Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1941 — Page 4
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SATURDAY, JAN. 25,
Hoosiers in Washington—
DESERT
Indorsement of Lend-Leas
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WILLKIE
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Missives Increase in Number and Heat After
Talks With F.
By DANIEL Times Sta
D. R. and Hull.
M. KIDNEY ff Writer |
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Hoosier Republicans are happing mad at Wendell L. Willkie, if the mail received here by Senator Raymond E. Willis and the eight G. O. P. Congressmen can be used as a standard of measurement.
When Mr. Willkie first indorsed t modifications) the critical letters st
1e lend-lease bill (with arted coming in from
Indiana. Since the defeated Republi¢an presidential candi-
date’'s conference here with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull and his subsequent departure for Great Britain, the letters have increased both in vol-
ume and heat.
Here are a couple of samples: “What is this man Willkie trying to pull off anyway?” a Ft. Wayne Republican inquires. ‘He Wants to Dictate’ “If he can't be National Chairman, he wants to name the Chairman. New Deal stuff, en? Well, he is a New Dealer pure and simple. He is nothing but a New Dealer and yet he wants to dictate to the grand G. O. P. “He was right with F. D. R. in his campaign. Tell me one Republican principle he talked about in the campaign The less we have to do with him the better. “Fight the blank check and bill No. 1776. We don't need a Dictator!” A Butler manufacturer writes as follows: “Last evening after having Wendell Willkie’s picture in our factory window I took it down. I just came to the conclusion that if the Republican Party ever was going to get anywhere it would have to do it, not with a reformed Democrat, but with a regular Republican who would offer this outfit at Washington a minority opposition that was opposition, ;
‘Much Like Roosevelt’
“Undoubtedly one of the things that contributed to Willkie’s losing the election was the fact he was so much like Roosevelt you could hardly tell the difference between them. There are plenty of good Americans who don’t like this Administration or any part of it and -I am proud to be one of them. And I finally concluded I did not like Wendell Willkie’s going along with them all the time either, like on this Dictatorship. Bill now before the House Committee on Foreign Relations. ; “And I don’t like this Give-and-Forget program of Roosevelt's to Britaig either, nor the proposed law to give this big Yap more ahd more power. . There are plenty of ways to handle aid to Britain without giving away our liberty in the process. . “Our ancestors were too long getting it to give it away now, especially to a man like F. D. R. who considers himself one of the few of God's anointed who has a King's mania for power and prestige. If we have to do this to aid Britain we better forget them and think only of arming ourselves to the teeth for the future. ;
‘It’s Time to Call a Halt’
“I am too old to get into this war, but I have friends and family who are not and I haven't forgot we paid for the other World War and if we let this crew in Washington go we will also pay for this one. It's time to call a halt and get down to earth on this proposition.” Such attitudes are causing particular difficulties for Rep. Charles A, Halleck, who made the nominating speech for Mr. Willkie at the Philadelphia convention. Not only do some letters suggest that Mr. Willkie be read out of the Republican Party, but also infer that his lieutenants should suffer the same fate. Rep. Halleck is opposed to the lend-lease bill and did not support the Selective Service Act, after Mr. Willkie had indorsed it, He knew nothing about the Willkie plan to indorse the lend-lease hill, nor did Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr, (R. Mass.), minority leader in the House who was the Willkie campaign manager and still is Republican National Chairman.
” » ” Rep. George W. Gillie (R. Ind.)
CAR MAKERS IN INDIANA STRIKE
Pullman Plant Closed ‘at Michigan City; Ship Production Halted.
| By UNITED PRESS While| shipyards and heavy machinery | plants ‘were “affacted by labor disputes today, freight | car production, essential to move increasing amounts of definse materials, /was halted by a strike of Michigan City, Ind., car builders. Twelve hundred striking memibérs of the| Brotherhood of Railway Carmen halted production at the Pullmay Standard Car Manufacturing (0., where there is a backlog of orders that would keep workmen busy through May. ‘Che union seeks recognition, but a spokesman said if is not yet prepared to negotiaje on wages and fours. A Peéderal Conciliator strove fo effect a8 settlement of strikes at two International Harvester (Jo. plants which the C. I. O. Farm !Iquipment Workers Organizing Cominitte¢ has threatened to spread to six other plants (of the firm. Company officials ill meet next vreek | with union Pi oe in en atiempt to prevent a strike at the company’s Chicagb plant, where the union seeks collective bargaining recognition. Another labor Department conciliator sought to reach an #greement between the C. I. O. United Auto Workers and the Allis<Chalmers management at ‘Milwaukee, where {7000 U. A, W. membel's demand | wage increases. The Government succeeded in oblaining release Of a steam-electric - generator produded before the strike for a 3 company. .
Crane Dispute Continues . A cphnference was aranged between|the C. I. O. Indusirial Union of Magine and Shipbuil¢ing Workers’ Union and the Alesbama Dry dock dz Shipbuilding Co. at Mobile, Ala., ‘where 3400 employees are on strike [to enforce demanc's for wage incresses. ‘The yards are conditioning vessels for the J. S, Navy and British interests. Wo ing 7 for tl crane
5 million dollars was leld up e third day by a strike of 29 operators and eagineers at the [Ingalls Shipbuilding | Corp, Pasajjoula, Miss. The workmen demend higher wages. An| agreement betwee two A. I, of L./ynions to negotiate peacefully a jurisdictional dispute resulted in settlement of a strike af the Philadelpliia Navy Yard where 6) struectural steel workers had walked out, disrupting constructior. ¢f drydocks. At| San Diego, Cal, an association pf company employees defeated the VV. A. Wima Labor Board election | to determine a bargaining agen: for workers at the Solar Aircraft Corp.
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; spot on the Inaugural platwhere President Roosevelt his historic third term oath. intends to put tke wood into a I~ home he is building at Ft. Wayne as a souvenir, he said.
z » = Mis, Claude R. Wickard, wife of the | Secretary of Agriculture, gave her [first reception at home in their lovely new apartments at Westchester on Wednesday. Such receptions are rejuired of all cabinet wives. In the Washington society columns reporting the event, Mrs. Wickard was called the “most beautiful of the cabinet wives.”, The societly reporters also called her “best dressed” and commented on her graciousness. Mrs. Wickard comes from
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IN INDIANAPOLIS
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signals 4 Drunken driving 6 All others ...... 24 16
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DEATHS
Homer Payne, 37, at C ty. nephritis, William E. Bray, 69, :t City, brenchopPaeamonia. || Thomas A, Sheek, 75, «+t 1126 N, Mount, caronic myocarditis. || Anna Marie Clements, 3, at Riley, lobar
| Mary Louise Lynn, | 2), at Methodist, wl oma
| Mary Helms, 47, at Methodist, uremia. | Susie May Burton, 55 at (liana. cardio vascular r:nal. | Fred Goodwin, 65, a. City, hroncholmeumonia. Kathrine Brown, 76, (t 2306 N. Dela-
vare, arteriosclerosis. »fi 1721 Lembert, i Frankie Belt, 16, at Lillie Ry cereb Patricia Ann
Harry C. ach, 59, ¢oronary occlusion. Nannie Rouse, 34, at es itonitis. 320 onis. Peter Guynn, 78, at 2362 Feltimore, cerebral hemorrhage. Frances Reehm 68, at obar pneumonia, To ard Luckett, aralysis. Wi
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NO MEN NEEDED.
BULLITT CLAIMS
Munitions, but No Soldiers Necessary for Victory, He Testifies. (Continued from Page ono)
not believe the German peoplz will stand up under the bombing. The system will collapse. | [4 “The revolt will not ¢ome so long as you have success for Hitler's arms. ! “It will come when {he suffering comes, and hunger.” | ~~. | Earlier he had said he saw no prospects of a “justi peace” at present, again disagreeing with Col. Lindbergh, who favored a negqtiated peace. | { “The person you nave got to handle” he said of - 4 negotiated peace, “is Hitler. It isn't the British or anyone else.” It -.
Answers Chalges Mr. Bullitt read a | letter from former French Premier Edouard
'Deladier to President Roosevelt
which. said “Ambassador Bullitt always said to me thai if way broke
out France must make her decision, knowing that the United States would not go into the war.” | Mr. Bullitt answérec charges that he had led France to count on United States entry /into the war with the assertion that they had been spread by “the (German propaganda machine, dupis and honest persons.” i 11: “I have always been of the opinion that the United | States would stay out of the war! if it possibly could,” Mr. Bullitt said. every Prime Minister of | France while T was in France. “I told the Frencli that !if war broke out France must make her decisions knowing the United States would uot come intg the war.
Others to Follow ||
Mr. Bullitt opened {the las) day of public hearings before -the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He will be followed by Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Minister to |Norway; Gen. John F. O'Ryan, Willlam Green, president of the Anierican Federation of Labor; Dorothy Thompson, newspaper columnist, and William L. Shirer, radio news commentator formerly in Berlin. | Monday the arguinent starts all over again when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins its public hearings with the prospect that it will hear virtually the same witnesses. o [ Three high-ranking Army and Navy officials will testify in a secret session of the Hduse Committee Monday. | Hl They are Gen. Cieorge| C. Marshall, Army, Chief of Staff, Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, and Cien. George H. Brett, acting chief bf the [Army Air Corps. |
CLAIMS U. $. PLANES SECOND TO NONE
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25 {U. P.) — Donald W. Douglas, president of the Douglas Aircraft C¢., last night lavished high praise gn American warplanes. | “Performance deiails are military secrets, but let me say broadly: The planes being produced for America’s defense and for aid to Britain are, on the whole, secind to none, and in some categories vastly superior to anything in th¢ world--and this includes speed, performarice, armor and fire power,” he said. Mr. Douglas, whose company is the largest in the natipn, spoke over NBC’s blue r.etwork on a program sponsored by the National Association of "Manufacturers ‘in connection with jits “preparedness through producticn week.” “We can take the world lead in defense production just as America has held the lead|in peacistime production through co-ordins:ted use of all machines and fools,” he declared.
NOBLESVILLE SCHOOL HEAD’S SON INJURED
Wilbur Rust, on of |J. A. Rust, Noblesville, Ind.| school principal, was injured today when the car in which he was riding rgn into the safety zone abutment ai Washington and Califorriia Sts. The driver was Harry Hadd, 52 Layman Ave. Mr. Hadd told police, “I must have been asleep.” Both men were taken .to City Hospital with severe cuts about the head. |
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INDIANAPOLIS [FORECAST — Rain or snow, mostly rain, tonight snd tomerrew; warmer tonight with lowes) temperature about 30 degrees. | Sunrise 7:00 | Sunset..... 4:56 TEMI'ERATURS} —Jan| 25, 1940-— on Peeosvaves » 1p meicceon B BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m,...30.38 | Precipitation 24 his. endin
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AST WEATHER Indiana—Rain pr snow, mostly” rain in south and moderate to heavy snow in north portion } tomorrow; warmer tonight ‘becoming colder n extreme northwest tomorrow afternoon., Illinois—Light [rain in |gxtreme south, moderate to heayy rain or/snow in centra port on, moderat: fo heay: reme north porilon tonight and tomorrow; warmer ir southesst portion tonight, becoming colder toraorrow and in He uems wes -central portion late to-
Lower Michigan ~— Snow, moderate at times, tonight” 4nd tomorrow; colder in extreme northwest, somewhat warmer in and centri] portions tonight. Ohio—Cloudy tonight and tomorrow with snow in north and snow of rain in south rtion tomerroiv; slowly rising temperaure tomorrew and in west portion tonight; colder tomorrow night. Kentucky—Claudy followed rain morrow and in west portion late tonight: slowly rising temperature tonight and In HH t portion tomorrow; [colder tomorrow
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They're Army's Babies
2 -|him come and leave.
Pvt. Walter Owensby (right), 15, of Asheville, N. C., is the youngest
member of the 79th Field Artillery,
Ft. Bragg, N. C., and his commanding officer, Second Lieutenant Arthur W. Rifenburgh, 21, of West Lafayette, Ind., is the youngest battery com-
Marshal Petain French Tunisia serve.
Mr. Mason
Libyan disaster. Except for the
tance from the city of Tunis to Sicily is only 90 miles, across the Sicilian Strait where the British cruiser Southampton recently was destroyed by German air bombing. It would be precarious, however, for the Germans to try to transport an army over the 90-mile streich, with British war vessels and planes in operation. Embarking the troops and their heavy equipment in Sicily would, itself, an an invitation to heavy British air attack before the expedition could get under way.
British Would Be Glad
To ferry two divisions of troops with adequate mechanized units would necessitate probably 50 large ships. How to concentrate them would be a difficult initial problem and how to afford protection to them during the passage would be still more baffling. Such an expedition would normally require warships to act as guards, as well as airplanes. Italy, however, has shown no readiness to risk sending any part of her fleet to sea t challenge the British. ' If that were done to try to shelter German ftroopships, the British would have their long ‘awaited opportunity to engage in a major naval battle in the Mediterranean. The result can hardly be doubted because of the superior Mediterranean strength of the British fleet. It would be poor strategy for the Italians to risk destruction of their ships by inviting combat in the narrow Sicilian Channel, where defeat would leave many of the German transports at Britain's mercy.
Still 1000 Miles to Go
Possibly some battered troopships might succeed in running the Sicilian Strait gantlet and reaching Tunis under cover of darkness but once in Tunis they would be faced with strategic and tactical difficulties of the first rank. The port of Tunis is 400 miles away from the western boundary of Libya. That frontier is, itself, 600 more miles distant from the port of Benghazi, which is the present British objective. Any German force in Tunis would have 1000 miles to go to challenge the British. The route is difficult and if the coastal road were followed, the British fleet would be invited into devastating action. The alternative inland route ‘would make the line of communications hazardous because of poor roads.
EX-SENATOR HARDY ON HOSPITAL BOARD
Former State Senator William D. Hardy of Evansville today was nanied by Governor Schricker to the board of the Evansville State Hospital to fill the vacancy created
publisher of the New Harmony Times. 1 Mr. Hardy was defeated for reelection in the Primary last May, after a dispute with members of the Democratic organization. His appointment to the hospital board is interpreted as a reconciliation in the Evansville party ranks.
by the death of Clarence P. Wolfe,|
War Moves Today
By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert German troops are locked out of North. Africa so effectively by the British naval command of the Mediterranean that reports of German pressure on
for permission to send an army into must be accepted with much re-
Even if Vichy’s consent were given and the Germans were able to reach Tunisia, it would now be too late for them to rescue the Italians from the
passage from Gibraltar to Ceuta,
Tunisia is the nearest part of North Africa to Europe, which is why reports credit the Germans with seeking a landing there.
The dis-
CHAIN OF ARMS PLANTS PUSHED
War Department Wants Plants Speeded by Fund 0f $700,000,000.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U. P.).— The War Department, it was learned today, will ask Congress soon for approximately $700,000,000 to build a chain of munitions plants originally intended as reserve or “standby” factories. :
explained, will be
equipment for Great Britain. The factories originally had been
program. As such they would furnish additional equipment and supplies for a total army of 4,000,000 men and would have been held in a reserve capacity for emergency rather than actual production. Request for funds to finance their construction,is expected to be transmit to Congress within two weeks.
Southport High ‘Party’ Tonight
SOUTHPORT HIGH SCHOOL will celebrate its 50th anniversary tonight at the school. Highlight of the celebration will the basketball game with Greenfield, with a demonstration by the Southport band during intermission, A dance will follow. A delegation of Southport citizens is scheduled to go to the County School Superintendent's office Monday to discuss the condition of the grade school build-
ing. 2 FARMERS HURT IN TRUCK-AUTO CRASH
LOGANSPORT, Ind. Jan. 25 (U. P.).—Sylvester B. Smith, 60, Logansport, and Elmer Shideler, 45, Cass County farmer, received critical injuries yesterday when their cattle truck collided with a Short Way Lines bus near here. ‘The bus driver, Jack Ten Eyck of Ft. Wayne, and a lone passenger, Wilma Long of Kentland, escaped serious injury although the bus was damaged.
PUBLISHER REPORTS WASHINGTON, Jan, 25 (U. P.). —Publisher James G. Stahlman of the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, yesterday reported to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox for active duty. Mr, Stahlman, a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve, will
serve in the Navy’s public relations branch here.
The additional facilities, it was. made ready for immediate production of smokeless powder, TNT, ammunition and other
scheduled as the second phase of the Army's industrial preparedness
HITLER LOST IN
JUNE-HALIFAX
‘We Are Under No Illusions,’ Envoy Says After Talk With Hull.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U. P.). —Lord Halifax, newly-appointed British Ambassador to the United States, declared today after his first formal conference with Secretary of State Hull that Adolf Hitler lost the war in June 1940, when he failed to take advantage of the French collapse. “Do you mean Hitler would have won then?” he was asked. “He might not have won it,” the diplomat replied. “I didn’t say that. But it would have been his best chance to win it.” ; The British envoy added that “we are under no illusions regarding Germany's strength and the plans Hitler is making, but we are well prepared, especially compared with after Dunkirk.”
Spends Hour With Hull
Secre Hull. Later, Lord Halifax sald that “we see things very much alike” on the international uation. Sp Halifax's first call, less than 24 hours after his arrival here, brought State Department employees into the corridors to watch The corridors were heavily guarded by police as they had not been since a visit of Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi several years ago. Afterward, the Ambassador held an impromptu press conference in the diplomatic reception room, in which he expressed his deep appreciation of President Roosevelt's unprecedented trip to Annapolis to greet him on his arrival aboard the new British warship King George V yesterday. He said it was a gesture which would be appreciated by the British people everywhere.
Makes Formal Plea
Lord Halifax made clear the chief purpose of his mission and his conviction of victory in the war the moment he set foot on American soil in a formal statement yesterday: “, . . To make known to the Government and people of the United States from time to time in what way. if théy are willing, they can best give us the help we need. “The more quickly your generous help can be made effective the sooner shall we be able to break this Nazi power that is trying to enslave Europe and the world... . “We have assuredly a rough, difficult and perhaps a very long road before us; but the British people are united as never before in history, and I have no doubt ‘that with your help we can win through and so save those causes on which your civilization and ours depends.”
Met by Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt motored to Annapolis in the rain yesterday, went out in the yacht “Potomac” to meet the King George V, brought Lord and Lady Halifax back to Annapolis on the yacht and then motored with them back to Washington, dropping them off at the British Embassy. He had two hours to talk to the new envoy. It was’ disclosed today that of the highest U. S. military servers in England returned cretly on the King George V, apparently for conferences with the high commands of the United States. They were Brig. Gen. Raymond E. Lee, U. S. military attache in London, and Rear Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, who headed a special Navy observation mission to London.
VENGEFUL HODSIER ACCUSED OF THEFT
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Jan. 25 (U. P.).—James Oliver Newman's effort to “get even” with the orphanage which was his childhood home, landed him in jail today with his desire for revenge still unsatisfied. Newman, 28, was charged with stealing $4.25 from Mrs. Ella Hebble, one of two Glenn Orphanage teachers whom he tied up while threatening to destroy the place with nitro-glycerin. He also was charged with intimidating three children with a pistol. Police captured him late yesterday, a few hours after he fled the orphanage. He said he had a grudge against the “whole outfit” because he was mistreated when he lived there as a child, and because he believed Orphanage Superintendent Benjamin PF. Stahle was responsible for sending him to Plainfied Reformatory eight years ago.
$27,000 SUIT LOST BY CAROLE LOMBARD
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 25 (U. P.).— Carole Lombard today was ordered to pay her former agent, Myron Selznick, $27,500 for - services performed before she fired him last July 1. He sued for commissions on her anticipated income, but an arbitration board held that she . was justified-in discharging him and that he had no right to commissions on contracts negotiated after his dismissal. . The board ruled, however, that he was entitled to commissions on all her income prior to July 1. Miss Lombard must pay Mr. Selznick 10 per cent of her earnings until the debt is liquidated.
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DENVER, Jan. 25 (U. P.).—Inasmuch as Patrick Harrell found himself at 11 the toughest guy in Eldorado, Ark. and nobody under 15
8 |brash enough to challenge him, he
contemplated his confinement in the matron’s quarters of city jail today with some disdain, Not a fag in the joint. No Indians. Patrick was overcome with disillusionment. Pat, who looks as if he might be 14, came west to hunt Indians and brought along a two-bit bow and arrow—with rubber suction cups on the arrows’ tips. Even that was denied him in the matron’s quar-
station, Detective PF. M. Cooney touched him on the arm. “Where are you heading for, son?” he asked. “What's it to you, copper?” Patrick snapped. The detective was insistent. “If you want to know, Im going to hunt Indians and I've got my bow and arrow,” he said. He - offered Detective Cooney a cigaret. The detective took the whole pack and escorted him to the mising persons’ bureau. : Finally Patrick told his story. As the “toughest guy in Eldorado,”
he got tired “hanging around a place where all the kids tip their hats to you,”
Tough Guy Pat, 11, Goes West to Hunt Indians But Runs Into Depot Ambush —Is He Disgusted!
the wrong kind of arrows to kill Indians. Patrick said he merely brought along the bow and arrows to frighten them; he'd finish ‘em off with his bare fists, Even fighting Indians in that fashion was passe, the officers added as they led Patrick off to the matron’s quarters. He entered under protest. He wanted to be in the bull pen “with the rest of the tough guys.” \
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Two men who go quietly about their business down on the first floor while the legislators rant and rave on the second are being.
watched closely.
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One of them is an ambitious young man who has come a long way in a few years. The other is a crafty veteran who outmaneuvered a strong machine to get his nomination and then was the only member
of his party elected to a State office. They are James Tucker, 32-year-old Secretary of State, and
Governor Henry F. Schricker.
Both are keeping their silence on the G. O. P. program now grinding through the Assembly. Both are interested in and affected by this program and its success or failure. Both are personally popular. Mr. Tucker was the first Republican toJbreak the Democratic State House front when he was elected to his post’ in 1938. He was re-elected for two years in 1940. : He's -a fellow-townsman of Senate Majority Leader William Jenner, top-man of the Legislature. Mr. Tucker has made only a couple of trips upstairs, once as a presiding officer in the House. Most of his time is spent in the office, doing his job and talking to friends. Mr. Schricker stays on the first floor, too. And the Legislature rolls merrily on.
Political Consistency
Back about 1924, the father of Rep. Winfield K. Denton (D. Evansville), sought election as Indiana Supreme Court Judge on the- Democratic ticket. After the votes from all over the state had been certified at the Secretary of State's office, it was found that Mr. Denton had lost by one vote. A few days later, the county clerk at Kokomo excitedly informed the Secretary that he had made a mistake. In tabulating his figures, the clerk said, he had missed about 500 votes for Mr. Denton. Since these votes would have made him the winner; Mr. Denton filed a contest action with the House of Representatives. It was filed under the same statute which the Republicans now are using in an action to unseat Democratic Governor Henry F. Schricker on charges of fraud. But Mr. Denton didn't get very far. An opinion by the Republican Attorney General said the statute under which the action was filed did not apply in Mr. Denton’s case. It was signed by Arthur Gillion, then Attorney General—now head of the legal staff of the Republican State Committee, which has approved the . action against Governor Schricker.! “Consistency. thou art a jewel.”
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Attention Irvington
Of special interest to Irvington residents is the report that the G. O. P. hopes to carry out its pledge to repeal County Planning Boards and still take care of the local objectors. Representatives from the rural areas want the board abolished, while legislators of the larger counties want the law left in effect. So, it’s said an attempf will be made to satisfy both groups by repealing the present law and then passing another which would set up Planning Boards in larger counties. Irvington residents want the law in effect so that the local board can zone the area around the new East Side Naval ordnance plant to prevent the construction of low-cost houses in this residential area, Several influential Republicans here who would be affected by the legislation are pushing the compromise arrangement.
”n " ” 'Ripper’ Going Through Countless reports of “compromise” deals between Republicans and Governor Schricker on the patronage-grabbing bills fill the State House corridors these days. The latest rumor had a meeting of the “appeasement” faction scheduled this week-end in a nearby town. But the best guess is that the “ripper” program is going through, even if some of the legislators are choking and gasping a little over most of the measure. Modifications, if any, may come after the Governor's vetoes, it's hinted.
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Another Drafting Boner
ADD BONERS IN G. O. P. hill drafting: In the “big ripper” hill, the State Board of Accounts is . placed under a board of which the State Auditor is chief officer. One of the : Account Board's main duties is checking on the Auditor. It hardly would be the ideal setup, so the G. O. P. legal staff probably will do something about it. . . . Ben Kerr, the flying Senator, is making his daily trips to and from Lebanon by bus and flivver — grounded by rain and snow. . . . So far, the Republican leaders have held their boys in line. The break, if any, will . come when the liquor bill comes down next week, we hear. . . . That proposal to exempt filling . stations from the chain store tax, which paraded in masquerade almost to final passage, is being juggled around like a hot shell. Postponed twice, it's supposed to come up Monday morning as a special order of business. Majority Leader Frank Millis says he has released the G. O. P. representa= tives to vote as they please. Incidentally, the bill is House Bill 13. “What an appropriate num-=-: : ber,” says Rep. Howard Batman (D. Terre Haute).
WILLKIE SEES LISBON SIGHTS:
Some Portuguese Think 4) He's President; Waits = London Plane. :
LISBON, Portugal, Jan. 25 (U. P.). —Wendell L. Willkie went sightseeing today through this teeming city that has become the crossroads. of wartime traffic between eastern and western hemispheres. 1 CAR Awaiting a plane to London where = | he will investigate war conditions in i Great Britain, Mr. Willkie was a
guest of the United States Minister here, Herbert C. Pell. Jk A companied him on the sight-seeing .. trip. Pog It was believed that Mr. Willkie would leave for London tomorrow morning. His arrival by Pan-Amer= ica Airways . clipper yesterday cau considerable ~ excitement . among Portuguese who are accustomed to famous travelers these days, but who had the impression that Mr, Willkie was President of the United States. One Portuguese newspaper called him a former President.
‘HEARS OF DRAFT, HE'LL SIGN UP NOW
OMAHA, Neb, Jan. 25 (U, P.) Bruce Ramey, 30, Springfield, Colo. farmer who said he hadn't read a newspaper in two years and “didn’t know I was compelled to sign up for conscription,” was under arrest today. Mr. Ramey said he had “heard : about” the draft bill. He said he was in Sioux City, Iowa, on regise: tration day, Oct. 16, and was will- © ing to register now. U. S. District: Attorney Joseph Votava said Mr. Ramey will be required to register at once. :
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TAX EXEMPTION! “John, I've found out something I think will interest you. My brother Joe tells me you can get a mortgage exemption (up to $1000) on your taxes in 1942, thereby saving about $30.” : “I don’t see how, Mary dear.” “What you must do, John, and po BEFORE MARcH Firsr, is to stop buying our home on contract, and secure a Federal Housing Administration Loan from the Fletcher Trust Company for
the unpaid balance.”
“But how do you know, Mary, that I could get
the Loan?”
- “Well, you have a steady job, John, and the reputation of paying your bills. Also you have already paid on our home what the Trust Company would consider a satisfactory percent of the pur-
chase price.”
“True enough, Mary. I like your idea. I'm going to apply for that F.H.A. LOAN tomorrow.”
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John secured the loan; also the deed to the property. His monthly payments were lower there- - after. And he enjoyed in addition the prospect of less taxes to pay in 1942 and in the following years.
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N. W. Cor. Pennsylvania and’ Market Sts.
12 CITY-WIDE BRANCHES
706 E. Sixty-Third Street 3001 N. llinois Street 1541 N, Hingis Stre 1533 Roosevelt
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