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SATURDAY, FEB. 15,

1941

AWAY BRITISH AID

PROGRAM DRAFTED]

Plan Contemplates Maxim Without Hampering U.

um Shipments of Supplies.

S. Defense; Senate to

Start Lease-Lend Bill Debate Monday.

~~ WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U. chieftains today studied a tentative four-point program for speedy “all-out” aid to Great Britain, while Administration legislative leaders drove for final congressional action within

three weeks on the historic:-lend-lease bill.

Authoritative military sources. disclosed that the con-| |

P.).—National defense

templated aid program envisions maximum shipments of American war supplies to Britain without disruption of this

DEFENSE ‘BUGS’ WILL BE PROBED

Hse to Iivestinale Labor; Senate Study May’ Be Wider.

"By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—The rtecent hesitancy -of Congressional committees to uncover the “bugs” in the. national defense effort is now followed by a rushein that direction, The House Judiciary Committee will open hearings Monday. It will give particular attention to the Jabor phase of the situation, notably the fees being charged by labor unions for jobs on defense construction projects. At the other end of the capitol, Administration support is credited to the proposal of Senator Harry S. Truman (D. Mo.), for a special Senate committee to .investigate both the contractual and labor ends of the situation.

Wants Probe by Friends

Senator Truman says it would be better for friends of the Administration to disclose abuses “before they blow up in our face.” The House Judiciary Committee being a determjned group of conservative lawyers, credited with ability to get results, the activity in both House and Senate may produce an aspect of rivalry. Another House committee, that on military affairs, beat the gun yesterday by calling in a civilian official of the War Department who is a member of a board charged with the duty of recommending contractors for big. defense jobs. He told the committee that he is a member of a firm which has received an $11,000,000 contract, but gave evidence to show that he had nothing to do with the award.

country’s own $28,000,000,000 rearmament drive. They em-

in the “study” stage, and that many details must be worked

out. . Meanwhile, authoritative Senate sources predicted that Mr. Roosevelt will ask Congress for appropriations and contract authorizations amounting to between $1,000,000,000 and $1,500,000,000 as soon as the aid bill is finally approved.

Walsh Joins Opposition

Chairman Walter F. George Ga.), of the Senate Foreign Relations . Committee,

weeks. Opposition Senators tentatively planned to meet today for a lastminute discussion of strategy. Seventeen of them met secretly yesterday and agreed to concentrate their drive on two.proposed amend. ments to ban use of U. S. naval ves sels for convoying and to prohibit the President from disposing of any part of the fleet. The latter proposal is to be spon-

(D. Mass.) of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee. indication that he . opposes the: bill came when he attended yesterday’s opposition meeting. Major points in the all-out aid. plan now under study were said} to be: 1. A survey of so- called “critical” military items — airplanes, guns, tanks, ships and munitions—which can be made available immediately:

plies. It was indicated these would be modern armaments, rather than “obsolete” or “surplus” supplies such as were sold to the Allies in the past. 2. Making available to Britain de liveries of materials originally ordered by U. S. forces but urgently needed by the British. 3. Steps to speed production and

The House Judiciary Committee’s first witness will -be Thurman W. Arnold, assistant attorney general] in charge of the Justice Depart-

Hillman Is Called

Mr. Arnold, who has been criticized by various units of the Amer-! ican Federation of Labor, is ex-

pected to be examined on his knowledge of practices of the building trades unions. , | Following Mr. Arnold, ‘the two top | men of the defense production setup will testify.” William 8. Knudsen, has been asked to appear Wednesday. His colleague, Sidney Hillman, is to testify the following day. ; Other witnesses are expected td be representatives of the War and Navy Departments; Westbrook Pegler, newspaper columnist, and probably officials of the A. F. of L. building trades unions.

MANUAL’S ALUMNI TO GATHER TONIGHT

Alumni of Manual Training High School will gather there tonight for their 46th reunion. Dinner will be served in the auditorium and a program will follow in the auditorium. . _ Yesterday the Exchange Club honored Manual’s principal, E. H. Kemper McComb, on his birthday. Mr. McComb has been principal 25 years and taught school for 40 years. He has been president of the club twice.

Willis Says Hope of

delivery dates on the three billion

(dollars worth of British orders.

4. Creating new production fagils ities for both domestic and British

‘Checkmate Is Futile Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—~Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.), one of the half dozen isolationists who attended a meeting in the office of Senator Hiram Johnson (R. Cal.) to map the strategy against the lend: lease bill, today termed hope for checkmating the measure as “futile.” “All .we can do is offer drastic amendment to change the bill)” Senator Willis said. “But I am sure that they will be rejected and the bill passed in®0 days or two weeks,”

Eskimos Find | N.Y.Too Cold

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (U. P) + The outdoors came indoors today,

The National Sportsmen's show moved into Grand Central Palace and four Eskimos — imported from Alaska came down with colds. Magana Ebionna, his 21-yrdr. old wife Popek, and their children, Elaya and Pisana, arrived after a flve-weeks trip by dog sledge, airplane, boat, train ant taxi. The damp cold of New York wade them ill.

IN INDIA

Here Is the Traffic Record County City Total

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—Feb, 14—

1940

1941 : 1

Injured 0 | Arrests ......32 _ FRIDAY TRAFFIC COURT . Cases Convic- Fines Violations tried tions paid Speeding .......,. 4 $19 Reckless driving. 1 0 Failure to stop at through street. 2 8 Disobeying traffic Signs .......0.. 4 Drunken driving. 4 All others ....... 26

10 165 , 30

Totals ........ 41 $232 MEETINGS TODAY

Shortridge High School, annual vaudeville Show, Caleb Mills Hall, night. :

Manual Training High School, ° reunion, 4 p. m. apsi Cola Co., meeting Hote Severin, 10 a. m. and

MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times

therefore, is not responsible for errers im names and addresses.)

annual and dinner, 6:30 p. m.

Clarence Noe. 23, of 3641 [Sregnfield Ave.; Sylvia Coon. 17, of 822 8 Lyndhupst Drive. Norbert T. Naaman 31, of E. 26th; Lena Mueller. 25. of 594

asses 5 | Accidents ,,..24 ris.

NAPOL IS

Roy, Mildred McClain. at oleman 1 Edward, Jean Lewis, J Cit Carl, Hazel Care t St. Vin cents Max, Cordelia Swails. at St. Vincent's. Charles, mma Jo Elckman. at St. vin-

ent’'s William, Juliana. Rains, at 1333, 8 .| Ndble. Herbert, Nettie Downs 3 J ota. Fred, Ladle Stepp, at 1435 Massachusetts. Walter, Betty Gregory, at 1747 W. Mor-

Louis, Helen Trimble, at 1745 W. Ohio. Chester, Rachel Jordan, at 1506 Fleastnt. Boys Harold, Mary Koglin, at 8t. Fran | William, Neva Grawcock, at Ext Ralph, Helen Turner, at’ Coleman. Paul, Francis ribble, at coleman. ceSleo, Annabel Herring, at &t, WV

'S, “Noel, Dorothy Epperson, at Methodist. Clarence, Ethelmae Russell, at Methodist, William, Marion Keenan, at ethodist. bir Margaret San at + 132

LeG Patrick, Anna Riley, at 622 E. Vermont. Harlan, Mencie Hacker, at 746 Fletcher, Leon, Mary Mallory, at 625° ort Eh, Leroy, Virginia Ricketts, at 504 W. 75th. Hubert, Thelma Ulrey. at N. Bey lle. Ra at 190 w

Ra mond, Mary Clifton, Ivan, Roxie Mullin, at 1706 Blaine Frank, Mary Brown, at 18 S. Keystone.

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ers,

lung a050ess, at 1621

Long, 1 month, at Riley, con75, abt, Vateran's, at City,

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Ruby Scotten. 33, BR F, Ogiiny. 21, of 5516. E. iain Kathren evill:, 19. ot or S3Ppucer. Manuel, 21, 3 Lambert; West, 18. of ‘3938 a Ave.,

Kenneth BR. Hancock, 21. of 1816 Olive; Rosemay R. Maurice, 20, of 431% Massa-

chusetts, Henry Webb Jr., 23. 9" Si43 SMadison;

Viola M. Brier. 23. R. R.'

BIRTHS Girls : Bernard, Reba Smith, at Sf. Vincent's.

DEATHS East, ‘carcinoma 61, at Long, renal Charley H. Jones, abbas. lobar pneumon H. McDonald, 67, at 378 N. broncho-pneumania Ma asphyxiatio .84, at 2603 N, Gale, rank Gensheimer, 76, 24 19 Massa chucinoma. Emm 2 Manshards, 60, at Methodist, cerebral apo Nora i a, at 1529 E. OHie, cardio pneum 73, af Meth-

EY Ruth Timmons, at 8t. Francis, Gladys Green, at St. Francis. . Raymond, Deris Jones, at Coleman.

Claude Isham, 50, at Long, Marian L. Tresemer, 65. Emma Brentlinger. abscess. i 75, at 2620 IndianARDRY arteriosclerosis. Charles O. Baker, 85, at City, nulm: bnary PL RR Frederick Jorrance, John Brickley, 61, pulmanary tuberculosis, [ William Holmes, Fearebral hemorrhage Alvina Wheeler, 87, at 11 7 E. New York, ary 2 Hormony. 63, at Methodist, lobar Infant (Setars, 14 hours, at Methnclist, aura Clam itt, bronchial ast a Winfield Beckenbau h, 68, at 2439 N. Lagalle, mitral insufficiency sells, hy Ypostatie pneumon Clara Umbholtz, 55, 932 E Morris; carOllie Biber. Je. at 646 Blackford, acut cardiac dilatat § Blackiong, . vascular renal. Anna h Mies, 54, at Methodist, hrencheChaves William Biemon, dist, neoplasm e B. Bapmiond, 70, ai 3629 EH, Wash Ian cardio vascular,

phasized that the plan is still

The Senate is slated to start de- |: bate on the epochal bill Monday.| (ID.

sored by Chairman David I. Wash | The first publiz}

out of existing Army and Navy sup-:

[lic [requirements as a “Tong range” stip | (ply line

|"! Benjamin N. Bogue above, today was re-elected president of the Columbia Club by the Board of Directors. Other officers reelected were John C. Ruckelshaus, vice president; Irving W. Lemaux, treasurer, and E. Park Akin, sec-retary-manager. Club stockhold- | ers re-elected Mr. Bogue, Roger (3. Wolcott and Gen. Robert H. Tyndall directors for another three years.

SCOUTS START 1941 PROGRAM

Close Celebration at Rally; ‘Strong America’ Aim For New Year.

Before a capacity crowd in Cadle Tabernacle, the Indianapolis Boy

Scouts closed a week-long celebration of their 31st anniversary last night and opened an intensive 1941 program designed to make America strong through scouting. Homer Gratz, Scout executive, estimated that nearly 25,000 Scouts ‘and friends took part in the gala celebration, which featured a talk ‘by Darrel L. Brady, newspaper man and Eagle Scout. The Senior Boy Scout band, directed by Raymond Oster, presented a concert program. Col. Roscoe Turner, speed flier, ‘was master of ceremonies and lawards for past accomplishments were presented to 90 troops. Among theme were five troops tand two cub packs which received the president's streamer for having ‘a net increase in membership. At a dinner before the celebra‘tion Mr. Gratz presented Northwood Christian Church Troop 78 with a trophy for winning the city- | wide - scout rally. || The next large Scout event will be the Boy Scout Circus in May.

MRS. MAISIE SHEED T0 ADDRESS FORUM

Mrs. Maisie Ward Sheed, New York, will discuss “Toward a CathoSociology,” at the Catholic Forum at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the World War Memorial Auditorium. Mrs. Sheed is the daughter of

{Wilfred Ward, biographer to Car‘|dinal Newman.

Mrs. Sheed was born in Surrey,

- |England, and is co-founder of the

English and American publishing house, Sheed and Ward, with offices in London and New York. She has spoken for the last 22 years before audiences in England, Scotland, Canada and the United States. Mrs. John K. Ruckelshaus will preside as chairman, Mrs. Richard Graham is chairman of the ticket committee.

STATE CONVENTION TO HEAR CHAILLAUX

Seven-Up soft drink employees will hold their second annual state convention tomorrow at the Lndianapolis Athletic Club, Tom Joyce, Seven-Up bottler for Indiana, announced today. Homer L. Chaillaux, ‘Americanism director for the American Legion, will make the principal address. Several officers of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and other business leaders are to be guests. About 300 plant and sales workers and their friends will attend.

SX JOIN AIR CORPS

Six Indianapolis youths have been accepted by the U, S. Army Air Corps. They are Charles H. DeBow, 2843 Boulevard Place; Owen B. Keene, 1136 S. Richmond St.; Henry W. Abts, 105 W. Hampton Drive; David H. McCracken, 47 N. Layman St.; Harold W. Feichter, 705 W. Hampton Drive, and Robert E. Springer, 119 E. 33d St.

BRITISH AWAIT 3-FRONT BLOW

War Will Enter Decisive Phase Within 30 Days, London Feels.

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. LONDON, Feb. 15.—Within the next month the war will enter on its decisive pnase, In the view of the most competent experts here. And it will be fough. in the Balkans, the Far East and Great Britain, While news from the United States on the Far East is better than it was, that situation is regarded here as having worsened considerably during the past few days. While the firm attitude of the United States, Britain, Australia and ‘he Dutch East Indies may have administered.a slight check to Japanes2 exuberance, it is not believed to have altered Germany's plans for Japan. Balkans Due fo Fall

Whether German pressure will be such as to force Japan to take action, or whether the Germans will once again use their raiders under the Japanese flag, thus finally em- | broiling Japan, is a matter of opinion, In the other arena, the Balkans, it would not be surprising to see a pretty effective German victory. The Greeks are still holding their own but there have been no notable advances recently. While the weather is such that the Germans are not likely to advance into Greece until next month, it is clear that is the plan. It would be extraordinary if the Greeks are able to resist both Italian and German forces. There is no longer any doubt on invasion, in the minds of experts. For some time they had been divided on the subject, some holding that the Germans will not attempt it. It is generally agreed now that invasion will be tried within the next month. It is likely that final preparations for invasion cannot be kept secret and the British think they will - have about three weeks’ warning. The Germans have now ordered the evacuation of the civilian population throughout the coastal area from Lorient to Holland.

AUDITOR 2D IN LINE UNDER NEW SETUP

A bill providing that the State Auditor shall take over the duties of the Lieutenant Governor on the various boards and commissions to be set up under the G. O. P. program in case of a vacancy in the latter office was passed by the Senate to the House yesterday. Under the present law, if the Lieutenant Governor should die there would be no one to take his place on the various boards since his is an elective office. The bill would not change the present law which provides that in case of a vacancy in the office of Lieutenant Governor the president pro tem shall preside. The measure passed by a vote of 28 to 12. Another G. O. P, bill passed by the Senate yesterday would provide for the appointment of a state budget director by the Governor, Secretary of State and State Auditor. The Governor now names the budget director.

HOPKINS SPEEDS TO U. S. ON NAVY PLANE

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico., Feb. 15 (U. P.).—Harry L. Hopkins, homeward bound from a sojourn in Great Britain as President Roosevelt’s personal emissary, arrived last night aboard a Nawy patrol plane from Port au Spain, Trinidad, where the Pan American Airways Yankee Clipper, which had brought him from Lisbon, was delayed. Mr. Hopkins telephoned the White House in Washington and he told

newspapermen he “obviously” could |.

not discuss his British visit until he had conferred with 'the President. He continues on to the United States today.

392 JOIN Y. M. C. A. IN MEMBER DRIVE

The Y. M. C. A. drive for new members reached 392 last night when nine divisions participating in the campaign reported an additional 103 members at a meetng held in the Central Y. M. C. A. The goal of the campaign is 745. The next meeting will be held at 12:15 p. m. Monday. Other meetings next week will be held Tuesday evening, Thursday noon and Friday

evening.

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Mr. Mason

means of rescuing parachute troops enemy territory. That is to say, scribed as “suicide troops” or as men marked inevitably for capture if they are not killed while engaged in their hazardous tasks.

capture of several parachutists and the British say “some” did not return to their base. Thus, the rescue device seems to have operated imperfectly; but that it should have worked at all is one of the astonishing developments of the war, if true.

Plan Would Be Dangerous

The most reasonable assumption of the way the British parachutists might be brought home after completing their attacks is that British planes had landed at specified points near the scene of operations. It could have been arranged bhefore- |, hand that at a definite time the parachutists would have finished their work and would assemble at an agreed nearby place for rescue.’ - Anv such plan, however, must necessarily be precarious. It would depend for success on exact timing and on enemy inefficiency and confusions due to the suddenness of the parachute attacks. The objectives of the parachute offensive would have to be near clearings where the rescue planes|a could land. This factor would limit the area of operation.

Were Uniforms Special?

It would be necessary for the operations to take place in. darkness. How the parachutists could make their way back to their planes in unfamiliar country at night is difficult to understand,-unless the timing allowed for the return just as dawn broke or the planes may have used flares which the Italians may have thought were their own signals. The Italian report on the myste~ rious operation mentions peculiarities of the uniforms of the parachutists. It is possible that they used special uniforms which, though of military character, yet were so designed as to make difficult their detection as British while they were returning to other planes, if, indeed, planes actually rescued them. The actual landing of ‘ British planes in Italian territory without immediate detection could be done without too much difficulty, especially in the dark. Open fields are numerous and, while the takeoff would be more troublesome, it would not be impossible.

Idea From Nazis, Maybe

It is known that on several occasions German aviators who had lost their way over Englahd and had flown unwittingly to Ireland, believed the Irish Sea was the English. Channel. They came down in Englaad, thinking they were in France, and were not detected until they knocked at nearby English houses, believing the inmates were French. It is reasonably sure that British planes could ‘descend in Italy, not by accident but purposely, and could evade discovery for at least a short time. It is, indeed, possible that the experience of the German pilots coming down accidentally in England without instantly alarming the neighborhood gave the British the original idea of rescue. The British communique says the

objectives of the paraghutists were

Italian ports. That raises the remote possibility that escape might have been by launches, carrying the men to sea where they might have been picked up. Any such arrangement, however, would have required secret preparation along Italian waterfronts.

RELIGIOUS TRAINING OF CHILDREN TOPIC

What is to be done about the hundreds of Indianapolis children who are growing up without religious training will be discussed by interdenominational leaders Monday at 2 p. m, in Christ Church Parish House. Parents, teachers, ministers, and all others interested in the religious

J upbringing of children are expected

to attend the meeting sponsored by the Marion County Council of Christian Education. The Rey. Harold W. Ranes, North Baptist Church Pastor, will speak on “The Unreached Child” and Mrs. Boyd Gillespie, religious education director of the Wallace Street Preésbyterian Church, will lead the devotions. Mrs. Howard Pugh, Marion County Children’s Division chair-

man, will be in charge.

Hoosiers in Washington

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Federal

326 E.| Security Administrator Paul V. Mc-

Nutt now is ensconced as a King Bee in one of the biggest and busiest bee-hives of bureaucracy in Washington—the new Social Se-

'|curity Building.

To a visiting - Hoosier the place looks as big as Brown County and in addition it is five stories high. With its companion building—

8S. the Railroad Retirement Board—it

contains 1,047,000 square feet of floor space and came to the tidy sum of around $12,000,000 unfurnished. The furnishings are elaborate to match the general scheme. It is but a stone's throw from the Capitol, but to walk the distance is somewhat disheartening for a pedestrian must pass through some of the worst Negro slums to be found anywhere in América. A limousine can escape this sordidness by crossing over to the Mall, where Washington earns its title as the “city of vast distances,” and the view encompasses the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and Capitol Hill.

elaborate fittings for Senators and Congressmen as the new downtown offices of the departmental people. {One Hoosier Congressman explained | this -by saying that they couldn't afford to dress in such style. because

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The Hill, however, affords no such |

the visitors from home come to see them and might resent the fact that they are stuck with the bill,

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A Pat for Halleck

Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.), who has been pushed around somewhat because of his prominence in the Willkie campaign, received a nice pat on the back this week from Rep. J. William Ditter (R. Penn.), ‘chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee,

Commenting on Rep. Halleck’s re-election to the Executive Committee, Rep. Ditter declared: “Mr, Halleck made an important contribution to the congressional campaign effort in 1940, which resulted in increased Republican representation from Indiana, “We are happy that we are to have his energies and experience to assist in the crucial 1942 campaign. That campaign will be a rea] test for American constitutional government, It will be an intensive na-tion-wide campaign for the preservation of congressional authority under the Constitution.”

Surprised by Dewey

Among those present at the Lincoln Day dinner here at which Thomas E. Dewey was the principal

speaker were Senator Raymond E. Willis and Reps. George W. Gillie

McNutt Works in Ornate Edifice Near Slums; G.O.P. Congressional Chief Praises Halleck:

and Raymond 8S. Springer, Hoosier Republicans. All are ardent isolationists and outspokenly opposed to the LeaseLend Bill. \ They were somewhat surprised, Pre therefore, when the New Yorker took a tactic ala Wendell L. Willkie and came out for the bill in its amended form. “District Attorney Dewey must have changed his mind,” Senator Willis commented. “His speech was quite contrary to a statement which he made only a short time ago and which was given wide publicity in the newspapers. I like that statement better and | I'm not going to vote for that bill.” le » ” »

Hint Post for Simmons

Virgil M. Simmons, who has been basking in the Florida sun since he resigned as Conservation Commissioner. of Indiana, may be given a major assignment as chief of one of the numerous activities now under the control of Mr. McNutt, it is reported here. /

Wickards Fionared

Secretary of Agriculture Claude R Wickard and Mrs. Wickard will be honor guests of the Indiana Society

of Washington at a dinner dance at the Shoreham Hotel Monday night. Congressman Halleck is president's of the gouiety and will preside,

because of Ys implication

special significance that some of the men had returned to their “base.” While the oiling of ithe Bian Scumpunigue was , probably intentionally, the natural use of | “base” in la military sense Teams sartng point or SOUS DIAcS Of Seuslty Jur Sechperation It this be the actual stance, then it would seem that the British have found some secret

meaning, in the present in-

after they have done their work in parachutists oan. no longer be de~

The Italians have announced the.

JAPANESE DENY WAR IS CERTAIN

Relations With U. S. Bad, But Not Incurable, Says Tokyo.

TOKYO, Feb. 15 (U. P.)—Japan, while admitting that relations with the United States gave “cause for some concern,” alarmist reports were being circu-

lated by “foreign elements.” In a sta t issued through the Cabinet ' Information Bureau, the Government urged worried Japanese in North and South America to remain calm, said it was wrong to assume war was inevitable, and emphasized that both the Japanese and American Governments were doing all they could to “prevent the situation from coming to such pass.” . ‘The statement was issued after Japanese spokesmen here, in China and in Australia had said that Japan could not understand a sudden intensification of anxiety throughout the Far East regarding the possibility of an imminent Japanese drive in the South Seas area. . The Government statement said, “it is true that the situation between Japan and the United States gives cause for some concern but it is unwarrantable to jump to the hasty conclusion that the situation between the two countries will be overtaken by such an extreme eventuality as war.”

U. S. Speeds Plans

For Evacuation

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U. P.).— American consulates in the Far East were instructed today to authorize American vessels to take on extra passengers, if necessary, in the evacuation of U. 8. citizens from potential trouble spots in the Orient. The State Department this week ordered its representatives to renew “suggestions” that all American women, children and “non-essential” men leave the Far East as soon as possible.

BOARD 5 ORDERS 22 INTO ARMY SERVICE

Twenty-two youths have . been ordered by Marion County Local Board No. 5 to report at 9:30 a. m. Tuesday to Room 935, K. of P. Building, for induction into Federal service. Those ordered up are Oscar Lesley Bagby, 425 N. California St.; James Garfield Clay, 706 Blake St.; Robert Louis. Davis, 1109 N. Miley Ave.; Herman Hill, 1141 N. Tremont Ave.; Van Buren Johnson and Willie Louis Ware, 425 N. California St.; James Nelson Cooper, 533 W. Vermont St.; Q. Z. Peniex, 807 Paca St. : william Hanner Diggs, 524% Indiana Ave.; Charles Edward Yee, 615 W. North St.; Albert Thomas, 936 Camp St.; Curtis Louis Wright,

Porter, 815 Maxwell St.; Henry O'Neal Jr., 612 Blake St.; Charles Cornelius Miller, 701 N. Elder Ave.; Ulysses Shelton, 805 W. 10th St. Richard Coleman, 149 Douglas St., Luther Edward Hall Jr., 912 Camp St.; Frank Edward Hodge, 1114 N. Traub Ave.; Traquilla Lauvell Minters, 529 Ww. Vermont St.; James Henry Houston, 804 N. California 8t., and Julian Hembree, 512 W. New York St.

‘TOWN COUNCIL’ TEA SET The Douglas Park Boys Town Council will hold its second annual Valentine Tea tomorrow between 3 p.m. and 6 p. m. at the Jacob Brothers Eastside Chapel, Hh St. and Martindale Ave.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

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House bills introduced .. ‘Senate bills introduced CAR BP NNN EN DEIN ARNN NBN aaa 256

House bills sent to Senate .

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more meeting days.

‘ Ab the. close of business today, the Legislature will have just 9

The record to date:

CHC ERacEs Neste teats RRsat astantannts

Senate bills sent to House .....

Total ... House bills passed

5 There you are—34’ bills sent to the Governor, ‘and 194 hait-way or more on the way to final enact-

ment.

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Brighter Days?

FOR THOSE who see ‘brighter.

days ahead, it would be well to remember that the five most controversial subjects of the session are just getting started: The

State’s muddled financial condi- |

tion, as represented in the. three record budget bills still being scanned by the Ways and Means Committee; liquor control, which may have smoother sailing if the G. O. P. high command accepts the Stout bill; school textbooks, a holy, terror; gross ‘income tax revision, the retailers won't let the legislators forget, and four defense bills. demanded by Governor Schricker. And more than dozen G. 0. P. “ripper” bills, some of them major links in the “decentralization” chain, are still winding through the mill. Hold your hats, boys—what a 19 days this is going to be! :

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About Textbooks

SINGLE ADOPTIONS for grade school textbooks, chosen over the multiple system by the Senate yesterday, is reported to be the system favored by Governor Schricker. And Mr, Schricker, be it remembered, is the man who started all the shouting about textbook “graft” two years ago when he stepped down from the Senate rostrum to make his charges, touching off a legislative

investigation. In fact, Democratic Senators yesterday held the balance of power on & major issue for the first time this session. They swung solidly against multiple adoptions, bearing out the Governor’s stand. Ten brave Republicans voted against © their leaders’ multiple proposal. Just 16 Democratic votes would have put them on the winning side. But they lost, and some of them expect to be called on the carpet for their action. The Governor, it is reported, believes the fault is not in the adoption system but in the way it has been handled. And ‘furthermore, he believes that his Board of Education is composed of hon est, intelligent educators who can and will select the best books available. When Mr. Schricker speaks of his board, he means the one he appointed after his inauguration. The Republicans now have a bill in the Legislature to wipe out his selections and set up another board. But the Governor says that come what may, he believes the courts will uphold his right to name the board. Friends of the Governor say he believes his appointees will take

advantage of the facilities at their |

command, such as the laboratory school at ‘Indiana State Teachers College, the teacher training program at Butler University and the teachers under the city and county superintendents, grade and high school representatives on the board, to make honest and satisfactory selections.

» » » Going on for Years

THIS BATTLE OVER textbook methods has been going on for years. Under the single system proposed here, a committee of

teachers of the subject involved

selects the eight best books from all bids. Then the State Board selects one from that list which all schools use, In multiple adoptions, which will be used in high schools only it the present compromise is approved, the State Board selects five of the committee’s eight books and submits them to city and county superintendents to select the one to be used in their locality. TD Eiators who favor the single adoptions say that there is as much chance for so-called “graft” under the multiple system as any other. They say that the book companies would concentrate 30 or more salesmen to “high-pres-sure” the 250 local units during the adoption period. Or they would hire local leaders, probably attorneys, to “work on” the superin tendents. They claim that small come

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panies would be trozen out anc that eventually the appointment and job tenure of school superine tendents would be tied up with book adoptions, with the possibility that one large, wealthy concern could corner the market, ‘ They also say that under single adoptions, the State obtains a contract price lower than a com pany can offer on a smaller scale,

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BUT THE MULTIPLE adoption backers, saying they have just started to fight, claim that: 1. During the 50 years the state has been working under single

adoptions, “graft” charges have

been made repeatedly. 2. Prices have not been lower under th. system than in other states. 3. No one is better qualified to select the books than the teachers and local school officials who use them. 4, Thirty-eight other states have switched to multiple as “the key to elimination of graft.” , 5. Single adoption is an antiquated system, used now only in the Southern states. And, furthermore, they say that state teachers’ organizations, Par~ ent-Teacher Associations and other civic ‘and educational groups want multiple adoption. While the Senate pushes ahead its Republican-sponsored single= adoption bill, the House is ready to start work on a muitiple proposal of G. O.'P. origin. That's the textbook situation to date.

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Buente Conducts Poll

SUPERIOR COURT Judge Benjamin E. Buente of Evansville, president of the Indiana Judges’ Association, has been conducting a poll of Indiana jurists on the bill for non-partisan election of judges. Incomplete returns show 29 voting yes, 18 no. , . . There will be only three Superior Courts

in Marion County if a bill intro-

duced yesterday in the House is enacted. There are five now. . . . The bust of Rep. William English, first Speaker of the House, which adornes a niche in the House and has been “introduced” from the floor many times by fun-seeking legislators, was found wearing

green earmuffs yesterday after-

noon. A motion to remove them carried after Rep. George Henley (R. Bloomington) had explained that when the Democrats occupied the majority seats, the earmuffs had been red and there must be some significance in the change of colors. . . . The Indianapolis Industrial Council, C. I. O. affiliate, has sent a resolution to the legislators “calling upon the Assembly to begin at once the consideration of measures beneficial to the people of Indiana, instead of partisan legislation.” . . The Farm Bureau's blast against the Pp d sales tax, carrying the implied threat that if the lawmakers seriously consider such a measure the Bureau will “call out our boys” probably means the end of agitation for such legislation for the present. The Bureau “called out the boys” two years ago, and they had farmers in all the halls, practically hanging from the balconies, and even had to build a special platform under the rotunda to hold a hearing. Labor is just as hostile to this one, too. . . . The G. O. P. braintrust's liquor bill is 135 pages long. When Rep. Glenn Markland started reading it, line by line, to his committee’ the other aftere noon, a newspaperman leaned back and said: “When you come to the part where Scarlett returns to the old home, please arouse me.”

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