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BRITISH FLEET INVADES ADRIATIC

DEMS PREPARE SNARE ON GOP BIDFOR POWER

Claim ‘Ace - in - the - Hole’ Plus That Handy 5-to-1 ~ Supreme Court Majority. By NOBLE REED

Democratic leaders today prepared to carry their fight for control of

the State Government to the Indiana Supreme Court in a broad fest case necessary. They compiled extensive in court any attempt of the Repub-lican-controlled Legislature to strip

executive control of most state de-|

partments from Democratic Gover-nor-Elect Henry F. Schricker. The Democrats’ “ace in the hole” was disclosed following a. statement 1 ade yesterday by State Republican Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt that G. O. P. leaders in the Legislature will

not offer a 50-50 compromise with

the Democrats in executive matters. G. O. P. Bans “Appeasement”

- Republican leaders, he said, have

decided against any “appeasement” for the Democrats in legislation reorganizing the Government. Democratic leaders said that if the Republican majority enacts legislation setting up Republican control of most divisions of government they will show “conclusively that it is unconstitutional.” Briefs prepared by a group of Democratic attorneys, including Attorney General Samuel D. Jackson, are based upon Section 1, Article 5 of the Constitution. This interpretation reads: : “The Constitution charges the Governor specifically with the responsibility of seeing that all laws are ‘faithfully executed.”

Here Is Nucleus of Fight

“How then could the Governor see that all laws are ‘faithfully executed’ unless he had control over administrative officers?” And therein hinges the nucleus of the whole Democratic fight to prevent the Republicans from “scuttling” the Governor's office. Democratic chances of success in the Supreme Court obviously are favorable, since there will, be five Democratic judges to one Republican for the next two ‘years. Five of the Democratic Supreme Court judges are holdovers and only one Republican judge was elected to the bench Nov. 5.

Present Comprehensive Outline

In a comprehensive outline of their briefs, Democratic attorneys continued: " “Framers of the Constitution never intended to give the Legislature powers to shift the appointment of state officers from one place to another according to the political bias of the Legislature. “On the contrary, framers of the Constitution emphatically and clearly stated that this should not be done. Section 1, Article 5, vesting all executive powers in the Governor, settles that question emphatically. “Appointment of officers is an executive power and one necessary to the duties laid upon the Governor.” Refer to Clause Repeatedly

The briefs repeatedly refer to the clause requiring the Governor to “faithfully execute the laws.” Democratic leaders said that in the final analysis, Republicans can assume no more powers than those vested specifically in the offices to which Republican candidates were elected Nov. 5, namely: Secretary of State, Treasurer of State, Auditor of State, Lieutenant Governor and Superintendent of Public Instruction. Republican attorneys, however, also are reported to have plenty of legal arguments to support ‘the Legislature’s powers over the governmental divisions that it created originally. ° “What the Legislature created, it can alter or even destroy at will,” is the Republican motto.

CAROL MAY VISIT TU. S. NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (U. P).— The German wireless reported from Lisbon today that ex-King Carol of Rumania is expected to leave Spain for Lisbon today or tomorrow and may come to the United States from

Portugal.

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WE DON'T KNOW what the younger generation in. Indianapolis is coming to, unless it would be

the holiday vacation. All we do. know is that there were, in round numbers, 60,000 fascinated clock watchers in the city today, all of tnem rather youngish. School was to end for the Christmas vacation at 3 p. m. today. Until it takes up again—and there is no record of any one of the pupils giving a thought to THAT eventuality—they all will be more or less free to go and come as they like, to do what they want to do when they want to do it. / » ” TO A CERTAIN extent, all adults also should be clock watchers, along with the pupils. For,

. from now on until the school re-

cess is over, there will be more children on the streets more of the time and that is a civic responsibility. : This little fellow at School 41, and that little clock on the right were buddies today. Tomorrow they go their separate ways.

Just a Minute There, Buddy!

OFFICE IN STATE

Files Moved From Asheville, N. C., to Noblesville, Ind.; Employees Silent.

ASHEVILLE, N. C, Dec. 20 (U. P.) —Furniture, files and printing equipment of the headquarters of William Dudley Pelley, leader of the Silver Shirts, American Fascist organization were en route today to Noblesville, Ind. ) Employees of Pelley Publishers declined comment on the transfer of the organization’s movable property. ; From Noblesville it was learned that Agnes Henderson, secretarytreasurer. of the Friendship Press Publishing Co., recently bought a box factory there, which it was announced would be converted into a printing plant. Carl Losey, president of Friendship Press, said the magazine Liberation, heretofore the official organ of the Silver Shirts, would be published there under the title Friendship Magazine, but would have no connection with the Silver Shirts. The final edition of Liberation was published -here last month, { Pelley's headquarters were here for more than 10 years, but, so far jas is known, he himself has not {been in Asheville during the past {five years. In 1935 he was con-

lina’s blue-sky laws in connection

was given a suspended sentence. Last February he was arrested in Washington, where he had testified before a Congressional committee on a capias issued by Judge Zeb V. Nettles of Buncombe County Superior Court charging the Silver Shirt leader with violating conditions of the suspended sentence. Pelley opposed extradition and an appeal {to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals still is pending.

Carl Losey, former Indiana State {Police officer and a resident of In-

The Times today for comment.

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5:55 P, M, TOMORROW

Winter to Arrive in One of Nature’s Big Shows. .

LOCAL TEMPERATURES . ...4 10am ... 4 44 . 48 . . 43 48 .m, ... 43 49

If you happen to be outside at 5:55 p. m. tomorrow, glance about you and notice what goes on. Too many people; in this day of movies and- other synthetic entertainment, fail to take advantage of the remarkable and colorful shows of nature that can be had for nothing except alertness. Tomorrow at 5:55 p. m., no sooner, no later, nature will stage one of its four greatest shows. At that moment, winter comes to Indianapolis, astronomically. You have the authority of the U. S. Nautical Almanac Office of the Naval Observatory at Washington for this. As a sort of double feature, at that moment also the sun will be farthest south on its annual tour that creates the seasons. If you have time, you might give that a look, too. Incidentally, if you don’t look about you at 5:55 p. m. tomorrow, youll never know winter actually 'is here. The Weather Bureau predicted that there will be fair skies ‘and mild temperatures tonight, to{morrow and Sunday.

11 a. m. .. 12 (noon) 1p m....

'HOPE IT’S SILENT NIGHT

BERNE, Switzerland, Dec. 20 (U. P.).—The Swiss Army staff today announced that it was suspending ‘the blackout for the night of Dec. 24-25, “hoping that our air space won't: be violated Christmas Eye.

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victed of violation of North Caro-; {shortly afterward, a police car drove

.lwith his publishing activities and|uP to the Anderson home and the

{had been injured and were at the { hospital. Then police drove away:

[not so much as a streetcar token to get her to the hospital. not a cent in the house, not even a [nickel to phone about their condi- | tion. |

| Then some

| : ' The Pushcart

day.

dents, the men of the home were they pushed a junk cart in search

hurt. John Anderson. 81, and his son, | Adam Anderson, 41, left their Haririson St. home before daylight. Mrs. Adam Anderson argued against it.

Cautions Him

“The streets aren’t safe before it is light,” she -said. “But we have to go,” her husbahd said. “We have no food in the house and no money.” And he and his rheumatic father trudged away, bound for Irvington, fully six miles away, pushing the home-made push car in search of junk. It was just getting a little light and the streets were a little safer {when they came to the underpass in the 3500 block of E. Washington St. Into that dark cavern they pushed.

man, 1318 W. Market St., also entered the tunnel and crashed into the cart and the men. The men were taken to City Hospital and,

policemen told Mrs. Adam Anderson that her husband and his father

Good News

Mrs. Adam Anderson was frantic, but she also was helpless. She had

There was

| A neighbor woman learned of the

plight. She went from house to

dianapolis, could not be reached by house and finally raised 60 cents. |

This was to take Mrs. Adam An|derson to the hospital in case either {of the men was dying. gpe told them the men were only slightly injured. Mrs. Adam Anderson burst into! happy -tears. She handed the 60, ‘cents to the neighbor woman. |- “Now 1 won't have to spend your money,” she sobbed. And she brushed the. tears from her eyes.

boxing champion,

PELLEY TO HAVE ‘No Food or Money, but If's a Happy Home—Men Are Alive

Was Demolished When Auto Struck in Dark Tunnel; Wife Couldn’t Visit Hospital.

There was no money and food for the folks at 828 Harrison St. toAnd now there is no chance for any. - But the people there are among the happiest in Because, by one of those incomprehensible freaks of traffic acci-

Indianapolis.

struck by an auto early today as of business, but were not seriously

JUDGES PRO TEM ARE PLENTIFUL

32 Serve in City Courts 3 and 4 and It Cost Taxpayers $10 a Day.

By RICHARD LEWIS Thirty-two Indianapolis attorneys have served as pro tem judges in Municipal Courts 3 and 4 so far this

|year—most of them at the taxpay-

| An auto driven by William Kunzel- jors

expense, a survey of court records showed today.

Most of the attorneys had more

than one turn on the bench and a goodly percentage of them conduct their practices in these courts. Not all have been paid for their services as pro tems, which total about 150 days in both courts. These attorneys have served as relief judges for Municipal Judges Charles J. Karabell and John J. McNelis who receive $5000 a year apiece as Governor M. Clifford Townsend's appointees. : In Municipal Court 4, where Judge Karabell has been absent for several months because of ess, the turnover of pro tem judges has been particularly noticeable. Since Tuesday, four different pro tems

{have sat on the Court 4 bench.

They were Silas Lipman and {Edwin K.. Steers on Tuesday, George G. Rinier on Wednesday and Charles D. Babcock yesterday. In this court during the year, Mr. (Continued on Page 11)

TUNNEY ASSIGNED IN NAVAL PROGRAM

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (U.P.) — ‘Gene Tunney, former heavyweight today was as-

; a sl hysical director at th QUAKE ALMOST BEAT |Jored a ini statics th

SHOCKING FORECAST

AMSTERDAM, N. Y., Dec. 20 (U. P.) —Frederic Snyder, a lecturer, told the local Century Club last night the United States would be affected by a series of earthquakes in 1941 centering between nearby Schenectady and Portland, Me., because of “arrangement of the planets.” Five hours later three. temblors shook Amsterdam buildings.

(Donors’ List, Page 10)

IT WAS NICE weather at Christmas time last year, too. Then what happened? For weeks .on end winter howled about Indianapolis, covered the streets with ice and pelted snow at everyone. It was miserably cold well into what normally should have been mild spring days. All through March and April and even into May there were days when good, warm winter clothing was welcome. According to the accepted dictums of the government meteorologists, there is no such thing as accurate long-distance weather forecasting. There is no saying, for instance, that because winter after Christmas last year

rank of Lieutenant Commander. In welcoming Mr. Tunney into the service at an unscheduled ceremony, Secretary of Navy Frank Knox referred to the one-time champion as “an old, old friend and one who carries with him a punch in the minds and heads of young men.” Mr. Tunney formerly was a Marine. . The stations where he will direct physical education are at Pensacola and Jacksonville, Fla. and Corpus Christi, Tex. :

was long and cold the same will be true this year,

Even so, how many of you

would gamble that it,won’t be? “How many of you feel so strongly that the winter will be mild and the spring early and congenial that you would lock up your cold weather clothes and throw the keys away?

s ® » ACTUALLY, THERE are hundreds of children in this town who can do no bettsr than hope, wanly that the winter will be mild and the spring early. They have no choice but to do their own wishful long-distance weather forecasting, hoping for the best.

All because they have no clothes

that will keep out those winter winds. They . prospect of

SENTENCING OF QUINN SET FOR LATE IN MONTH

Bluestein Also to Learn Fate Dec. 28; Admits False Pretense Charge.

The final chapter of Marion County’s 1939 poor relief investigation will be written Dec. 28 when the remaining two defendants in relief fraud cases will be sentenced. In Criminal Court today Thomas M. Quinn Sr., former Center Township trustee, was granted a dismissal on two of three indictments returned against him as a result of a six weeks’ probe a year ago. The former trustee will be sentenced next week on the third indictment, charging official negligence, to which he has pleaded guilty. - Bluestein Changes: Plea

Frank Bluestein, grocer, the other remaining defendant, today withdrew a plea of not guilty to a charge of filing a false relief claim and false pretense and Prosecutor David M. Lewis, who directed the relief probe, accepted a plea of guilty to one count of the indictment, charging false pretense. The action was taken in Criminal Court before Judge Pro Tem William E. Reilly, who was scheduled to dispose of the two cases today. But after hearing character witnesses and several physicians present mitigating evidence in behalf of the two defendants, Judge Reilly postponed final disposition until Dec. 28. One physician, Dr. John Cunningham, testified that Quinn is at present under his care and that the defendant has never fully recovered from a heart attack two years ago.

VALONA SHELLED WHILE DUCE'S SHIPS HIDE OUT;

FIRES RAGI

F. D. R. and Leaders Debate Faster British Aid. BULLETIN LONDON, Dec. 20 (U. P.).— Britain will not .be able to maintain her war effort without new ship construction, Minister of Shipping Ronald Cross said today in appealing for American-built

merchant vessels to meet the German submarine menace.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (U. P.).

—President Roosevelt called the Defense Commission to meet with him this afternoon to consider four or five different plans for reorganizing defense administration to speed the output of war materials for the United States and Great Britain. ; Most widely discussed is one which would center administrative responsibility for production speed up in the hands of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, and Defense Production Commissioner William S. Knudsen.

Congress Action Promised

Congressional leaders promised to make the President’s loan-lease plan of aiding Britain the first order of business at the next session of Congress. Meantime, the British eompleted their current war purchasing program with a $100,000,000 order for 60 new cargo vessels.

Quinn Asks Leniency

The testimony was presented by Quinn's attorney as part of a plea for leniency. Another - physician testified that Bluestein was ‘“emotionally disturbed” following the return of the indictment against him but that the defendant “is more composed now.” Penalties ‘on the official negligence charge against Quinn are $10 to $500 fine and up to six months imprisonment in the county jail. Conviction on the false pretense indictment against Bluestein carries a fine of $10 to $1000, up to] six months in jail or one to seven | years in prison. One of three other defendants in (Continued on Page 11)

STEPHENSON PAROLE

AGTION IS PROMISED

Governor Declares He Will! ‘Follow Custom.’

The State Clemency Commission will consider “within the next few days” the petition of D. C. Stephenson, former. Ku-Klux Klan leader, for .a parole from his life sentence for murder, Mrs. Martha Salb, commission secretary, said today. Withdrawal of a suit in Hamilton Circuit Court yesterday by Stephenson’s attorney, Alban Smith, La Porte, cleared the way for his case to be brought before the commission, Under commission rules, Stephenson is now eligible for parole, having served 15 years of his life sentence and not having any litigation pending. When his petition for clemency was filed on Oct. 15, it was not considered because of the suit in Hamilton County. Governor Townsend today said he would follow his usual custom on the Stephenson matter and act as the Clemency Board recommended. “That has been my policy during the past four years,” the Governor said. “I have paroled only those whom they recommended. - Stephenson was convicted - in November, 1925, of the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, State House

|like island.

- along. the right-of-way of the

On another phase of the defense problem, Mr. Roosevelt told reporters that only three of the eight bases acquired from the British in exchange for 50 old destroyers were being delayed because of inability to decide on. a site. One of these is at Trinidad, which Mr. Roosevelt remarked is a large island; another 'at Berumda, where Mr. Roosevelt said the major problem was to do the work while intorfering least with the slep and happiness of American tourists; and at Mayaguana Island in the Bahamas, where the problem is one of anchoring ships because of the depth of the water near the cliff-

Other Contracts Wait

The British order.for 60 merchant ships to be built in new American yards was the last contract that the British will sign under the present system of supplying immediate cash out of their own resources. Signing of other contracts in Britain's projected $3,000,000,000 arms purchase: program, including 12,000 combat planes, must await action by the new °* Congress on President Roosevelt's lease-loan plan. Contracts for the 60 ships, signed less than 12 hours after President (Continued on Page Three)

$16,000 Falls Along Tracks

MOUNT GILEAD, O., Dec, 20 (U. P.).—It looked for a while as if Santa Claus had come early. An estimated $16,000 in currency was scattered for four miles

New York Central railroad between Cardington and Edison when a mail sack: burst. Men, women and children combed the territory looking for $1000 of the folding money still missing. Train crews recovered most of it before the public could join the “gold rush.”

The sack, consigned to the First }

National Bank at Mount Gilead from the Federal Reserve Bank at Cleveland, broke yesterday when it was thrown from a baggage car as the tran sped through Edison. Two $5 bills were found as far distant as Cardington, four miles away. Harry Mathews, Cardington marshal, collected $60

“have none and no. ciently

stenographer,

Bitter Cold Followed Mild Holiday in '39—Remember?

these children are from large families with insufficient incomes. Some of them are from families whose income does not even provide enough fuel to keep the homes: warm. They are school children for whom the millions of dollars are spent in the school systems. They are an important part of the generation - which is being trained now to carry on the work of the community later. Yet, with insufficient clothing, they often are unable to attend those schools and in bitter weather can’t even get warm in their own homes.

- BECAUSE THEY are: insuffi-

clothed, they are easy prey

winter diseases. The winter LN

walking along the tracks.

diseases weaken their bodies and make them less able to prepare themselves for adulthood. And so it goes in a vicious circle. At least a part of the answer

to the problems of these children, —problems which they did not create and which they can not ‘solve by themselves — is warm clothing. And it is precicely for these children that Clothe-A-Child was created. The whole community can participate in this project. You can participate. . You can put a dime on the Mile-of-Dimes, or you can send a sizable check to Clothe-A-Child. Or you can call Clothe-A-Child and take any number of children’ to clothe di-

Storm Center

Dr. Otte A. Willumeit . . . chairman of Chicago GermanAmerican Bund,

RAIDERS SEIZE BUND'S LEDGER

Notations After Names of Midwest. Members Hints Link to Army.

CHICAGO, Dec. 20 (U. P.).—Army intelligence officers and G-men today investigated a “black ledger” seized in a raid on German-Amer-ican Bund headquarters to determine whether some or all of the

NG IN BARDIA

Big Arms Center off - Essen Included in

Bomb Raids.

BULLETIN LONDON, Dec. 20 (U. P.).— Waves of German bombers hurtled over Great Britain tonight, breaking the long respite from blitzkrieg tactics with an attack that brought reports of Nazi raiders in almost all sections of the country,

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Great Britain and Greece rained blow after blow on Italy’s battered war machine today and pressed a relente less aerial attack on Germany

|designed to offset a possible | early big-scale counter-blow 1|by Adolf Hitler. |

British warships set the pace for | the offensive against Italy by & | spectacular dash—led by battleships

cists call Italy's lake) and bombard= | ment of the Albanian port of Valona, which is a vital base for the | hard-pre§sed Fascist armies in Als bania. \ x on Royal Air Force planes followed up the attack, it was stated of« |

the ports of Valona and Krionero, setting fire to military establishe | ments. Rubr Arms Center Bombed

The British air and naval offens | sive extended over a wide Mediter= ranean area and to the industrial heart of Germany, where the big armaments center of Essen as well as Cologne, Bonn, Duisburg and Duesseldorf were reported effective ly bombed. In Libya, Royal Air Force bomb« ers co-operated with the British land siege of the Mediterranean coastal base of Bardia while British

members listed were in the armed forces of the United States.

terday by State's Attorney's men, who sought the Bund’s financial records which were to be used in conection with a $380 suit against the organization for delinquent personal property assessments for 1938. The investigators were surprised to find thai they had obtained what was believed to be the first Bund membership list ever seized.

FBI Not Idle

When the raiders found notations written in (German after the names indicating that they were in the Army, Navy, Marine or Reserve forces, they called in° William S. Devereaux, agent in charge of the FBI in Chicago. Devereaux and three assistants and U. S. District Attorney Albert J. Woll immediately began.an investigation of the records. Maj. G. R. Carpenter, chief intelligence officer of the U. S. Army

{Sixth Corps Area, said he expected

to “hear about this through official channels” but he declined to discuss Army action in the case, if any. Devereaux refused to make any comment on the investigation but he added that the FBI was “not standing idly by.” » ‘Seizure of the Bund’s records and books was ordered by Municipal Judge Oscar S. Caplan after "Dr. Otto Willumeit, Chicago leader of the Bund, was accused in court of answering evasively questions about the organization's finances. Sergt. (Continued on Page Three)

14 DROP RECOUNTS: SEXTON STILL FIGHTS

(Senate to Hear Protest on

Beveridge Election.

Fourteen defeated Democratic candidates for the Legislature today dismissed their recount suits in Circuit | Court today, leaving only one seal to be contested in the State Senate after the General Assembly convenes Jan. 9. ! The one remgining legislative contest is being pushed by Joseph Sex-

for the Senate, who will seek to unseat Albert... Beveridge Jr. The latter was declared. elected by 51 votes and Mr. Sexton has filed affidavits charging that he lost 64

faulty voting machine, The affidavits will be presented to the Senate as grounds for a contest. Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox set Monday fo a final hearing in the cases of six other Democrats

count totals, which showed Republicans were elected,

rectly, yourself. The phone num-

Ibe

The ledger was seized late yes-|

ton, defeated IDemocratci candidate |

votes in one precinct because of a;

defeated for county offices. Re-|®

mechanized forces that circled the

| city were reported pushing on in

the direction of the main Italian base at Tobruk. More than 20.070 Italians had been reported traprod in Bardia, where great fires were raging. The R. A. F. attacks were heavicsh against Derna, where great damage was reported as a result of direck hits on barracks, police headquar= ters, motor transport parks and garages. L . Subs Attack in Atlantic Other developments included: The London Admiralty said in a communique that the British sub marine Truant had torpedoed and sunk two and possibly three Italian supply and merchant ships off the Italian Coast. The ships included a convoyed supply vessel and a large tanker.. Attacks by submarines were ree ported by two ships in the North Atlantic off the west coast of Ireland. The distress calls came from the British steamer Carlton and another unidentified vessel. Athens reported that Greek troops, pressing ahead against heavier Italian opposition and bad weather, had advanced north of Tepelini and Klisura on the route to Valona without, however, occupying either of those burning, devastated towns which now form a sort of no man’s land between the contending armies. On the coastal front, in the Porto Palermo-Chimara region, the Greeks also were said to be moving ahead again. The Germans engaged in little (Continued on Page Three)

HINT LORD HALIFAX TO BE U. S. ENVOY,

LONDON, Dec. 20 (U.P.).—A ree port circulated today that Foreign Minister Lord Halifax will be named British Ambassador to the United States and that the Government will be reshuffled following his appointment. It was reported that War Secree tary Anthony Eden may take over Halifax’s foreign portfolio and that David Lloyd George, World War Prime Minister, might enter the Cabinet to relieve Prime Minister Winston Churchill of much respone sibility for domestic affairs.

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