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52—NUMBER 287

‘RIPPER’ COURT FIGHT PLANNED BY DEMOCRATS

Compromise Hopes Fade in Veto Rebuffs; G. 0. P. Disputes Warnings.

By NOBLE REED Governor Henry Schricker’s aids, convinced that Republicans “have abandoned all compromise intentions,” today were (preparing to carry their fight against the G. O. P. “decentralization” bills to the courts. Compromise hopes faded rapidly following prompt passage by both Houses of two Republican bills over

the Democratic Governor's vetoes yesterday without deliberation. Republican majorities “in both Houses ignored the Governor's warnings that the bill to take the State Tax Board out of his control was unconstitutional and enacted

it ipto. law over the veto immedi-|

ately. : ee hours earlier, the same Republican majorities in both Houses overrode the Governor's ‘veto of the McNutt Reorganization Act repeal bill. Warned in 2 Messages The Governor appealed for defeat of the repealer on the ground that the State would be left “with out adequate statutory authority” to operate after May 1, its effective

"date.

Governor Schricker said that although he opposed some provisions of the McNutt Act, it should not

be fepealed since he was not sure that new legislation would be enacted “in accordance ‘with consti= tutional limitations.” The general theme of both veto messages was the Governor's warning that the G. O. P. “decentralization” bills, stripping the Governor of many powers and placing them under Republican-controlled boards, are “fatally unconstitutional.”

Quotes Constitution

Mr. Schricker quoted the Constitution and U. S. Spureme Court decisions to support_his contention that “the executive power of state shall be vested in a Governor.” Speaking on the Tax Board “ripper” bill, which would place the board under a G. O. P.-dominated commission, the Governor said: “This bill as it stands is clearly an attempted usurpation of the executive powers of our State government by the Legislature and this is prohibited by our Constitution.” George Stevens, one of Mr. Schricker’s legal advisers, said “overriding of the vetoes is a pretty (Continued on Page Three)

Suspect Held in De Tristan Plot

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U. P.). —Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation today announced the arrest of Raymond Parker, 52, an ex-con vict, on a charge of attempted extortion of $10,000 from Countess Marc de Tristan, under the threat of violence to her three-year-old son. Parker is being held at Stockton, Cal. Mr. Hoover said that Parker, who escaped from G-men and Santa Rosa police on Dec. 20, had confessed in writing to his preparation of: the extortion notes when confronted with evidence of his participation prepared by the technical laboratory of the FBI. This was the second incident involving the De Tristan child. He was kidnaped Sept. 20, 1940, and held for : $100,000 ransom. His kidnaper, Wilhelm Jakob Muh lenbroich, was capured and the child returned to his parents.

APPROVE EXTENSION OF DIES COMMITTEE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U. P.).— The House Rules Committee today approved a resolution continuing until April 1, 1942, the Dies Committee investigation of un-Ameri-can activities. The committee sent the resolu--tion, sponsored by Rep. Joe Starnes, (D. Ala.), member of the Dies Committee, to the House floor “for one hour's debate, perhaps next week. Rep. Starnes plans to ‘ask $150,000 to finance the extension of the inquiry. Chairman Martin Dies (D. Tex.), had sought a two-year continuance of the investigation and af least $1,000,000 for the committee. Rep. Starnes introduced. his resolution as a “compromise” after talking with House leaders, he said,

STOCKS CONTINUE DULL

NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (U. P).— The stock market continued dull

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1941

GOP PREPARES 70 T0SS LIQUOR BILL IN HOPPER

Orly Minor Changes Made In Measure That Caused ‘Wide Protest.

The highly controversial Republican liquor control proposal will be introduced in. the Legislature next week with nearly the same provisions as originally agreed upon by majority leaders, it was learned today.

Iritroduction of the bill, which] |

would give local beverage boards full power to declare any county in the state bone dry, was scheduled last Thursday but sudden opposition caused a delay for reconsideration.

Principal protest centered upon

a provision giving Circuit Court juclges the power to appoint powerful county liquor boards,

Fear Court Entanglement Opponents . charge that this

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Transfusion Is Success, Laddie To Fly to Camp

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 8 (U. P.).—Dr, H. W. Young, veterinarian, arinounced today that a blood transfusion given Laddie, the 10-year-old one-man dog, was suc-

-cessful, and the airedale is sti enough te take off .by. plane afternoon for Ft. Ord, Cal, a reunion with his master. When Laddie’s master, Everett Scott, enlisted in the Army four months ago the dog stopped eat~ ing and was near death when plans were made to fly him to the Army camp. But he was so weak when he arrived here for the trip that he was sent to the animal hospital. He will be put on a transport’ leaving here at 4 p. m. and arriving in Albuquerque, N. M., at 8:34 p. m. There another veterinarian will care for him during a short rest period. At Ft. Ord, he will be greeted by the entire 17th Infantry, © which has just buried its mascot, Jo-Jo, a dog, with full military honors.

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Food System Temporarily.

John George, Perry Township trustee, today put a temporary quietus on the food stamp plan fcr Marion County by refusing to go along with other trustees in administering it. Mr. George said his main reason was that he thought relief réeipients could get more food through the administration of surplus comodities than they could through he stamp plan. The other eight township trustees in the county have signified their approval of the plan and their willingness to put it into effect, ace cording to William Book, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce executive vice president. They have refused to co-operate unless all trustees are included, he said. Mr. George said he had some doubt as to the ability of the trustees to raise the necessary $75,000 revolving fund to finance the plan in the county. Mr. Book pointed out that two townships, Wayne and Center,” already had issued Jbonds for the funds.

3 Net Players in Crash, Team Wins

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Feb. 8 (U. P..—Three Masonic Home (Franklin) basketball players were injured, two seriously, and a Terre Haute woman was hurt in’ the colli sion of two cars on icy pave

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would entangle the courts too deeply in polities and the liquor business. Republican leaders today said “few minor changes” and introduce the measure as originally approved by the Steering Committee and “consider” aniendments after the bill gets to committees. The bill would provide for a bipartisan State Beverage Commissiori composed of two Democrats and two Republicans to be appointed by the Governor and the Lieutennant Governor. , Powers of the State Commission would be greatly reduced-under the measure,

~'Béfore Committee Introduction of the bill i$ expected to precipitate a bitter fight in bash houses, since party lines were reported breaking down on the wetdry issues. The Indiana Dry Forces, Inc. composed of seven major civic and religious groups, reported that it would bring pressure for passage of its local option bill on which a spirited public hearing was held in the House last week. Rep. Glenn Markland (R. Zionsville) is understood to have assured local option backers that the House Public Morals Committee will consider the measure Monday or Tuesday. It is expected the bill will be recommended for passage and given to the House for second and third reading, paving the way for a roll call vote. : “Dry” forces claim they have a minimum of 62 votes in the House when the bill comes to a voue,

N Follywecd On The Air Tonight

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 8 (U. P). ---Hollywood goes on the air tenight with one of the biggest shows ever staged for the war distressed —- “America Calling” — which will be broadcast over two networks and rebroadcast to Britain and Greece from 10:15 to 11:45 p. m. (Indianapolis Time). All proceeds of the show, on the stage of Grauman’s Chinese - Theater, will be sent to the Greek War Relief Fund. Nearly 100 of the top stars of the screen and radio will take part in the program and virtually every other ranking player will be inthe audience of 2000— at $10 a seat. Comedians Jack Benny and Bob Hope will be masters of ceremonies, and such stars as Alice Faye, Frank Morgan, Dick Powell and Mary Martin will present [The Mikado—1941.”

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SAN DIEGO, Cal. Feb. 8 (U. P)). --Stephen Yellow Hair, 22, of Pine Ridge, S. D., great-grandson of Chief Sitting Bull, famed Sioux Indian, was graduatétl today from the Marine Corps Cooks and Bakers School here.

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Plan’s Foes Get Extra Day;|

House Limits Cost to $1 ,300,000,000.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U. P.).— Former Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today that President Roosevelt, acting on his own authority, could enter into alliances with foreign nations under the powers proposed for him in the aid-

to-Britain bill.

a year old, of southeast London,

doesn’t seem to get much enjoyment out of being left in sole charge of this ultra-modern “fire-engine,” built by neighborhood fire-fighters. The engine has a wooden chassis, and is fitted with perambulator

wheels. Sand shovels and a stirrup

pump are carried in i, and when

the incendiaries rain down, the fire-fighters pull it to the scene of

the blaze.

8 Die in Dallas as Fire Razes Salvation Army's Lodging

Flames Spread Rapidly From Fumigating Room; Many Injured in Jumps to Safety. DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 8 (U.’' P.).—Eight men,. trapped with 30° others

in a blazing Salvation Army flophouse, were burned to death today. Twenty-six others were taken to hospitals and several of them were

in a critical condition. them late,last night.

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Mooresville Carpenter Killed Outright and Brother Injured.

One man . was killed and his brother was injured when their automobile was demaqlished today by a speeding New .York ‘Central passenger train at 59th St., west of Oaklandon. Ralph Smith, 44, a passenger in the car driven by his brother, Robert, 31, was killed. Both are cerpenters and Mooresville resiaents. Robert Smith was taken to the Ft. Harrison hospital by a passerby, Robert Shields. Hospital officials said he was “apparently” nok seriously injured.

2 FIREMEN KILLED IN HUNTINGTON CRASH

HUNTINGTON, Ind., Feb. 8 (U. P.).—Two city firemen were killed today and seven other persons injured, two critically, when a fire truck collided with a cart at the junction of State Road 5 and U.S. 24 here. Dead were Harmon Rittenhouse, about 45, and Isaac H. Fisher, about 55. Clarence Finney, driver of the fire truck suffered only minor injuries.

CHURCHILL TO SPEAK “LONDON, Feb. 8.(U. P.).—Prime Minister Winston Churchill will make an international broadcast at 2 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) tomor-

row, it has been announced.

Three men were dead when firemen got to A fourth died en route to a hospital and four

others died early this morning. Two of the dead were J. E. White and Thomas Cook, addresses unknown. Salvation Army officials said that their books were destroyed and it was doubtful whether the others could be identified. Among those expected to die was Julius Benson, 45, asistant manager of the house, he went into the building three times to bring men out.

Lodging Destroyed

Some of the victims were burned; some fractured arms and legs leaping from the two-story building. Some suffered both burns and fractured limbs. The flophouse was destroyed. It was opened™ last November on the top floor of an old brick hotel. Fire Chief L. M. Funk said that the fire started in a fumigator, at the head of the stairs. Transients were compelled to leave their clothes in it overnight for “delousing,” and a gas flame was kept burning in the fumigator to vaporize chemicals that killed the vermin. From the fumigator, a five-by-eight-foot room with a beaverboard ceiling, the fire swept into the. big sleeping room, lined with doubledecker bunks, and filled in the center with cots.

Most of Men Asleep

Most-of the men were asleep when one opened the door. Flames covered him. Three or four, by bending low as they ran, escaped down the stairs before they became impassable. There was no fire escape. The others ran to the opposite end of the room.. Some leaped. Others were afraid, and ran back to the front windows, but flames, drove them back. One man, wedged in a front window, died screaming as a crowd watched him. The men afraid to jump were pahic-stricken and: fought each other, screaming, cursing and pray-

ing, before firemen got to them.

A Republican Said: 'Stick Around and See Some Fun,’ and Here Is What Happened

ment near here.last night. Glenn Stewart, 15, and Harvey Cross, 16, ‘who suffered pelvis bone and head injuries, were reported in serious but not critical condition. John : Pierson, 17, received scalp laceration. Miss Ive Pierce, 28, Terre Haute, suffered a compound fracture of the right leg, but | the driver of the car in which she wad riding, John Buzash, 42, Terre Haute, was m= injured. . Despite the accident, the Masonic Home team defeated |

today. Price changes ‘were small. Bonds were slightly irregular.

Garfield High School, 42 to 29,

By EARL RICHERT Maybe the Democrats just wanted extra time to skid home over the slippery highways—or perhaps

[they were just “flexing their mus(¢les.”

Anyway, here's what happened: After the Senate Republicans passed the Tax Board “ripper” bill over the Governor's veto yesterday, the G, O. P. majority called a 15minute recess .and went into the Supreme Court chamber for a secret caucus. One| Republican Senator advised a bystander to stick around “to see some fun.” The Democpatic minority decided too, that it was time to have some fun. One after another, they filed

into the cloak room, got their wraps and left. : All Democrats except Senator Blaz Lucas (D.~=Gary) departed, leaving the Senate (composed of 31 Republicans and 19 Democrats) without the necessary quorum of 34 members. (Senator Lucas’ seat ‘is being contested.) Minority . Leader Roger Phillips smilingly explained that he couldn’t see any use of sticking around while the Republicans spent, “hours” in a caucus. “This will show them, too,” he commented, “what we could do.” Senator Charles Bedwell (D. Sullivan), another Democratic leader, explained with a smiley thas he had

to leave early to get home before dark. “A few minutes later, the Republicans filed back into the Senate chamber and smilingly went to work. The Senate can keep on working in such a case until a vote is called which shows that the necessary quorum is not present. They passed bills from secnod to third reading at the rate of about one every two minutes. Everything went smoothly until an unimportant bill came up which would require towns or townships with volunteer fire companies to buy insurance for the firemen. Senator Albert Ferris (R, Milton) introduced an amendment to substitute the word “may” for the word (Continued on Page ‘Three),

The 1936 Republican Presidential

nominee opposed the bill as a “guess and be damned policy” under which Congress would abdicate and give Mr. Roosevelt unlimited power to police the world. He said a British victory would be “to our advantage” although this is “not our war,” and therefore he favored outright gifts of money— “a two, three or four billion-dollar subsidy”—to help Britain. “Can you conceive of any greater danger to American democracy than that created by this bill,” Senator Hiram W. Johnson (R. Cal.), asked him,

Willkie Due on Monday

“No sir,” Mr. Landon replied. Mr. Landon appeared before the Senate committee as the House began an unusual Saturday session to pass the bill. The Democratic leadership was confident the bill could be brought 0 a vote before night, but a big fight still was in prospect in an attempt to put some limit—from two to seven , billion dollars—on total spending under the program: - ministration leaders prefer to have none, but thé vote was expected to be close. At the end of today’s hearings, the committee went into executive session to decide when the hearings should be concluded, after members opposing the bill contended they were getting the “bum’s rush” in presenting their case. A few minutes earlier Jack McMichael, chairman of the American Youth Congress, was ejected from the room by

two policemen after he rose and de-| manded to be heard in opposition. {Weather Bureau said the flurries

Agrees With Clark

The committee voted to give foes of the bill ome more day—Monday —to call witnesses of their own choosing, but Yoged down, 10 to 5, a plan to continue hearings indefinitely. The appearance of Wendell L. Willkie and James B. Conant, Harvard University president, was put off until Tuesday. They; will be the final witnesses; both of them support the bill. Mr. Landon’s statement that the bill would permit the President to make alliances was made in response to a question by Senator Bennett C. Clark (D. Mo.), who asked whether the proposed guthority for the President to place Amerjcan arms in the hands of foreign powers could be used to align this country with foreign powers without’ any Senate ratification. “In the light of his (Mr. Roosevelt’s) official message to Congress, (Continued on Page Three)

$300 Cash Lost

In Fire at Home

MRS. CHRIS BAUMBACH hurried to Methodist Hospital last night to see her husband, taken ‘there when a fire swept their living quarters over the Baumbach grocery at 5046 E. New York St. Mr. Baumbach and his 85-year-old mother were carried unconscious ‘down ladders by firemen. Mrs. Baumbach wasn’t home at the time. At the hospital Mr. Baumbach told his wife’ to hurry home and look for money—some $200 to $300 in cash which he had placed in the bathroom. But neither she nor the firemen could find it. Money from Mr. Baumbach’s billfold also was missing. Damage to the building was estimated at $300. Origin of the fire was undetermined. :

JAPANESE ADMIRAL IS KILLED IN CHINA

CHUNGKING, China, Feb. 8 (U.

P.).—The Chinése National Military|

Council said today it had received a report that Chinese guerrillas in Kwangtung Province had shot down a plane carrying Admiral Mineo Osumi, Rear Admiral] Hokijiro Suga and other high Japanese naval officers. Death of Osumi and his colleagues in a plane crash in South China has been announced officially by the Navy Ministry in Tokyo. The Military Council also said Chinese guerrilla fighters had salvaged “extremely confidential” dqcuments from Osumi’s plane. It was said that the plane had been shot down by machine gun fire 42 miles south of Canton.” Credentials were

said to have identified nine Japandes aboard the p ne,

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COLD TO STAY ‘FOR WEEK-END

37 Accidents Reported 37 Minutes as lce . Glazes Streets.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Gam. ....11 7a.m..... 10 Sa. m.... 11 9a.m. ..,.13

10 a. m., ... 11a. m, ... 16 12 (noon) , ip m.....

Indianapolis took another whirl on the weather roulette last night and ended up on the cold spot. The Weather Bureau said the nip in the air would stay for the week-end. City trucks worked overtime shov-

eling sand and cinders on to glazed and the State E way Department also had plenty work to do.. The department reported highways were particunlarly slick in central Indiana and in the La Porte and Ft. Wayne areas. The Seymour and Vincennes areas were reported clear. State Police said about five inches of fresh snow fell this morning in the extreme northern part of the state while light snow was general in other sections.

Temperature About 10

A light snow fell here last night and intermittently today and the

would . continue tonight,” with the temperature going down to about 10. It was raining in California and New York, blowing hard down the East coast and getting chilly in the Southern citrus fruit region. Icy streets here slowed yesterday evening’s homeward-bound “5 o'clock traffic” to a creeping pace and -the police dispatcher at Headquarters was swamped with minor accident calls. There was gbout one a: minute for 37 minutes. Six: persons were injured, none seriously. State Police had no. accident reports. A truck driven by Fred Lutz, 1088 S. Holt Road, collided with:-an auto and skidded into the plateglass window of the Gilliland Drug Store at 3750 E. Michigan St. Slides Into Car

Dorman B. Sarber, 2412 Kenwood Ave, tried to stop for a funeral procession at Emerson Ave: and Washington St. but slid into the first car. Fumes awakened Robert Rowe in an upstairs room at 2118% E. 10th St. this morning and he called police. They found an oil stove which had been left burning in a downstairs radio store at 2118 E. 10th St. and tusned it off.

WILKE AT THINDAT FLIGHT SETS RECORD

Due to Reach New York Sometime Tomorrow.

MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 8 (U. P.).—The Dixie Clipper, carrying Wendell L. Willkie on a 3120-mile dash—the longest non-stop flight ever made by a commercial plane—landed at Port of Spain, Trinidad, at 8:51 a. m. . (Indianapolis Time) today, Pan-American Airways announced. The flight was made in 21 hours, 32 minutes. The plane hopped from Bolama, West Africa, for the South Atlantic crossing at 11:19 a. m. yesterday. It will fly from Port of Spain to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and then direct to New York, where it is expected some time tomorrow, Other passengers included Juan T. Trippe, Pan American Airways president; Mr, Willkie’s personal friends, John Cowles, publisher, and Landon K. Thorne, banker, and three Civil Aeronautics Board observers.

BATISTAS HAVE DAUGHTER HAVANA, Feb. 8 (U. P.) ~Senora

President Fulgencio Batisté, gave Oi birth to a daughter at the Presidential Palace yesterday. The reel In

Elisa, for her mother, ".

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RAF. MAKES ‘BIGGEST RAID IN 6 MONTHS

Nazis Bomb Isle of Malta; Vichy Crisis May Be Key to New Move.

By UNITED PRESS | Fires on the French inva. sion coast were visible acrosg the Channel through dense | fog and heavy rain today. British planes, diving through clouis into a rain of fire, hurled bombs for hours during the night on targets between Dunkirk and Boulogne in one of the great aerial attacks of the war, ; Boulogne’s harbor area, where the fires could still be seen today from the English coast more than 20 miles away, was the chief target and the British Air Ministry said

“many heavy bombs and thousands of incendiaries were dropped.” . At

n Dunkirk, ships and barges were hit,

Dilemma for Both

At the same time the Germans announced large scale “wave” and | “rolling attacks” on the British i island. fortress of alta,

The war in the Mediterranean had reached a turning point where sudden new moves by either Great Britain or Germany.seemed likely, There was reason to believe that developments at Vichy might decide which side was to act first. 3 The British, victors at Benghazi and conquerors of all eastern Libya, | faced a major decision on strategy. The question was whether to press on to Tripoli, possibly by sea, attempting to destroy the remnant of Italian strength in North Africa make contact with Gen, / Weygand’s French Army in Tunisis™ or quickly shift the bulk of the Imperial Army of the Nile to new fronts. Germany faced a strategic ques tion of equal importance. It was whether to make a last-minute ate tempt to aig the Italians in North Africa, possibly by a move into Tunisia, or to bring pressure on the British further east, in the Balkans.

Predicts Invasion

Aleut.-Col. L. S. Amery, a meme ber of the British Cabinet as Sece . retary of State for India, said in a speech today that a new, major move by Germany was imminent. He said it would most likely be an attempt to invade England, because that was the “only direction in which the enemy can hope for decisive results, although they are likely to be even more decisive against him.” There was reason to believe that | the unswer to both strategic ques . tions might be found at Vichy.. Vichy was enmeshed in critical negotiations between Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and Pierre Laval, ousted . Vice Premier and Berlin's favorite among French statesmen.

What ‘Would Laval Do? Admiral Francois Darlan returned to Vichy with Laval's latest ultimatum on returning to the govern ment. It was said to be almost unchanged from his previous demands, Laval was said to continue to insist that he be made Premier with a Cabinet of his own choosing, responsible only to a National Assembly of his personal selection. He continued, it was said, to demand full powers in the sphere of foreign affairs, 3 Overshadowing Laval's demands for power was the question of what he would do with virtual dictatorial

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get it. Laval is bitterly anti-British and, it is generaly believed, advo= cates fullest possible collaboration with Germany, even to the extent of entering hostilities at her side. In Vichy the statement of Gen, Weygand that France was not cone (Continued on Page Three)

RAPA SELLS BABY’S DIAPERS FOR BOOZE

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Feb. 8 (U. P.).—William Price, an unems= ployed house painter, began a two weeks’ jail sentence today for none support of his wife and two chiles dren.

home piece by piece, “and every= thing else he could lay his hands on, including the baby’s diapers, to buy booze.” ig

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