down in history as the winter of blundering blizzards. Alréady two blizzards of very disagreeable proportions have been heralded in Indianapolis, and then have gone a. w. 0. 1 One was due last night, but with a singular irresponsibility for so important a thing as weather it wandered off to join the blizzard that has been missing and unreported since about three weeks ago. If this keeps up, there is apt to be a whole colony of. truant: blizzards someplace, wherever blizzards $0 when they go. The forecast for tonight and tomorrow is: * Partly cloudy and much colder tonight with lowest temperature 10 to 15 degrees; tomorrow partly cloudy and slowly rising temperature, followed by light snow.

EARLY MORNING FIRE ROUTS 2 FAMILIES

An overheated stove set fire to a double house at 1113-15 W. 32d St., early today and routed two families. They spent the rest of the night at neighbors. The families were Mr. and Mis. B. R. Bogart and children, Doris, 10, and Patty, 11, and Mr. and Mis. Marion T. Mosher and Mr. Mosher’s father, Jonathan Mosher. Firemen said the loss was between $500 and $600.

was the reason she was chosen—not because she has any great love

for the military. “Maybe they think I'm the goddess type, or something cute like that, ” she drawled. “My heart isn’t in: this Army stuff. I'm hopin’ my husband's flat feet will keep him out of the draft.” The daughter of a Baptist minister of Dallas, Tex. Miss Bassett has two sisters, who are models too. “Dad didn’t like it a-tall at first,” Miss Bassett said.” “Then I got my picture on a magazine cover. He kept that thing folded up in his pocket for days. “Finally he got to showin’ it around—sort of shy like. Everybody

‘thought it was so sweet and all, that

now: he keeps writing me to get 50me more good pictures he can show off to his friends.” “You Should Have Seen Me”

Her sisters, Margaret Johnson and Verona, also work in New York. Verona is red-haired, but Margaret is a blond like Elaine, who has promised her employer, John Powers, that she won’t cut off her hair shorter than her preseni shoulder length bob. “Lordy, you should have seen me when I first came to New York four years ago. I had curls down my back and when I walked into John Powers’ office I had on a poke bonnet. He said he saw a ray of hope—but not much more. I was bound and determined to be a model, though. I played the vielin in the Dallas symphony and studied at drama school in the summer to keep me out of devilment.” Then, she said, she had stage ambitions. Now, she said, she was “so happily married” that she didn’t want any career bothering her,

A Varied Collection

“You can’t call modeling. a career,” she said. “Six o'clock and I wash my hands of it. I'm the missus then.” Just then she dropped her pocketbook. Out rolled a hairbrush, a comb, mirror, two compacts, calling cards, a brassiere, two packages of chewling gum, four unmailed.letters, two powder puffs, at least 12 books of matches, an appointment book, a rabbit's foot and a pair of red flannel panties. “I put ’em on when it gets cold,” she said.

[EASTERN CITY

IMPERILED BY WATER ERROR

All Rochester, N. Y., Resi dents Urged to Vaccinate ‘Against Typhoid. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 13 (U. P.) .—Dr. Arthur John-

son, city health officer, today urged all Rochester residents

to undergo vaccination against].

typhoid fever and reported that samples of the public

| |water supply showed it “high-

ly contaminated.” The health officer's report ‘was made_as Norman Price, a waterworks foreman, testified at a public hearing that the water supply was polluted yesterday when af

: workman opened an unused valve

which connected the domestic service system to a main carrying unfiltered Genesee River water to fire hydrants. Dr. Johnson announced that public clinics were being established throughout Rochester and. its suburbs so that all of the city’s 324,000 residents’ could obtain free treatment. He sald the State Health: Department at Albany was being ‘called upon -to supply. additional vaccine. State health authorities already had representatives at Rochester to assist in preventing an ep idemic. State tation officials ordered a complete chlorination of aity drinking water. Bacteriologists sought to determine how many residents were supplied} with the polluted ‘water. when they turned on their faucets. Meanwhile’ resid were Being. warned to boil wa before using until further notice. The warnings were reiterated throughout the day by radio, police car public address systems. Two hundred extra telephone operators called more than 90,000 subscribers to announce: “A city water main has broken. Boil water before using.”

Chief Orders ge Clean Santas’

PEORIA, Ill, Dec. 13 (Us P.) —' Police Chief Leo Kamins today ors

dered charity organization Santa Clauses to clean up their suits or get off Peoria streets.

“It only confuses children to see | | WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (U, P).

a Santa Claus on every corner, leaning against a lamp post, wearing a different kind of shoe on each foot, khaki puttees instead of boots and dirty wads of cotton oe beards,” Kamins said. ‘ Charity organizaiions: agreed to the edict.

WILLKIE: WANTS JOB; WEARY OF LOAFING:

Several Things. in Mind, He Says on N..Y. Visit.

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (U% P)— Wendell L. Willkie, who came here by train for what he called an “informal visit” with Willkie Club leaders and others, said today he was in the market for a “Job.” The defeated Republican Presidential candidate, who resigned as president of the ‘Commonwealth & Southern Corp. to run against President Roosevelt, said he was getting tired of inaction after: ig vacation in Florida. “I have got to get's job, YT haye got to get back in harness,” he said. with a laugh.” “I have not decided definitely what I am going to do. I have several things in mind but, frankly, I have not reached a deeision.” = Mr. Willkie had flown to Washing- | ton from Hobe Sound,'Fla, He go to Washington tonight or tomorrow to attend the dinner of the Gridiron, Club. He. will return;

Sunday.

THE MAN RETURNED to the Clothe-A-Child office with the res children he had taken to ou

The . youngsters were happy.

: tude. The man told the : “I know how you feel. I've been through it myself.” Then the story came out. It. seems that back in 1930--the yesr Clothe-A-Child was started--the man was down on his luck. He had eight children to care for.

rents:

There had heen a lot of illness. Clothe-A+Child outfitted

Their parents, who were waiting: | for them, expressed their grati--

of "bs. youngsters. It helped out so much, the man said, that he and bis wife pledged that, if every $hey could, they would show their titude by helping some: other eedy family. The man has a job now. Last 10

The. fund this ‘week totaled i 60. will be bigger next.year,” the man said. : »

“The fund

A Man Remembers When Clothe-A- Child Helped Him, Now He's Glad to Aid Others

show from 10:15 p. m. to 11:30 p. m. next Tuesday night for Clothe-A<Child. : / Herb Green, former network ans

_ nouncer for specigl events, wil

act as master of geremonies. A piece

od of } er Lo es

HARRY M. BITNER, ditector :

of radip station WFBM, today an=-

nounced that WFBM will stage a

So What?

Wisconsin Woman’s Bad Luck: Piled Up on 11th and 12th,

ONEIDA, Wis. Dec. 13 (U. P.). ~—This was Friday the 13th, but ‘Mrs. Carl Dwyer wasn't concerned: This is what happened to her on the 11th and 12th:. ig farm home was: burglar-

2 she went to report the crime, her car stalled She walked to her brother-in-law’s farm and borrowed a horse to tow the car, The horse. fell dead. When she returned to the automobile she found the battery had been stolen. ]

"A Modest Hero

NEW YORK, ‘Dec. 13 (U. P.).— Joseph Miller looked up as he was walking to work today and saw & . woman ‘falling from a third-floor apariment window above him. . He braced himself, threw out his arms, and broke her fall. He \ was unable, however, to keep her from striking the pavement. He called a patrolman and went on to work. | An ambulance interne said the woman, Dorothy Guzzie, 22, was uninjured. Police. went to the brewery. ‘where Miller works to congratulate him and found ‘that he was out delivering beer in hjs truck and had told fellow workers: nothing about his accomplishment,

Unlucky for Morris

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (U.-P).— Don’t tell Morris’ Brendel there's nothing to this Friday the 13th superstition. Brendel, whose first and last names add up to 13 letters, was arrested today on a 13-count forgery indietment which, it so happened, was the 13th handed up “by the Queens "County Grand Jury. The indictment said Brendel, 31-year-old bakery route man, altered delivery slips on 13 different occasions, charging retailers for more than they got and pocketing the difference. Detective Groh--13 letters there, too—made the. arrest,

(URGES TAX RISE

{proposed today that Income’ tax

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INLOW BRACKET

Taft Suggests income Levies . Be Reduced, However, - In High Pay Group.

~Sentaor Robert A. Taft (R. O.),

ratés be lowered from 75 to &0 per cent ‘in the high brackets and increased from 4 to 10 per cent in the low brackets. ‘He suggested lowering the exemption for married men from $2000 to $1500, said. he agreed with President ‘Roosevelt: that “now is not the time to institute a sales tax,” and opposed any increase in income tax rates. for Sena Ir ‘said ‘that “the tnost pr "source of revenue” seems to be inthe lower income groups,

From $40 to $150 Under his. proposal, a married man |earning $3000, a year, who now pays anual jax of $40, would PE the easury a year. Those res do not consider the special defense surtax added this year. “We would just You kidding ourselves to increase the rate on business,” he ‘said. “That would only discourage the persons we are depending on to bring about prosperity in this country.” Alf M. Landon, here for the Gridiron Dinner tomorrow nigh, told a press - conference that. inheritance taxes should be boosted with less emphasis on income taxes in order “to protect the producer.” Agree With Morgenthau He ‘opposed proposals for antigirtice. legislation, but said it might be necessary to forego the right to ig in essential industries: He ‘that American labor d have to sacrifice the 40-hour week to. ‘defeat Hitler's “ruthless|

Federal and state securities should be removed as recommended by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. Mr. Taft said Mr. Morgeuthan had ormed a wise move” in 000,000 in taxable defense ‘this week.

HIT-AND-RUN VICTIM

; “Both Mr.-Tandon and Mr. Taft] agreed that the tax exemptions on

$ His MOTHER HIT|

Utter Destruction’ in Steel City, Claimed By, Germany,

By UNITED PRESS Sheffield, England, famed throughout the world for its steel, was rocked for hours during the night by a Nazi “utter destruction” air’ raid. Britain said the city today still was in the war and still working

despite its dead and its ruins. Berlin said that witnesses of the

point of striking power the attack was greater than that on Coventry with “numerous - full hits on Steel mills and other industrial plants,

' Hundreds of Planes Attack’

seen 75 miles away. Breaking ‘through by weight of numbers the German planes in relays of hundreds attacked the Sheffield area while anti-airerafi guns blazed.

early this

alties were admitted. The shopping center suffered extensively.

Aided by bright moonlight the Germans dropped first ‘incendiary, then explosive, bombs. The started many fires. But firemen, working

‘in disregard of danger fought the

fires during the worst part of the raid and overcame them. . Other fleets of German planes attacked all corners of England in one .of their most widespread raids.

west copsts, including Waled ‘and | London and the Thames Estuary all: were attacked. A chapel and other buildings were fired in ‘a. northeast coast town. . A blazing barrage of anti-aircraft gun fire thwarted Nazi planes

Thames Estuary town in preparation for bombing. |,

. London Buildings Shake

London’s raid alarm period lasted until the early hours of the morning. There was gun fire sufficiently strong to shake buildings at intervals for: hours. “The Air and Home Security Min-

had been shot down. Meanwhile, Royal Air Force coastal -command planes last night bombed docks at Brest, the British Air Ministry said. "Bad weather kept R. A. F. planes from their usual nightly raids on Germany.

The Ministry sald that a German ship bombed off "the Dutch Coast last night by the British was part of a convoy which had beén spotted by. en American-built Lockheed bomber. on patrol above the clouds.

‘SANTA CLAUS’ BUSY;

- SANTA CLAUS, Ind., Dec.’13 (U. P.). — Postmaster ‘Oscar Philipps won't play Santa Claus. ’ In response to numerous requests, he announced toda; that the handling of 25,000 letters a-day is keeping hiniself and- three assistants busy. Next week he anticipates twice as much mail and will have to double his force. :

raid insisted that from the stand-|

Fires, the Nazis #dded, could ‘be x

“The hail of incendiary and explo- | sive bombs broke on Sheffield laté| .|last night and continued for about! two hours and - ‘less severely until

Extensive damage and many casts

The northeast, southeast and south. 1

which dropped many flares over a|

istries;said that two German planes.

CAN'T LEAVE TOWN

‘PRICE THREE CENTS

Palermo

Shan F. D. R.

Duke of Windsor « » a Tusca« loosa hound,

ENVOY Tar FOR WINDSOR HINTED

Paper Hears He ‘May Take Lothian’s Job as. He Flies * To Tuscaloosa.

(William Philip Simms, Page Three) MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 13 (U, P.).— The Duke of Windsor flew today to a rendezvous at sea with President Roosevelt. Si ‘They will meet aboard the U. 8S. S. cruiser Tuscaloosa somewhere off Bimini, in- the Duke’s Bahamas, it was learned from an authoritative source. The President yesterday inspected the site in' Abraham Bay, Bahama Islands that Great Britain is warding the United States for an air and naval base. apt. Vyvyan Drury, aide-de-camp to the Duke, declined to confirm or deny that the. purpose of the flight ‘was to visit the President. The big bomber took off at 8:06 (Indianapolis Time) heading east. It ‘was believed that the Duke would reach the Tuscaloose in a little more than an hour. Capt, Drury said just before the take-off that ‘he had “no knowledge” of public reports that the Duke would be offered appointment

United States before the post was filled by any one e The Mianfl - Herald, which said today it had learned that the appointment would be offered the Duke, said that the Ambassadorship “would be bound to be” one of the topics which his Royal Highness will, discuss with the President today.

"BRITISH SHIP TORPEDOED

NEW .YORK, Dec. 13 (U. P.).— The British freighter Orari was forpedoed today abaut 400 miles west of ‘Ireland, according to a message

intercepted by Mackay Radio here.

Ernio Now a War Reporter— His. Series Starts Monday

Through Ernie Pyle's eyes readers of The Times have seen

Hundreds o of the far-off. places -and interesting . people. of - this hemisphere in the last few ‘They know his faculty for o Jng the significant "little ptere and describing them in a way that _ makes readers feel they have been traveling with him.

wa 's why we are expecting oosier Vagabond to tell the

heh of the Battle of Britain in a way. it has not yet been told. Ernie’ ‘has arrived in Lisbon, on his: way to London, and his column will be

{New York State Senator.’

PRISONER HINTS PL ATHENS FOR ARMIS “EGYPT DEATH TRAP §

London Pere: Visions Desperate Attempt At Invasion, By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreixn News Editor .

Italians today.

tier, captured several thou

[sand more prisoners, ‘includ. i [ing two generals commanding

divisions, a war communique issued in Cairo said. The

! |prisoners now were said to

total at least 25,000.

Royal Air Force fliers carried the offensive deep into Libya with powerful raids on Tobruk and Bardia that started fierce fires at

thousand feet into the air at Bardia, The former i8' the nearest Libyan port to Bevpt ana. the latter 18 the main Italian supply base.

Greeks captured Porto Palermo, other import&nt*“base in Albania, Other developments included: In Berlin new hints that A Hitler might be planning a move offset reverses at the Fascist a of the Axis were denied: A Nazi spokesman said Hitler had not are ranged to confer with Fascist Pree mier Mussolini.= The statement came amid increasing speculation elsewhere of a move to bolster. Axis prestige. Some ‘responsible reports have ous ested that & deal yet might:be with the French Cabinet at Vichy, in view of the French desire to move to Versailles and to secure the release of French war prisoners. A meeting of German and French representatives in Paris was ‘suge gested in this connection but with« out official confirmation. . Invasion Attempt Hinted A Berlin broadcast reported Columbia Broadcasting Systém Hitler and Foreign Minister Joachim

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unknown destination. The London Daily Express gested that Adolf Hitler might denly order an attempt to invade Great Britain’ in the hope of brings ing the war to a quick end. “Hitler is believed “ready to lose a half million men in an attempt to land an - equal number somewhefe Britain,” the paper said, adding: - “He mustr do it quickly if he is to keep Mussolini at ‘the head in Italy and not find himself attacking ah enemy much - better equipped than himself.”

Report Russians Kill, Rumaniang Military sources in Bucharest fe. poried that some persons were and some wounded when’ Sov gendarmes and frontier

manian peasants on the northein Bukovina frontier. * The peasants were reported trying to cross into Rumania from Soviet-occupled - northern Bukovina. i The , British ‘admiralty reported that the submarine Sunfish has

. (Continued on Page Three) Smaart.

9 INDICTED BY U. S.. ON FRAUD CHARGES

CHICAGO, Dec. 13 (U, P)<A Federal Grand Jury today indicted nine men on a charge of having des

ing some: of the nation’s business leaders — Al more tha a corporation fof devel i of stock. a corpora or ican timberland. Yn 83 Mei Vigtims of scheme incl Stanley 8. of the “Kresge John J. Wolverton & president of Malleable Steel Range Manuf: ing Co. South” Bend, Ind; E.

man of the board of J. 1. Case and George F. Argetsinger, tor

TIMES FEATURES

Whe he’ roaches Londan, his |Grossword

in » “bomb-ridden

British and Greek forces smashed relentlessly ‘at. the

In Egypt the British forces, [battering the Fascists wests * } lward toward a possible death «= {trap near the Libyan frone. '

Tobruk and sent flames ledping &

On the other war front, the 5

opened fire yesterday on 8000 Rue ;

torpedoed and sunk a German supe :

frauded ‘scores of investors—includs

EJ ittins, Racine, Wis., former chairs

formes

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