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THURSDAY, JAN. 9, 1941

G.0:P. INPATIENT

~ AS SESSION OPE

Anxious to Start Flow of

Reorganization Bills; Unity Achieved. (Continued from Page One) Swan, Fowler, principal secretary

Sam Lesh, Indianapolis, assistant secretary; Perry Johnson, Atlanta, and Mrs, post-

principal doorkeeper, Bertha Lundberg, Muncie, master.

Factional Split Ends

Factional differences were eliminated, at least temporarily, as the G. O. P. caucus unanimously approved nine major party bills yes-

terday.

Heading the program will be the “decentralization bill,” reorganizing ‘the State Government to give the folir elected Republican officials control over most of the Govern-

ment. .

The bill, details of which were withheld temporarily, is reported to Governor = elect Dawson more patronage and executive powers than any other State

give Lieutenant

official, including Mr. Schricker, 36 Democrats on Guard

The measure is reported to place Dawson’s division the Highway Department, Conservation Department ahd the Public Service biggest patronage

under Mr.

Commission, prizes of the government. In addition, other bills propose giving Mr. Dawson equal powers .with Mr. Schricker in the appointment of more than a score of bipartisan boards. Meanwhile, the 36 Democrats Oi the House minority said after & caucus that they would, “fight any

G. O. P. legislation to make an of -

fice boy out of the Governor.” They said they would not oppose any legislation to give elected officials the" appointive power over the deputies in their own department. The full G. O. P. Assembly .membership, after three hours of discussion, also approved two bills to amend the Gross Income Tax Law to lighten the burden on retailers. One proposes an exemption of $20,000 annually for all retail establishments. The exemption for retailers, under the present law, is $3000. Under the bill, retailers wh gross receipts were less than $20,000 would not pay any tax. The other bill proposed would reduce from 1 per cent to one-half of 1 per cent the tax paid by retailers, leaving the exemption at $3000.

Arch N. Bobbitt, Republican State

Chairman, said party leaders agreed

to present both bills and permit the committees in the House to decide

which measure to report out to the floor. 5

Other Bills Approved

Democratic “minority members of the House, after a caucus, said they would sponsor a proposal to raise retailers’ exemptions to $10,000, leaving the rate at 1 per cent. Other bills approved by the Republican caucus would provide for: 1. Appointment of bi-partisan boards for each state institution and placing the employees under the merit system. 2. Making the Attorney General's office elective instead. of appointiva and providing for appointment of an Attorney General by a Republican controlled committee to serve until the 1942 election.

3. Extension of the auto licenss purchase deadline from Jan. 1 to

March 1.

4. Appointment of a bi-partisan State Welfare Board of four members instead of the present fivemember board. Two of the ‘board members would be appointed by Mr. Dawson and the other two by Mi.

.Schricker. Police Board Favored

5. Appointment of a bi-partisan board to run the State Police Department under the same procedure

as the Welfare Board.

6. Repeal of the 1933 Reorganizetion Act which centralized most of the executive powers in the Gov-

ernor's office. The reorganization

measure, which, ¥ passed, would become effective .on May 1, would set up four major executive divisions, each composed of two Republican officials and Mr. Schricker. They would be the Industry and

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Commerce Department, headed by Mr. Dawson; the State Department; headed by Secretary of Stat¢ James M. Tucker; the Audit and Control Department, headed by Stati Auditor Richard T. James, anc the

State Treasurer James Givens, all Republicans. pi Mr. Tucker's department would control the Motor License Bureau

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and state budget -activiti¢s. Mr, Givens’ department would control the State Tax Board and the Department of Financial Institutions. This division of departmental allocations was reported to be tentative and subject to change before the bill is introduced within the next few days. it :

Committee~Shifted :

Disagreements flared over some of the provisions at the party. caucus last night but G. O. P. leaders said the differences “were minor ones” and that changes probably will be made in the bill by amendinents as it goes through the committees. Evidence of ©. major move on the part of majority ‘ leaders to quell intra-party strife was seen in a reported last-minute shift lin the House committee memberships. Rep. H. H.- Evans of New Castle reported earlier as leader of the opposition to the organization's “decentralization” bill, was reported given ranking membership on the Judiciary “A” committee, which will handle the bill after it is introduced. He also was given another important committee assignment, it .|was reported, and assigned several :|important bills Rn | Subsequently, . Evans issued a. '|statement in. which he denied he ever was an “insurgent.” || “I am a Republican and believe

in the party’s platform,” he said. “I have preached for repeal of the 1933 Reorganization Act of aul V. McNutt.

“f am not now in favor of setting a law that will be just &s bad.

u 7g the ‘proposed bills are to decentralize government instead »f centralize it, I will support them When we all get together I am sure that the proper solution will be ‘worked out. There has been too muh stuff printed in the newspapers that hac mo foundation.” |

Bobbitt Asks Unity | Mr. Bobbitt, in his message to the

G. O. P. caucus, urged unity in carrying out the “mandate (of the voters.”

“That mandate to the Republican party was for a better form of government and to end one-maii rule,” he said. : “You must carry out the pledge that there will be no new taxes. Government costs must be reduced.” The Democratic minority House members also decided at last night’s caucus that they would support: 1. Action to make illegal the “Two Per Cent Club, Democrali¢ campaign fund-raising orgénization which ceased operation two¢ months ago at the request of Mr. Sciiricker. 2. A wage-hour law to supplement the Federal Statute. | 3. A free text-book law. 4. Placing the Alcoholic Beverage Commission under a bi-partisan board. : 5. Amendment of the Stite law to make the maximum benefit $40 a month for pensioners tc correspond with the Federal #ecurity Act. "6. Amendment of the Workmen's ‘Compensation-Law to liberaize the benefits. 7. Limit campaign expeiditures to $1000 by the State Ceritrsl Committees and $100 per 1000 population by the county committees. "8. Opposition to a sales tax.

BULLET FOUND ON CAFE FLOOR STUDIED

A 32-caliber bullet, found on the floor at the Old Vienna Cafe, 111 E. Court St, was examined todzy in the police crime laboratory. It is believed to be the bullet that wounded John Bridges, 29, of 1235 N. Alabama St., late Monday night. Mr, Bridges remained in a critical condition as police coiliinued a search for the mysterious gunmen who wounded him as he vaulted over the bar to stop what ie thought was a' fight in the cafe. Mr. Bridges is a bartendet there.

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and 20 other units. ‘Mr. James’ division would have the Board of Accounts, Gross Income Tax Division |

a proposed pay cut.

wings” left their brushes and cans on the streets. Several lpaded garbage trucks were abandonezd by their drivers in the “gold coas;” district. Fifty downtown traffic ligiits blinked out. : But thé most dramatic blow—the simultanéous raising of 33 bridges— fizzled. One bridge on a branch of the river went up. Policeman Peter di Julio ran to the towey. After 30 minutes the bridge went! down, “We came to a gentle agreement,” announced Tender Pat Conway. “We just sat down anc talked it over. God gave us tonguss and we used ’em.” :

‘A Differept Liz e

Another policeman tool: a différent line. “If he touches that button,” he announced within hearing of the tender, “I'll touch his button.” i So ended the threat t¢ Chicago’s lines of communication, | Some of the blocked biidges controlled spproaches to tae South Side grain elevators and| mammoth steel mills engaged in d¢fense production. However, no ore is moving through these channels af this season. Statement for Mayor

Barnet Hodes, Corporaiion counsel, issued this statement in behalf of the Mayor: “No city can condone action by its employees who, on ac¢eptance of public ejnployment, use iheir positions to ‘put in peril the health, the safety and the general welfare of the people whom they were employed to serve. Such gonduct is contrary to the spirit and letter of the civil service law arid subjects any eniployee engaging in such conduct to disciplinary action by the Civil Service Board, which means ¢ither suspension or dismissal froni the city service” If the strike becomes 100 per cent effective, elevators in municipal buildings would ceise to operate, there would be 10 maintenance of the street lighting system, no work on paving and (ther street projects. no heat or other services in municipal buildings. The unions involved (were those of the electricians, the operating engineers, the elevator operators, steam fitters, plumbers janitors, street laborers, chauffevirs, bricklayers, painters, machiniits, window washers and refuse coll¢ctors. The proposed pay cut would affect approximately 1800 workers who

make $3000 or more annyally. Their

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Tyaffic Record

County City Total

cesnvave 0 0 0 Hotel Severin, 7:30

1940 1941

Teves 0 -Jan, 8—

Injured ,..., 3 | Accidents ,...26

Dead ... 0 | Arrests WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COURT

Cases Convic- Fines tions paid $189 22

Violations, tred Speeding ....... 28 28 Reckless driving 7 6Failure to stop at through street 3 3 Disobeying traffic signals . 10 9 All others ,...,./ 49 36 82 ‘MEETINGS TODAY

Indianapolis Real Estate eon, Hotel Washington, noon. Advertising CI f eon, Indianapoti Pt: rar

Totals ....... 98

Athletic Club, no

* Caravan Club, . RL Club, luncheon, Murat Temple,

Oil Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon. Indianapolis,

Construction League of funcheon, Spink-Armas Hotel, noon,

Indianapolis Camera Club, meeting, 110

E. Ninth St., 8

. p. m. Beta Theta Pi, luncheon, Canary CotAlpha Alumni Association, |! 100.

tage, noon. Chi

mbda luncheon, Russet Cafeteria

Indianapolis Motor Transportation Club, |Place noon. Sigma Nu, luncheon, Bamboo Inn, noon. Teire

. m. d luncha IN,

Ins., luncheon, Fox's Steak House, E lly & Ceo., Union Hospital, Haute, dinner; Hotel Severin, 6 p . Montgomery-Ward, meetings a

eon Hotel Severin, § a. m., 12:30 p

Severin, .7:30 Farm Hotel Seve Quiet ton, 7 p. diana convention, Claypool Hotel.

Metropolitan Life Insurance, “meeting, Claypool Hotel.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Exchange Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin, Optimist Clgb, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon . meeting, luncheon, Canary x luncheon, Columbia - Kappa Sigma, luncheon, Canary Cottage, omas

Spink-, Hotel, " Gama is Hear 3 Delta * Tau Delta, Club, noo

Air Conditionin Council, P)

Chi, luncheon, Canary Cotiag

: 21 Drunken driving. 1 0 0 32

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Board, lunchn

lis, lunchon.

m. a Union 53, meeting, Hotel ty Administrat Soeur Ry im stra! lon, meeting, Birdmen, meeting, Hotel WashingLumber and Builders Supyly, all-cay|

R. & R. Sales Trainin ol nt Hotel Washin on, 7:30 R Schon, eeting, rican ommunica A meeting, Hotel Washington. § " Ssveiation, Indianapolis Pressmen’s Union, meeting,

y .. Me | Lithographers’ U Bon’ py Severin, 3. . sho ; me¢ ting Hotel arm Security Administration; pti Hotel Severin, 9 a. atidhi mesting, Arcady Mills, Severin, 7 2 m. Metropolitan meeting, Claypoo

MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from officin] records in the County Court House. ‘ie Times therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and adtiresses.) ! Paul E. Herr, 22. of 914 N. | ire; Ida M. Owen, 23, of 1119 N, Beigaciawa ® - George L. Dhearing, 48, of 1030 Berwyn, on.Co Cia, 1 CL doi 1 " , 31, 0 78, get; Dorothy L. Wildman, '19, of 231 Parke. ——— ¢

m. { Ine., meeting, Hotel Lite repnuranee, all-day

BIRTHS Girls

Ancil, Louise Hartman, at Si Francis John, Ruth Lawrie, at St. Fiancis. Oscar, Manda Lee Ebel, at &i., Francis. Norman, Mary Kleifgen, at {5t. Vincent's, Arthur, Eileen Smoot, at St. Vincent's Arthur, Mary Sheats, at Metliodist. Glenn, Frances Barrett, a Mpthodist.’ John, Geneva McCoy, at Methodist William, Mary Taylor, at Meslodist. Robert, Gertrude vidson, af Methodist. Gordon, Elizabeth Engler, af Methodist. Robert,” Wylda White, at 354 Hanson Amos, Stella Patterson, at 2034% Corndl. Odell, Rosemary Hilliard, at 810 Blake. Nanion, Edna Phelps, at ‘1318 Cornell. Sherman, Gladys Warner, af 338 Doug-

as. Logan, Anna Peppers, at 2357 Highifhd

ace, Herbert, Lucille Young, at 1 Roy, Martha Jones, aL 1807 | IN. Ar Joseph, Elsie Jarrett. at 409%. Win

Boys

exian. Jincent’s, @thodist, ivers, at 708 *Fietcher. Harrison, Mary Douthitt, at $4 N. Lynn

man. William, Bertha Sims, at 2410. Shriver, James, Dimple Sargent, at 221( . i a. Morris, at 205 Detroit. by ae Murray, at 819 Warren rin Osan Virginia Mitchel, at 308 W. Mer-

Clayton, Halburn,

DEATHS’

DULDnaLy tuberculosis. Josephine Boetcher, 56, at 8¢. Vincent's, chronic nephritis, . 4 Thomas Sink, 185. ) Alice Dakin FE chronic mye |

409 English. |

; |, statio Raymond, Lucille Johnson, at 1962 Tall- | Af

Elizabeth ®Devaske!, at 1056] oii

Tda May Bates, 69, at, 1029 N. Temple, N

Pittsburgh .{ Portland.

Elmer M, Winkler, 54, at City, coronary sclerosis . § | .Loretisnie Hubbard, 59, at 21/52 Winthrop. BI, Bird, 65 ; illiam A. Bird, 65, at City, tubeteulgis. 2 at Ril 7 pulmonary ary Hayes, 2, a iley, raeumonia. George R. Avels, 61, at tr carcinoma. Walter R. Mayer, 54, at Me hodist, coronary occlusion. / Frieda Lohman, 66, at Methodist,’ carci-

noma. * Michael A. O'Brien, 60, at: 142 E. Ohio, influenze, § Julia MN. Boardman, 77, at' 1828 N. Illinois, broncho-pneumonia.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

=U. 8. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Cloudy this afternoon,-becoming fai: and colder tonight and tomorrow; low: st temperature tonight 15 to 20.

Sunrise, .... 7:07 | Sunsit

TEMPERATURE. —Jan. 9, 1940— 1p f3....00. 2 BAROMETER TODA 6:30 a. m....30.35 i Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... T

Total pracipitation since Jar. 1.... Deficiency Rinoe Jan. 1 !

MIDWEST WEATH IR Indian a—Cloudy, becominj colder tonight and tomorrow. Illinois -—Generally fair ton ght and tomorrow: colder tonight and {a south portion tomorrow.

Lower Michigan—Cloudy to partly cloudy and somewhat’ colder tonigiit and to-

fair and

and timorrow, ex-

Ohio— Fair toni fn northea t portion to-

ht cept snow flurries night; colder tonight. Kentucky—Fair tonight aid tomorrow, colder ionight, much colde: in mnorthwest po: tion. WEATH:R IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. ; athe: ear . 30

Chie 8! C ago Cincinnati Clevelan |

ami. Ma. ........ Rain | inneapolis-St. Paul, .Clear Ala. ....Clear

vi. Oklahoma Cit Pooar | ahoma Yi OggY © Omaha, Neb, PERE Clear |

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tthe city budget $2,000,000 to about

Rest for Weary Feet -

RAF ATTACKS

! Crushing Blows Dealt , in

Libya; Naples and Nazi Cities Also Bombed. (Continued from Page One)’

industrial plant. London said the

British raiders caused big fires and touched..off heavy explosions. Five Die in Naples Raid ~The Rome High. Command admitted that five persons were killed

and 30 wounded in the Naples raids but reported little damage at |Palermo. ‘The Palermo raid appeared significant in view of re-

"| peated reports that German air re-

inforcements sent to Italy are establishing themselves in Sicilian bases, preparatory to attacking British sea power in the Mediter-

“|ranean and aiding Italy in North

Joan Holt, Esther Giegel and Lorraine Ceski (left to right) rest their fect after walking to the sixth floor of the Chicago City Hall. Bevis. service was stopped when city employees went on strike against

4000 Chichigo City Workers Strike in Pay Cut Protest

(Coatinued from Page One)

* salaries would be cut 3 to 10 per cent during 1941" as part of a general economy campaign to reduce

$53,400,000. The unions had proposed several alternate methods of saving on the budget. but all these were rejected by the Council Finance Committee. Mayor Kelly said he was unable to understand the reason for the strike call. “The City Council has not acted on the budget and we have had no official notice a strike was to be or has been called,” he said. “However, I intend to go to the City Council floor and talk in favor of the per-

The tithe has passed when excessive salaries - can be paid. “The cut leaves salaries still above union scales. We are not cutting anyone paid less than $3000 a year. I am taking the reduction along with the others.

expect Civil Service to protect them. But any man who goes on strike jeopardizes his job. A strike will affect all Chicago and hamper national defense production in Chicago factories. Moreover, there is a question of criminal negligence to be looked into.” Water service also was threatened by the strike order, but Joseph Haley, head of the stationary and operating engineers’ union, assured councilmen the city would receive its normal supply of water “until further notice.”

1200 STUDENTS GET FLU INOCULATION

LAWRENCE, Kas., Jan. 9 (U. P.). —Physicians today complete the inoculation of 1200 students and officials of the University of Kansas to determine the effectiveness of a new influenza vaccine. Three hundred, including Chancellor Dean W, Malott, professors and the university medical staff, already have been vaccinated. Physicians hoped to complete the mass inoculations today at the university hospital and at the University of Kansas Medical School in Kansas

City. The vaccine, recently developed by the Rockefeller Institute, produces no reaction. But the students who volunteered are members of 27 sororities and fraternities, and physicians believed, that by inoculating

ition of war industry, the Labor

half the menibers of each organization and leaving the other half untreated, they could establish the vaccine’s value. It is not available for public use. . : The vaccine is administered in a single dose and is expected to immunize for five or six months,

STRIKE AT SHIP PLANT

MEDIA, Pa, Jan. 9 (U. P.)— More than 100 night shift workers at the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydocks Co., Chester, started a sitdown strike early today, holding up construction on national ' defense gonizacis totaling millions of dolars,

BRITISH JOBLESS FEWER

LONDON, Jan. 8 (U. P.).—Great Britain’s total of registered unemployed has dropped to 705,279, thé lowest figure since recording of workless men and women started in 1921, as the result of the accelera-

Africa. Other developments included: In Albania the. Italian air force was reported more active but the Greeks continued to make small gains. Prisoners were taken in the Klisura area and small advances scored on the coast north of Chimara. The Italians again attacked Salonika by air after a considerable respite.

Rome Says British Sub Sunk

A Rome communique claimed an Italian gunboat rammed a British submarine and sank it in the Mediterranean and that a Fascist submarine sank ‘a British - auxiliary cruiser and a 3600-ton ship in the Atlantic. s Berlin charged that British representation in the United States had reached the proportions of an “army” which dwarfed any “Fifth Column” elements. At Belfast the new northern Ireland Prime Minister, John Millar Andrews, strongly voiced northern Ireland’s opposition to any proposal that would incorporate that territory with Eire. The Eire Government yesterday

issued an emergency decree, effective

Feb. 1, banning signposts throughout Ireland in a move similar to the British precautions against invasion. London's anti - aircraft guns opened fire tonight when the first night raiders since Sunday appeared over the metropolis.

Battle of Tobruk

centage cut which I believe is just.

“All these men under Civil Service

The R. A. F. claimed to have dealt crushing blows to Marshal Rodolfo Graziani’s dwindling military power in. Libya. four Italian airdromes in western Libya and attacked ships in the harbor of Benghazi, Libyan capital, and desert convo northwest of Giarabub, desert oasis southeast of Tobruk.

that a formidable force of British and Empire forces is being assempled on the Sudan and” Kenya frontiers, north and south of Italian East Africa, preparatory to an of-

fensive when the rainy season ends.

The R. A. F. reported that direct

hits were scored on four‘*or five ships in the harbor -at Benghazi which lies 230 miles due’ west of Tobruck across the desolate Libyan

Plateau.

made on Benina, the airport for Benghazi, 12 miles east of the Libyan capital and probably the largest Fascist air base in north Africa.

Find 100 Planes on Ground

There the R.A. F. found an estimated 100 Italian planes on the ground. In the heavy bombing several were destroyed and others badly damaged, a communique reported. Other airdromes were attacked at El Gazala, 40 miles west of Tobruk, Martuba and Tmimi, all deep in Libya. Heavy hits were reported on warehouses at Benghazi where large fires broke out. Another R.A.F. attack was directed at Massawa in Italian East Africa. Massawa was bombed successively Monday "and Tuesday nights with British airmen centering their attacks upon the power station and submarine base. Fires were claimed to have been started.

Nazi Pressure on Vichy

The French press was backed up in its attack on Vichy by the important Berlin newspaper, the Boersen Zeitung, which _ charged that the Vichy regime “needs a new program” and “a government which possesses a firm political plan and acts according to it.” ; Dispatches from Vichy revealed that possibly the major cause of the Paris food shortage has been huge withdrawals of French food stocks by German authorities. It was explained that German Army quartermasters have been using a large part of the 400,000,000 franc daily occupation costs paid -by Vichy to buy up French foodstuffs. : This food has been bought at the source from farmexg. and also in the wholesale and retail markets in Paris before the French have a chance to supply their own needs. There appeared to be at leasi strong grounds for suspicion that the Germans were encouraging the Paris-Vichy controversy over food as a means of bringing fresh pressure on the Petain regime and to encourage the widening split be-

Ministry announced today.

The blood of about 12 Kingan & Co. employees was being tested today for use if another .transfusion is necessqry for David Allerdice- Sr., vice president of the company. Mr. Allerdice is in Methodist Hospital * with , severe .burns received when fire swept his apartment home at 3617 Washington Blvd. early Sunday morning. He already has had two “ordinary transfusions and-one “mammoth” one." : Hospital attaches sail that Mr. Allerdice’s condition was ,

Yesterday: he was given

tw the occupied and unoccupied i of France.

12 Kingan Employees Offer Blood for 'Boss,’ Allerdice

of Michigan, Herman W, Kothe, attorney, and Mr. Kothe’s 18-year-old son, Herman Jr. g David Allerdice Jr., injured when he tried to rescue his family from the blaze, continues td show improvement, the hospital said..

Meantime, Bernard A. Lynch, di-|

rector of the Fire Prevention Bureau, said he expected to make a report on the fire next week. City detectives and the coroner’s office, also investigating the fatal blaze, were inactive today. : Mrs. Cornelia. Allerdice and her

It blasted|

Reports reaching London. said |

An attack of great severity was |.

contestee. : Knapp Gets Drafts

town), Speaker of the House.

the Governor's office vacant.

come lieutenant governor.

results.

circumstances,” they said.

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Mr. Whitaker sent two copies of the tentative draft of his petition to James M. Knapp (R. Hagers-

The Hammond attorney said that in case the legislative election committee should decide against a recount of all the votes in the state, it could investigate the Lake County situation and if it found fraud of sufficient quantity it could declare

This action would elevate Lieutenant Governor Charles Dawson to the Governor's chair which will be taken over Monday by Henry F. Schricker, Democrat, who defeated Mr. Hillis by 3478 votes. William Jenner (R. Shoals), president pro tem of the Senate, would then be-

Mr. Hillis and Arch N. Bobbitt, Republican State Chairman, issued a joxat statement today declaring that ‘Wey had been informed of the Lake County investigation but that nei‘her was acquainted with the “so-called” investigation nor its

“If there vere illegal votes cast in in the last c¢lection the public has a full right to have the facts and,

“Whatever information we may receive will be placed in the handslars.”

Whitaker Will File Plea For Governor Race Recount (Continued from Page One) x : that if all the legal votes cast for Mr. Hillis had been counted, the latter would have been elected. Mr. Whitaker said he was filing the petition as an elector in the interests of good government. said he was filing the petition for Mr. Hillis because the latter was a member of his political faith. He added that the election of Charles Dawson (R. Indianapolis) as 'lieutenant governor could be contested on the same grounds as he was contesting the election of Mr. Schricker.

The petition will list Mr. Whitaker as contestor and Mr. Schricker as

of ‘the Republican State Committee at its meeting Monday night, and if such facts are judged to be worthy

to the committee that such facts be submitted to the Legislature for its consideration.” Mr. Jenner and Mr. Knapp said they had received unofiicial notice of she contemplated proceedings and that if the matter comes before the Legislature “it will be handled In accordance with regular legislativ procedure.” y Mr. Hillis declared yesterday that he had no connection whatsoever with Mr. Whitaker’s ‘investigation. He said that any action regarding the matter should be taken by the Republican state committee and declared that he would hot authorize a recount. He said that he had no personal -information of illegal voting in the November election.

Up to Legislature

Mr. Whitaker said that the matter was entirely up to the Legislature. “They can give me the quiet treatment, ‘and nothing will happen,” he said. “I am! just one fel{low filing these petitions and they can overlook them, On the other hand, if they want to, they can do something about the illegal voting.” Mr, Whitaker, a former deputy attorney general under Arthur Gilliom, Republican party leader, was defeated for Lake County prosecutor in the general election. He said he did not learn about the large number of aliens voting until it was too late for him to do anything about his own race. The investigation, he reported, was financed partly by himself and partly by friends in the American Legion. He. said that he had as many as 15 girls hired at one time to do clerical work and that the total cost of the | investigation amounted to “several hundred dol-

of investigation*we will recommend |

Leaders in Congress Cz

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (U.P) President Roosevelt: this afte summoned Congressional leaders’ the White House for a conf

legislation to provide billions of lars worth of arms for Gi Britain. The delegation was headed . Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley and Speaker Sam ybu White House Secretary

full-dress review of legislative p lems involved in Mr. Roosevel pledge to make this country.

where. He said that there was no ind cation as to when Mr. ROOS might send Congress a special sage outlining the fiscal and le lative moves necessary for exte ing “all-out” aid to Britain, G: and other democracies. The - draft of the British measure may be offered to Congr tomorrow and reliable sources f cated that as of now it likely wai

terations in the Bloom resol passed last year, which permits” of munitions to Latin-Amerie countries. ‘

an authorization to spend

There were rumors that the § from $2,000,000,000 to $5,000,000, 485,528,049 and the British aid

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