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Cloudy this afternoon, kecoming fair and colder tonight ‘and tomorrow; Towest temperature tonight 15 to 20.

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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 261

aii JANUARY 9, 1941

Entered as Second-Class Matter | Indianapolis, Ind.

at Postoffice,

‘Defense

000 CHI

Nezie Use of Machin

VEIL LIFTED ON DEFIANT STAND ARMISTICE DAY

Thousands Attempt Parade While British Write Out ‘Courage’ in Sky.

ZURICH, Switzerland, Jan. 9. {(U. P.).—A belated but apparently [reliable account of disorders in [Paris last Armistice Day revealed today that German troops employed sub-machine guns to quell demonstrators, British sky-writing airplanes flew over the city and Ger-

man authorities withdrew Paris’ meat rations for two days. A detailed account of the: Paris demonstrations and information on other manifestations of tension be- - tween the French and the Germans

omes

A Job to Do

A British soldier, sun-bronzed from long expos to Africa’s sun, wears a minimum eof clothing while he finishes .a job in the western desert.

: lsfrike of more than 4000 City em

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(OPERATION OF

ARMY ORDERS LOOP BRIDGES

Police Prevent R Raising of Spans; Vital Service Tieup Starts.

(CHICAGO, Jan. 9 (U. P.), — pio vees paralyzed some City service

Department intc tne conflict.

Army engineers stepped in whe 3136 tenders of {he city’s 57 bridg: began striking at 10 a, m. in syn pathy with fellow elec %tricians whi were demonstrating against a pre posed economy| cut in municip; salaries. Michael (Umbrella Mike) Boyl: head of the electricians’ union, or dered the tenders of 37 to rais

Tol as

oF ANKOUS

T0 BEGIN FLOW OF PET BILLS

Reports Party Harmony Is

Taxes Needed. |

(Additional Stories and Phos Pages 4 and 13) A

Adequate machinery ford ]

fense operations in‘ Ind .|was listed as “must” leg

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R. A. F. ATTACKS ON ALL FRONTS

rrr Crushing Blows Dealt Duce In Libya and at Naples;

their bridges. Because the maj¢ part of the city’s Loop business dis trict is cut off by the curving Ch caga River this| would have cause ince lculable corifusion. .

Three Véssels Blocked ! Police Comniissioner James J’. Allman, however, sent two police-

ner. to each |bridge tower wit} orders to keep! the bridges dowii.

tion by Governor M. Clifford _|Townsend today in ope! we the 82d session of the Gen

Assembly. It was his farewell address,: before a Republican-controlled: lature, in which he asked “courage and vision, and a uni thought and purpose.” He re next Monday. oh

Achieved on Reorganization Measures.

Impatient to speed through ceremonies and get about their business and politics, Indiana's legislators today started a 61-day session that promises plenty of fireworks. .

has been received by the United Press. According to the report, the disrders in Paris were far more widespread and semous than previously admitted in reports either from Vichy or Berlin. | ‘At the height of the demonstrations, it was said, two Royal Air Force planes appeared over the city

Governor-elect Schricker and Lieut. Gov.’ Charles M. Dawson icliatize a bit of repartee as the 1941 session of the Legislature gets under way. At the speaker’s table (left to right) are Senator William E. | Jenner (R. Shoals), the Senate majority floor leader; the Rev. William H, Eifert, pastor of ‘Mr. Sehricker’s

church, who gave the invocation; Mr. Schricker and Mr. Dawson.

Mt 1 RD

Blows Self to Bits

and wrote in huge smoke letters the words: “Courage . . . Confidence.” The letters hung for half an hour in the clear blue sky, it was said, and no German planes rose to at-

- tack the British ‘planes.

Attempt to Parade || The trouble started,” it was said, when a crowd that humbered “many thousands” tried to parade down fhe Champs Elysees. German oc|cupation troops, armed with sub{machine guns, fired ‘a volley of ‘warning shots into the pavement. {The bullets glanced. off the paveiment and several demonstrators ‘were wounded slightly. | The crowd tried to parade from

‘+ [the Arc de Triomphe to the Place

|de la Concorde, it,was said, singing [French patriotic songs and chantling: “Vive de Gaulle.” |. Another ‘group of demonstrators, 'it was reported, gathered in front |of the U. S. Embassy building in (the Place de la Concorde. They as|sembled outside the . high ° iron|grilled fence, shouting “Vive Roose{velt!”, “Vive L’Amerique!” and |*‘Vive L’Angleterre!” || German troops, aided by the | Paris police, it was said, finally dis- | persed them.

Demonstrations Spread Meantime, according to this account, anti-Nazi and. pro-British or pro-De Gaulle demonstrations |spread to the Latin quarters, es- | pecially to the student cafes in the | boulevard St. Michel. Three German ofiicers, it was said, were thrown through plate glass windows by the angry students. German occupation authorities, it was said, - ordered the Paris meat supply cut off for two days as punishment for the outbreak. | An increasing number of stories | have been reported: of events in the | occupied zone showing ill-feeling be‘tween the Germans and French. In | Lorient, a Brittany port, it was said (that a woman was placed in jail | for one day after she said: | “Serve the German officer first. | He is going to England and he is in | a hurry.” | She made the remark when a German officer entered a shop filled | with women waiting to be served.

‘FAIR, COLDER DUE . TONIGHT, TOMORROW

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ....3¢ 10am .... 34 fam .,..3 llam....34 8a.m. .... 34 12 (noen) ,. 33 9am, ....3¢ 1pm ....33

Indianapolis weather will become | fair and colder tonight and tomor-

Nazi Bases Bombed.

By UNITED PRESS

of the Nile swept ahead with yal Air Force attacks upon western Libya, and mechanized land thrusts along Fascist lines beyond Tebruk. Other forces, aided by Ethiopian rebels, drove Ifalian| troops from strongholds on two East African fronts.

In London military observers predicted the Italian naval base of Tobruk on miles west of Bardia would within a few days. The R. A. F. also was on the offensive oid both Germany: and

fall |

Italy and- evidence appeared of an| intensified Nazi campaign to bring] pressure upon Marshal Henri Philippe Petainyg Vichy regime in| France. |

. Germans Admit Damage The French | situation took a new twist - when the German-controlled Paris press opened up possibly the severest attack of the war on the Vichy Government, blaming it for what appear to be a food and coal shortage of crisis dimensions, The R. A. F. launched heavy ate tacks against both ends of the Axis after a brief respite in operations because of bad weather. Centers of: attack - were (the. German na val| bases of Emden and Wilhelmshaven

seaplane base. of R. A. F. bombers . attacked Naples and Palermo Bb Sicily'and continued to blast at. Italian forces in Albania and North Africa. The German High Command in one of its rare admissions of Brit-ish-inflicted damage said that the| attack on a | “northwest Gerrian coastal area” killed 11 and wounded 14 persons and| \caused damage to an ~ (Continued on Page Three) i —————————

F, 0. R. MESSAGE OF HOPE SENT PETAIN

New Year’s Wish Stresses Liberty and Equality. WASHINGT N, Jan. 9 (U.P) —~ President Roos velt has sent a New

Year's message to Marshal Henri Petain, head of the French state

Sea, a Germe. In Italy Nays during the

the Libyan coast 60]

Snly one rose &t the zero hour and that came dowri half an hour late. But the polife action caused a navigable waterway to be obstructed and that was where the War D¢partment came in. Chief Army Er - gineer C. R. Andrew notified U. 3. Listrict Attorney Albert Wolt thit threa vessels were blocked by closed bridges. Mr. Woll told the city. corporatic} a counsel's office he would give the Administration one hour to get the bridges in operation. f

Hall Elevators Stop

At that time Mayor Edward Elelly was in conference with unica officials at City Hall. Earlier tke Mayor had refiised to withdraw tte proposed legislation which he said was part of a program to improve the city’s financial plight.

and Borkum (sland in the North|

Mr. Kelly asserted that even when the proposed sliding scale of redugtions had beer applied to workels earning over $3000 a year,their piy {still would be ¢ver union scale. | Progressive strikes in vital services kegan shortly after 8 a. m. El¢vators stopped in City Hall. “White(Continued on Page Three) |

GLAIM 620 MPA, IN PLANE POWER DIV:

Buffalo Airport Aids Revel Fighter Performance. |

BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 9 (U.P). — 4 fighting plarie built for the U. |S. Army attained a speed of 620 miles gn hour as it was hurtled grouniiward in a power dive test by a civ lian pilot, accoiding to informatiin Teves, led at Municipal Airport hee. The plane, technically known ‘as ithe Bell Standard P-39 Airacobia, was flown by Andrew C. MeDonough, an Hastern Airlines pilot ¢n ican to the Bell company for tist {light purposes. Mr. McDonough, who flies on the airlines ChicagoAtlanta run, leit Buffalo immediaf ely after thé test yesterday. i Mr. McDonough’s instruments, | it vas said, showed an “air speed” of $23 miles an hour for the 21,000- fe ot power dive. Flight expe:ts said this. figure,

| corrected for ilight conditions. such as air resistance, equaled an actjial

speed of 620 nilles an hour.

REMY REFUSES PAROLE OPINION

No. Doubt .of Stephenson’s Guilt, Commission Told By Prosecutor.

The guilt .of D. C. Stephenson, former Klan dragen serving a life sentence for murder, “can never be ".|successfully challenged,” William Remy, prosecutor at’ the murder trial 15 years ago, declared before

the State Clemency Commission today. Mr. Remy was_ the first witness of the second day of the. hearing on Stephenson’s petition for parole. Mrs. Matilda Oberholtzer, mother of Madge Oberholtzer, the murder victim, testified that she didn’t think “it is safe for a man like that to be released.”

Remy Reviews. Evidence

“My daughter's death and Stephenson’s imprisonment’ have saved many other girls from the same fate,” she said. Mr. Remy reviewed all the evidence of the murder trial and while he said there is no question about Stephenson’s guilt, he declined to make any recommendations regarding a parole. “I am not here to prevent a parole, nor am I hére to récommend one,” Le said. “That is entirely up to the Commission.” Mr. Remy said that all the State Courts and one. Federal court have reviewed the case several times and that Stephenson has had ample opportunity” in the courts to correct any mistakes that might have been made.

Jackson Offers’ Records

Attornery ‘General . Samuel D. Jackson: offered to turn over to the Commission all-the records of evidence against Mr. Stephenson in the Attorney General's office. Asked if he would make any recommendation to the Commission, Mr. Jackson said “I certainly am not recommending a parole.” “I will have to tell the Commission that the records I have will be very adverse to Stephenson’s petition for a parole,” Mr, Jackson

said.

BUFFALO, N. Y.,, Jan. 9 (U. P.). A man who had registered at the

1 Ford Hotel as W. D. Wright, 40,

of Rochester, sat in the lobby all last night and early today blew ‘himself fo bits with a charge of dynamite. Police, who could not confirm his identity at the Rochester address, said they hoped to do so through fingerprints from his hands. The explosion blew out windows, wrecked furnishings and smashed dishes 1n a: coffee shop. Hotel officials believed the man to be a construction engineer.

RESCUE 2 WOMEN AS GAR GOES INTO CANAL

Firemen Lower | Later to Stream; 1:Dies in Traffic.

Two women, whose car plunged into the canal ‘at Burdsal Pkwy. last night were rescued by the Fire Department rescue squad.

They were Mrs. Selma Cox, 40 of Ben Davis, land Mrs. Florence Fisher, 48, of 1000 Joseph St. Mrs. Cox, the driver, became . confused and steered: the car onto a trestle under construction there, - police said. The car went out of control and fell on its side on some piling which allowed it to submerge only partly. Firemen lowered a ladder from the trestle and rescued the women through the rear door. They were treated at Methodist Hospital and released. Isaiah Butler, 66, of 2916 Caroline Ave., was killed last night when he was struck by a car on Road 135 near Trafalgar. Mr. Butler was pushing his truck, which was stalled. His son, Elza Butler, 40, with whom he lived, was in the truck. They were bound for a farm they rent near Morgantown. Mr. Butler is survived by two other sons, James Butler, Indianapolis, and Bluford Butler, New Washington, Ind., and four daughters, Mrs. Ruth Jacobs, Mrs, Reba Dokes, Mrs. Nettie King, all of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Lura Williams,

Kentucky.

Hopson, Who Rom $300, 000 Loan fo Billion

In Lobby of Hotel |

FOR GOVERNOR

Action on Charges of Alien Voting.

By EARL RICHERT

The Legislature will be asked to order a recount of all votes cast in the Governor's race -in the Nov. 5 general election and declare Glen R. Hillis, ‘the Republican nominee, the duly elected Governor. This was announced today by Virgil E. Whitaker, Hammond attorney, who said in an interview that he would file petitions asking the recount with leaders of both houses late this week or early next. Mr. Whitaker said he is asking the recount on the basis of a pri-vately-conducted investigation in Lake County which showed that between 2000 and 2500 aliens had voted in the general election. He said he had unofficial information that aliens had voted in several other large cities and counties. He announced that he would allege ‘that some of the legal ‘votes cast for Mr. “Hillis in all precincts of the state were treated as mutilated ballots and were uncounted.. * This allegation, he explained, would give the Legislature the right to order a recount. His petition will contend, he sald, (Continued on Page Three)

6 MORE HARVESTER STRIKES THREATENED

CHICAGO, Jan. 9 (U. P.).—Farm equipment workers threatened today to call a strike Saturday at six International Harvester Co. plants employing approximately 25,000 persons and possibly a seventh which is producing trucks for the Marine Corps. The union claims the NLRB has failed to give a decision in a case charging Harvester with fostering company unions. The company’s truck plant at Ft. Wayne, Ind. which employs 3200 and is engaged in production for the defense program, has been idle eight days begause of a strike of 2300 members of the United Automobile Workers over a’ contract -dispute. Hope of settling this strike today

David G. Roadley.

WALLACE MAY VISIT

Hammond Attorney to ‘Ask |

| caucus session of the 64 Representa-

was expressed by: U. S. Conciliator | -

Republicans, in full control for the first time in nine years, were convinced .that their machinery, which developed several pre-session squeaks, was now well-oiled. {Gh 0. P.. leaders said thai harmony was achieved at yesterday's

tives and'31 Senators, especially regarding the “decentralization bill” which decides who will pass out what plums to thousands of jobhungry Republicans.

‘Minority Recognized’

That bill was the topic of discussion -in lobby and chamber as the pompousy opening ceremonies were run off. The House heard ‘Speaker James M. Knapp warn against introducing “too many bills.” He also said that the majority “recognizes the presence .of' a- militant minority. It is out of the. differences - of opinions and controversy, that conclusions are formed and decisions reached.” Across the hall, Lieut. Gov. Henry Schricker smilingly welcomed a G. O. P. dominated Senate that later may consider a petition to remove him as Governor, a post which he assumes next Monday. In less than an hour, both houses had disposed of organization elections and joined to hear Governor M. Clifford Townsend's farewell ad-

dress. Legislation Waits

Senator Wililam' E. Jenner, Senate majority leader, said today that the Steering Committee had decided to .start introducing party platform legislation as soon as Lieut. Gov.elect Charles M. Dawson takes over in the Senate Monday. ' It was believed the House also would wait until next week to introduce bills. There were some reports that they might. start the flood into the hopper tomorrow. Speaker Knapp, in his opening statement, pointed out that of £00 bills introduced at the ’39 session, an all-time high, only 200 were passed. Other House officers elected were|e Noland C. Wright of Anderson, | j principal clerk; Al Snyder, Indianapolis, assistant clerk, and Ollie Berry, Lebanon, doorkeeper., Senate officers elected were: ‘Mr. Jenner, president pro tem; James (Continued on Page Three)

SEXTON ‘TO CONTEST BEVERIDGE SEATING

Toes industry, the training of’ for skilled work and protectio the worker.

state defense program shadow all other activities, ‘and,

Reviewing other. possible

tion, he asked

1. Retention and advancem the social and labor legislation er eight years. ago. i Expansion in the “branch - smployees: more government. . “No New Taxes” 3. No; How brio (He said # ance e treasury 1941, would be about Fai 4 "Special attention to 00

mendations of the Hospital 2 dance Committee, the City Commission, Commission and the Aviation Finding Committee.

the Revenue.

Pointing out that “this s

rapidly becoming one of the g production centers in America; Governor legislation providing for:

recommended .

1. “Protection of vital pro

—factories, utflities, transportat facilities—from possible ds saboteurs. :

2. “Procurement of labor 1 0

a "

welfare of communities adjacent: defense concentrations.” ° 4

- “We in Indiana are very.

he. national defense program, sa Al ernment has et gral ap mately $600,000,000 for defense, in Indiana. This has not hap by accident. The factors are. Indiana has, worked out a fo! for peaceful relations between I and industry, that we are st: { ally located and that we have. ) our assurances that Indiana will glo her part. :

“To date, the Federal

Defense May Spread = “In the coming four years, | may ’

necessity, spread out further

state government. . . . We must lc ahead and try to imagine what sponsibilities - lie , ahead - for _£ state. € }

“The defense program has kb Sy ptuly studied’ by both -thety and minority parties.

in A y necessary that we have | strong, program.”

well-co-ordinated dof The Governor did not. specity de legislat

tails for the proposed The

Council has estimated that an propriation of $500,000 may be ed to help communities ad themselves to the impact of. panding armament industries.

State

* Emergency

In urging advancement ut

£14, labor legisldtion, Mr. 1

“We are living in an ie

for Indiana. We haxe -

And Stole $20,000, 000, Gets 5-Year Term

Petition to Be Filed in Senate ‘In a Few Days.’

the transition stage from ag

in| the wish that ‘thej a} expressing tural to industrial. and are now industrial :

| row, the Weather Bureau predicted French people may soon again en-

| today. The lowest temperature to-

ALL OF HEMISPHERE

night will be 15 to 20 degrees, the | Bureau said.

TORPEDOED, SHIP SAYS

NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (U. P.)— | Mackay Radio today intercepted a | message from the British steamer Bassano reporting that she had been torpedoed in the North Atlantic.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Clapper

joy the blessings of peace with liberty, equality and fraternity.” The State Department today announced dispatch of the message and explained that it was sent in response to one from Marshal Petein dated Jan. 2 which was delzved

in transmission. . responsé

NEW YORI, Jan. 9 (U. P). — Howard C. Hopson, who ran $300,500 of borrowed money into a $1,000,0)0000 utilities empire, was sentenied to five years’ imprisonment to¢ay for looting tlie Assqciated Gas & Electric systeri.of nearly $20,000,000

President ‘Roosevelt's

peated exactly as they stood for years in the famous motto of the old French: Republic. France, in adopting an. authoritarian gov: ernment after its conquest by Ger many, dropped that slogan. The messages were among those | exchanged between heads of several states and the President. None was received from Adolf Hitler; none was sent. : To King George VI of Britain Mr. Roosevelt expressed the hope that “the friendship between our two countries and. cdleavors may contr

present ento the :

The ohort, fat, bald, 58-year- sid

aroused interest in diplomatic quar: master of bootstrap financing yras ters because of the words, “liberty, sentenced by Federal Judge Alfred equality and fraternity,” were re: A oxe in tiie same court whire,

just a week ago, he heard a jury pronounce hin guilty on 17 rail fraud counts. The indictment, on all but i wo counts of which he was convic ed

son. Wis,, high school honor stucent began looting, the far-flung Assiciated Gas & Electric System vith Is 200 subsidiaries almost from the

yn t, mostly . with bored ved money, \ 5 The maxinum penalty which

y in 1922 when he and a par ner.

|charged that fhe former Ft. Atlin-

{ market

side, pleaded . for

funds available to Hopson have already been tied up by age trustees. Judge Coxe assessed the penalty recommended 'by Assistant U. 8. Attorney Hugh A. Fulton who said Hopson’s crime was “one of the largest frauds ever perpetrated.” The sentence was five years on each of 17 counts, the sentences to run concurrently. Hopson exhibited no emotion except to moan “Oh, oh, oh” he faced the judge. He was remanded to the custody of the U. 8. Marshal and was taken to the, Federal prison at Lewisburg, Pa., later today. In asking ‘sentence Mr. Fulton said ‘Hopson was guilty of “many other frauds” in addition to those for which he was tried and asserted the utilities’ man had forced his companies to buy. stocks, rigged the and otherwise cheated stockholders.

Hopson’s attorney, Fred -A. Ironleniency on the he vic

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (U. P.).— Vice President-Elect Henry A, Wallace said today that he hopes to visit each of the Latin American countries in’ an ‘endeavor to promote mutual prosperity and peace in the Western Hemisphere. Mr. Wallace told reporters of his plans at a press conference. in the Senate office building, where he went to discuss plans for ‘his Jan. 20 inauguration with retiring Vice President John Nance: Garner. He said he was “deeply interested in the whole question of the relationship of Latin American countries with the : United States, .-théir ‘mutual prosperity and peace. in this" hemisphere. ”

PLANE STRIKE THREATENS WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (U. P.).— Rear Admiral John H. Towers, chief of naval aeronautics, told Congress today that employees 'of

the Ranger. Engineering Corp. ale, L. I., which has

Joseph T. Sexton, former Democratic Senator from Marion County who was defeated in the last election by Albert J. Beveridge Jr., said today he would contest the seating of Mr. Beveridge. = Mr. Sexton said he would file a contest petition with the president of the Senate within the next few days, alleging that he had received more votes than Mr. Beveridge. The Canvassing - Board figures show Mr. Beveridge winner by 68 votes. Mr. Beveridge was among the 26.new Senators sworn in today by Supreme Court, Justice H. Nathan | Swaim, Mr. Sexton was present, in a spectator’s seat.

petition on ‘the vote in the 13th precinct of the 12th Ward where

Democrats received 363 votes. He said that since the recount, which

the upswing of

“Social and labor legislation (Continued on Page Four)

SPECIAL ISSUES STRONG 2 NEW YORK, Jan. 9 '(U.. Pa

Automobile shares were weak | special issues strong on market today. The main | vanced irregularly. Trading I was most active since last S and’ Prices were Army

Mr. Sexton sald he was basing his ne

he received 244 votes while all other

ViL AS a

gave Mr. eae a Apr vote| -

ERNIE PY TA

Learns that Bri i sirens sound like the: “ing of telephone’ wires x bitter ries F night 1