Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1941 — Page 5
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\ 2000 Expected for 3-Day ‘Convention; 13 Receive | Membership Awards.
More than 2000 members of the Indiana Retail i Association and their wives\ were expected to attend the 42d annual convention of the association which opened today at the Murat Temple for three days. More than 100 exhibits from manufacturers and wholesalers throughout the country are on display in the building. . {The president's luncheon today opened the convention. followed by the president’s address, by Paul Ulrich of Indiandpolis, after which 13 members were awarded the 25-year membership certifiCates. : ; lA. G. Bryant of Chicago, past president © of the Associated Machine Tool Dealers of America, spoke on “Be Prepared for Widening Horizons.” {Governor Henry F. Schricker was be a guest at the luncheon. A lesta Party at the Hotel Lincoln tonight was to end today's program,
SHEPARD NEW HEAD | OF UNION COUNCIL
' {Joseph K. Shepard, president of the Indianapolis Newspaper Guild, was elected president of the Indianapolis Industrial Union Council at #8 meeting last night at Amalgamated Hall, 168 W. 9th ‘St. {Mr. Shepard succeeds Orville J. Kincaid, president of Local 1543, el Workers Organizing Committee. Other officials elected were arl Baker, Local 145, Amalgamated Berl Bal Workers of America, first vice president; Earl Ross, Local 226, nited Automobile Workers, second vice president, and Harold Kenworthy, Local 35, American Federation of Hosiery Workers, third vice president. G. B. Murphy, Local 43, Packing House Workers Organizing Committee, was reyelected recording Bécretary. ;
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ONCE WEALTHY, | HELD IN KILLING
Fortune Gone, WPA Worker Held in Death of His Estranged Wife.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27 (U. P.) — The career of Charles Rex Bockius, 44, who drifted from wealth to the penitentiary to the WPA, was at its lowest ebb today. He was in jail, suspected of killing his estranged wife; who, too, had once known a fortune. The body of Mrs. Marvel Eockius, a slender, attractive woman with luxurious black hair, faintly streaked with gray, was discovered yesterday on the floor of her 81-y2ar-old aunt's bedroom. She had on a dishelved silk slip, stockings and slippers. = The cord from a bathrobe was looped around her throat, like a garrot. An empty gin bottle, which police said belonged to Bockius, was by her side. Bbckius, shabby, but still pcssessed of some of the polish of his rearing, denied that he had killed her. A few hours after he was arrested in a ber and booked on suspicion of murder, police took him to the county morgue and showed him the body. He paled, covered his eyes with his hands, and cried out:
“I didn’t do it!. I didn’t do it!” He became so ill that he had fo be returned to jail. | Mrs. Elba Ely, Mrs. Bockius’ aunt, said the couple had been separated for several months and Mrs. Bockius came to live with her. Sunday night, she said, sane saw Bockius climbing up the bathroom window. “Ele said, ‘where's Marvey? ” she added. “He appearet=drurk. He walked into the bedroom and I followed him. There was her body, and he said ‘Oh!’ and walked out.” Mrs. Ely then called police. Bockius said his real ndme was William T. Spivey, but he had been adopted as a child by Charies Rex Bockius, Chicago philanthropist, and hac taken his name. Helsaid his foster-father sent him to ale and he had inherited considerable wealth from the Bockius family.
RELIEF CLIENT HELD IN TRUSTEE ASSAULT
BRAZIL, Ind., Jan. 28 (U. P.).—
lief client, was held today on a charge of assault and battery after he allegedly attacked Township Trustee Charles Devlin in & dispute over a relief order, The attack reportedly occurred when McClelland demanded more moriey with which to buy shoes than Devlin had offered him. . 7
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Red Cross Aid Sees Red, Quits
LONDON, Jan, 28 (U.| P.).— Mrs. C. D. Fellowes, slender and attractive wife of an Army Major, sought a war job today where rouged lips were not “bad. She resigned—under , protest— as Assistant Commandant of the Suffolk Red Cross Hospital, after Sir Archibald Fraser Home, 66-year-old Suffolk County Red Cross director, objected | to her red lips and Red Cross headquarters decided they set “a bad example.” “They told me I should | regard the sacrifice of my lipstick as my the war front,” she said. “I think the whcle contention is childish.”
BELGIUM MUST GET FOOD, HOOVER SAYS
NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (UJ. P).— Belgium faces “literal starvation” within a month unless food! supplies are brought into the country, former President Herbert Hoover said today. i Mr. Hoover said cables from three investigators in Brussels | indicated that . major food supplies 70 maintain the Belgian ration will be “non-existent within a month.” “The present theoretical daily ration for each person in : Belgium consists of about ¢ne-half pound of bread, two ounces bf fats and meats, one and one-half ounces| of sugar, about one and on¢-tenth pounds of potatoes and half an ounce of beans and peas,” Mr. Hpover said. “The total food value of this ration is about one-half the ration in England and Germanj.” Mr. Hoover said breadstuffs to maintain the ration would be exhausted about Fel. 15, and a shortage of potatoes, sugar, and meats was imminent because of decreased production.
AT VESPER SERVICE
The orchestra of the Central Avenue Methodist Church will play at vesper services Thursday at the First United Luthtran Church. The Geisler Trio and the Lutheran Church’s choir, {directed by Miss Pauline Rebecca Roes, will assist, The programs follow: Voice of Spring
Orchestra Go Down Moses Spiritual
Choir Minuet (from L'Aniesienne Suiie) Bizet
Orchestra | The Spirit Flower * oS 2fiphen-Tipton Tio
The Geisler Sleeping Beauty.....| ........7schaikowsky Orchestra } Barnby Cojeridge-Taylor
) Encouragement Overiure Boettger
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LEROY D. MOON, 46, EX-RESIDENT, DIES
Leroy Dow Moon, a former Indianapolis ‘resident, died Sunday in Los Angelety Cal. after a long illness. He was 46. A native of | Indianapolis, he served overseas in the World War as a member of Battery A, 150th Field Artillery, Rainbow Division. He was a member of the Rainbow Association of this city and attended meetings of the los Angeles organization.
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He attended Manual High School, the John Herron! Art Institute and the Chicago Art i3chool, He is survived (by a cousin, Mrs. Ruth Cronnon, of Indianapolis.
200 MORE REPORT FOR ARMY SERVICE
Two hundred gelectees from 10 Indiana counties reported at Ft. Harrison today for induction into the Army. They are part of the 3152 men called from Indi:na for induction
8! between Jan. 14 ind Feb. 13 under || the Selective Serjice System,
STOREKEEPER FOUND DEAD Lewis Schoen, proprietor of a second hand stole at 905 Indiana Ave, was found (ead today in his room in the rear of the establishment. Dr. Herbert |T. Collins, deputy coroner, said
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U.S. SEEKS LOWER LAND FEE
Littell Says Purchases at Ordnance Center Held Up for Readjustment.
A reduction in fees charged the Government in the acquisition of 52,000 acres of land in Southern Indiana for an Army Ordnance proving ground was believed being sought by Federal officials today. Assistant Attorney General - Norman M. Littell, who has been investigating the fees charged by Paul L. McCord, Indianapolis realtor, and ‘Willis N. Coval, head of the Union Title Co., said the land purchase will not go through until a general readjustment of the fees is made “to a proper level.” The assistant Attorney General, in Indianapolis yesterday, went fo Madison today to continue the investjgation.
Calls Fees “Unique”
In a statement today, Mr. Littell said that Mr. McCord’s fee approximated 6% per cent in the land acquisition while charges for abstracts by the Union Title Co. ranged from $50 to $820. " Mr. Littell said that this schedule of abstract fees “is indeed unique” and added that “no stone will be left unturned in preventing excessive or exorbitant charges for any service rendered in connection with this program. The land acquisition has been taking place for several weeks in Ripley, Jennings and Jefferson Counties and is part of ‘a nationwide fand purchase by the Government for defense work. “I have ordered that no title will be approved until this set-up is remedied to the complete satisfaction of the Inspector General's Office,” Mr. Littell said. Mr. McCord declined to comment on Mr. Littell’s statements. He referred all inquiries to the War Department by which his concern is employed to acquire land for the Government. Mr. Coval, however, denied that fees of the Union Title Co., which is handling the abstract work for the ground, were “exorbitant.” In the first 200 options completed by the firm, he said, the ‘average fee was less than $80 an option.
Claims Fees Unpaid
“It is only fair to say that Mr. Littell lacks an understanding of the matter,” Mr. -Coval asserted. “Our charges are in no wise as high as he states.” Mr. Coval added that as yet no fees have been paid. The total amount of fees for the abstract service, he said, cannot be computed until the work is completed.
Attorney General said: “Acquisition of the proving ground area in Ripley, Jennings and Jefferson Counties on a 61% per cent commission quite clearly contemplates, according to evidence in my possession and in possession of the Inspector General of the Army, the payment of a 6% per cent commission—figured not only on the purchase price, but on a purchase price which includes an estimated commission as well. as numerous other charges for title, evidence, taxes, ete.” Mr. Littell said that after discussing the matter of abstract fees with Mr. Coval, he had concluded that these charges graduated from a minimum of $50 for 20 acres or less, $60 for a tract, to $820 for 2961 to 3000 acres.
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War Moves Today
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much confusion in Rome. . One possible reason for abandoning their ministerial work is disagreement with new Fascist policies. They may not approve of the infiltration of German influences and instead of offering their formal resignations they have taken the present means of separating theme selves from responsibility for future developments.
Procedure Far From Normal
Especially is it extraordinary that Count Ciano should have left his position as Foreign Minister at this time to become a war aviator. With Italy in her present plight, it mignt be thought that Mussolini would want his son-in-law to be at home, for close consultations. Count Ciano is not in training as a combat flyer but he is intimately familiar with Italian foreign affairs and the international complexities which the war has generated. His sudden flight from Rome may have some relationship with German efforts to unify Axis foreign policies under the direction of Berlin. It is only eight days since II Duce and Hitler conferred about the war situation. Now, a succession of Italian Ministers is moving out of official activity to join the Army for secondary duties. However it may be regarded, such a procedure is far from normal. The explanation given in Rome that the move is for the purpose of giving war experience to younger key men in the Fascist Party scarcely carries conviction.
Is Fascism Under Fire?
It is possible that the presence of Ministers at the front may stimulate the morale of the Italian soldiers but that is rather remote. If that were an objective sought by II Duce it would imply that the Italian Army has become openly critical of favored officials facing no danger at home while the Army is ever under enemy fire.
By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert Six leading Ministers of Mussolini's Cabinet, including his son-in-law, Count Ciano, who have left their posts to engage in active service at the front, apparently are acting under deep emotional stress which now seems to be spreading throughout Italy. It is unprecedented and unnatural for such action
These officials are Il Duce’s right-hand associates in the administration of national affairs. That they should abandon their home positions and assume inferior posts in the Army at this time of uncertainties in Italy indicates the existence of
Such a reaction in the fighting force would indicate a condition of deep dissatisfaction which can scarcely be repaired by half a dozen Ministers donning officers’ uniforms. One possibility of action for the Ministers, however, may exist, apart from their military value. It has been reported several times that groups in the Italian Army are becoming critical of Fascism. The six Cabinet members are all prominent in the Fascist organization. They may have been transferred to propaganda work among the soldiers, Fascist agitation.
LINER SAFE, BRITISH SAY IN SEA MYSTERY
MIAMI, Fla. Jan. 28 (U. P.).— The 21,833-ton Empress of Australia,
British luxury liner which took King George and Queen Elizabeth to Canada in May, 1939, was the principal actor in a new mystery of the sea today. A message picked up by the Tropical Radio Station here last night said the ship had been torpedoed and was being shelled off the west coast of Africa. The message said the.liner was down by the bow, her decks awash, and that “all boats are over the side.” Then, at 9:55 p. m. (Indianapolis Time), the signal faded and Tropical Radio reported it was picking up only “unintelligible dots and dashes.” But authoritative sources in London said this morning the Empress was safe in port. Normally the Empress of Austra-
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