Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1941 — Page 3
FRIDAY, JAN. 24, 1041 oT
BRITAIN STEPS
~ ATTACKS
Selassie Rallies Tribesmen In Ethiopia; Rerna Next Goal in Libya. (Continued from Page One)
and Maraua, both west of Tobruk. Raids were made on Italians at Neghelli, Ethiopia, and Italian bombers were destroyed on the ground or shot down at Keru in Italian Eritrea, the British claimed. British armored columns were
astride the main road junction south of Derna, opening the way to
a direct advance on Benghazi across
the Libyan plateau. Advance units were driving in around the fort system of Derna preparatory to investing it for siege operations. It was indicated that the impor.tant italian seaplane base of Bomba, ' 46 miles east of Tobruk, was cut off .by the British and possibly in British hands. The base was reported abandoned by the! Italians several days ago. An Australian report said that 125,000 prisoners had been taken at “Tobruk, although the official high command estimate was more than 114,000 “so far.” :
Rome Admits Attacks
. The Rome communique admitted the sweeping nature of the British attack in Africa, reporting fighting on the Kenya border, Italian Soimaliland, west of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and another British air atstack upon Rhodes in the Italian . Dodecanese Islands. . The Italians claimed some resist- , ance was still going on in the western fortifications of Tobruk and reported an air raid on Malta. The _British, it was admitted, bombed jDerna. Capture of some prisoners {on the Albanian front was claimed. Other developments included: The Greeks claimed they had captured 250 Italians in fighting above Klisura. Reports indicated thaf hostilities in that area were increasing in severity. Italian reinforcements, including mechanized units, have BR a 2 to meet the threat to Berat-and Valona, while Greek forces have been strength‘ened, possibly for a major push. A frontier report from Jugoslavia Baid that the Italians had ordered the civilian population of Valona, Yreatened by a Greek drive, evacuated. :
Japan's Offer Accepted
In the Far East Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka of Japan asserted that Japan would require 30 to 50 years for the “ideal” estabjishment of her “new order in East Asia.” Matsuoka = denied charges that Japan had aimlessly watehed the war between Thailand and French Indo-China. The Japanese Foreign Office announced that both French IndoChina and Thailand (Siam) have accepted Japan's offer to mediate in their hostilities over frontier territory and that negatiations were expected to start in Tokyo soon, In addition to accepting Japanese mediation Thailand and Indo-China have agreed to a truce, the foreign office said. Meantime, Bangkok reported hos=tilities still in progress with the Thailand air force carrying out a severe bombardment of Cambodia. A clue to Italy’s economic and financial status appeared in an announcement of a new bond issue to be placed on sale in February— the first issue since the war started. It will carry 5 per cent interest and the bonds will be sold at a discount of 21% per cent.
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RUMANIA BARED
Frontier Reports Indicate 2500 Slain in Bucharest In 3-Day Revolt.
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been imminent for years due to smouldering unrest among the radical Iron Guard faction. -Prepara-
rising with the death.” i Many students were known to have participated in the | breal:, Antonescu declared that they were misled by “brigand leadership.” Antonescu was said to have we - comed the showdown with the iron Guard faction | after weeks, - of under-surface tension and clashes. The first sign that Antonescu wis coming out on top in the conflict came yesterday when he appealed to the nation dver the Bucharest radio. | This showed that Antonescu hed sufficient power to regain control of the radio station which had been seized by the rebels. Many streets lof Bucharest show the scars of the fighting. Hun(lreds of windows Lave been broken, Many jewelry shows were raided by “gangsters” during the battle. Antonescu’s gssumption of lead ership of the [ron Guard, iff was said, has given confidence ta the public. The Rumanian leader has worn the Iron Guard green shirt on a number ¢f occasions bul was not active in the organization before becoming |Premier and up to now had only been considered a Guardist sympathizer, | It was understood that the iasurgents wrecked the machinery of the newspaper Universul which had always defended the Fascist movement. | The Iron Guardist press refused yesterday to publish the appeals of Antonescu anc today none of the Iron Guard newspapers appeared on the streets. f Some elements of workingmen’'s unions asserted today that they had been “led int¢ error” by Communist leadership, (This would indicate that some of the unions had joined the Iron Guard in the uprising.) Today it was noted that everywhere in Bugharest, at least, An-
motto: “victory or
with the German Army giving its moral support.
MRS. L'. B. SWANSON
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Iozzo said he fell to the floor during the fight, tried to get up, fell again and “that was the end that I re- | membered.” | “I was at the bar,” he testified, “starting to check the register and a little after midnight the colored fellow told me Dominic was having some trouble with a party. “I saw a fellow arguing with Dominic ‘and Mary (his son and daughter). The Disher party was back there. They were standing up in a group listening to the argument. | ‘A woman got in and started tq push Dominic and he pushed back and her husband said ‘Don’t touch my wife or I'll cut your heart out. Dominic said ‘I don’t touch your wife.’ | “Then this fellow stick his hand
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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Consider2ble . cloudiness tonight and tomorrov'; lightly colder tonight with lowest ten;serature 20 to 25; much colder late fimorrow with cold wave tomorrow night. | Sunrise ...... 5:00 | Sumset ....... 4:55
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HERE 19 YEARS, DEAD
Mrs. Laconds, B. Swanson died today at her home, 526 Blue Ridge
A native of Rush County, Nirs. Swanson had lived in Indianapolis 15 years. Sie was a member of the Northern Garden Club. She is survived by her husband Edward E.; two daughters, Shirley Ann and Jape Ellen Swanson; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Miller of Rushville; a sister, Mrs. Bernice Carr of Homer, Ind. and three
Rushville and Frank Miller of Tndianapolis. | Services ate to be at 2 p. m. Moin~ day at the Flanner & Buchanan ‘Mortuary. Burial will be in Crown
Hill.
brothers, John and Joseph Mille: of | ing
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MIDWEST WZATHER Indians: Considerable cloudiness, light snow or snow flurries in north portion jonight and tomorrow: colder late tomfprrow: cold wave tomorrow night. | Illinois: Fair to partly cloudy in south, light snow or snow flurries in north portion tonight and tomorrow; cold wave jtomorrow and tomorrow night. temperature below zero in north portion, zero to 10 above in south portion by Sunday moin-
Lower Michigan: Mostly cloudy, light snow tomorrow and in north and West portions tonight; somewhat warmer tonight: much colder late tomorrow {nd tomorrow night. | Ohio: Snow this afternoon, cloudy With light snow tonight: somewhat colder in south portion tonight: tomorrow mostly
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Fred Iozzo. ... “That was the end that I remembered.”
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How Young Disher Was Shot
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in his inside pocket and Dominic hit him and then they all started fighting. Then I pulled a blackjack. I said ‘Quit now.’ Let us Get out.’ I held the blackjack up in the air.
“I Wanted to Bluff ’Em”
«I wanted to bluff ’em ‘out. I didn’t intend to hit anyone. Then a fellow hit me with a beer bottle. I learned later he was Virgil Disher Jr. “I fell to the floor and I tried to get up and then somebody kicked me or knocked me against something and I fell again and that's the end that I remember. “Fifteen or 20 minutes later I learned Dominic had been shot and somebody else had been shot and I started looking around to see what had happened. Pretty soon the police came and arrested me for vag-
{|rancy.” .
Always Carried Blackjack
Tozzo Sepied telling any police ofe had gotten a gun that night. He said that he always carried the blackjack in his pocket. He also said he once paid a $10 fine on a charge of resisting an officer. The jury can return one of five verdicts. It may find the 53-year-old defendant guilty of first degree murder, ‘ the penalty for which it may set either death or life imprisonment; guilty of second degree murder, the penalty for which is life imprisonment; voluntary manslaughter, with a penalty of two to 21 years in prison; involuntary manslaughter, with a penalty of one to 10. years in prison, or not guilty. A 20-page document of instructions will be read to the jury by Special Judge Frank A. Symmes, Yesterday the defendant's wife, Mrs. Rosa Iozzo, told how she and her husband, ‘both immigrants, had come to America and struggled to make a home for their children,
Attack Rae Testimony The defense also attempted to
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.. 9 | Accidents ., . 23 [ 0 | Arrests -.... . 54 THURSDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- J'ines tried tions paid hy | 14 | $155 6 5 F
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Violations Speeding Reckless driving. Failure to stop at through street. Disobeying traffic signals 5 Drunken driving. 3 All others ...... 35
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MEETINGS TODAY | Sigma Chi, luncheésn, Canary Cottage, oon. ; i Exchange Club, luncheon, Hotel $;verin, noon. | Optimist Club, luncheon, Columbis Club, noon. t b Delta Thets, luncheon, (‘anary Cottage, noon. | Delta Tau Delta; luncheon, Canary noon. : i Federation of Community’, Civic | Clubs,
meeting, Hotel Washington, 8 p. m./ Kappa Sigma, fancheon, Canary Cottage,
| $341
noon. Indianapolis Producers’ Commission Asseciation, annual mesting, Claypool Hotel, a y. Association of Indianapolis Bank Travel Bureaus dwest travel agents’ . goo fellowship party. Athenaeum, night. Indi; State Bar Association, midClaypool Hotel, all day. Society, nieeting, Lumbermen’s /fssociael Severin, all day. and luicheon,
i { . . Sa Tri 8 reeting, Hotel Washington, %: b m.
MEETINGS TOMORROW
Indianapolis Towr Hall, lecture, English Theater, 11 i 7 m. , Southport High School, home coiring, sll
day. : mbda Chi Alpk State “Alumni _Association. dinner” dance, ‘Gorambiy Club, | Link-Beit, confersuce, Hotel Severin, 3 ‘Kappa Ki Sigma, dinner, | Hotel washington, Tp. mo bby
MARRIAGE LICENSES) (These lists are from official i'ecords in the County Court House. The Times
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discredit testimony given by Roderic Rae, police criminologist, that JTozzo had fired a gun the night young Disher was killed. Other testimony was aimed to show that two other star State witnesses, both of whom said Iozzo had a gun that night and one of whom said the defendant shot Virgil Dish er, were not at the cafe the night of the shooting.
SCAN STREET PETITION The Works Board today took under advisement the petition of the W. Michigan St. Civic. League for the resurfacing of W. Michigan St. froma White River to Warman Ave. The league also asked Board members to consider resurfacing Holmes Ave. from Michigan St, to Walnut St.
NAPOLIS
an; Thelma ‘M. Strother, 19, of 1016 N.
ugh. Prank M. Platter, 25, R. R. 5, Noble:ville, Ind.; Mary St.” Clair, 25, Noblesville,
Harry F. Harmon, 37. of 1320 N. Beville; iva M. Merchant, 39. Greenfield, Ind. Wiley W. Fish, 23. of 2234 S. Pennsylvania; ‘Thelma M. Brown, 21, of 333 W. wild, “Muncie . RY .
Carl M. , 22, of 0 Winthrob; Dorothy E. Purcell, 21, of 2920 WinJohn P. Callahan, 23, of 433 N. Forrest; Ione C. Vose, 23, of 3500 8. Pennsylvania. . endell, 29, 813 8 Meridian: Jean E. Munson, 20, of 1328 N.
labama. Chris Blackwell Jr., 21, of 1022 W. 31st: Mary C. Jackson, 24, of 1240 Burdsal
wy. Warren K. Fletcher, 41, of 2618 College, Dorothy D. Kirchner, 28, of 2238 Talbo:t.
BIRTHS Girls
Virgil, Jean Owens, at Methodist William, Elizabeth Bright, at t, herine Wood, at St. Francis.
‘Reynolds, at City. | Meredith, Florence Wagner, at Coleman. Fred. Mary Brown, at St. Vincent's. Ferdinand, “Joseohine Montani, at Bt. Vincent's. Jack. Bertha Godfrey, at St. Vincent's, - Boys Stephen, Florence Krasienka, 3 Thelma Richardson, ocist. * . 9 Virginia Beckenbaugh, at Methst. : ’ { an, Frances Townsend, at. MethSU. * . : - on William, Ruth Beck, at Methodist. Vietus. Suzanne Stenger, at St. Francis | Duncan, Frances Miller, at Coleman.
r Charles, Dorothy Heinrichs, at St. Vin. cent’s, ]
at Mefhat Meth-
DEATHS de Cullum. 72, at Central Indiana,
C1 arteriosclerosis. 35, ‘at 530 E. Vermont,
Katie A. Hilgert, sardine Yer S igh, 4 ths, at ames r Spaugh, mon a Riley, tuberculosis Pnemingits. 3 | tor gatet Smith, 21, at 945 E. Market, ar pneu a. Alma Lynn; 13, at City. rheumatic heart. Walter M. Link, 24 days, at '3e" [1 Holmes, bronchopneumonia : Susanna M. ton, coronary Sophia E.
ite, 75, at 1540 CarrollChomene 78, at 1820: Lexing ton, influenza. ’ Ei therine Reick, 73, at 3356 Park, en~“Earoline ‘Moser, 75, at Methodist, ureMary Ann Matouk, 19, at St. Vincent's, diabetes. : | Nellie ‘Cooney. - 67, -at 456 W, 17th, ‘corLaurel, chronic
Bertha Parker, 54, at 817 myocarditis,
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIME
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HALIFAX NEARS
Annapolis in Powerful Craft Late Today.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. 24 (U. P.). —Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador' designate, arrived in the United States today aboard the-new British battleship King George V, one of the most powerful fighting ships in. the world. : : The King George, V, after a secret dash across th& Atlantic, entered American waters shortly after midnight and was moving slowly up Chesapeake Bay toward this seat of the U. S. Naval Academy. Embassy Officials on Way A group of British Embessy officials were on their way from Washington to meet him. Inasmuch. as the waters at the Annapolis docks are not sufficiently deep to accommodate a vessel as large as the 35,000-ton King George V, the ship was expected to drop anchor several miles off shore in the Roads. - Word from London revealed that the King George V is one of five fast, heavily armored 35,000-ton battleships laid down in the first half of 1937 and rushed to completion. Four Other Ships Ordered
first: news, because of war time secrecy on naval matters, that any of the new ships was in service. Tour more battleships, Lion, Temeraire and two whose names have not been mate public, were ordered in 1039. All are believed to be of 40,000 or more tons. King George V and her sister ships mount a new and improved 14-inch gun with an effective range exceeding that of earlier 15-inch guns. They have a speed of more then 30 knots and are heavily armored. The total weight of armor is believed ‘to be 14,000 tons, and the armor is reported rto be 16 inches thick at the water line,
WOMAN, 71, INJURED CRITICALLY BY AUTO
Mrs. Ary Bethuram, 71, of 533 Buchanan St., was injured critically last night when she was struck by a car near her home and knocked to the pavement. She was taken to City Hospital where physicians said she had received severe head injuries. Marion Holton, 19, of 619 Weghorst St., driver of the car, was charged by police with having inadequate brakes, only one headlight
U. S. IN WARSHIP| New Envoy Will Land at||
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Today's announcement was the |
that spell “budget.”
this. Then came. the figures. These showed a proposed increase in expenditures of about $7,000,000 for the next two years. Most fiscal experts agree that under the .present laws that will leave Indiana just about even by 1943. Although we probably will be “in the black” about $1,000,000, it will be a “deficit” because the State needs a working balance of more than $5,000,000. That's the dark - picture, and the present Legislature can blacken it by adding to the outgo or subtracting from the income. #. nn"
Dawson Tells Why
The official G. O. P. attitude was summed up by Lieut. Gov. Charles M. Dawson yesterday when he gharged that the high
budget demands “are ‘the outgrowth and product of “the last 10-year, politically-controlled expansion of departments and branches of government and the too rapid extension of government subsidies in a wide field.” He said the present Legislature had “inherited, a terrific task” and called for public help “to break down that theory of government which has loaded the State with extraordinary finan‘cial burdens, taken the government farther and farther from the control of the people and brought us face to face with financial burdens that in the end can only mean confiscation of the essentials of life.”
government costs due to unwarranted expansion -of government services.” : ® 8
C. of C. Gives Warning
In this connection, a recent 11year study by the Indiana Cham‘ber of Commerce provides’ interesting ‘information. It presents a ‘comparative, factual picture of ‘governmental finances and social ‘security without arguing the merits. For instance; State aid to local governmental units, . including $10,000,000 in ‘U. S. funds redistributed by the State, has increased from $2.69 to-$14.80 per capita—or from $9,000,000 to $51,-
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STRAUSS SAYS:
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Our legislators, who have been on a political jag for 15 days, ed into unhappy soberness by a long string of figures
Two days ago. they were battling over patronage bills and tossing in measures to repeal this tax, cut that rate
and give more funds to
He asks for a halt to “mounting
This has cut the strictly locallyraised funds for Government from $141,000,000 to $106,000,000 and enabled 56 of the 92 counties to show decreased local spending. But the C. of C. warns: “The point has now been reached at which any substantial increase in total state funds distributed to local governments will require either a corresponding reduction in State operating expenditures or the boosting of State revenues through new or increased taxes.” And State-aid is only part of the picture, ” t J »
High Point in 1938
Tracing general fund balances through the years, the C. of C. shows that it grew from $1,859,000 in 1930 to $13,997,000 in 1940. The high point was reached in 1938, when it \was approximately $25,000,000. At that time—and in
.the 1939 Legislature—there were
loud cries to slash taxes. There were charges that the balance was “too big.” The State instead launched a program of new buildings and remodeling for State institutions. That and increased welfare outlays resulted in bringing the sur plus down to the $14,000,00 anticipated on July 1 this year. And $7.000,000 of that will be distributed to local school units two weeks later. Net receipts for the State ‘have increased from $50,370,00 in 1930 to $127,113,000 now. Expenditures
increased from $51,828,991 to $127,-
962,000. Both still are mounting.
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Security Costs Up
The chief factor in. the increases of the last 11 years, of course, is the Social Security program—a complex mixture of Federal, State and local enterprises calling for “h.total annual outlay
of $150,000,000 as compared with.
$11,300,000 in 1930. Indiana provided - $34,000,000
- plus $13,000,000 in U. S.-collected
Social Security payroll taxes last year, * The one bright spot, the C. of C. points out,.is that the costs
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"LION OF JUDAH’
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Selassie Hoists Flag and - Calls on His Tribesmen - To Free Ethiopia.
LONDON, Jan. 24 (U.' P).—A campaign to drive the Italians out of Africa gained momentum today coincident with the announcement that Haile Selassie, refugee Emperor of Ethiopia, had returned to his homeland to raise an:army to fight beside the British. It was announced officially at Cairo that Selassie had re-entered Ethiopia Jan. 15, immediately after the British drove a spearhead into his country for him, and that he had personally hoisted his red, green and gold flag just across the frontier from Anglo Egyptian Sudan. The “Lion of Judah” was flown to a place near the frontier in a British plane and he went to the border by automobile, it was revealed. He walked across the border, through a pass cut in a wooded section, and hoisted his flag in a simple ceremony around & wooden flagpole. He was surrounded by aides and soldiers, the nucleus of an army he is raising and placing under oath to “fight to the death to rout the Fascists.” ’
dropped $8,000,000 during the 1940 fiscal year and “presumably, with an extensive national defense program, the end of the current period will show a still further reduction in costs of certain direct assistance programs.”
That's the picture Indiana leg+ islators are studying today. ae It doesn’t fit in with their pledges of gross tax adjustments, - free textbooks and repeal of some revenue-raising measures. Some say they are going through with the program—at least the textbooks and gross tax cut. Others gaze into the crystal ball and say there's nothing to worry about with the increased revenue from defense industries and beiter business. They hope for a “Houdini.” Then there are others like Rep. Roy Harrison (R. Attica), who told his powerful Ways and Means Committee: - “Gentlemen, we can not be concerned with platform promises now.” And Governor Schricker, who | said after a conference with Rep.
Harrison: “We are not very far apart in the matter.” .
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