Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1941 — Page 1
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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 294
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1941
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1 NORE RIPPER "BILLS PASSED OVER VETOES
Republicans Deny Action Will Close Doors to Compromise.
The Legislature today passed two of its “ripper” bills over Governor Henry Schricker’s vetoes, ignoring pleas of Democratic minority leaders that the action would “close the door to all compromise efforts.” The G. O. P. “decentralization” measure, keystone of all reorganization bills which Governor Schricker warned would throw the State Gov-
ernment into litigation, was passed by a vote of 61 to 33 in the House
and 30 to 15 in the Senate, on strict
party lines. The Highway Department “ripper” bill, which would take control of that division away from the Governor’s office and place it under a Republican-dominated board, was passed over the veto by a vote of 61 to 31 in the House and 30 to 16 in the Senate.
Denton Motion Fails
Rep. Winfield K. Denton (D. Evansville), minority leader, tried to prevent a vote on the bills with a motion to make the measures special order of business .for 11 a. m. Wednesday, “I have information that negotiations are under way in the Governor’s office to reach a settlement on this matter in order to avoid a serious court fight later,” Rep. Denton pleaded. “In two days, I think something can be worked out on this matter . . it would take at least six
months for a test case to get up|
to the Supreme Court and during that time no one would know who the “state officials are ~. . . . if you pass these bills now you will have closed all doors to compromise efforts. » . . Millis Opposes Delay
Rep. Frank T. Millis (R. Campbellsburg) majority leader, moved that the delay motion be tabled. “passage of these bills does not close the door to compromises,” Rep. Millis argued. “If there is a compromise, all the reorganization bills would have to be rewritten anyway, so there is no point in delaying a vote on the bills.” His motion to table was carried promptly. Rep. Howard Batman (D. Terre Haute) pleaded for.delay of the highway “ripper” bill, but his mo- . tion was tabled also and the vote was taken without further argument, ® Silent on Compromise
Republican leaders continued their reticence to talk about compromises despite Governor Schricker’s renewal of an invitation to come to his office and discuss an agreement. The Governor in his veto messages, seid the G. 0. P. “decentralizers” were unconstitutional and warned that the government will be paralyzed after May 1 by lack of “adequate laws under which to operate.”
CYRUS L. SLINKARD DIES IN BLOOMFIELD
Times Special
BLOOMFIELD, Ind., Feb. 17—|
Cyrus Lee Slinkard, father of Leo N. Slinkard of The Indianapolis Times’ advertising department, died yesterday at his home here. He was 59. Mr. Slinkard, a retired businessman, was born in Blogmfield. In his youth, he attended ess college in Indianapolis. e helped found : the Indian Creek Coal & Mining Co., which later was merged with the Knox Coal Co. Mr. Slinkard retired from active business ans returned to Bloomfield about 10 years: ago. He is survived by his wife; a sister, Miss Winn Slinkard, and another son, Robert D. Slinkard, all .of Bloomfield. Services will be at 2:30 p. m, tomorrow from the residence.
HARVESTER UNIT STRIKES RICHMOND, Ind. Feb. 17 (U. P.) —Employees of the International Harvester Co., plant, members of the C. I. Os Farm Equipment Workers’ Union, went on strike today about an hour after reporting for work.
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7/at Fall Creek today, a youlig man
Night Bejeweled by Winter's Touch
A silver filigree of snow, and trees and light eos last night W. 38th St. looked like this to the camera.
TOWNSENDITES CALL ON HOUSE]
Lender Takes R Rostrum to.
Demand $40 ‘Floor’ |
For Pensions.
This was one of the: hottest days in February for Indiana’s House of Representatives. With their collars scorching, they
|took action on two old-age pension |
measures — because 2000 Hoosier Townsendites were watching them | from the galleries. It was one of the most enthusiastic groups to descend on the Legislature this session. It deposited petitions bearing 425,000 names, asking favorgble action on| the Townsend program for the state. House members forced the Ways and Means Committee to report bills to make the old-age assistance maximum $40 and repeal the law requiring indigents to give the State liens on their property in return for the assistance. The galleries cheered—buf; the lawmakers’ satisfaction was short lived. Wants $40. Floor t
B. J. Brown, State manager of the Townsend Clubs, took the rostrum and said: “Raising the maxi mum from $30 to $40 means hot a thing. We want $40 as the floor, not as the ceiling. If you are sincere, you will give us dependable security. We want more than 10 cents for breakfast, 20 cents for dinner and 20 cents for supper and less than 8 cents a day for clothing and medicine. “The aged of Indiana are demanding more than $40 maximum, which is no better than the $30 ‘which enables the political pie eat(Continued .on Page Eight)
Mrs. Dilling to Dally in a Cell
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (1, P.). —Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling, author of the “Red Network” and her secretary, Jean Lungren, were taken into custody by police today after protesting aloud in Capito] corridors against passage of the Ad. ministration’s aid-to-Britain bill. The two women were ¢jected and taken to a local police pre~cinct, where they were fo be charged with disorderly conduct. Mrs. Dilling, standing on the Capitol steps, while awaiting arrival of the police, shouted to onlookers that she was a victim of “dictatorship methods.”
‘MOTORIST ROBBED William Butler, Westfield, told police that when he stopped his car for the stop light on Meridian St.
entered the car, produced a revolver and ordered him to drive on. Mr. Butler said he drove to Meridian 5/St. and Westfield Dr., where le
was robbed of $16 and puf out of his Ary The bandit “drove oi norsh.
Asks Efficiency Expert in State
A BILL TO appropriate $50,000 ‘to hire an outside agency to serve as a sort of efficiency expert for the State of Indiana was to be introduced in the Senate this after‘noon. The bill would authorize the
| State Budget Director to employ
an agency which would classify
every job in the State Government, including those at the four | State universities and colleges, and ‘prepare a report on all State personnel. Senator Lawrence Carlson (R. Huntington) and Senator Edward Green (R. Indianapolis), authors" of the measure, said this would permit * the - next Legislature to trim from the State payroll all unneeded employees. Senator Carlson said that the ¢xpenditure of the $50,000, “if properly han-. dled, would enable the State to save millions.”
13 IN HOUSE DEMAND LOCAL OPTION AGTION
Held Long Enough, Head of
Committee Is Told.
The local option problem reached a showdewn today with 13 Representatives demanding that the Public Morals Committee place the question before the House. In their petition to Rep. Glenn Markland (R. Zionsville), committee chairman, the group pointed out that the oill providing for township option in the sale of alcoholic bev-
.|erages was introduced by Rep. Nelle
V. Downey (R. Indianapolis) on Jan. 22 and a public hearing had been held. “We feel that this bill has been held in your committee for an un-
lreasonable length of time and re-
spectfully petition you to give it your immediate consideration . . . and that this bill be reported out for consideration by all members of the House,” the petition said. Nine Marion County Republicans were among the signers. They were:
"Mrs. Downey, Paul Moffett, Charles Ehlers, Thomas Grinslade, Thaddeus .
Baker, Alva Baxter, C. Otto Abshier and Emsley Johnson. Other signers were Frank J. Evans (R. Noblesville), George Freeman (R. Kokomo), Charles Phelps (R. Ft. Wayne) and Harry Muller (D. Anderson). Rep. Markland said that he had not received the petition, although two House members said they had delivered it to him in person. Asked if there would be a meeting today on the subject, Rep. Markland said: “I haven’t decided yet.” Dry forces claim that they have 62 votes, enough for passage, if the measure is brought before the House. Several state-wide church
and civic Srganimtions are $e
soring the. hill. 5.
7 DIE AS SNOW
Plymouth; Fair, Colder Is Prediction.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. ....25 10am .... 7a. m. .... 268 11a.m..... 8a.m..... 25 12 (noon) . 9a.m.....27 1pm. ....30
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night to create a traffic hazard that
trafic toll to seven lives.,
tomorrow. Roads and streets in the Ft.
Wayne areas were reported:slick by the State Highway Department. Approximately two inches of snow fell in those areas. Light snow fell overnight in the
and roads.in the northern part of that: area also were reported snow covered and slick. Light snow fell around Seym up and Vincennes, but roads in vicinity are clear, the on said. The snow fell late yesterday and was part of a general fall in the Middle West. The disturbance that caused it was moving eastward. In California and Nevada there was light rains and on the eastern seaboard temperatures fell.. Temperatures from the Rockies to the Mississippi were 10 to 20 degrees above normal." Mrs. Stella Eaton, 1417 S. New (Continued on Page Eight)
PERILS TRAFFIC
3 Killed in in Collision Near
"A little more than an inch of snow fell on Indianapolis and Indiana last
helped swell the State’s week-end
‘ The Weather Bureau predicted fair and colder today, tonight and
Crawfordsville-Greenfield district
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BARKLEY SEES DANGER TOU. 3. IF NAZIS WIN
Opens Lend-Lease Debate In Senate as Proponents Predict Victory.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (U. P.).— Senate Democratic Leader Alben W, Barkley of entushy opened Senate debate on the Administration’s allout British aid bill with ‘a declaration that a German victory in the European war would place in Nazi hands the weapons “to destroy us.” He said that “the only way to stop Hitler is to defeat him.” If the United States does not extend aid to Great Britain and other nations fighting totalitarianism, “we shall some day have to surrender to him or defeat him over here,” Mr. Barkley said. Mr. Barkley addressed the chamber as President Roosevelt met with the Secretaries of War, Navy, Treasury and Agriculture, the Federal Budget Director and Harry L. Hopkins to draft plans for rapid action to help Britain as soon as the bill is enacted. Mr, Barkley and other ‘legislative leaders had conferred earlier with Mr. Roosevelt, receiving from him some of the information which Mr. Hopkins gathered in Britain as the President’s special envoy.
Prompt Action Urged
Mr. Barkley told the Senate that the United States would face “a hostile world” if Britain is defeated. He pleaded for prompt action on the pending bill so as to place the armament production of the United States at the disposal of Great Britain, Greece and China. The galleries were only partially filled as Mr.-Barkley opened ‘the debate which he expects will last for 10 days or two weeks, culminating in passage of the bill by a two-to-one majority. He asserted that the wars now raging abroad are “an inhuman and bestial revolution , against every freedom for which men have striven through centuries of hardship.”
War of Ideas, He Says
“This is not a war merely of boundaries,” he said. “It is not a war to eliminate corridors entirely. It is not a war merely to relieve minorities of some injustice nflicied upon them by a boundary
“This may have been the pretext upon which it was begun, But its genesis lies deeper than-fnere physical delineations upon a map. It is a war of ideas; a war of philosophies; a way to impose upon the | Continues on Page Eight)
WILLKIE RETURNS TO RUSHVILLE THURSDAY
He’ll ‘Roam Around and Think’; May Go to China.
Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Wendell L. Willkie will return Thursday to his Rushville, Ind., farms “to roam around and do some thinking. The 1940 Republican Presidential
candidate, who has just returned from an inspection trip of Great Britain, is considering a similar tour t |of China. Regarding the China trip Mr. Willkie said: “No definite decision has been reached.” Mr. Willkie’s return to Rushville will be the first since his Presidential campaign. He also said he would take up private practice of law soon. : Mr. Willkie came here yesterday to deliver an off-the-record address to the National Women’s Press Club and will speak again today, also off the record, at a National Press Club
luncheon,
Klari"Wizard Visits City
Klan Imperial Wizard James A. Colescott . , » “banish every foreign ‘ism.’ ”
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Undercover Members Guard Against Sabotage, He Says
Colescott Indicates He May Ask U. S. Senate to Probe
Charges of Alien
Voting in State.
By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM The Ku-Klux Klan has undercover members working in various Indianapolis and state plants engaged on defense orders. to guard against sabotage, Imperial Wizard James A. Colescott revealed on a visit here
today. The ‘Imperial Wizard, highest
ranking Klan official, conferred in
his Hotel Lincoln suite with leaders of the six Indiana Klan districts
on details of the Klan’s campaign to expose Fifth Column activities. -- While here, he also inquired into recent reports that hundreds of aliens had voted in the Lake County election last November. He was particularly interested in what steps the Legislature might take in its investigation, declaring that if it failed to make a thorough probe, he would submit the matter to the U. S. Senate for investigation. “If aliens are voting in Indiana,” he commented, “the chances are that such practices are going on to an even greater extent in such centers as Detroit, New York and Chicago.” Elaborating on the Klan’s undercover work in Hoosier defense plants, Mr. Colescott said the organization’s workers “don’t rat— squeal to the boss—when one of the workers becomes influenced A by Communistic workers, but try to straighten out the misguided worker.” “without revealing their identity,” he added, “our ‘men. try _to stimulate their fellow workers’ patriotism. In several Detroit unions,
‘we've been able to drive the Com-
munists out of union offices.” Mr. Colescott, a former Terre Haute veterinarian, said in an interview that the Klan opposes the Lease-Lend bill as being likely to “drag us all the wily into the war”; describec. Henry l'ord as “one of (Continued on Page Eight)
FEW SHED TEARS IN
BRIGHTON GAS RAID
BRIGHTON, Feb. 17 (U.P.).— Shoppers, clerks, office-workers and pédestrians hurriedly donned gas masks today as clouds of gas enveloped a three-quarter mile area in the center of Brighton. But the gas was tear gas, and was released by air raid precautions authorities in England’s first mass
gas. test. The people of Brighton had two days’ warning that the test was coming, although the exact date was kept secret, and only a few persons, caught without their masks, shed involuntary tears,
By RICHARD LEWIS IT STANDS to reason that almost every time you turn around, you are violating one or more of the thousands of City .ordinances which have been passed in the last 100 years. Which one it is, of course, you may only imagine. You might never find it at the City ‘Hall unless you financed: a research staff to dig it out of some basement file. Figure it out. Indianapolis has had a City Council since 1840. The Council ‘has been meeting twice a month—come foul or fair weather —all these years. This century of activity has produced thousands of petty laws, restrictions and bans of one sort or snother. Violating the letter or spirit of one of these laws is Just natural. F J FJ ” FOR INSTANCE, it's strictly against the municipal law to wear’
safety measure was taken 50 years ago when ladies’ hatpins had a closer resemblance to rapiers than -now. But it’s still in effect. This might surprise you. It is against public safety and morals
. park your car without hitching
‘to a post. And if they catch.
Take If Easy, Boys, City's 100 Years of Laws Make Just About Everything You Do Illegal
faster than three miles an hour, watch out! It’s a $50 fine. The restriction against keeping “milch” cows in the city is still in force. Only, K one-cow to a family. The ordinance was aimed - against bovine bootlegging. Don’t throw those corncobs in the streets. It may cost you $25. And playing games in a “public street, sidewalk alley or courtyard” is also forbidden. of
2 = = THE EARLIEST anti-sabotage measure appears to be a restriction against placing explosives on car tracks—a .practice which may
bring the offender a $25 fine. Throwing confetti at another person or object in a public place
. carries a $50 penalty.
You can’t go to a show on Sunday, you can’t wear a hat inside a theater whether you are male
POLES ‘BOMBED’ WITH LEAFLETS
R. A. F. Reveals New Power In 1800-Mile: Non-Stop Week-End Flight.
LONDON, Feb. 17 (U. P.).—The Royal Air Force has struck east into central Poland for the first time, London revealed today. Never pefore had ‘British air power made itself felt so far from its home bases in Britain. The Air Ministry revealed . that
the. flight over Poland occurred Saturday night. It was not’ bombing raid. Leaflets wer dropped on the cities of Cracow and Kadowice. The importance of the development ‘lay in the distance involved. British bombers had to fly more than' 1800 miles round-trip to make the raid. It appeared virtually certain that the flight was made with some of the new long-range bombers which the . British’ either have recently built for themselves or purchased
from the United States. The United States planes include Boeing “Flying Fortresses” and powerful Consolidated aircraft long range. bombers, the British themselves have built a new version of their famous Wellington long-range bomber which is said to have even greater range and striking power than the American aircraft. The most eastern objective in Germany previously raided by the
|R. A, F. has been the Baltic seaport
of Stettin. Development of planes able to raid into Poland and return to the British Isles opens up for the first time the possibility that the British will be able to attack German's vital eastern war industries.
CLAIM PHILADELPHIA 5TH COLUMN BASE
Report ‘Termite’ Movement Active in Hemisphere
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 17 (U.P) .— Mexican sources, with some support from diplomatic quarters, circulated reports today of a sinister Fifth Column movement operating on. the termite principle ‘throughout the Western Hemisphere in behalf of Germany A Nazi-controlled Nationalist Party in Mexico was alleged to be linked with’ the organization, but it was said that the big headquarters was’ in Philadelphia, where plots| were hatched to block American aid to Great Britain, sabotage defense preparations in the United States and antagonize Latin American republics against the United States by fomenting minor rebellions,’ riots, strikes and disturbing rumors. One aim of the alleged plotters
and energies of the United States
LE LE German ' conquest ‘of war Latin
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TURKS, SOFIA
TAKE PLEDGES OF NEUTRALITY:
Vital Alert on on Balkan War Front Held Possible; 4 Far East Is Tense.
. By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
Bulgaria and Turkey today issued a nonaggression declae.
Balkan road for Germafk troops to attack Greece withs out fear of Turkish interven tion. The declaration binds Turkey and, Bulgaria against mutual aggression, There is no mention in the join declaration of the possibility of Naz troop movement into Bulgaria—s movement which the British cone tend. is already. under way—or the.
Turkish alliance with Great Britain: whith has been expected to bring.
in the event of a German offensive close to the strategic Dardanelles. -.
Earlier Pacts Not Affected .
The declaration of neutrality, friendship and nonaggression care ries a preface in which it states
ments contracted with countries.”
This language: would: cover both a Bulgarian agreement to allow’ Nazi troops “to come in’ and. the. Turkish Alliance with Britain, Bills ere no guarantee on garia’s part, of course, to aggression against Turkey bed troops. However, such a would seem to be implied, at “ ue. vety fact that the d on has been issued at a moment, ° when ‘the Balkans are filled. alarms about forthcoming Nazi ofs fensives in that region would seem to make the document a mere paper’ formality unless such an under# standing has been given, rI In this. connection, it has bee noted that the Germans have been working overtime through diplo« matic channels in an effort fo win dssurance of Turkish neutrality. event they move. across B against Greece.
London Reaction Awaited
Suggestions have come from the Balkans and London that German troop movements into Bul«' garia can be expected very shortly, possibly within a week or 10 Sj weather conditions do not’ intere ere. This would provide an early. task the Bulgarian-Turkish declarge on. News of the agreément came first from Sofia. There was no immedi~ ate interpretation from Istanbul or London. There have been intensive Turkish-British staff consultations in the past few weeks and the Turks have insisted they will fight if their interests are threatened. However, there has not heen any clear defints. tion of those “interests.” : ;
Russian Word Hinted >
German pressure on Greece to make a peace with Italy rather: than face possibility of large-scale’ Nazi intervention in : Albania and possibly Salonika frequently has been reported. It was expected that more pressure might follow i! developments although the G officially stated last week: that ai they were in the war “to the finish The declaration raised the quede tion of whether the Turks hgve received some word from Russia.as. to the attitude of the Soviet Union on Balkan developments. Thére have been few reports in recent of any moves by Russia. which would indicate she was prepared to oppose (Continued on Page Eight)
RICHMAN CLOTHING "CHAIRMAN IS DEAD
Nathan G. Richman, 72, of the hoard and vice president of Richman Bros. Company, 's
today of heart disease. He was the last of three brothets who built a small business into. a national concern based on the of sales direct from manufactur consumer.
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mouth, O., where his father ated a small clothing factary wi became the jucieus. for the Solfpaly:
J. Edgar Hoover, director of Federal Bureau of’ Investis today asked Congress to give: tie FBI ‘authority - . in
was said to be to divert attention |extorti
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that it does not prejudice “engages. Ree
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clothing manufacturers, died: heye
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