Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1941 — Page 1

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INDUSTRY CAN ABSORB ONLY A FEW ON RELIEF

Approximately Two-thirds Never to Get Private Jobs, Survey Hints.

By RICHARD LEWIS

Approximately two-thirds of the WPA and direct relief recipients in Marion County may never be employed in private enterprise, an Unemployment Relief Commission study revealed today. As a result, township relief agencies and the WPA are tending to become permanent sanctuaries for a pool of unemployables who are not being absorbed by the defense industrial boom, the study indicated. Believed to be the first of its kind in the nation, the Relief Commis= sion study was made to determine the employment possibilities of persons on relief and WPA. Marion County, because of its diversified industries, was chosen for a sampling of 4000 relief-WPA recipients.

Shows State Picture

Dudley A. Smith, Relief Commission director, said the survey was indicative of employment possibilities for the unemployed in the State as a whole, - The primary purpose of the study was to seek an answer in the experience of unemployed persons to this’ question: “Is a large unemployment relief case load to be permanent?” The survey's statistical information indicates that at present the answer is “yes.” _ In this conclusion, the study confirms the observation of State WPA Administrator John K. Jennings. Mr. Jennings said the Indiana WPA rapidly is reaching the core of unemployables who cannot hold steady . private jobs because of age or infirmities.

17,038 Here Get Relief In Marion County, the direct re-

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persons, according to State Welfare Department figures. The County WPA case-load is 4605. The number of persons dependent on WPA in’ the County would be 17,038 on the basis of 3.7 persons to each family case. This brings the total County re-: lief-WPA case load to 10,886 cases or more than 36,000 persons who are dependent on Federal and local Government sources for a living. About 24,000 persons in this group are not active in the labor market and hence unemployable, according to the survey. Of this group, more than half are children under 16. The others are (Continued on Page Two)

DUTCH TO RESIST EAST INDIES FORCE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U. P)). —A statement of Dutch determination to ‘fight, aggression” fagainst her East Indies possessions, together - with a discolsure of “substantial” strengthening of Britain's Far Eastern outposts. followed a series of diplomatic conferences at the State Department today. These developments came after the Far Eastern situation and the Balkan problems had been discussed at length by Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Undersecretary Sumner Welles with British, Australian, Dutch and Jugoslavian diplomats. Mr. Welles later, reported to President Roosevelt.

SPEEDWAY CITY WPA PROJECT APPROVED

A "WPA project, for the installa- _ tion of $28,635 in sewer lines in Speedway City was approved in Washington today, and construction will begin immediately. The city’s sewer service will be extended to the corporation’s newest addition, Speedway Terrace, north of the Crawfordsville Road, and will serve more than 90 new homes constructed in the past few months, . Wayne Baxter, secretary of the Speedway City Town Board, said the project, expected to be finished in 30 days, will complete the town’s long-time sewer construction program.

GENOA TOLL NOW 144

GENOA, Feb. 15 (U. P.).—The list: of dead from last Sunday’s British naval shelling of the port of Genoa reached 144, and the list of wounded was placed at 323 today. Revised casualty figures followed recovery of additional bodies from debris,

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6|Mrs, Ferguson 8 7| Music 13 | Obituaries ... 12 | Pegler 8|Pyle .... 9 [Radio 8 | Mrs. Roosevelt 17 8| Serial Story .. 14 3 {Side Glances. . 7 | Society

Churches .... Clapper Comics ...... Crossword ,... Editorials .... Financial ....

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“Marge” Dies;

Child, Lives

“Myrt” (left) and “Marge” . , .

ENGLEWOOD, N. J., Feb. 15 (U. P.).—Mrs. Peter Fick, “Marge” of the radio show “Myrt and Marge,” died early today in child- . birth. The child—a hoy—lived. Yesterday morning “Marge” broadcast as usual and was taken to Englewood Hospital immediately after the broadcast. For 10 years “Marge” and her mother, “Myrt,” who is Myrtle Vail in real life, portrayed a mother and daughter drama that closely paralleled their own careers. “Myrt” wrote the seripts with :“Marge’s” help.

death writes “Marge” out of the show.

They first went on the air on Nov. 2, 1931, in Chicago when “Myrt a: vaudeville trouper, found herself with few prospects af - supporting herself and her 19-year-old daughter, and conceived the idea of putting her trials into radio form. “Marge,” who had two chlidren by a previous marriage, was 29 years old, and had been married to Mr. Fick, champion Swimmer, for several years. It had been siranged that “Marge” should be written out of the show script for the coming week because of the birth,’

HOUSE SESSION SPEEDS 34 BILLS

Schricker Vetoss. Two Bills; Sees ‘Paralyzed’ State Under ‘Big Ripper.’

In the Legislature The Hopper . Study Council Sought Textbooks .............. iesin

Jn its.first Saturday session, the House today devoted two hours, to

Senate did not meet. Twenty-seven House bills and seven Senate measures were acivanced to within one step of finl passage. A bill which practically rewrites Indiana's child adoption law, providing closer supervision over adoptions, was passed to the Senate by a vote of 70 to 0. It is.sponsored

cleaning up its calendar and then | | adjourned until Monday night. The

by the Child Welfare Association. 11 Bills Introduced

Eleven bills were introduced. One| of them, sponsored by City Corporation Counsel Edward Knight, would permit the transfer of sur-| pluses in the General Fund to the | budget of any office. Mr. Kni ght | said that at present there is an excess in the General Fund of the local Park Department but a deficit in the department's bond funds because of an insufficient tax leyy.| He said a transfer in these funds] would save Indianapolis from de-|| faulting on bonds and would help) reduce the tax rate. \ Meantime, G. O. P. legislators were digesting details of Governor Schricker’s sharp attack on the “big ripper” bill. The Governor declared yesterday that the measure would leave the State Prison with< out guards and paralyze the whole (Continued on Page Two)

FAIR TOMORROW IS BUREAU’S FORECAST

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

a.m. .... 25 10am ... 29] 7am. ....25 11 a. m. . 31 8a. m.,...26 12 (noon).. 31 9a. m. .... 27 1pm ... 30]

If a rooster crows standing cn @ fence or high place, it is held in some quarters that the weather will clear. If the rooster crows on the ground, the whole thing’s off. Because of the Weather Bureau's

forecast today, it is believed here

that the majority of the city's rooster population crowed on medium elevated places this morning. The forecast for tomorrow is fair. There won't’ be much change in temperature, the Weather Buresu said. Coldest of the night and early morning at the Airport Bureau was .22 at 6:30 a. m. It stayed there an hour and then rose four

American Eagles See First Action

LONDON, Feb. 15° (U, P.).—The Air Ministry revealed today that the American Eagle Squadron has

gone into action for the first time against German planes. The Ministry said that Edwin Czell Orbison, Sacramento, Cal., pilot whose death was reported two clays ago, was Killed while pursuing a German plane. Orbison chased a plane while on a training flight, the Air Ministry said. The Air Ministry reported that [Orbison had recently completed six raonths with his training unit in Britain and was undergoing training in operational flying with other. members of the Eagle Squadron, “He was one of the best pilots in the squadron,” the Eagle Squadron adjutant said. | Orbison was buried in a village | churchyard near his flying station not far from the grave of Pilot Officer Howard Leckrone, another Fagle member killed in a recent flying accident. .

10220 SENTENGED IN DISHER SLAYING

1t 10 Years I Imposed by Special Judge Symmes.

Without a change in his expression. Fred Iozzo, 53-year-old former restaurant owner convicted of involuritary manslaughter Jan. 26, today heard himself sentenced to “not less than one year or no more than 10 years ®in the Indiana State Prison.” lIozzo was convicted in connection with the fatal shooting of Virgil Disher Jr. Oct. 25 at Iozzo's cafe, 36 8. Illinois St. In Criminal Court today he stood between his two

(sons, Dominic and Vincent, as Spe-

cial Judge Frank A. Symmes passed sentence. Eefore sentence was pronounced, Floyd Christian, defense attorney, filed a written motion to suspend the | judgment. Judge - Symmes asked for any reason why the judgment should not be rendered and receiving no answer, denied the petition. Before he was taken to County

, Jail by John Dora, deputy sheriff, | Iozzo was kissed goodby by his son

Dominic. Vincent shook his father’s hand. Judge Symmes, after he passed the sentence, said: “The family will

suffer more than the defendant.

That is the infirmity in. criminal law. It always has been and probably always will be.”

SMALL CRAFT WARNED

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U. PJ. ~The Weather Bureau today ordered small craft warnings from south of Block Island to the Virginia capes, at the expiration of the present storm warnings. Small craft

degrees to 26 at 8:30 a. m.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Feh. [15 (U. BP.) .—Frank William Leahy | of Boston College, at 32 one of the most successful coaches in football, comes back to Notre Dame ‘today “to serve my alma mater” by signing a long-term contract as head football coach and athletic director.

revealed, but campus sources said Notre Dame had matched the fiveyear pact Leahy already had signed with Boston College. self, admitted his offer “is for a

long term.”

The soft-spoken coach was a star tackle at Notre Dame— playing on the late Knute Rockne’s last and greatest national

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CONANT HEADS SCIENTISTS IN LONDON STUDY

Special Mission to Scan Weapons for Possible Use by U. S.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt today dispatched to London a special scientific mission, headed by President James B. Conant of Harvard, to study Britain’s development of war weapons that would benefit this country’s defense program. The three-man mission, which sailed for Lisbon today, is the fore-' runner of several similar groups of American specialists which will examine all phases of Britain’s inventive efforts to ward off a German invasion. Dr. Conant is an outspoken advocate of “all out” aid to Britain and favors an outright declaration of war by the United States, if necessary to defeat Germany and Italy. He will be accompanied by Frederick L. Hovde, formerly attached to the University of Rochester, and Carroll L. Wilson, New York research specialist and one -time Massachusetts Institute. of Technology associate.

Wantg ‘First Hand’ View

The : committee represents a 1941 counterpart of the late Thomas A. Edison’s World War scientific defense mission which Mr. Roosevelt created in 1917 as Assistant Navy Secretary. Scientific production methods devised by that group, in co-operation with the British, was given much of the credit for slowing down Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare of 1918. Mr. Roosevelt said in a formal statement that “first-hand observation of recent English scientific research and experience is important for the prosecution of America’s program of research on problems of national defense.” “As such collaboration proceeds, other American scientists will be sent from time to time to study different. phases of British scientific research of interest to the United States and exchange information through the medium of the National Defense Research Committee (organized to mobilize science for defense).”

Bombers to Get Attention

White House sources said the mission was particularly interested in British development of giant, long-range bombers capable of operating in the stratosphere beyond the range of anti-aircraft fire and the average fighter planes. It also will give especial attention to progress made in developing underwater sounding devices by which destroyer flotillas can locate submarines and accurately plant depth charges to destroy them. Drs. Conant and Wilson plan to remain in Britain approximately a month, laying the groundwork for American collaboration with the Empire's scientists. Dr. Hovde, a former Rhodes scholar, will remain in London as permanent liaison betwee the British and other Ameri-

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By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Feb: 15.—Adolf Hitler will try to conquer the British Isles this month; he will use a new weapon or technique, probably gas; he has a 25-75 chance of succeeding. Harvey Klemmer, recently returned from London after more than two years as attache of the

American Embassy, and aid to former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, said today that the great, allout German offensive would come “earlier than people think.” But Hitler's werst—and “it’s silly to underestimate ‘the power of his war machine” — will not’ be good

MRS. BLAINE MILLER IS DEAD HERE AT 75

can specialists who will be sent later.

Hospital at Fort Honcrs Hoosier

Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—The new Army hospital now under construction at Ft. Harrison will be named Billings General Hospital the War Department announced today. The name was selected to honor the memory of Lieut. Col. John Saw Billings, a native Hoosier who served wjth distinction in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. Col. Billings was appoitned an assistant Army surgeon in 1862. He was made a brevet captain, major and lieutenant colonel in March, 1865, for services in the Civil War. He became deputy surgeon in 1894 and retired in 1895.

STOCKS EDGE HIGHER NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (U. P.).— Stocks turned slightly higher today after yesterday's break to new lows since June 11. Steels led the upturn, which was attributed to relaxing of

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tension in the Far East.

rinquished by Elmer Layden, new commissioner of the National Football League. His brilliant success in two years at Boston College, which twice carried him into New Year's Day bowl games, brought a flood of offers both from universities and the National League. One offer was So great, he admitted:

“It would have giveri me the greatest job in football and made me fSnaneilly independent for e.”

He preferred, however, to serve his alma mater. “I think practically every Notre Dame man wants to do that.” Layden enthusiastically approved of Leahy’s appointment.

of her life.

Funeral Services Set for 2 O’clock Monday.

‘Mrs. Corella Miller, wife of Blaine H. Miller, president of the American Foundry Co., died today at Meth-

odist Hospital. She was 75. A native of Toledo, O., she lived at 3433 Washington Blvd., and had been an Indianapolis resident most She was a member of the Propylaeum and the Presbyterian Church. Fond of gardening, Mrs. Miller's garden was included among those visited each year on the Park School Garden Tour. Funeral services will be held at Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary at 2 p. m. Monday, with, burial as Crown Hill. The Rev. Jean S. Milner will officiate.

HINTS ITALY MIGHT BE WON FROM NAZIS

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (U. P.).— Luigi Criscuolo, financier, political writer and prominent in ItfalianAmerican circles, said today in an open letter to Lord Halifax, British Ambassador, that Great Britain and the United States might, by a sympathetic approach to Italian problems, break up the GermanItalian alliance and destroy Adolf Hitler. Criscuolp said that as matters stand, he and a vast majority of the 10,000,000 Americans of Italian origin favor Italy over Britain in the war, so long as the United States remains out of it, because of the way the British governing classes have treated Italy since the World War.

ALE TRANSFERRED TO OHIO VETERANS POST

John H. Ale, superintendent of the Veterans Hospital here, has been transferred by the U. S. Veterans Administration to Dayton, O., to become manager of the veterans hospital there. The new superintendent of the local Veterans Hospital is: to be |pound

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Daily drills for Nazi bicycle infantry are held despite bad weather in preparation for an Invasion attempt.

German Invasion Attempt This Month Is Predicted by Former U. S. Embassy Aid

enough and, Mr. Klemmer said, the |ing with.an arsenical which wil! fil-

British will survive because “they’ll never quit.” Giving nis reasons: for believing Hitler would strike this month, Mr. Klemmer said in an interview today: “In the first place, he can’t wait until American aid becomes effective. In the second place, spring comes eacly in England. And in the third place, the daily signs portend imminent action.” The Germans will employ a new weapon or technique, Klemmer said, because ‘ “they’ never yet have launched an, attack without one or the other:”, He said the Germans are known to have been experiment-

Pope Denies

ter through gas masks and form a lethal gas on contact with bodily moisture. Mr. Klemmer believes that Hitler will use boats—thousands of them— rather than planes or gliders, and will strike from as many points as possible from Tromsoe, Norway, to Brest, France. Britain can win by exhausting the Continent, Mr. Klemmer said, but it will take American aid. He said the British were so well prepared that they have beach mines which can be exploded by driftwood. He said the British are “even eager” for an invasion attempt, which they believe will fail. and hence shorten the war,

German workers build new roads in France to carry heavy transport “somewhere on the Channel Coast.”

Backing Axis

VATICAN CITY, Feb. 15 (U. P).—A statement of great potential significance upon the attitude of His Holiness Pope Pius XII toward the war was printed today by the Vatican organ, Osservatore Romano. The Vatican statement was worded with great caution but it ap-

peared to carry wide implications. Osservatore Romano’s statement was in the form of a denial of

what it described as “false” and “murderous” untruths concerning the attitude of the Holy Father toward war issues. The Vayican organ did not state Pope Pius’ opposition upon these issues except by implication but the implication seemed clearly to range the Supreme Pontiff against major totalitarian war aims.

Additional significance was lent to Osservatore- Romano's comment by the fact that in - recent months it has carefully refrained from comment on ccntroversial war issues in an effort to avoid friction with the Italian Government. The Vatican statement roundly denounced reports that Pope Pius believed Europe must adjust itself to a new order, that the Holy See had long been opposed to democratic forms of government, that the situation of Catholics in Germany has improved, that the Pope favored French efforts to sign an immediate peace with Germany “to avoid complete ruin” or that the Pope had encouraged troops of one

nation who “went over to the flag of another belligerent ” Osservatore Romano said that the courageous and the faithful would lot be deceived by such reports which it said justified a statement which the Pope once made that an “untruthful press is not less murderous than armored cars and bombing planes.” It was noted that Osservatore Romano’s comment appeared at a moment when German efforts to advance the projected “new order in Europe” appear to be co-ordinat-ed with plans for a big spring offensive against Britain. The comment closely follows the visit of Gen. Francisco Franco to Italy where he talked with Mussolini and to France where he conferred with Marshal Petain. These conferences may well have touched on the subject of the posi-

tion of France and Spain in. the|-

new order and on the question of a French peace with the Axis, replacing the present armistice. n

500 m.p.h. Engine Designed

DETROIT, Feb. 15 (U. P.).—The new aircraft engine being developed by Chrysler Corp. is designed to burn a high-test 100-plus octane gasoline placing it in a field of power hoped to shoot pursuit planes toward 500 miles an hour, it was learned today. It is a 12-cylinder, V-type, liquid-cooled power plant which, accord-

ing to an authoritative. source, is expected to generate close to 2000

horsepower. The Indianapolis-built Allison engine, the only liquid-cooled job used by the U. S. Army Air Corps, churns up slightly more than 1000 horsepower and propells a Bell Airacobra, reputedly the deadliest pursuit ship in the world, at more than 375 miles an hour. The General Motors Allison engine is at present the only largescale production American engine which is liquid-cooled, although European engineers have found the liquid-cooled type the most successful for- fighting planes. Ford, the third member of the automotive Big

‘Three, is also experimenting with a H engine expected to|100

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utmost secrecy nearly a year taking the projected engine through the : : & .

planning and blueprint stages. At present they are experimenting with one and two-cylinder units; a complete motor “has not yet been assembled. They hope the powerful new machine will be ready for production in 1942. The extra power expected to be developed comes principally from a super high-test fuel, it was learned. The U. S. Army uses 90 octane gasoline for most of its ships although 100 octane is available. Chrysler experts have experimented with 115 octane which, it was said, gives approximately 25 per cent greater horsepower than does the

There have been persistent rumors of a test of a regular 1200-horse-power Rolls-Royce Merlin engine which, using 115 octane gas, kicked up 2000 BorsepoWer.

Jugoslav N eu trality Demanded by Hitler.

On War Front Today's War Moves British Wait Blow .. Congress

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Foreign News Writer

British South Africa forces today swept into Chisimaio, second largest port of Italian Somaliland, in a drive which may enable them to wrest the entire colony from Fascist control and eventually reoc-

cupy British Somaliland. While th eeyes of Europe still watched the Balkans for an indie cation of the direction in ' which Hitler intended to strike next, there was the following developments on the fighting fronts:

1. A big air battle was fought over southeast Britain when mas~ sive German squadrons attempted a daylight air attack of the type which- were so frequent last Sepetember. London said the attacking planes were finally driven off by Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes. 2. British night bombers heavily attacked the Ruhr area, causing the Germans to admit casualties. 3. The Germans reported the Luftwaffe active against British troops at Benghazi and farther west and indicated by a reference to Nazi pursuit plane action that German fighter squadrons may now be based on the African mainland in defense of Tripoli.

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have sunk an Italian merchant ship in the central Mediterranean when it attacked a convoy of four freight= ers and two destroyers apparently seeking to take supplies to the gare rison at Tripoli.

Jugoslav Neutrality Asked

Premier Dragish Cvetkovitch and Foreign Minister Alexander Cincar= Markovitch of Jugoslavia returned to Belgrade today after their threehour conference ‘with Hitler and Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop yesterday. While they conferred with Regent Prince Paul at the palace, Jugoslay sources insisted that no commitments had been made to Germany and that the Jugoslav statesmen were not empowered to give an final answer to Hitler without Prince Paul's assurances. It was indicated that Hitler chiefly sought assurances that Jugoslavia would remain neutral despite new German moves in the Balkans, such as occupation of Bulgaria or an attack on Greece. Jugoslav political quarters hinted

demands but limited. himself to stressing the importance of Jugoe slav neutrality. At the same time the Jugoslav Government paper pube lished a story from Sofia, the Bule garian capital, that several German divisions had been concentrated opposite Bulgaria in the last 48 hours and that war materials were being rushed in. Reliable London quarters reporte ed today that Premier Bogdan Filoff of Bulgaria had advised Great Britain he was unable to give assurances that Bulgaria will not permit German troop movements (Continued on Page Two)

Ex-King Alfonso's Condition Grave

ROME, Feb. 15 (U. P,).—For= mer King Alfonso XIII of Spain had a new heart attack during the night and physicians reported his condition grave today. Doctors injected a stimulant hypodermically. The former king, who on Jan. 15, as it was disclosed Thursday, signed a proclamation giving up his right to the throne in favor of his son, Juan, was reported resting quietly this morning. Physicians agreed, however,

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Wednesday. Prince Juan remained with Ale fonso at the Grand Hotel, where the former Spanish king has maintained residence for several years.

2 Teams Called For Traveling

PLAINFIELD, Ind. Feb. 15 © (U. P.).—Burning desire of the Plainfield and Noblesville high school basketball teams to get at each other last night ended in utter confusion, Mutually misunderstanding the schedule, Plainfield traveled to Noblesville, Noblesville to Plainfield.

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