Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1940 — Page 3

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DRYS MOBILIZE IN OPTION FIGHT

Party Leaders Dodge Issue; Wets Organize Strong Opposition Force. (Continued from Page One)

cal groups to bring : pressure for more co-operation. 2 Groups defending the present liquor setup are preparing to warn the public that local option will tend to encourage bootlegging and operation of speakeasies in dry communities. ) They also are arguing that local option will result in more drunken drivers on the highways, since liquor patrons would drive from a a community to imbibe in a wet Dry leaders are compiling a vast amount of data to support their fight for local option.

Points to Farm Records

They will present statistics on all

phases of liquor consumption and jue moral effects upon communiies. Mr. York «said his statistics will show that of 3628 men sentenced to the State Penal Farm in the last year, 1773, or aboyt 49 per cent, were convicted of drunkenness. Answering the contention of the ets that local option will increase the number of drunken drivers on the highways because of traveling from a dry county to a wet one, Mr. York said: “Our contention is that under local option, there would be only

stead of two lines as conditions. ;

Says Chances of Passage Good

“Now, drinkers in one county go to another county to drink and Vice versa, making the double line.” Since most politicians have not committed themselves on the local option question, dry leaders said they were’ unable to determine in advance how the majority of the legislators will vote, but they are convinced that the chances for passage of local option in Indiana are better now than any time since repeal.

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TENACITY WILL WIN, WINDSOR BELIEVES

NASSAU, Bahamas, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—The Duke of Windsor .said in a Christmas radiocast to the United States last: night that he believed Great Britain’s tenacity and endurance would “bring this war to a successful conclusion.” “Let our prayers this Christmas night be . .. for . , . a settlement based on justice, sanity and good

will,” he said. He urged his listeners to pray for those fighting for the British Empire and for ‘an early deliverance from their sufferings.”

Phone Wire Cut, Fine Is $25,000

VICHY, France, Déc. 26 (U. P.). —A city in German-occupied France which suffered heavily from German airplanes and the German army while France was in the war has been _fined~ 1,000,000 francs (nominally $25,000) because a single strand of a German army telephone wire was cut, it was made known today. French authorities were unable

to find out who cut the wire and the Germans fined the municipality.

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"THE SALE IS ON"—This isn't a

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to keep the store PERPETUALLY

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This is the fundamental bedrock

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of the store.

We stress this "always new" fact time and again. We emphasize it in the vernacular— "You can't get an old suit on a bet!"

. Maybe a "hair-splitter' would insist that with diligence (and with a search warrant) he could

come onto an "old" garment .. . but this is a mere technicality, so rather remote that it

can be dismissed.

And it's only because we have built through the years this spectacular, sweeping sale that we

can say "eternally new" and the

statement is legitimate and possible!

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SEE WHAT SUCH A

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Because we've just passed through the largest clothing season in our history—we had to call in next year's reserves to meet demands! So—

that is why in this sale—you'll find not only

clothes of today—but alse those that anticipate tomorrow. We (and you) find it gratifying that the sale is especially abundant in pedigreed clothes . . . and of more than usual strength in the middle and popular brackets.

% It's a Sale—with a national reputation! (A great many traveling men route themselves through Indianapolis to be on hand.)

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AMERICAN PLAN

Right to Defend Fine Island Harbor. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—

Naval experts contend today that

an air and naval base on the French island of Martinique is necessary to complete American defense plans in

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the experts are insisting upon the

in the face of French refusals. If the United States had a base there, they contend, the Caribbean could be completely sealed against invasion,

¥ Important Link in Chain

The island is a link in the chain of islands athwart southern entrances into the Caribbean. Admiral William D. Leahy, new Ambassador to the French Vichy Government, is expected to open conversations for a base on the island. Informed sources said that ly by fears of German reprisals. The Navy reportedly is anxious to obtain a site there because Fort de France, the main port, boasts one of the finest harbors in the Lesser Antilles. A deep, protected anchorage would afford shelter for a half dozen large naval vessels, while the surrounding hills are adaptable to adequate gun emplacements.

Isle Often in Limelight

The United Press informant said that American naval leaseholds recently acquired from Great Britain on Antigua and St. Lucia near Martinique, are of only moderate value. Between Puerto Rico and Trinidad, oniy Martinique has the necessary physical requirements for a firstclass base. Martinique has figured prominently. in headlines for several months. The French aircraft carrier Bearn, with 100 Americanmade warplanes on its decks, was crossing the Atlantic when France surrendered to Germany last spring, and on instructions from Vichy promptly put in at Fort de France. The planes were taken ashore, where they have idled ever since.

It’s News to France,

Spokesman Claims

VICHY, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—An official spokesman said today that the Vichy Government had no knowledge of reports of a United States request for rights to construct a naval base on the French West Inpdies Island of Martinique.

NOTED GROUP BACKS FOR ON ARMS LOAN

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Gerard Swope, industrialist; former Senator Frederic Collin Wolcott, Norfolk, Conn.; Alexander Woollcott, author; Walter Wanger, motion picture producer, and Dr. James Roland Angell, former president of Yale University.

May Be Specific in Talk

The telegram declared that “ignorance and lethargy and disbelief” are blinding U. S. citizens “to our own peril” and said that this condjtion “must be swept away before it is too late.” - “There may be only a little time left,” the telegram added. “You led us splendidly during the critical days of late spring and early fall. We ask ‘you to give us the same splendid leadership now.” It was. understood that in his Sunday night address Mr. Roosevelt planned to be clear and specific about aid to Britain, but would give out no figures which “other Governments might like to know.” ‘Besides working on the Sunday night talk, the. President also will draft his state-of-the-union message to Congress, and complete work on the 1942 fiscal year budget.

Silent on Envoy to London

Executive orders for establishment of the new supreme defense council—the four-man office for production management—are being prepared and will be issued as soon as possible, White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said. ; Asked about the imminence of an appointment of a new U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Mr. ‘Early said he had heard no talk about the Ambassadorship recently. He said he did not know the mission of Col. William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan in London but recalled that Mr. Dono-

for Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox.

STOCKS CHANGE LITTLE NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (U. P.).— Stock prices changed little today in a very quiet post-holiday market. Uncertainties over the foreign situation offset good business reports.

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bania, possibly by thrusting across Jugoslavia. Another was that the long-suggested German move across Bulgaria into Thrace and towards Salonika might be imminent. Such a move presumably would bring Turkey into the war. A second theory, apparently based on increasing friction between Rumania and Russia, was that the German troops would act as a counter-weight ‘ against any new Soviet advance into Rumania or even more against Russia in the spring. . These suggestions, however, were Berlin had nothing to say about the troops, Sofia said none had come into-Bul-garia. Istanbul said the Turks were without information on the situation. >

Greek-ltalian War

An official Greek spokesman said several more villages were captured in southeast Albania -and that the general advance still was under way, although Italian Black Shirts and Alpine units were being thrown into the battle as reinforcements “with surprising indifference to the sacrifice of human life.” The Italians suffered “disastrous set-backs” in their counter-attacks, before resuming their retreat northward, the Greek spokesman said. He said that at one point the Italians reinforced a section of their line heavily with the most experienced troops, but had been thrown back after a three-hour fight. The fighting moved north of Tepelini and Klisura, main Italian bases In the area, controlling the roads north.to Berat and west to Valona, but the Greeks Still had not announced the occupation of either town. Both were reported still within range of Italian artillery. In the south coastal sector, the Greeks were reported forging ahead from Chimara toward Valona, 30 miles north,

Invasion Watch

In Britain, Royal Marines manned long range guns commanding the Dover Straits, ‘prepared for instant action. At sea, ships of the Dover patrol slid silently through

emy activity. \ The skies over .the Channel were cloudy and there was a cold north= west wind but the seas remained comparatively calm, Picked troops armed with Bren guns and other automatic weapons combed the beaches and watched every cleft and fissure in the tall white cliffs. Coastal highway traffic was halted at barricades and drivers were ordered to produce their identity cards and also were searched for weapons. i A single German plane, which flew near a southeast coast town shortly after noon today and flew back toward France after encoun-

tering anti-aircraft gun fire only

finally publisher of the New York Daily Standard. : As errand boy for Greeley, Frohman mastered the difficult art of reading the editor’s almost illégible scrawl and became his copyist. Mr. Frohman’s commentary on his success as publisher of the Standard was: “The paper lived two years and a half.” . Mr. Frohman got into show business through a job as advance agent for Callender’s Famous Georgian Minstrels. His first big theatrical job, however, was as manager of the Madison Square Theater. Frohman subsequently established the Lyceum Theater stock company ahd his own obituary sums up the concluding phases of his career with one paragraph telling how he built a new Lyceum Theater and adding: “During the later months of his life, however, he rented the theater to another company, keeping his office studio in the upper part of the building.” But that paragraph did not adequately describe what Mr. Frohman, in private conversation, called his “anecdotage,” the years during which he gained fame as a reconteur.

Mr. Frohman had dealings with some of the American theater's

Daniel Frohman, Famed as ~ Stage Producer, Dies at 89

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most illustrious names. He hired David Belasco when that producer was a runaway youth. Mme. Modjeska was on his payroll, as were such stars as E. H. Sothern, Maude Adams, Henry Miller, Francis Hackett, William Gillette, Annie Russell, Mary Anderson and Margaret Illington. Miss Illington was his only wife. She divorced him in 1908 because, she said, she wanted a home life, and later married Maj. Edward Bowes. Mr. Frohman approved of the movies and helped organize Fa-mous-Players Lasky Film Co. He wrote two books: “Memories of a Manager” (1911) and “Daniel Frohman Presents” (1935). During his last days, Mr. Pressner said, Mr. Frohman talked constantly of the personalities delineated in the latter book.

“He talked of Sarah Bernhardt,”|:

Dr. Pressner said, “and of Fannie Hurst, who was a great friend of his.” Much of the time he “chanted” phrases from his favorite musical composition, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Dr. :Pressner said. : Never one to indulge in regrets, Mr. Frohman said frequently: “I never weep in my beer—it spoils the beer.”

the mist, alert for any sign of en-

served to emphasize the bombing truce. Another Nazi reconnaissance plane flew over the Orkney Islands, in the vicinity of Britain’s Scapa Flow naval base, yesterday. Fleet air arm and air force fighter planes spotted it, forced it down and made the four men of its crew prisoners. It was the first time in months a German plane had been reported over the Orkneys. The ordinary Briton knew nothing of the informal truce. London’s streets were almost deserted, as usual, during the night. A few stragglers made through the intense blackout for saloons, restaurants and night clubs, movies closed as usual at 9 p. m. Many family parties were held in raid shelters. At one shelter, a Santa Claus distributed gifts from a tree and there was a dance afterward, on the floor of the subway station which was the shelter, to the music of a piano and a violin, Those persons who were told by newspapermen and others of the informal truce were not impressed. Typical reaction was: “That’s fine, but what makes you think you can trust the Germans?”

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Diplomatic Front

There were indications of renewed activity behind the scenes on the diplomatic front.

The important Tokyo newspaper Nichi Nichi commented editorially on the lack of progress toward So-viet-Japanese rapprochement, indicating that hopes entertained when Tokyo's new Ambassador, Lieut. Gen. Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, went to Moscow have not been fulfilled. .

There was activity, too, on the Franco-German front. Admiral Francois Darlan, acting as personal representative of Marshal Henri

Nazi Army Boost in Rumania Puzzles Europe; British Continue Precautions Against Invasion

important consultations ® with a “very high” German representative. Vichy’s description of the German representative appeared to fit Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. lh " Darlan was due back in Vichy tomorrow. The subject of his conversations was not made clear but it presumably related to France's “collaborating” with Germany, a subject of some touchiness on both sides since Petdin’s dismissal of Vice Premier Pierre Laval.

Madrid reported that a. French plane which was believed to have been carrying “an important” French political figure had fallen in the sea off La Linea, apparently as it was trying to land at Gibralar. Spanish anti-aircraft batteries reportedly shot at the plane and may have hit it. There was no indication who the Frenchman wa how the Spaniards knew he was the plane or what he was doing flying to Gibraltar. : Great Britain faces the: coming year. with resolute confidence and twill seize every opportunity on all fronts to press on to victory with the same vigor-as in Africa, Prime Minister Winston Churchill said in

la holiday message to Prime Min-

ister Pete Fraser of New Zealand. Official circles in London said that they had no knowledge of a

Italian “military commissioner” was flying direct to London from Rome today ‘to make peace pioposals.” The report was published last night in South America, credited to a Spanish news agency.

AID BRITISH LABOR NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (U. P), — Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor and president of the League for Human Rights, Freedom and Democracy, announced today the formation of an “American Labor Committee to

rumor published abroad that an|P°

ONTHEAVENUE i —— Trouble Begins With Cotton * Club Shooting, Ends With “=: Terrace Riot.

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rests: Costella Allen, 32, of 905 Paca St., charged with drunk o disorderly conduct and profanity; Bertha McGee, 19, of 330 Blake St., charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and Agnes Woods, 22, of 314 Bright St., also charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct.

At 2 a. m. Sergt. John Foran and a fully-implemented squad paid a visit to the Oriental Cafe and.found about 75 people there, most of whom decided to leave when=the police arrived. Three were arreste ed on charges of violating the bev= erages act: George Graham, 52, of 507% Indiana Ave.; Utsi Bell, 42, of 510 Drake St., and Leonard Gay, 40, of 224 W. New York St.

There Was a Riot Call

Police managed to confiscate a small glass of whisky, which they said Gay was trying to drink. Then there was the riot call af. the Sunset Terrace, night club which books big orchestras and big floor, shows. When police arrived a rush was in progress on the check room. They said several hundreds. were in the club and on the sides. walk when they got there. oe: Arrests: Joe Stewart, 19, of 2544Boulevard Place, charged with vios: lation of the firearms act and vageZ rancy; Van Douglas, 20, of 358 W,= 25th St., charged with disorderly" conduct and vagrancy, and Denver: (Dee) Ferguson, 56, owner of the: club and brother of Sea Ferguson, charged with violation of the beversages act. i Cases -of all those arrested were expected to come up today in Mue nicipal Courts.

ASKS ‘NO BELITTLING’ IN ROOSEVELT’S CHAT

CEDAR ‘RAPIDS, Iowa, Dec: 26 (U. P.).—Verne Marshall, chairman of the No-Foreign-War Committee, said today that if President Roose--velt in his fireside chat Sunday night “takes us wholly into his con= fidence we will know exactly how to end this war . . . and within weeks if not days.” ; In a statement published in the Cedar Rapids, (Iowa), Gazette of which he is editor, and released in New York, Mr. Marshall warned the President not to “belittle” the No< Foreign-War Committee in his fire. side talk.

ALLEGED SPY HELD. RUSSIAN PAPER SAYS

MOSCOW, Dec. 26 (U. P.) ~The Communist Party newspaper Pravda said today that a Soviet Coast '(yuardsman had captured an alleged spy who entered Russia from one of the Baltic states. z The nationality of the spy was not disclosed by the newspaper, but it was stated that he belonged to the inteHtgence service of a foreign wer. According to the newspaper, the spy entered the Soviet Union a small sloop, which was wrecked. Rear ‘Admiral Vladimir Tributz; commander of the Baltic fleet, ise

|sued an official order congratulating

the man who captured the Spy.

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