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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 285

[ouse Defeats G. 0. P. Move

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY. ¥ 1041

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of 80,000 or More Would ‘Lose Control.

In the Legislature / The HODPPEr ...:.00....Page 3 BUAZEE ceeonssiseesacrinneer 3 [Other Legislative News 3 and 15

: County clerks in all counties of 000 or ‘more population would be

. 8 ipped of their control over reg-

ration of voters by an amendment placed in a bill creating junty Registration Boards in the enate today. The bill, originally designed to take registration duties away from only Charles R. Ettinger, Marion County clerk, was amended on the S ! ate floor at thé request of its od] author, ~ Senator Robert Lee Brokenburr (R. Indianapolis) to include other heavily-populated counties, - i The measure, as amended, would c bate a bi-partisan Registration d composed of a Democrat-and

a Republican named by the Circuit Co t Judge upon the recommendaons of the party chairmen. The Board would assume .full control aver registration of voters.

Sponsored by Bradford

The bill originally provided for a hree-man rion County Board of | Registration with the prosecutor

ser hg as the thitd member. Brokenburr said the county : he cutor was taken off the board (mittee : in it was decided that “the

| would be better that way.”

The amended measure would pro-|wdyte), de that the County Health Boatds|]

ounty Clerks in Counties

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New Ford

Army Officials Reported

TRUSTEE ‘HATCH ACT’ IS KILLED

Postponed Indefinitely by House on Committee ‘Minority’s Plea. «The House today killed a bill to

Indiana township trustees. > By a margin of four votes, the measure was postponed indefinitely and its subject matter now is dead for the session. ‘ The bill was spqnsored by the Inof Commerce and several state-wide organizations who had worked for nearly two years in drafting it. Reported Favorably The bill was reported favorably to the floor of the Nouse by a majority of the Criminal Codes Com- . A: minority report asked indefinite postponement.

Rep. irles - Bond | (R. Ft.

establish a “little Hatch Act” for -

Rivet ing

Process May Assure 1000-Planes-a-Day

'Amazed' by-Plan Under

Which Bomber Bottleneck Might Be Broken With 50%, Cut in Time and Labor.

DETROIT, Feb. 6 (U. P.).—Henry Ford, who pioneered a new industrial era with mass production of automobiles, is Speriionte with a revolutionary riveting process which

may bring war planes off an,

assembly line faster - than

ever before. | The new process is said to have been developed to a point where it may reduce by nearly 1650 per cent the time and labor required in plane production and break the greatest botfleneck in bombmanufacture.

and a wider adapta tion of duralumi n u m welding, in the opinion of his associates, have brought Mr.

Henry Ford Ford’s prediction of 1000 planes a day into the realm of possibility. With those short-cut methods and a giant bomber plant with a milelong moving assen:hly line, Mr: Ford

could turn all of his production techniques toward aviation. Experts.in the industry said that if the invention is successfully applied and meets all War Depart~-|, standards it will revolutionize plane manufacture in the all-metal’

field. Process Guarded The process is being developed, it

was Jearned, in a closely-guarded |- p. Robert Hel- (section of the River Rouge plant. er (D. Decatur) signéd the minor- High Ford officials confirmed its

tra tion of all deaths during the

year and that the ‘Board, when. it cancels a registration, must notify

other election bill which would permit the naming of precinct election officials from any place iri the ynship was advance to within one _step of final passage in the .8en ate. . Says Bills Frozen

Republicans today «efeated be nocratic moves to bring out on 4e Senate floor bills which [the nority party charged were “being ro nator Roger

Phillips, Senate

“mi ority leader, introduced a reso[lution that the Senate sit as a . ca

mittee of the whole next Monday to consider the bills creating State Guard and an Administra-

: : ty e Defense Council.’

e declared that the hills, important to defense, had been in the hands-of the. Senate Military fairs Committee for two weeks (Continued on Page Three),

‘That, Mr. Denton, i Is Your Answer’

T HE SENATE-APPROVED A) ti-nepotism bill, which has had a jumbping bean career since it ached the House, was amendy to exempt brothersd sisters-in-law from its

The Republican majority taken by surprise—and then ho | the bill recommitted to take out Democratic provisions, except or nieces and nephews. * | When the bill was reported back p the floor today, Minority Floor [leader Winfield Denton (D. vansyille asked: “What's the big

Rep. -Frank Millis (R. Camphelisburg), Majority Floor Leader, sked Mr. Denton if he. was ting this ictian against any

A “Then that sneer , your ques0 1,” ‘said Rep. Mil

| Secretary of State James cker, a Republican, has appointed his brother-in-law, Robert ring, as deputy Securities com§sioner,

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present laws covered . the same ground as the “Little Hatch Act bill.” He also read a letter from the Township Trustees Association opposing. the bill. Specifically, the measure would have prohibited the solicitation of funds for political purposes from persons on relief under penalty of $1000 or one-year imprisonment. 1so made unllawful false statements in relief applications, diversion of relief funds to persons not entitled to . them, offers of relief as reward for political support and denial of relief because ofgpolitical opposition, and. prohibited active political participation by non-elec-tive relief administration employees.

5 KILLED AS PLANE CRASHES IN CANADA

Injuries to 7 Others Aboard Not Announced.

TOROIITO. Ontario. Feb. 6 (U. P.)—Five of 12 persons aboard a Trans-Canada = Airlines transport; plane forced down today near Armstrong, Ontario, were killed in the crash, officials announced. | The announcement did not reveal the extent of’ injuries to others of

crew of three. The ship was said to have crashed in a forced landing only a mile south of a runway of an emergency

‘|landing field, which the pilot ap-

parently sought to reach. Fear Pilot Killed in Mid-Air. Collision _.._

WYANDANCH, N. Y., Feb. 6 (U.

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killed when two Army pursuit planes collided and cr#8hed today. The planes collided while on a formation flight from Mitchel Field. Locked together, they whirled tq Yas ground. One pilot, Second Lieutenant oo eph Laycock parachuted: to safety. The other, : First Lieutenant John H. Bakin, was believed to have been killed when his parachute failed to open.

WINANT MADE U.°*S. ENVOY TO ENGLAND

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (U, P.)— President Roosevelt today nominated John Gilbert Winant, former Republican Governor of New Hampshire and a specialist in labor and social problems, as America’s new Ambassador to London.

Mr. Winant to succeed Joseph P. Kennedy topped a list of diplomatic shifts which the President sent to the ‘Senate. These included: : Anthony J. Drexel\Biddle Jr. of Pennsylvania former Ambassador to Poland, as’ Ambassador in London to the Refugee governments of Poland, Belgium, ‘Norway and the 6| Netherlands. Ambassador to China “Nelson T. 2| Johnson, to be Minister to Aus4 | tralia. Clarence E. Gauss, now Minister

{of Australia,

to be Ambassador to

the passenger list of nine =

P.).—One of the pilots was believed |

The long-expected nomination of]

technicians and Defense ‘Commission experts have been permitted to inspect-it. ‘Most ‘of the Army officials are “amazed” by ifs possibilities, a defense executive told the United Press. It was learned that the riveting would be done by machine; eliminating countless man-hours of riveting by hand. The electric welding process, which also has been developed by the Standard Aluminum and Alloy Co. of Chicago, ‘may even further increase construction speed if it is placed in use on Mr. Fords proposed bomber assenibly line. On one of the huge B-24, fourengine bombers of Consolidated Aircraft—the type for which Mr. Ford already has agreed to produce sub-assemblies—itliere are approximately 450,000 rivets. It is estimated, that approxin ately 75 per cent of the work on such a bomber is done by hand. Of this amount about 90 per cent comprises riveting, including the stages preparatory to clinching, . | , If Mr. Ford's process proves practical, it thus will mean that virtually 75 per cent of the work will be cut far, more than half.

CANADA SENDING US CHILLS AND SNOW

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am .... 44 10am. ....36 vam ....44 1lla.m. .... 3 8a. m,..., 48 ‘12 (noon)., 34 9am. ...., 4 lpm. ....32

Chill winds blew down from

Canada today, presaging ‘“considerably colder’! weather for JIndian-

the low temperature tonight about 25, according to the Weather Bureau. Snow flurries will accompany the cold spell, the Bureau forecast. The cold maved in over’ Minnesota and the Dakotas and was Spreading sousavrard and eastward,

Great Lakes ancl Upper Misission River areas.

By THOMAS L. EToxEs Times 3Ipecial Writer WASHINGTON, = Feb. 6.~Un= certainty and tepsion grip Washington these days. ‘President, Roosevelt's running feud with Senator Barton K. Wheeler (DI. idont.), leader of the Senat® opposition to the lendlease bill, in which an alleged conversation at 4 dinner ‘party seven years ago was excavated; the young woman who did a two- | minute twn from the House galdery in a klack robe and a death’s: head mask; the ‘nasty. asguments -at dinner parties. and wherever one-time friends gather, in which ‘people call each other ‘names—all of these sre only surface indications of a scrt of mass worry. | The outward Sraphings of actua’| war days also are ih evidence. Newspaper, correspondents ‘are standing in line at the ‘White

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BRITAIN CAN'T |! WIN EVEN WITH

Testifies Extensive Would Only Prolong War; Favors Peace Now.

BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (U. P.). —The House today defeated by standing vote a Republican substitute bill to limit British aid expenditures to $2,000,000,000. A teller vote was then called.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (U. P.).— The House today prepared to vote on revisions of the British aid bill after the House Foreign" Affairs Committee accepted two changes, but rejected a proposal to put a ceiling on the amount President Roosevelt may spend under the pro-

am, Meanwhile, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee public hearings continued. Witnesses were: 1. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who testified that extensive American aid to Great Britain probably would nly prolong the European war without affecting the result, and 2. Col. Robert R. McCormick,

who told the Committee that if Britain is-conquered he would favor occupying the British and French possessions in the Western Hemisphere ,to prevent theif seizure by Germany. He would not express an opinion on he bill and confined his testimony to an evaluation of the military and strategic aspects of invasion, which he said did not appear to be in immediate prospect.

“The amendments which the Democratic members of the House Committee approved were: 1. Insertion of a three-year time limit beyond the life of the bill itself for the completion of contracts entered into.. Thus all contracts for war materials and supplies would have to be finished by June 30, 1946. 2. I ion of language providing that “the act may not be con-. strued to permit thes entry of any American vessel into a combat area in violation of the Neutrality Act. Testifying against ' the Adminis tration’s bill Col; Lindbergh said the United Statgs is free from danger of invasion now but might be-

depletes its own defenses to aid Britain. A large crowd packed the Senate caucus room to hear his testimony.

Doubts Britain Can Win

Col. Lindbergh said he did not believe Britain could win the' war even with American help. .. He’ said that the United States, therefore, should “stop encouraging this war” and “throw the force of the country behind a negotiated eace.” “If we ever are invaded in America, the responsibility will lie upon (Continued on Page Three)

Well, What a ~ Coincidence?

A COLUMBUS, O., auto salesman was in the Traction Ter- - minal today to buy a bus ticket. At the point of a gun, he had been forced to give up the car he was demonstrating and was going to take a bus home... He glanced at others standing in line. There was the young man whad ‘pulled the gun on ‘him. He was arrested. Police said the youth, also from Columbus, had forced the sales man to drive him from Ohio to Indianapolis and then put him’ out of the car. The youth said He was going to California. But the car ran out of gas and

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~ FORECAST: Cloudy with : Srow flurries and consillordsly colder tonight and’ tomorrow; lowest; temperate tonight about 025 eh

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PINBALL DRIVE

APPEARS LIKELY]

Police Action: Hinted" After 2 Convictions, First: Since: Restraining, Order. ot

tack on a Marion Circuit Court order restraining . police . interference with pin-ball’ machines loomed today, following .the first. court convictions since the order was. issued. The: two convictions, obtained :in

Municipal Court’ late. yesterday, also set - thei stage for concentrated : po-~ lice attention on establishments: harboring the -more then . 3000 elaboratevdevices. In the most Ahportant 3 «Case, Municipal Court ; Judge :'Pro-tem! George Rinier ‘convicted: a cafe.pro-{-prietor in whose . establishment a plainclothes pa a machine‘and ‘had been “paid off”. with a “free game.” No, cash prize other than: the: free’ game i involved. . Patrolman Ea ‘Miers, . the" patrol man, ‘arrested ‘Alice ‘Rosen, ‘operator

Ave. on charges ‘of possession of a slot machine and keeping “a a gambling - house.

the latter charge wad (Continued . on Page: Five)

MOTHER HALTS VOLUNTEER

BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 6 (U, P.).— Harvey C. Atchisson, 19, St. Louis, Mo., ‘amateur radio’ operator was hitch-hiking home today after being barred. from. enlisting a the Royal Canadian Air Force. Mr. Atchisson was turned back by immigration of ficials at the Peace Bridge when his

he abandoned it on Capitol Ave. near the State. House.

A Masked Woman, a Noisy Debate— El They're Just-Part of U. S. War Tension

press identification cards “to_admit them to Presidential press confer ences and public buildings. Fingerprints also are taken. Ay handful of those in line have ! lar identification cards da d from the last war—much younger faces looking up from the now

_ worn and slightly : olla feces of cardboard. p

8 EVEN MEMBERS of Congress, some of whom take themselves rathér seriously, can no longer ‘march into the War Department building and pass muster on their dignity and pride of office. De- . tailed regulations have been issued for them. >» They must. ‘antiounce themselves to the messengers at the door and then be taken to the Provost Marshal’s Office for identification.

mother tefused to consent to his Joining the RCAY. aa ;

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ominous - aspect -to citizens cone: stantly being ‘reminded: of their” democracy. The noisy" debate in’ the House. covers up: the searching of - soul and conscience by piany a member who sits and listens, and feels suddenly small: and huttan; | ‘and . asks himself:

“Will this bill take: the comity

+ into war?” His: is a : -sudd ly realized: rg» sponsibility of ost Aerritying | Pe wh speak Inthe depaie: Ww. e. to be "trying ‘to ‘convince SremieIves ‘ap much 88 thelr ‘onl. ang: 110 i La NR Kt oy «£3 yi i iPM}

A’ FEW REMEMBER sitillar’ days of tension back in 1916‘und.

1917, 191%, whe step led. ‘gradually it seemed logically 5 , then—to

top, another, and. “nally to. to: hat loge

Apa .day and

A possible Police Department ‘at! :

n : had played {ties ‘the ‘British did: not seem to

of the cafe. at 747 Massachusetts] |

By agreement between attorneys} dismissed | oo" sretty bored. To brighten up

. |cer's seemed: to ‘think, if "the fort {were ‘knocked: about - a hit.

: The pilot got: to tuning, -{it and finally ‘suggested giving the

hich ended at 3 &. whe ‘the |had. ms

By ;HELEN", Copyright, 1041; by ‘The, Indiangpolis; Ti

certain sectors-of North Africa. =’

the frontier of one of the. Italian, colonies. | It may be far behind: the lines today and the sewing~machine may have had something todo with this fact. Ti Vela a ordinary, dreary, desert outpos ong’ Sores with miles- of ‘Italian -d rt Shee hing. before: it. - The: outpost’s contact with the outside: world he, regular ' transport: plane, hich brought mail and supplies, *: Ey As the ‘plane nevey seemed to get mixed up in: any. of ‘these air bat-

think it worthwhile to use any nice new plane for this service. It was probably - an .0l& type ‘ Valencia transport. At any rate, its top speed |¢ was about 70 miles an hour.

/ The Plot’ Begins

“One evening: ‘when the plane had arrived on one of “its ‘regular visits the pilot ¢ sitting, around . the mess with’ =. officers and evetyone

the evening, ‘between' ‘rounds of ks, the officers told the pilot hat an'infernaj nuisance the’ Italian fort just across:the border: was. The middle, eastern: commander=-in-chief, Sir Archibald Wavell, had: not yet given word to clean up ‘Italian Africa, and so the fort ‘sat there, interrupting {he life.of the outpost | pq Joy occasional’ artillery | fire. Lite] 0% would: be made ple , ithe +offi-

Cabot Italians ‘a little. bombing. “Mum’s ‘the word,” everyone to Wonk. .

PLEA: FOR DIRECTED

{Baltzell Sets ‘Precedent’ in WPA Trial! (Procedure. : Bederal. Judge - Robert o. . Baltze

apdiess],

As the plane was "ni hin: Bomber and never jaa ‘preten to be, the} {Gonttin on’ Page: SFive):» 2

EE ‘extenmmas

I, jpesten by two, youths Jast

‘Bomb’ Yalian Fort With a an Old Bike and Sewing, Machine

The R.. A:-F. ‘Demonstrafes. How: - odd Bits -Can- Be : Converted Into Valuable: ‘Weapons: af: Warfare. .

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mes<and The iChicago Diily, News, Inc.

“handy before: this. war is pver.. ng machine have already proved:

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It seems it- happened this way. “There was a: British: “outpost on

BRITONS. FACE NEW ~~ HEAVY TAXATION Treasury-Head: Reveals War Costs 42 Million a Day.

LONDON, Feb. 6 (U. P.) .~Britons were. told today’ to prepare for further heavy taxation: as’ the cost’ of the war. effort mounted: to .unprecedented -proportions. . In the House of’ Commons ‘Chan-

. ‘feellor of the {Exchequer Sir KingIsley Wood reported. that the’ war

was costing. Britain $42,000,000 per day. ! Asking for huge supplemental appropriations : the : ChancellQr warned ‘that {o-avoid inflation. further taxation .would be necessary and “called uponall Britons to restrict their: expenditures. as - much as possible and to lend the sums they ‘saved thereby to the Government. * Commons at, once granted supplementary -appropriations : without a rosoxd ote. t gave Wood $2,400,0 Jeet expenses “for the Py of. the current fiscal year endigg March 31 and $4,000,000,000 for a start on: the 1941-42 financial year.’ :

Report Graziani : Pacing Retreat

. CYRENE, Libya, Feb. 64(U. P). —Italian’ colonists “in. Libya | reported today that Marshal Rodalfo Graziani,’ Fascist -commanders" in-chief, was leading his‘ fleeing

as ‘telling’ thie ‘colonists: “You remain: behind. The: Brit- : wil. arrive but, they are gentlemen id wil. treat you kindly Don't: be afraid: They will not hurt‘you. They will Flenve; you, to In pete

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BUTLER WATCHMAN BEATEN BY. ‘YOUTHS|

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1 {Closing in on Benghazi and

-|the Nile was closing in rapidly upon. : Benghazi, last major. Italian defense .

{through Eritrea, were prepared :to

[trated ‘deeper into Italian Somalis “|land and similar successes were re

g- the British drive against Italy’s ene. i ttire. African Empire was being acs |celezated. The fighting in Ectiren ;

Haly's major Red Sea port. :

| Italy's position came from Rome. .

"LONDON, Feb: 6.—If your have.any old bicycles or sewing machines, | V1eiic six. days.

Tasis ‘on to them. . . They, may come In fact, one old: bicycle, and a ‘se exceedingly valuable weapons, as you might discover if -you explored

troops westward. He was Jeger! ted |.

ACQUITTAL RENEED =

_ Asmara; Vichy-Berlin Showdown Nears.

On War Front

Today's War Moves ... Page 1 Eire Worried .esceecevsnsase “38 Willkie on. Way Home ..,., 13. Py UNITED PRESS # British armies dealt fur ther shattering blows ‘today to Italy’s African ‘Empire. © ~ General headquarters in Cairo reported that the British Army of

position in Cyrenaica. i Sudanese defense forces,’ racing cin

storm strongly held Italian positions at Keren, only 35 miles from the itrean Capital of Asmara. British forces in all sectors pene=

ported in Ethiopia, on the road to Gondar north of Lake Tana. =

Only 60 Miles from Massawa . Official communiques showed that

put the Sudanese attackers only: oF miles ‘north by west. of Massa

the Fascists fell back " North Frica, reports reflecting

test oa fa “a hod parade in connection with the war” ~~

Claim Benghazi Fall Near - .

The nature of the “whisper sing campaign was not disclosed. Zurich’ reported that Italian gonsular offi clals in Switzerland had ceased is~ g visas for travel to Italy and visas already ‘issued were de clared void. (ds London said that Bri fort i advancing through Libya. Hg three roads with: tho of de~ moralized Italian soldiers fleeing * before them, may reach Rengheai

gale in

There was doubt AOD British i military observers whether M pe Rodolfo“Graziani could spare any of oe his Tripolitanian forces to aid the men fleeing toward Benghazi. : Recording to advices to London, Graziani had only about three gis! visions, or 45,000 men, in his main Tripolitanian army, and he needed these to guard Tripoli and the fron= tier of Fremch Tunisa, where tens of thousands of French colonial soldiers would welcome an -order to tharch ito ian territory.

tain Replies to Laval [+

. ‘In event that the Italians decided to make a stand at Benghazi they would risk ‘being completely wiped: out, these observers said. y Ar showdown in relations between. the Nazis and French Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain aps peared reaching a climax with des parture from Vichy 'of Francois Darlan for Paris with French counter-proposals for | gl Cabinet reorganization. Vichy reports said that in the f! of demands of Pierre Laval for ei tual control in, Vichy, “Petain ‘hadi 3 offered to make Darlan Premier Laval Vice Premier in a four-man; control group which also would clude Gen. Charles Huntziger, ar Minister, and former Foreign Min ister Paul Baudoin. Petain would remain as Chief of ‘State. ne | Nazi responsé to the proposal was expected with return of Darlan to (Con on Page Four)

MAYOR TO ATTEND b: ST. LOYIS ‘PARLEY,

"Mayor Reginald H« Sullivan an-: nounced today that he and five other city officials will attend Midwest Conference of Mayors: National Dafenss Feb. 20 sd: a a

The join

Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of: New York City at the Indianap Municipal Airport Feb. 19 for trip to St. Louis by plane, Accompanyihg Mayor will be City Controllet James Deery, Safety Board President. J. Keach, Corporation Counsel Ed« ward H. Knight, City Councilman’ Albert ©. Deluse and Police | Michael F. Morrissey. While in St. Louis C Deluse will study that oye oie] methods.

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