Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1940 — Page 1
FORECAST: Partly cloudy and colder tonight and tomorrow; much colder tonight with lowest temperature 20 to 25 degrees,
| VOLUME 52—NUMBER 240
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1940
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ARMY AWARDS ALLISON ORDER 0F $69,000,000
Makes Total of $234,500,000; Number Involved Is - Not Disclosed.
A new $69,722,625 order for liquid-cooled aircraft engines was awarded by the U. S. War Department today to the Allison Engineering Division of General Motors Corp. here. It brings to $234,522,000 the total of orders received by the rapidlyexpanding plant since the start of the defense program. * Company officials declined to dis~ close the number of engines in-
volved, but it is believed to run into the thousands. Allison now is building an esti-
mated 350 warplane motors a: month and expects to step this; production up to 1000 a month
within a year. Impetus will be given to the step-up by the start of production in the next few weeks at the new Delco-Remy aluminum castings foundry at Anderson. * The Anderson plant will manufacture aluminum castings for Allison motors, supplementing the supply now received from General Motors’ Cadillac Motors plant in Detroit.
Order “Not Unexpected”
The difficulty in obtaining enough castings is understood to have been ~ one of Allison’s principal headaches. | Company - officials. said the order | was not unéxpected as it had been in process of negotiation for some time. Much needed additional floor space at the Allison plant will be provided soon with the completion of a new addition. This addition, to be known as Plant 4, will bring the factory's floor space to nearly 1,500,000 square feet. A year ago, the plant had only 90,000 square feet. aid In addition, the company has the use of 140,000 square feet in the Cadillac plant and will have about 200,000 square feet available at the new Anderson factory.
In Line With U. S. Program
In Washington, it was announced that the new Allison order is in line with efforts to speed up production of aircraft engines, one of the serious bottlenecks in the defense pro-
gram. In addition to the automotive industry’s participation in the aircraft engine field, plans are being developed for the industry to manufacture parts for bombers on a big scale. Omaha, Neb, and Kansas City, Mo., have been selected as sites for assembly parts made by the automotive industry for medium bombers. Two more sites, one probably at Tulsa, Okla., will be chosen for assembling heavy bombers. The compined output of these plants will be about 4800 bombers annually, defense officials estimated.
NAZI-BORN RESEARCH CHEMIST IS MISSING
PRINCETON, N. J, Dec. 16 (U. Pp.) —Official secrecy today shrouded the disappearante of Dr. Erhard ‘Pernholz, German-born research chemist. Princeton township police disclosed only that Fernholz had been missing from his home since Satur-
! gor Fernholz, who came here from Germany several years ago, had been chief of the division of chemistry at the Squibb Institute for Medical Research in New Brunswick, N. J., for the last two and a
half years.
STOCKS TURN LOWER
NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (U. P.).— Stocks turned lower this afternoon after early irregularity. Little attention was paid to business news 3 glthough it continued favorable.
BLAST KILLS MINER
LAFOLLETTE, Tenn., Dec. 16 (U. P.).—One miner was killed and six others severely burned in an explo-
sion today at the mine of the’ Dixie
King Coal Co., six miles north of here.
TIMES FEATURES ‘ON INSIDE PAGES
.." 13| Movies 20{ Mrs. Ferguson 14 . 18| Ohituaries .
Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Serial Story. 20
‘Never Have | Seen a Ship Sail So Drearily, Says Ernie, Leaving onthe S.S. Exeter fora Europe at War
That Girl came to the ship with me. And so did an old friend we
Ernie Pyle, the Hoosier Vagabond, has arrived overseas on his way to take a look at London. This is the first of several shipboard columns describing his voyage to Lisbon, where trans-Atlantic travelers transfer to the London plane. These will be followed by daily wireless dispatches reporting what he finds in Lisbon and London.
By ERNIE PYLE ABOARD 8S. S. EXETER—The sailing of a ship,. the world over, is a gay and holidayish event. A ship carries people out of reality, into illusion. People who go away on
ships gre going away, for a little while, to better things. But that was not true as we sailed today for Europe. There was no gayety on the S. S. Exeter. Never, in any ocean or climate, have 1 seen a ship sail so drearily. I doubt there is a single person on hoard
Mr. Pyle :
ship there were no farewell parties.
who goes joyously. There is anxiety on all faces. Certainly no one is going for the fun of it. This ship takes its human cargo into the land of heavy reality, rather than from it. We rode on a bus of the American Export ‘Line from downtown New York, through the Hudson Tunnel under. the river, and up to the Exeter’s pier in Jersey City. The day was dark. and raw. Snow flurries were in the air. People were in overcoats, and you had to hold yourself to keep from shivering. The Customs man on the dock examined each passport minutely. As he looked at each new one, he seemed astonished to find it actually validated for Europe. Aboard The cabins were eold. What
few people had visitors to see them off sat in the lounges in small,
quiet groups, talking seriously. We have not yet heard a laugh.
are many hours at sea now, but I
hadn’t seen for years—Jim Moran, the fellow who hunted the needle in the public haystack, and who sold an icebox to an Eskimo. Maybe
you've read about him.
We knew Moran back when he was just an amateur crazy-man. He was a gay fellow to have around today, and we were grateful for him.
He tried his best to add a touch mosphere of departure.
“Look at these passengers,” Moran said.
of joviality to the long-faced at“Spies all over the place.
Secret Agent Y-32. There goes Mata Hari of 1940. Everybody trying
to eavesdrop on everybody else.
“Ernie, you need a dispatch case. Get an important-looking dispatch case and stuff it full of newspapers. ‘Put a big padlock on it. Carry it everywhere with you. Carry it to meals, Walk the deck with
it. Never put it down.
“Then about four days out, go away and leave it Wing in your deck chair. I'll bet half the people on board would get maimed in
the rush to grab it.”
And I said “Oh Moran, shut up.” We were to sail at 11 a. m. But the word passed around that we wouldn't get away till several hours later. The uncomfortable quiet
of anti-climax went over the ship.
Moran sat down and wrote four postcards for me to mail in Lisbon,
so his friends would think he was. over there.
Then as a farewell
gift he took off his fleece-lined mittens and gave them to me. They'll
feel good in London.
They left the ship at noon—Moran and That Girl.
sit there in the cabin any longer, to come.
We couldn’t just waiting for the last moment
I walked out into the PlerSned with them. She slipped me a
note she had written, and I each other a long time.
put it in my pocket. We have known
We didn’t try to say anything but just goodbye.’ And we made it quick. For a minute I watched them walking away, down the long pier shed. Then I came back to my cabin and shut the door and sat
down on the couch. =~
Finally, at 2 o'clock, we sailed. The snow had stopped, but the chill in the air was a piercing thing. Everybody had gone. The dock was
empty and dead.
There were no trumpets for our sailing. There was no shouting, no (Turn to Page One; Second Section) .
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JUDGES DIVIDE TRAFFIC CASES
(City One of Few Without Full-Time Court for Motorists’ Trials.
This ‘is the third of a series discussing Indianapolis Traffic Courts and their operation,
By RICHARD LEWIS ; Indianapolis is one of the nation’s few first-class cities without a, full-time traffic court. Theoretically, a full-time traffic court is set up and supposed to function. But it does not handle traffic cases exclusively. Mixed in with traffic in the
municipal courts are all the offenses in the municipal code, most of them unpleasant. The traffic judge has no alternative but to hear them along with his run of traffic cases. About mid-morning, when some of the cases of the traffic docket have been heard, the judge will switch to criminal matters. Traffic violators wait until a whole series of misdemeanors are heard. Then traffic court is resumed. Traffic is alternated between the two judges of the municipal crime inal division every other month. At the same time, each judge continues with his regular schedule of criminal cases, whether he hears traffic cases or not. The judges—John J. McNelis and Charles Karabell—divide the City in handling the criminal cases. One hears all cases emanating east of Meridian St. in’ the City and the other takes care of crime. west of Meridian St. As there is no co-ordination between the police department and the bench, there is also little coordination between the traffic judges themselves as far as a traffic policy is concerned. Fach judge (Continued on Page Four)
CARR HEADS WILLIS WASHINGTON STAFF
New Secretary Has ‘Been G. 0. P. Publicity Chief.
U. S. Senator-Elect Raymond E. Willis today appointed James W. Carr, Indianapolis publicity man, as his secretary to head the Washington staff. The appointment of Mr. Carr, who for the last six months has been
publicity director of the State Re-! become | effective Jan. 2, but he will not as-|
publican Committee, will sume active duties in Washington until March 1. Mr. Carr is expected to remain in Indianapolis during January and February to assist Republican majority leaders in the Legislature. For 18 years Mr. Carr was secretary of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association in connection with the financing and construction of the Riley Hospital for Children. He also has been associated with the
7| Indiana University public relations
department. For the last six months Mr. Carr has been on leave of absence from these connections while under contract with the G. O. P. committee. Mr. Willis said appointments of other members of his Washington
1 staff will be announced in a few 9 : :
How Would YOU Say 'No' fo Tearful: 'Clothe My Child’
; By WILLIAM R. CRABB IT'S DIFFICULT to write about Clothe-A-Child without getting sentimental. It is the one thing we:try to avoid.
“vet, if you were to spend a A-Child Ho you'd get the same
in The Indianapolis Tintes Clothe- it be p in your throat some of us get:
Applications from needy families have been shut off. There are already more names on the list than can be filled. It simply isn’t
LOOT KAY STORE OF 130 WATCHES
Burglars Dig Through Wall, Avoid Traps, Flee With $5000 Merchandise.
Craftily digging their way around and through all wires that would have set off alarms, burglars yesterday broke through a wall and entered the Kay Jewelry Store, 137 W. Washington St., escaping with ioot valued at $5000. They entered the United Linoleum Store, 139 W. Washington St, and dug a hole 16 by 16 inches through the wall into the jewelry store. Leaving a lookout at the top of the linoleum company stairs, and another at the entrance of the hole, the burglars then entered the store. Avoiding all floor alarm trips and wires, they pocketed about -130 watches, scattering the boxes about the store. George Samburg, store manager, said the watches sold for an average of $40 each, and that stock replacements are -Indianapolis-bound now from New York. Lieut. Harry Schley, of the police burglary detail, said he believed the crime was committed by professional burglars from out of town. Police found a chisel, hammer, tire tools and gashlighs at the scene.
FIREMEN’S DANCE NO BENEFIT AT ALL
LOOKOUT, Cal. Dec. 16 (U, P.). —After the volunteer firemen’s ball was over— The dance hall, a warehouse and 1000 cords of wood lay in ashes. Ten-degree temperature hindered the volunteers from Adin, Bieber and Lookout in their attempts to control the fire that interrupted— nay, ended—their annual benefit ball.
Despite Rumor
By JOE COLLIER Eleven members of the state's Electoral College today voted for Wendell L. Willkie for President, and three voted for Wendell L.
‘Wilkie, This circumstance came about as the 14 electors gathered solemnly, at $10 a day each and 20 cents a mile expenses, and ceremoniously signed enough documents to give them ‘writer's cramps. Three of them ceremoniously misspelled the last name of their candidate, but Governor Townsend and Secretary of State James Tucker, who refereed, allowed the votes to be counted. ‘The meeting took place in the House of Representatives chamber in the State House under three separate statutes. The college itself
is provided for by the U. 8S. Consti-|in of e of |
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right to accept any more applications. It's just raising false hopes. But: what are you to do when the woman stands there with tears brimming in her eyes? Telling these people the truth is the hardest job in the Clothe-A-Child office. It's the job that each per-
| son wants to pass on to the other.
” ” 2 TODAY, THE calendar ' says there are only seven shopping days left until Christmas. They must be awful days for families whose children need clothing and who keep waiting for the message from Clothe-A-Child. © Tomorrow there will be only six days left . . . then five, then four. Probably the children don’t realize it as much as the mother who wrote to say that the only Christmas she prayed for was to have her youngsters clothed. That mother, we know, will be waiting for the message that may never come. We hope it will. For those of you who have never participated, we would like to point out that Clothe-A-Child is simple and direct and easy. It was founded 11 years ago by The Times and has operated each . December since. Last Christmas a total of 2638 children were clothed.
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A PERSON who wants to help can clothe the child personally. All he has to do is to call ‘the Clothe-A-Child office and make
an appointment to meet the child. He can specify age and sex, and Clothe-A-Child will do everything it can to provide the right child. Every youngster is checked for need. If the person can’t spare the time, he can provide the money and The Times will clothe the child for him, spending every penny he 3ives directly on the. youngster. : It costs about $10 to clothe a youngster. We know there are going to:be cheerless homes on Christmas. All were trying to do is to make them as few as possible. You can help-a great deal with so little.
FEDERAL POWER ACT IS UPHELD
Sree, Court. Broadens
Water Recourse.
~ WASHINGTON, Dec, 16 (U. PJ. ~The U..S. Supreme Court today upheld the constitutionality of the
Federal Water Power Act ina decision broadening the Federal Government’s authority to regulate de®elopment of hydro-electric power resources. The decision, in the Government’s case against the Appalachian Electric Co., held that the Federal Government had power to regulate such resources regardless of whether the source of the power was a navigable stream. Navigability of a stream heretofore has been a determinative factor in limiting Federal power. The Court also upheld a Wisconsin law levying on income gained by out-of-state corporations operating within Wisconsin. The constitutional limits of a state tax are set by the state's ability to give a service in return,
41 States Opposed
In the power case, the Government sought a declaration that the Appalachian Electric Power Co, violated the law by constructing a power dam on the New River near Radford, Va. without obtaining a Federal Power Commission license. Lower courts had held no license necessary. Assertion of this authority over New River was opposed by the Attorneys General of 41 states, who contended this power would invade rights, reserved to the states. The Government's chief argument was that development of the country’s water resources is a national problem which must be regulated in a manner to obtain the maximum benefit for navigation, flood leontrol, power, irrigation and recreation.
F. B. I. HEAD URGES BRIDGES BE DEPORTED
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Dec. 16 (U. P.).—Director J. Edgar Hoover said today that evidence gathered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation “indicates that Harry Bridges should be deported: and that the Communist Party should be out-
lawed in the United States.”
of Roosevelt Re-election, State Electors Cast Votes for Willkie
the college is dictated by the Federal code, and the hour and place by the State code. There would have been nothing illegal about the voting if evefyone had voted for President Roosevelt; or, for that matter, if they had voted for each other. But the voting, as was expected, was strictly along party lines, and neither Mr. Willkie nor the President is apt to get any great shock at the result. Each member of the college; shortly after matriculation at a little after 10 a. m., was asked to vote for President and to sign his ballot. They were carefully counted. Then each member was asked to vote for Vice President, and sign. "These were counted, Then each signed seven envelopes to Which seven certifictaes
will be sent registered mail to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, two to Mr. Tucker, one to the president of the U. S. Senate, and one to Federal Judge Robbert C. Baltzell. (They're keeping a spare here just for good measure.) Then all signed the vouchers for their pay, and by that time an hour and a half had been consumed. The total bill is estimated to be around $2000. - Govergor Townsend explained that checks for per diem pay and for expenses would be in the mails in a few days, and thanked the electors for appearing and being prompt. Then with no definite ceremonies, all were Fiadgated from the Electoral Coll In spite of extensive
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5 HITS ON SHIPS CLAINED,
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English Invade Libya
And Greeks Gain In ‘Albania.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Staff Correspondent
Great Britain and her Greek allies smashed heavily at Italy today, blasting an Italian fleet concentration at Naples, driving into Libya and pressing forward in Albania as Germany hinted possible reprisals against France for the ouster of Pierre
Laval. The British Middle East command reported five direct hits on a concentration of Italian warships in the harbor of Naples which was attacked by a powerful squadron of Royal Air Force bormisers Saturday night. The raid apparentiy. was almost as severe as the attack at Taranto which the British claimed put at least three’ Italian dreadnaughts out of commission. At Naples. British bombs were said to have rained down close to two Italian battle-
.| ships and upon a Fascist cruiser and
destroyer fleet which was concentrated in the harbor.
Italy Admits Direct Hit
STHHly Hdmitted that: the rts
had scored a direct hit on a “me-dium-sized” warship at Naples, inflicting 50 casualties on its personnel. The British Air Ministry also reported that its bombers last night attacked important targets in the Berlin area, including railways, factories and public utility services. The Ministry said the bombs started great fires and touched of huge explosions. In the western desert British advance forces drove “well over” the Libyan border, but Italians still held the town of Sollum on the Egyptian side of the frontier, and were resisting vigorously. The Greek Army drove forward on a 120-mile front from the Adriatic -to the mountains close to the Jugoslav frontier in a powerful offensive toward the Italian midAlbanian defense lines, jAthens reported. Berlin Officially Silent Frontier reports from Albania said that Greek troops had smashed into the towns of Chimara, on the coastal road, and Tepelini on the Central Front north of Argyrokastron. Nazi sources, indicating their displeasure over the ouster of Laval from the Vichy Government, suggested that the conditions of the French: armistice may be reexamined in the light of this “milestone.” : Repercussions of the startling upset in France spread throughout Europe.” : Today’s hint as to Germany’s attitude toward the French developments was the first to come from Berlin, where news of Laval’s (Continued on Page Three)
LEWIS TO APPEAL I0Z20'S RELEASE
Wants Tavern Keeper Tried Early Next Month.
Prosecutor David M. Lewis today sought a trial early next month for Fred Iozzo, charged with murder and now at liberty on a $10,000 bond. He said, too, that he was preparing an appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court against the release of Jozzo on bail. Special Judge Frank A. Symmes permitted the bail in a ruling Tuesday. Although a charge of murder is not bailable under the State Constitution, a defendant may file a writ of habeas corpus asking the judge to decide if the presumption of guilt is weak. If he decides that it is, he may authorize bailing of the defendant. The murder charge against Iozzo followed the fatal shooting of Virgil Disher, a minor, during an early morning brawl Oct. 25 at the Iozzo tavern. In reply to Mr. Lewis’ proposed appeal to the Supreme Court, Russell J. Dean, attorney for Iozzo, contended today that his client should never have: been charged with murder. He said that no one had testified to seeing Iozzo fire the shot. Dean added that the paraffin test|d used on Iozzo, which police said showed he had fired a gun, is used by no other authority that he knew
rumors tha President Roosevelt has| of.
actually been re-elected, and that Wendell Willkie has lost, the électors
also| voted for Mr. Willkie with great de-
He said the FBI had rejected it, declaring that the paraffin test
IN BERLIN
‘If World Survives® Remark Leads to Speculation.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
" WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.— President Roosevelt returns today from his naval and air base inspection voyage amid speculation that he contem-
i | plates proclamation of an un-
President Roosevelt photographed as he visited the Warm - Springs, Ga., infantile paralysis colony before starting back to Washington. He promised to reor in March “i the World sur-
SPEED OUTPUT, KNUDSEN ASKS
Delivery of Machine Tools “Terribly Urgent,” He ‘Warns Makers.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (U. P.).— William S$. Knudsen, production chief of the National Defense Commission, Has dispatched | letters to machine tool manufacturers and their employees telling them that “delivery must be speeded up” because of the “terrible urgency of the situation.” The Knudsen letters to members of workers in the tool industry were dated Dec. 9. Manufacturers were urged to display the appeal prominently so that their employees might see it. Mr. Knudsen congratulated the manufacturers on their ‘remarkable achievement” as reported in their associations’ recent report on expansion. : “But,” he said, “more is neces“It is not your faul: that the Army and Navy requirements weren't known far enough.in advance to prevent the cumping of mililons of dollars worth of orders on the industry in a very short
time. The changes in the program|
week by week necessitated by changed conditions in Europe make it impossible to figure machine tool requirements very far in| advance. “But the fact remains that practically all of you are not quoting
from six to 12 months’ delivery.
This delivery must be speeded up. “I'm not telling you how to do your job. But if you could see as I do, from the inside, the terrible —urgency of the situation, you would agree with me. that I was not asking too much in requesting that you use every conceivable effort to speed up delivery and increase production of machine tools during 1941. Let’s forget everything except the welfare of our country.”
TEMPERATURE DUE FOR SHARP DECLINE
May Drop to 25 Tonight; lowa Is Storm Center.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am, ....48 10a. mn. .... 39 jam... 13 1] 4 1 se: 20 8am. ,... 40 12 (nepm) . 9a. m. . . 39 o dpm.
Temperatures s will sink as low as 20 to 25 degrees tonight as more seasonable weather returns to Indianapolis, the Weather Bureau predicted today. This will represerit a 30 to 35degree drop, since the temperature at midnight last night was 56 degrees. Also, there was nearly an inch eof rain during the night. A Middle Western storm centered over Jowa where there was from three to seven inches of snow al-
would react to any § bstance with nitrate in it.
ready on the ground ancl mo
limited national emergency,
E [to give re-armament a psy-
chological shot in the arm. The advisability of such a procla= mation has been discussed infore mally by members of the National Defense Advisory Commission, the United Press was informed. No dee cision has been reached there ree garding a recommendation, it was understood, nor would Mr. Roose=
|| velt be bound by any suggestion ad
made. The President is en route from
| Warm Springs, Ga., where he spent
a few week-end hours after return= ing from the Caribbean naval and.
Warm Springs he promised patients of the infantile paralysis community . that he hoped to a ae next Spring
<n aia Plans to See
“1 one to be Ts as March,” J said, “without any ques= Jtion if the world survives for my usual two weeks’ spring visit.” He did not elucidate. Word came from the President's special that he would confer wil Secretary of State Cordell “Hi
{within an hour of his arrival this
afternoon, on all aid short of war to Great Britain and the building of naval and air bases on sites In British Western Hemisphere possessions. Chairman Sol Bloom of . the House Foreign Affairs Committee joined Chairman Andrew J, May of the House Military Affairs Come mittee. in advocating the repeal of existing laws in order to aid Brita the more.
World Won't End—VanNuys
Mr. Bloom suggested outright ree peal of the neutrality law which prohibits American ships sailing in war areas, American citizens travels ing on belligerent ships, and come merce with belligerents except on a cash and carry basis. Mr. May
first day of the new Congress to repeal the Johnson Act which proe hibits loans to World War debt defaulters. Congressional reaction to Mr, Roosevelt's “world’s end” remark was confused. Senator Frederick ' (Continued on Page Three)
AMERICAN CLUB’ IN
LONDON, Dec. 16 (U. P).~The American Club in fashionable Pice cadilly, social headquarters for many American men : resident in London, has been damaged by:m German bomb, it was disclosed to-
day. A bomb exploded : across the
street from the club, pitting building, blowing out windows, damaging furniture, fittings and the ceilings of front rooms. ° ingham Palace.
- The bar was one of the first rooms repaired. i
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HINT LLOYD GEORGE.
TO SUCCEED LOTHIAN
LONDON, Dec. 16 (U. ‘B). ports circulated without o firmation tonight that Prime ister Winston Churchill has as! David Lloyd George to accept post of . British Ambassador Wd Yiited Stalet. i a Lloy George was sa. nav Churchill at a conference this noon that he would like a litt to consider the offer.
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