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LE hag RR SO FEED we '° a FORECAST: Parily cloudy tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight 20 to 25; slowly rising temperature tomorrow, : VOLUME 52—NUMBER 218 * WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1941 Entered az Sesond-Class. Ma Ind. -

U.S. PLANS

LEE DEPLORES COUNTY'S VOTE

REGISTRATION

‘Handled as a Racket,’ He Says, Defending Proposal For- 3-Man Board.

In the Legislature

The Hopper oliendess iiPUge 3 Senate :........ Secon srivnisis 3’ Investigations .............. 3

Other Legislative News 6 and 16

Marion County’s election dispute reached the floor of the House to-

day with Rep. J. Otto Lee (R. In-|

dianapolis) charging. that voting here has been handled as a ‘“political racket.” The debate was on a bill—affecting Marion County only—which

would. set up a three-member elec- "+ tion registration board with the

prosecuting attorney officio member. This measure is sponsored by James Bradford, Marion County G. O. P. chairman. At present, election machinery is under the su-

as an ex-

pervision of the County Clerk, now |.

a ;Democratf.

Rep. Roy Darneal: (D. New Al-|§ bany) asked that the bill be in-|2

" definitely postponed because “if adopted, it should apply to all the state.” : «Just Another “Ripper”

“If there is anything wrong with the registration law, let’s change the registration law,” he said. “As (it = this 3 or another ‘ripper’ roseeuting attorYounty happens to

: ne be a Republican, © “If we make the prosecuting attorney .of this county an ex-officio member of registration board, let’s make all the prosecuting attorneys ex-officio members. The only. object of this bill is to put a man of your own party in charge ‘of election machinery.” Rep. Lee, one of the authors of the bill, replied that Marion Cqunty has had “plenty of trouble” with its elections. ° .

Urges Fair Operation

“We have not been getting fair registrations,” he said. “Workers ' have been intimidated and threatened by people in charge of registration: The registration has been faulty and handled as a racket.” He said the Republican workers were refused the registration lists, whereas the Democrats received them immediately. “Let’s clear up this condition and put Marion County elections on a fair and non-partisan basis,” he said. Rep. Alva Baxter, Republican, and Judson ® West, “Dethociat,’ were the only Marion County representatives to oppose the measure. “There is no good reagon for this bill,” Rep. Baxter said. “All it does (Continued on Page Ten)

URGE STATE CONTROL ‘OVER’ COUNTY BOARD

. A bill to permit the State Welfare Board to appoint’ members of the Marion County Welfare Board was introduced in the House today by three Indianapolis Republican Rep-

‘resentatives. The bill would take the appointive »power away from the Circuit Court judge and terminate the offices of

the present members of the Board |

next July -1. Reps. Charles P. Ehlers, Alva Baxter and Paul G. Moffett “were authors of the hill.,

ASKS CLOSED SHOP . CURB FOR DEFENSE|

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (U.P.).— Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee today introduced legislation te ban the

- closed shop in plants working on defense contracts and to require

Pole Cat

When an alarm taps out in the quarters of New York's Engine Company &5, ‘and firemen in the bunkroom upstairs slide down the brass pole, Henry, their ' mascot cat, slides right along’ with them. He's pictured above, showing off his skill as a feline "fire-laddie"

vious eyes of Cappy, his co-

before the en-

mascot.

How Hitler Stands Now=—

Nazis Privately Hate

Their Italian Allies

Hitler's Relations With Italy,”

| CHICAGO, Jan. 29 —When the Greece and North Africa, the Nazis British and Greeks themselves.

pprfectly straight - faces, Italian reverses and redoubled their protestations of faith in Mussolini's abiltiy to solve. his own problems. The closest they came to conceding that anything serious (was wrong was ‘to say that they would naturally “co-operate” to the full with the Italians in the purguit of their joint war aims. | Privately, though, the Nazis had a gopd ‘many other things to say abouf, the Italians, all of thm highly uncomplimentary, and taey made no secret of the gratifice, tion the Italian - defeats afforded them. The Germans’ Only, real concern abous Italy was, and is, to be sure that Italy does not | ¢ollipse and that’ it is not ‘stricken ‘by tco serious internal disorders or [stoppage : of prodiction or breaks in| motale. None of these things is liable to Happen in the predictabl: future, the Nazis think, even if ithe Fascists are driven clear out of both Albania and ‘Noth Africa: Mussolini will he able to deal with the internal position in Italy itself, the Germans believe, and if he can’t, they can. There is; accordingly, little reason 0 believe that the Reich is “garri- - (Continued on Page Seven)

' Joke on Family, Ann Sees F.D.R.

WASHINGTON, Jan, 29 (U. P). —Ann Skleplovich, 3a [13-year-old high school girl from West Virginia, got the thrill of her life today when she made 8 ‘command vigit” to President Roosevelt.

mediation of all labor disputes in| those plants. Mr. Vinson offered the bill to apply particularly to “naval defense contractors,” but the definitions in the bill were broad enough to apply) to every firm or industry in any way connected with the national detense program.

"TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

BOOKS '..es-.+ 13 Johnson ..... 13 4

Clapper eases 11 [Movies ...... Comics «..s.e 19|Mrs. Ferguson 12 Crossword ..., 18| Obituaries ... 15 Editorials .... 12{Pyle ......... 11 Fashions .... 15|Questions ..11,1 Financial .... 6|Radio ....... | Flynn ....... 12 Mrs. Roosevelt 11 Forum ...... 12{Serial Story.. 19 Homemaking.. 15|Side Glances. 12 In Indpls..... 3|Society ....14,15 Inside Indpls. 11 Si ILS ous «e048,19 Jane Jordan.. 15|State Deaths. 15

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Ann, victim of a family joke that brought her to (Washington because she thought she had been invited to the White Hbuse, became the capital’s honor guest when the President learned of her plight and really did invite her. She became the guest of George Allen, former District Commissioner, and was taken from the Women’s - Bureau of the Police Department te a swanky hotel. Next, Ann was No. 1 on the President’s calling list fo: the day. “Happy * birthday, ‘Mr. President,” she said she told the Chief ixecutive, who will be 59 tomorrow when Ann celetrates her 14th birthday. “The President was gad to see re and said TI had a big joke on my family,” she added.

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STEEL SHARES LEAD . NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (U. P.).— Sfeel shares led the stock market lower today. Wall Stieét was uneasy about the wal,

The. Weren't Exactly Pleased dosed by: Duce’s Demand for} Booty. Which Was Out of Proportion (to-His Aid.

This article is the | seventh of a series by ‘a fercign correspondent just returning after six years in Germany.

The Nazis did not show their pleasure openly, of course. «Publicly, they minimized | ihe gravity of the

-|lanything as to ‘the truth

1 French

This | dispatch, discusses

Italians began to get | beaten in were almost as much pleased-as the

| They kept

U. S. SOON TO TASTE AN ENRICHED ‘BREAD

It’s Calculated to Lessen War Threat Strains.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2) (U. P.).— A new “enriched” brezd, rich in minerals and vitamins, will be on the market soon to help Ameficans “withstand the stresses and strains of war or threais of war” Plans for production of a flour and bread to improve diets was announced today by the National Research Council, flour millers and bakers. The formula was agreed upon at meetings with nutrition experts and Federal food officials. The new flour and bread, which will be on the grocers’ shelves this

important food |clements now taken out of flour in bleaching and other milling processes. If will be marketed in wrappers | identifying it as “enriched brea” at probably no increase in retail prices. The program is designed to help bolster national health and morale during the emergency. Improved diets will result from inclusion in the new bread and flor of iron and two vitamins—B1 or thiamin sng pellagra- -preventing ‘nicotinic aci

REPORT FORD MAKES GOVERNMENT OFFER

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (U. P). —Rep. Clare Hoffman (R. Mich.) said today he had learned that Henry Ford told Defense Production Chief William Knudsen that if the Government insisted on [telling him how to run his plant, he was prepared to let the Government operate it for a fee of $1 a year. Mr. Hoffman said the source of his information was a well-informed Michigan man, who is not connected with Mr. Ford : A spokesman for Mi. Knudsen said that he could make no comment and that this did not imply or falsity of Hoffman’s information. :

CAPTURE | ITALIAN POST LONDON, Jan.’ 20 (0, P.) —Free raiders from | Equatorial Africa have captured the Italian post at Gatrun| Libya, Cien. Charles

DeGaulle’s hee dqusrigrs said in a

communique Rday,

spring, pubvides for restoration. of

BRITISH ADDING T0 ARMY AMID INVASION FEAR

Face Threat That Nazi Air Power May Stymie Drive -in- Libya. Today’s War News, Page 13

By UNITED PRESS Great Britain today authorized the calling of youths of 18 and 19 years and men of from 37 to 40, inclusive, for army service while mili-

tary - experts warnea of the ‘very real” danger of invasion and the threat that the Nazi Luftwaffe may stymie the great drive of Imperial forces into Libya. - Greece, mourning the death of her strong man, Premier Gen. John Metaxas, rallied to carry on her fight against Italy, under a new leader, Alexander Corizis, a nonpolitical Government bank expert. There were some indications that he might unite his nation even more effectively than Metaxas. The Greeks resumed their offensive toward Valona. - There were indications both in Cairo and London that Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell’s Imperial Army of .the Nile had suddenly encoun-

[tered stiffer Italian resistance.

~ Derna Resistance Stiffens Cairo reported that the Italians appeared to be making a stronger stand at Derna than had been an-

_{ticipatedy while London said that an

unusually strong Fascist force had been encountered at Mekili, southwest of Derna, on the plateau road

“|to Benghazi.

‘The Mekili force was supported

«by tanks. The British surrounded + {the Italians, and London -éxperts

said Wavell’s men would make ever effort to s their advance on s¢ of “the imminent |" threat of German air aid to the hard-pressed Fascist Libyan troops. The London military experts said that German air action against the British desert columns presented a real threat and that the dive-bomb-

~|er attacks at the Sicily Narrows had

jeopardized ~*~ the Mediterranean route for transport of supplies to the Middle East. Attack via Ireland Feared The London military experts, assessing .Britain’s military. outlook, called the invasion threat “very real” as a long term factor and said it might be preceded by diver=sion attacks upon Iceland and Ireland, or*both. The chief problems facing the British General Stafl, it was said, are invasion, possible German move ‘through France and Spain to attack Gibraltar, and a Balkan thrust. Adolf Hitler, they said, has a force of some 225 divisions, possibly 4.000,000 men, available for action on the European Continent. With Great Britain's armed forces totaling more than 4,000,000 men, including the Home. Guard already under the colors, King George signed a proclamation authorizing the call cf six new classes, which could (Continued on Page Three)

Clock Barrage Is Timed Poorly

POLICE WERE. told early today that there was a burglar in Hook’s . Drug Store at 302 W.: Washington St., and they went to investigate. The first thing. that. attracted their attention was an alarm clock hurled from inside through a large window. : This was followed by a second and -a third, but the burglars timing was bad. None hit the officers. Even after the burglar had retreated behind the counters, he kept hurling alarm clocks at the police until he ran out of this curious ammunition. Then he-and an accomplice were arrested and charged with vagrancy.

Surprise!

. . wanted to

Shirley Dale . see Hawaii.

Girl Stowaway Injures Pride of

Ship's Officers

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 29 (U. P.).—If Shirley Dale, who is 23, pretty and used to sell watches for a Flint, Mich. jewelry store, had been caught with a batch of blue prints tucked in her bosom, she could hardly have embarrassed the Naval Intelligence more. .

Miss Dale, in regulation Navy dungarees and a blue sweater, her long, black hair under a white Ss cap, was ‘discovered last night hiding behind the motors of the S: 8S. Long. The destroyer’s motors were turning. It was ready to sail for Hawaii. Her face smudged with grease, she was ‘brought before intelli-. gence officers, .who are taking wartime precautions to keep saboteurs and spies off warships. “I just took a shoreboat with a ‘bunch of sailors, ambled up the companionway past the guards and slipped into the engine roem,” she explained. She wanted to go to Hawaii, but didn’t have enough money. +7 The officers were willing to pass the incident off as a prank, had not Miss Dale injured their professional pride. They announced that they would find out whether she had been helped aboard.

MISSING EASEMENTS

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Recorded, Official Says.

A County official today produced easements that were missing yesterday in the trial of three persens in Federal Court on charges of defrauding the WPA, but the Government has not admitted their validity. Fred N. Nordsiek, Marion County right-of-way" engineer, produced the documents. He admitted that they had not been publicly recorded. He explained, however, that many easements for WPA projects had not been recorded because the County Commissioners “didn’t want to spend the money to record them.” When B. "Howard Caughran, U. S. (Continued on Page Ten)

WAGON-AUTO CRASH FATAL ROCHESTER, Ind. Jan. 29 (U. P.).—Mrs. Samuel Baker died yesterady: of . injuries received Jan. 8 when the horse-drawn wagon on which she was riding was struck by

an: automobile. She was 56.

|certain of ‘inclusion,

PRODUCED AT TRIAL

WPA Documents Were Not|

BAN AGAINST U. 5. CONVOYS ALSO DEBATED

- Predicts British Crisis Next Spring.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (U.P.).— The House Foreign Affairs Committee today adopted an amendment to the British-aid bill limiting its grant

Gi of power to President Roosevelt so : [that it will expire June 30, 1943.

After nearly three hours of secret

: |work, the group was understood to

have agreed on three amendments. It was established that the time limit was one. Members indicated the other two were a requirement that :President Roosevelt report regularly to Con-

.|gress on transactions under the |bill, and consult with his military

and naval chiefs before transferring war materials abroad.

Debate Ban on Convoys

A proposal to write in a specific ban against using United States warships to convoy vessels to Europe was under consideration when the Committee recessed for lunch. This amendment was regarded as since House Administration = forces, previously announced willingness to accept it. But it was understood final action was deferred until various _anticonvoy proposals could be considered in detail. Meanwhile, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson was telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he thought it’ would be “very unfortunate” to restrict the President's authority’ by writing a speeific prohibition against U. 8S. convoys into the British aid bill. “The Constitution gives the Presi-

{dent unrestricted control over the}

movements of the Army and Navy,” Mr. Stimson said. y

Expects Crisis in Spring “For a Congress now to introduce a provision which even by implication would fetter a power that existed untrammeled for 150 years would be a bad thing, even if the provision had no efficacy. It would indicate misapprehension, and would not contribute to unity.” Mr. Stimson told the Committee he was convinced of the probability of ultimate victory for Britain if she can survive this spring and summer and get full U. S. material aid. Enactment "of the Administration’s lend-lease bill,. he said, will go far to stiffen the morale necessary for Britain to survive that crisis. In addition to help Britain, he said, the bill would afford the United States the chance to “buy time” to rearm from the only na(Continued on Page Ten)

Sonja and Troupe To Arrive Tonight

WE GOT IT from a taxi driver that Sonja Henie was in town. Then we went over to the Claypool Hotel and found the lobby already occupied by those who want to get a good look at: the dbject of so much affection. (We wanted to see her, too.) ~The same situation prevailed at Union Station. A check with Coliseum officials brought this official announce_ment: Sonja and her 10-car train of performers pulled out of New York City about 4:30 a. m. today and will arrive at Union Station here ‘shortly after 7 o'clock tonight. That's as official as we can make it until one of the staff actually does see Sonja in person. Incidentally, reserved sections for tomorrow night's show, the first of six at the Coliseum, have been sold out. General admissions for that show ‘will go on sale at: 9:30 a." m, tomerrow at the L. Strauss & Co. and the Coliseum.

By JOE COLLIER

IF YOU TOOK the trouble to find out, you'd probably discover that there is now raging among the newest generation of rabbits and game in Indiana an epidemic

bad- at the “flu” among human beings. : According to C. R. Gutermuth, who heads up. the

tion Department, ‘and who regards this problem as a personal headache, the woodland health situation is ‘serious. It’s entirely probable, Mr. Gutermuth says, that every last young rabbit in the state has the sniffles at this very minute, and is Sewing no better fast. Mr. Gutermuth blames this on the peeuliar type of winter weath-

8. We.have Dad, He also pauies

of respiratory diseases at least as '

Fish and ‘Game Division of the Conserva- °

phar Sd

State's Rabbit Population Gets the FluAnd Mr. Gutermuth Gets a Headache

ays, to provide little rabbits with a winter which is mild and snowless; and during which food is therefore pretty abundantly available, and then to cross them up with a snow. If there had been snows earlier, then the little rabbits would have been gradyally conditioned . to. them; and might even have grown thicker fur. - They would more

" readily have learned the trick of

getting at food : which is snow covered.

Earlier snows would have put the bunnies on ghard, too, about how to protect: themselves against unrelieved and protected cold. .. Mr. Gutermuth is sure, however, that this winter will do the rabbit population of the state no good whatever, . He Is indignant about all this.

Stimson Opposes Latter; ;

. pushed

Gen. John Metaxas . . Italians back into Albania.

GREEKS MOURN MILITARY HERO

Strong Man Premier Knew What Duce Planned and Got Ready in Time.

ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 29 (U. P.). —Premier Gen. John Metaxas, Greece's strong man and military

hero, died today, but his successor, Alexander Corizis, pledged Greece to fight on against Italy under the leadership of King George. Metaxas, who led Greece through three months of triumphant warfare against Italy, underwent a throat operation Saturday. His funeral will be Friday. Corizis, former head of the National Bank, was famed mew Premier at a special Cabinet meeting. In a proclamation issued shortly afterward, he affirmed ‘his determination to carry on the policies of Metaxas. He reappointed the Cabinet that served under Metaxas. Corizis’ appointment was considered symbolic of ‘ Greek unity. - Before Metaxas: died, it was revealed, he spoke with King George and Gen. Alexander Papagos, com-mander-in-chiéf of the Greek fighting forces. Metaxas’ wife and the Archbishop of- Athens also were at his bedside. Metaxas had had a turbulent career ‘dating back to the GreekTurkish War of 1897, in which he did his first fighting. He was twice

lexiled for plotting revolution but

died one of the most-popular figures in modern Greek history. His Government was severe and dictatorial. - Metaxas expected the people ‘to do’as ‘they were told. He dealt harshly with opposition, arresting and. exiling more than 100 Greek liberals in the first two years of his Premiership. Metaxas was not caught napping (Continued on Page Ten)

LEASE-LEND WINS SUPPORT IN SURVEY

First Returns Show 54% Of Voters Favor It.. -

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP

Director, Américan Institute of Public Opinion :

PRINCETON, N. J, Jan. 29. — First returns from a nation-wide survey of public opinion on the President’s. lease-lend ‘bill show a majority in favor. of the ‘measure. The majority is not a large éne— 54 per cent—and many sections of the country remain to be heard from. Today’s returns_come, onlya. from the large urban centers—New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. The vote from the farm areas and small towns, which previous studies’ have found to be more isolationist, may greatly alter the ‘percentages. Interest Runs High But even thé preliminary returns indicate that the country is taking an enormous interest in the debate over the bill. -

reached in the survey said they had been following the discussion of the measure and were famitar With the issues involved. Those who said they had been fol lowing the discussion were asked “Do pou think Congress should pass the bill?” Preliminary returns show:

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Undeciped sierianiesasanvess 18.

REPORT RUMANIAN QUAKE’ BUCHAREST, Jan. 20 (U. P.).— An earthquake recorded here today

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CAMPAIGN n .

| Bond” campaign, something like the

More than 80 per cent of those ;

was reported to have had its|ppeepicenter .100 miles from Bucharest in the fodthills of the Carpathian Mountains. The severe earthquake of ‘Nov.'10 which seriously damaged Bucharest also centered in the Car-

PARALEL x

Small-Sum:: Certificates a Be Uséd in Financing of Defense Needs. -

WASHINGTON, Jan, 20. (U. Phim The Government plans & “Buy &

war-time Liberty ‘Loan drives of 1917 and 1918, to ‘help finance the

national defense program, C: of Treasury Henry Morgentiey revealed today. A Testifying before the House’ and Means Committee for i crease of the national debt - from 49 billion dollars to 65 dollars, Mr. Morgenthau said gress s ‘would be asked for thority to put on the campaign. } proposed to issue bonds and s in very small denominations - x could be bought by small. Fired oe He told Rep. Daniel ‘A. Reed - N. Y.) it was planned lo ask yi gress for authority and money od “organize committees and groups'te bring these (baby) bonds to the. he tention of the” public.” ; Rep. Reed asked if the p § were similar to the drives cg and 1918.

Public Co-operative : “Something along that line,” Mr. 2458 ‘Morgenthau said. i He said “one of the most impors

tant services the American 8 can render at this time is to’ operate in supplying the means

nation defense.” He said the Jub lic—"men, women and i was showing “an ‘overwhelming d sire to make some: direct and. ble contribution to nations}.

fense” oF Mr. Morgenthau: sald that + making its estimates, the easury

was “very of the lease . bill” ‘and that .it. ig the debt limit expansion will care of all needs up to June 30, Chairman Robert L. said he was “much ‘encouraged” * Mr. Morgenthau's suggestion economy. in non-defense tures, but asked how it could complished. 3 Mr. Morgenthau - said that * course the question. of a tions rests with Congress. I ca: sure you that the ‘President: glad to co-operate in every

Suggests WPA Cut,

He said he was not prepared te’ discuss specific: ecoflomies, but lo gested that as the defense prog, ; absorbed ‘currently unemployed sons, the relief and public spending could be trimmed. = =. Mr. Doughton said he believed’ ” something would have to be dome, for “I don’t see how we can cone tinue our heavy burden, either. through increasing taxes or the deb Holt, or both.” 4 r. Morgenthau said ¢ Ane come is sufficient to. ia, current expenditures of Gow

: a any additional taxes would operst to defray the defense costs.

TEMPERATURE RISE. FORECAST FOR city,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am ...25 10 a m.... ": Tam ...28 11 a.m... 28" é 8am ...24 12 noon ... 2. : 9am ... 2% eile m2 pik

night and tomorrow. » Ny

Flying weather at the Airport w becoming worse by the hour,

‘drizzle and a .500-foot ceilir minimum ceiling - for safe 300 feet and a mile and ° ’ visibility. It was feared the: driagle] on Indiana highways. ¥

ficials there reported ‘a frees 3

SCHRICKER NAMES 4 § RECIPROCITY BOAR

Governor ‘Henry F. seo day appointed a State R :

Commission and named Joseph] A Cord, Elwood, as supervisor of banks and trust i sion of the Department of : Institutions. ATA Mr. McCord succeeds Bdward Hority, who resigned. Named to the. Reciprocity: mission, which negotiates i license agreements with states, are James D. Adams, Highway Edward Stein, motor license director, and William Stuckey, lic Service Commission manbertis : JOBS FOR TH ND§ NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (U. PJ, American Aircraft 2

5 stn

pects to employ 385,000 - fall, and soon will employ. more, . one of the industries of the mato r Russell, president, told the N fasts. Aromat