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azi Troops Swarm \cross Danube River

Motorcycle Soldiers With Machine Guns Cover Arrival

Of Mobile Columns in Port Town.

By GEORGE WELLER ~ Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

SOFIA, March 3.—First-hand

information reaching this corre-

‘spondent from the Danube River area, now closed to foreigners, states that heavy mobile columns of Tanks, trucks and mounted artillery are NOW swarming past both the pontoon bride south of Giurgiu and the

ferries playing to the north.

The exact time of the invasion at this point is dated as about 8

: “o'clock the evening of Friday, Feb. 28, when electric light switches mn _ the town of Rustchuk, on the Bulgarian side, ‘were cut by official order, and remained off all night, ostensibly out of order. this period of darkness the pontoon bridge, which had been lying downstream, was floated into “position and the first uniformed ~ German soldiers crossed before midnight to join those not in uni- ~ form who had already driven trucks and tanks in columns by roads from the Dobrudja. “At the last minute a Communist ‘plot to derange the crossing was "discovered in Giurgiu, on the Ru- . manian side, and as a result extra heavy precautions were taken in - Bulgaria. Motorcycle troops, . machine guns, covered the arrival “in Rustchuk of the mobile columns and the long climb up from the river to the town. To protect the local food supply, the Bulgarian authorities decreed that only bread

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Rumania Waits British Raids

By GEORGE WELLER Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. SOFIA, March 3.—War operations by Greece and Britain against the Germans occupying Rumania will begin, if the Rumanian Government has not taken steps to force them to leave, by Wednesday. Such is the content of the British ultimatum that was communicated

to Bucharest during the latter part

diplomatic authority close to the Rumanian Government,

‘Whether the British would begin operations by sending bombers from Greece over the two ranges of Balkan mountains would depend, it was believed, upon whether Britain had already severed relations with Bul-

j _garia hy that time, as is expected.

In the Rumanian press, it was said that the purpose of Foreign Minister Anthony Eden's trip to Turkey last week was to gain Turkish acceptance of the right to send a British fleet through the Dardanelles, which might mean an attack on German coastal guns around Constanza and even possible raiding parties. No word of the British ultimatum was published in ~ Rumania. In negotiating with the British, ‘the Rumanians are said to have asked immunity from bombing for " Bucharest, as an open city, and promised to move the German soldiers now housed near the center to their large, but still unfinished, permanent barracks, around such ‘suburban air fields as those at Pietra and Chitila.

- Term Sofia Terror Inspired

By GEORGE WELLER . Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. ~~ SOFIA, March 1 (delayed)—A wave of lawlessness, of inspired origin has been spreading through the Capital since the night club tussle Feb. 22 between American Minister George H. Earle and a Nazi engineer. | _ Whether this incident was itself deliberately provoked cannot be said, though Mr. Earle has paid enough money to have Tipperary played to German audiences so that the timing of it would be simplicity itself.

What is more sinister is the extension of the police dragnet to take in the translators and aids of foreign correspondents which follows closely upon the roundup of ‘anti-Nazi Macedonian groups and officers of the military . society, _ Zveno. In the first rank of deliberate incidents are the robberies perpetrated in the British consulate at Varna and the passport office in Sofia, which the British themselves kept

quiet until the blistering statement

, issued by British Minister George ‘W. Rendel Thursday night and the unexplained disappearance from an

* Istanbul-bound train (and the ap-

parent kidnaping of) a Russian- . born British clerk who vanished as ‘the train reached the frontier. ~~ Undoubtedly a German hand is! behind the disappearances. The ‘entire German effort for sometime has been not to invade Bulgaria openly until a withdrawal by the British prepares the reason for pro‘tection of a friendly power as a moral pattern for the occupation, ‘Some friends of Britain in Bulfeel that both the United

was to be sold to the German quartermasters.

As yet, the Germans have made use of the railroad for uniformed troop transports only in Rumania, not in Bulgaria. The ordinary soldiers ride in third-class carriages on the regular trains from Bucharest, wearing their full war equipment, and dismount in Giurgiu to await truck accommodations on the other side. The officers are in civilian dress upon entering Bulgaria by train in the first and second-class carriages

quires, Thus, in a measure, the Trojan Horse technique is still continuing, though German cars and uniforms already fill Sofia’s squares and restaurants. The purpose is evidently to do what Army circles call “getting the people used to the uniforms.”

of last week, it was learned here on

The former Malaxa arms plant in downtown Bucharest, now govern-

ment property, probably will be demilitarized, likewise. From conversations here with the British, it seems apparent that they are planning to adopt the German technique of the half-war and will attempt, in their first bombing operations, the dexterous feat of striking all Germans and missing all Rumanians and later possibly Bulgarians, when they aim for military centers. | Meanwhile, Turkey is rushing troops to her Greek border in readiness for a thrust across Thrace to cut off the German drive down the Struma Valley, it was learned on unquestionable authority. Now that the Germans have deflnitely invaded Bulgaria and com=mitted themselves to a Greek rather than to an Anatolian campaign, the brake on the Russia escape clause on Turkish liberty of action has

been removed.

They don their uniforms on ed lted the Nazi Army to use the Varing in Sofia only where service re-|

KEY TO BALKANS

[f ‘Nation Signs With Axis Hitler Will Get Fine Road to Salonika.

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer

| WASHINGTON, March 3.—JugoSlalyin is now the key to the Balkans, and only a rapid British concentration in the Salonika sector against half a million Nazi troops pouring into Bulgaria can keep Jugoslavia out of Hitler's hands. If Jugoslavia goes the way of Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, Hitler will obtain the second and best road to Salonika. If Jugoslavia should lend him her army—the best in ‘Danubian countries—he probably would knock out Greece quickly, either by a “fright peace” or quick conquest. ven if Belgrade merely permit-

dar Valley road, the odds against Gieek-British defense would multiply alarmingly. The Germans have béén putting more fighting farce info Southeast Europe —and that

JUROSLAVS NAZI

talks loudest in the little countries.

Like King Boris of Bulgaria, the Belgrade Government prefers Britishi friendship to Nazi domination. Bit, like Boris, Belgrade also is apt to succumb to “the pressure of events” unless Britain acts vigorously.

Jugoslavia Surrounded

indeed, Bulgaria was exposed to Axis troops on only one side, while Jugoslavia is now surrounded on three sides, with hard - pressed Greece on the fourth. The chief weakness of Britain in trying to hold Jugoslavia—and also Tiirkey and Greece—is that they share the old fear of Bulgaria that Britain plans to let others do her fighting. Specifically, they fear Britain will limit her activity to bombing raids, particularly on the Rumanian oil fields, without putting a heavy Di dnanized army on the Salonika ront. iilhis suspicion that Britain may not! put an adequate defense force if the Salonika sector is based on her past performance and present facilities.

Fritish Face Shipping Task

{When more planes and. equipment, could have enabled Greece to knock Italy out of Albania, Britain chose to use those planes instead in distant Italian East Africa and is still doing so. Whether such strategy is wise or tinwise for the British Empire as a whole, it is not calculated to win or hold Balkan allies. Obviously Gen. Wavell’s forces are not large enough to guard Palestine and Egypt, conduet three African offensives on the widely separated fronts of Eritrea-Ethio-pia, Somaliland and West Libya, and still have a major force left over for Salonika.

are fairly obviously planned as such, are playing into the hands of the sponsors of those incidents. The most drastic in the late difficulties was the discovery by the police of a box full of cholera germs and a quantity of dynamite near!! an unprotected point of the pipes which bring water from the Rila| Plateau—the German headquarters area—into Sofia. .On authority hitherto found - impeccable, thle writer ascertained that these germs and ‘dynamite — reeking of implausibility, as they do—actually were found.

CAMP WORKERS STRIKE

WILMINGTON, N. C, March 3 (U. P.) —Nearly 4000 workers, mernbers of the Wilmington Building Trades Council (AFL), struck today at Camp Davis, the Army's $13,000,000 anti-aircraft firing range under construction on the North! Carolina Coast. The Council said it was seeking! “at least a preferential shop” and wage-hour conditions equal to the Council's regular standards.

States and Britain, by accepting ; provocation incidents, which

tjuestion

basic materials,” Mr. Patterson told

last week of February, and this

Even if most of the victorious Libyan Army is to be switched to Greek and Aegean bases, as widely antitcipated, there is a serious whether Britain has enough Mediterranean shipping to transport and supply an army able to hold off Axis attacks on Greece from Albania and Bulgaria.

MEDIATION SYSTEM URGED FOR LABOR

WASHINGTON, March 3 (U. P.).

s-Undersecretary of War Robert P.

Patterson ‘today recommended re#stablishment of the World War labor mediation system so that the United States will have the benefit bf “every man hour of labor” it

[tan throw behind the defense pro-

gram, Strikes caused a loss of 120,000 man-days of defense labor in the

loss is causing defense officials as auch concern as “a shortage of

the House Judiciary Committee.

Before compulsory regulatory leg-

|islation is imposed, ‘Mr, Patterson

said, the World War labor media-

|tion system should be given a fair

frial. He recalled that in only fhree cases was the board unable

fo avert strikes through its volun- | itary mediation.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

\ Here Is the Traffic Record County City Total 1941 oh SOBs 7 10 17" 1940 0s dle ssssessn en 5 . ch 1 and 2— jured /......24 Accidents ....52/n ¢ edsesses 0 Arrests Y TRAFFIC COURT

‘9 14

Cases Convic- Fines|"”

tried tions paid 1 0 0

1 15 0 35 5

$60

MEETINGS TODAY cjsmtven Club, luncheon, Board of

n on Olah, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,

Republican Club, meeting, 5446 od Roiioes,” Jusheon, Bors Club, TY of Trade, dinner, Board of Trade, na ub: noon.” Club, luncheon, Co-

oon Association of Retired Buildin Postal Clerks, meetng

Four Build * nsbiiute, Indiana Deira emor ial, all day oN ndinmn Chapter, merican | ns Association, Inc., meeting, ton, m. Manufacturers’ Representb, , meeting, Hotel Warren, noon. vie League, meeting, Brook-

munity House, 8 p. m. pan Civic Association, meet-

Canary

stamore House, 7:30 p. m. s Club, public luncheon, Central

n. meeting,- Hotel Washington,

Society of Women Accountng, Hotel Washington, 6:30

- Co. — University of Kansas harmacy, dinner, Hotel Sev-

m. Sassvciation, dinner, Hotel

ait ally Insurance, g 3 ius1ers, ashington, 12:15 p. m. he drymen’s Association, din3 Fashington,

erie 300

$ Sic

lis Alumni Association of Kap a meeting, Riley Hotel, 7:30!ia er

luncheon, Board of|la

MEETINGS TOMORROW || |!

psiary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hatel, JT's Men's Club, luncheon, Y. M. C. A, I

no Alpha 1 ig Omega, luncheon, Board of | Tra

Gyro Clan, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel, Jlseeator Club, luncheon, Hotel Lincgin, Universal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,

University of Hickizan Club, luncheon; Board of Trade, on Knights of Conus, luncheon, K, of noon. Credit Grevn, junchiond 0.,

e, Wm. { a Red Cross Instituse, “Indians World War Memorial, all d Lutheran Service Club, A ¥icheon, Can’ al Cottage noon. n

eon, Hotel Antlers, noo Committee on Cotoauiity Health, jure. Indiana World War Memorial, 8

MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records: in the County Court House. The Times therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)

Charles i Jetier, 33, of 2 eridetfye L. Begley, 308 of 2008 N |

ukes, 21, of 146 S. 2d, Beech Grove; Maxing White, 19, of 525 'S. Al m

, Wilson, 33, of 1205 N. Oak: of 4815 E

Olive . 36; pienso, Il

a 280, ge 317 N. Brad: 21, of 129 A

VFoxw ay 25, of 3423 WW. North: ® Mildred J. McMann, 21, of 4415 W. Verm Albert Dyson, 39, of 2541 Shelby; Evelyn. Gebhart, 38, of 3541 Shelby. Robert N. Co 37" Yi. Forest:

r ar, of Stone.» Whitecotton, 26, of

W. Ross, 26, of 537 Division; Pac E. Buller, 29, of 502 N. Merician, Lebanon Ralph W. Jr, 18, of 416 8S. Ten - ple; Ruth 0p Bitte, 18. of 322 Leeds. Orie Reid, 32. of 519 Alabama; Gayle Greig, 33, of 231 5 Mich igan, Fred 8 Nix xon, 23. of Ii Grove; Clare BE, Mitchell,

. Randolph, 31,

5s of ||3601

Carl Mires, || Loretta J. Shite? Ys,

264 N. Key

diana Motor Truck Association, lunch! cis. fect |

orge’ Ala: | Pensylvania, Ale

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9th. Beach n

| © Matilda Kelly. 81, at 45 N. Sherman

Atherine Barr, 17. of 448 N. of 1443 i TI of 1443 Ny "Alabama.

"BIRTHS Girls

Winston, Lucille Hill. at St. Francis. Harry, Florence Wade, at St. Francis. Fred, Susan Lautenbach, at St. Franeis. Richard, Valencia Morris, at St. Fran-

is William, Lilyan Haslet, at Coleman. Leighton, Barbara George, at Coleman, McCabe, Eula Betty, at City. Victor, Helen Stickney, at Cit Arnold, Bagel on, 2 at Methodist. encer, at Methodist. oy nay Welshaar, at Methodist. Joseph, Jeanne Burnstein, at Methodist. Boys

Howard, Audrey Kepler, at St. Francis. Roland, Rosalind Jenkins, at St. Fran-

Charles, Vergia Myers, at St. Francis. Glenn, Rosemary ckerson, at St. Fran-

jis Donald, Letty Lowden, at Coleman. Theodore. Mary Armsirong. at City. Earl, Suzanne Warman, at Methodist. Abraham, Florence Goldsmith, at Meth-

Harold, Gertrude Pollard, at M . Paul, Geraldine Scalf, ht hnthodis ’ Carl, Sophia Buddenbaum. at Methodist. . Hilmer, Beulah Johnson, at Methodist.

DEATHS Patrick Patrick Fitzgerald, 85, at Ceniral Ind., atteriosclerosis, 81, ‘at 2011 N.

nting, Margaret Pedigo. ‘86. at 4816 Manlove, Johar pneumonia Sallie E. Hudson, 81, at 653 Congress, acute myocarditis. Carlan Purcell, 32, al 346 Harlan, lobar pneumonia. George M. Raab, 57, at St. Vincents, uremia

o Robert Lee. Wilson, 9, at City,

scarlet

Dr., hypertens; Helen Grisel. yo at City. diabetes. Clarence 8S. 3 RL Norway Sanatorium, Jobat Ru porn Doss, 18. ‘at City, bronchoFay Vanwedding, 85, at St. Vincents,

ure John Shaw, 72, at Long, carcino Edna Nooe, 52, at 2255 N. na born,

carcinoma. 68, at 36 8. Chester,

ora Slater, chronic myocarditis. diabetes. ain tumor.

Beard. 62, at long. ri , at Long, carci-

& 43, at Lon oma. Anna a arie Lee, 80, at Massachusetts,

= Alot G. Rackley, Jr, 23. R. R. 4 CKle, ” wy Box 242; Lillian MY Gault, 18, R. R. id,

Bo es Hamer’: 1% 3010 N. of Ruthanna Renne ner, “31, Petershur nd Robert McCain C Ft Custer, Mich.; Viola M. Stewart, *h, R, R| 10, Box 88-B. |

Wycoft, 22, 44 Tona M. Hagselberg. ia 1a,” or Ti SRE’ | James H 8. 624 N. Capi

:30 p. m. "Wa y for Metals, education ashington, Pp. m,

FIgSue McClain 25, of of 3 Prospect. | Jam es D. Hill, ‘10, of 1535 W, \ Veimon:;

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{meningitis

. Thacker, carcino,

Elizabeth Neidigh, 78, at 1820 E. 10th, cardio vascular renal. oward C. Jen kins, 59, at 3951 Washington Bayi arteriosclerosis. rett Strong, 55, at Methodist, hepatic ns insufficiency. B. Gordon, 46, at Veterans,

George “Kesterson, 61, at Veterans, arterloscler.

DEBATE USE OF FOREIGN SHIPS

American Republics Reported Seeking Unified Policy on Tied Up Craft.

WASHINGTON, March 3 (U. PJ). —The American republics today were reported by diplomatic sources to be seeking a unified policy whereby they might acquire for their own use close to 800,000 tons of foreign shipping tied up in their ports. Chief obstacle to such a policy— or any other plan for the acquisition

of tied up shipping—was said to be the attitude of the British Government which might assert a right to seize many of the vessels if they ventured on the high seas. At present a policy of seeking to acquire these ships is being confirmed for the most part to negotiation between “Homestic shipping companies and the foreign owners. The chief conversations are now going on between the owners of Danish shipping tied up in U, S. ports—estimated at 36 vessels—and domestic operators. In other ports negotiations were said also to be under way between German owners of some 30 German bottoms now tied up in Centra] and South .Anférican ports and local operators. The argument used in these negotiations is that, if the ships are sold, Germany will realize some exchange for them to use in any way possible. At the same time the heavy cost of keeping the ships in order would be avoided. If the Germany submarine blockade of Great Britain is successful they may sink the ships themselves without losing. If, on the other hand, the American Government should decide to take the ships over, Germany might still sink them without any advantage to herself. Tied-up foreign shipping in the United States is estimated at close to 500,000 tons. This includes 160.000 tons of Danish shipping, 160,000 tons of French—including the Normandie which represents about half this amount—145,000 tons of Italian and an uncerfain amount of Norwegian, Hungarian and Rumanian bottoms.

MRS. URLA F. ELLIS

IS DEAD HERE AT 64

Mrs. Urla F. Ellis, an Indianapolis resident 34 years, died yesterday. She was 64 and was born in Crawfordsville, She was a former member of the Independent Social Club and lived at 435 Harvard Place. She was a member of the First Church of Christ Scientist and the Mother Church in Boston. Survivors are her son, Stephen J. Ellis; a daughter, Mrs. Marshall D. Montani, both of Indianapolis, and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m. Wednesday in the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary and burial will be in the Masonic Cemetery in Crawfordsville,

John Banter Cameron, Bk. at 2013 Dearborn, migral msiiciensy Ny

returned to work. Saturdur,

The nighlights of the war are mapped as the Nazi machine Fumbles ‘through the Balkans toward the Greek frontier.

Detectives Find I ° . I o . Fugitive' in Jail AFTER DETECTIVES had spent the day searching the City and County for a fugitive Saturday, Sergt. Jack O’Neil, police record clerk, thumbed a few records and produced their man. He was Floyd Hutson, wanted in connection with the beating of his wife and daughter with a hammer. . While detectives were searching for him, Sergt. O'Neil discovered Hutson had been arrested on intoxication and vagrancy charges a few hours earlier by a parole officer. In Muni~ cipal Court today, hearing on the vagrancy charge was continued until March 21 when police reported Mrs. Hutson was in critical condition. Her husband’s bond was set at $5000.

WORKERS READY FOR FLANNER FUND DRIVE

The Flanner House building fund campaign to raise $150,000 will get under way tomorrow night with the opening of an “advance drive” by the campaign’s special gifts division. The gifts division will hold a “kick-off” meeting at 6 p. m. tomorrow at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. The gifts division is headed by Russell W. McDermott, chairman, and Mrs. Kin Hubbard, Although the general solicitation in the campaign is not scheduled to begin until March 14, the special gifts division hopes to have a great share of its work finished by then. Harry V. Wade, general chairman, is recruiting an army of 500 volunteer workers to raise the $150,000 goal.

GLUES LACKING IN $3800 MILK HOLDUP

Police reportedly were without clues today to the identity of two bandits who held up three employees of the Banquet Ice Cream|¢ & Milk Co. Saturday night, obtaining $1300 in cash and $1952 in checks. The holdup occurred in a parking lot at the rear of the firm’s plant, 1214 Southeastern Ave. The holdup victims were Charles E., French, credit manager of the company. who was en route to the bank with the day’s receipts; Gerald Rushton and Edgar Vielhaber, route sales-|n men. All three were forced into Mr. French's car by the bandits, who, after unsuccessfully attempting to

open. The bandits, described as young and “very nervous,” several times|p threatened to kill the three employees.

FIRE DESTROYS AUTO

at the rear of 1844 College Ave. last night caused damage estimated at $600. The blaze destroyed an auto and furniture owned by Cecil E. Taylor, 663 E. 19th St. It was discovered by Radio Patrolmen Claude

Kinder and Charles B. Crouch.

Police Smash Path Through Picket Lin

IN DISTRICTING

Biddinger Told Told Compromise Is Ready; Plan Follows Open G. 0. P. Revolt.

Republican leaders moved rapidly] today to- compromise the Congres-

which caused an open revolt among G. O. P. legislators last week. . Fifth District Republicans threat«, ened to block all remaining G. O. P.

their district in the Republican column in 1942, Senator Thurman Biddinger (R. Marion), who led the revolt in the Senate Saturday, said he had been informed by party leaders that a

offered this afternoon. 3d District Joins Revolt

The bill, as approved by the House, would add Democratic Madison County to the Fifth District. Leaders in that district claimed the change would result in defeat for the Republican Congressman next year. Also joining the revolt were Third District Republicans who had asked that another Republican county be added to their district. Senator Biddinger - said party leaders had agreed to amend the bill and add either Cass or Carroll

~l county, both Republican, to the

Fifth and put Marshall County in the Third District. All three of the counties now are in the heavily Republican Second District. These changes would be agreeable to Fifth and Third Distries leaders, - Senator Biddinger indicated. Expected This Afternoon

The amendment was expected to be presented for vote on the Senate floor this afternoon. Senator John W. VanNess (R. Valparaiso), from the Second District, said he had not heard of any compromise. “If they were going to take anything from the Second District, I would know something about it,” he said.

FUNDS SOUGHT FOR DEFENSE EDUCATION

Times Special WASHINGTON, March 3.—The Federal Security Agency today urged in a confidential memorandum to Congressmen immediate legislation to make $150,000,000 available for educational and recreational facilities in defense praduction and military camp ared\.. Of this amount, $838,000 would be earmarked for the construction of a school at “boom town” Charlestown, Ind.,” where ‘a powder. plant is being constructed.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bure mee INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Partly cloudy and colder tonight and tomorrow; much colder tonight with lowest temperature about 28. Sunrise .... 6:15 | Sunset .... TEMPERATURE

7:08

open the money bag, finally slit it| Bistsr

Miami Fire which swept a storage barn|M

~—Mareh 3, 1940— er desc3l BAROMETER TODAY

Precipitation 24 hrs. nd m... Total precipitation since Jan. 2 Deficiency since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER ” - asional showers in no: agian aging. i light SOW, w, DaTuy cloudy in sou ortion, much - ov Ld tomorrow Da ‘cloudy, pro is flur-

ries in extreme north portion, colder.

Illinois—Partly cloudy to cloudy, occasional light snow in north portion: much older. moderate cold wave in west - porHon "ti tonight; tomorrew partly cloudy and 1

Lower Michigan — Moder ate to heavy snow in north nd central Portions: rain chang now in extreme south portion, BI to tonight; tomorrow cloudy, occasional light snow, colder in south and east portions, fresh to occasionally strong northerly . winds. Ohio—Rsain tonight, changing to light snow late tonight or tomorrow morning; colder late tonight; much colder tomorrow and tomorrow night. Kentucky—Light rain and colder, much Solder in west and central portions totomorrow cloudy and much colder nen light rain changing to snow in east , central portions.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 0:30 A. M.' Station Weather Amarillo, Tex. Tr Bismarck,

Dod or City, Kas. Jacksonville, Fl Kansas City, we Rock,

New Orleans . New York Okla. city, Sula Omah Dittsburg es. San Antonio, Tex.

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Xe Hard-riding policemen, the breath of thelr horses rising in steaming clouds, smash a path through. the picket line at Gate No. 1 of the Bethlehem Steel Co.'s ‘Buffalo plant. Police riot squads escorted a cavalacade of workers’ eazs Shtough the lines of the + easing ipiskete, The sieike. was seifiod SM. the mon

sional Reapportionment dispute].

compromise amendment would be]

WHEN, ONE OF THE Representatives threatened to “walk out of this hall unless I am permitted to speak” the other day, Speaker James

M. Knapp wisely opined:

“Gentlemen, the State of Indiana might be better off if we all }

walked out.”

And so it might—especially in view of what is coming up. After

today, there are just six more meeting days and nights. Some of the things that might happen

‘during this hectic period make

you’ shudder. If this Legislature follows the pattern of all others, it will be hammering bills through so fast some of the weary lawmakers ' won't know. what they're voting on. This is the period in which the “invisible Legislature” gets in its best (or rather worst) licks—the time when things like the old “windshield gadget law” creep in. There are many ways of accomplishing these cute tricks and one of the best is the conference committee method. If a bill is amended in either house, the other is asked to concur in the change. If it declines, two members of each house are named to a committee to seek a settlement. They may insert or subtract as they please. Then the houses are asked to accept their reports, which are not printed and sometimes explained in his own way by a committee member. Then after the legislators go home the jokers, if any, are found and nothing can be done about them. Of course, with a Democratic Governor and his legal staff looking over the final bills turned out by the Republican Legislature, there's less chance of these shenanigans. But any chance is too

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A Week to Go!

ONE WEEK TO GO, let's look at the record: Bills passed by both houses and ready for the Governor’s desk, 124. Signed by the Gov-~ ernor, 54. Vetoed, 11. Permitted to become law without his signature, 3. Ninety-nine of the finally approved bills originated in the House and 25 in the Senate. ‘The Senate has passed 176 of its bills to the House, the lower chamber has sent 215 of its measures to the Senate. The Senate has 27 of its own bills ready for the final vote along with 19 House measures awaiting final approval. The House has 91 of its own bills on third reading, the final stage before passage, along with 55 Senate bills awaiting enactment or rejection. And anything which reaches Governor Schricker’s desk after midnight Thursday, he may stick in his pocket and forget.

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In the Middle

THE COUNTY CLERKS' Association is caught in the middle. It is about to get wanted for some time but doesn’t covet as the Legislature wants to pass it on, For years, county and city health officers have kept the birth and death records. In many

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cases, they did a haphazard job

at best and many records were lost. But with the advent of social security, national defense and other emergency matters, birth cer'ificates have become very important. So the local health officers have been getting the information together and providing the certificates at fees ranging as high as $1 a. copy. Various organizations of county officials eyed the lucrative job, including the clerks and recorders. Shortly after the Legislature opened, a bill giving the duties to the clerks was introduced and the recorders were upset. But when the bill had passed the Senate, it was discovered that collecting fees for the job was forbidden

Strauss Says:

a job it has.

and no appropriation provided tof added clerical help. This brought a yelp front the: clerks, who claim they don’t get enough money now to run their

offices properly. They began put ° 4

ting pressure on the House to = block the bill, And shorn of the fees provision, the recorders don’t want the fob sither, » Parole Problem

SOCTAL WORKERS are be« ginning to worry about Indiana's parole’ system if the Legislature completes action on a program it an now is considering. fy They say that 2000 ex-convicts would be turned loose without supervision if the Clemency Com= mission is abolished and parole duties taken away from the State Welfare Department, as bills sponsored by Rep. Jess Andrew ¢ (R. Lafayette) would do. In amending the Welfare law, the Andrew bill does not re-" establish laws governing parole. supervision which were repealed by that act. The problem would be turned over to the prison and =~ reformatory trustees, but no appropriations for this work are ine cluded in the budget. oh Indiana’s parole supervision system, which utilizes the faéili= ties of county welfare depart ments, has won national acclaim, *. The Clemency Commission, * which hears petitions and makes recommendations to the Governor, is the target of a two-pronged drive. In addition to the Andrew bill, its appropriations have been cut to $250 by the budget prune ers, This is just enough money to. wind up its present bookkeeping and get out of business, ! » » »

Those Denton Girls

EARLY IN THE session, Mrs, Winfield K. Denton, wife of the House minority leader, suggested to her husband that it would be nice to have their three daughters . serve as pages some time during the session. vi But Representative Denton told her he was “too busy.” The girls showed up the other: day as pages. “I see you are all here,” said Mr. Denton. “Yes, we're pages,” one of them: replied. “That's nice,” said Mr. Denton. He didn’t bother to ask them how they got the jobs. But one of | his friends says it was this way. Mrs. Denton told her story to the . wife of a Republican legislator, who told her husband, who got . the girls their jobs.

WINANT'S CALMNESS IMPRESSES LONDON

Copyright. 1941, by The Indianapolis Times nd The Chicago Daily News,

LONDON, March 3.—One ps the’ quietest and most restrained ‘Am= bassadors United States has ever had anywhere was today ine stalled in the American Embassy in London, an office until recently oc= cupied by one of the most vocal and unrestrained emissaries ever sent abroad by Washington. Correspondents got a real shock when they met John G, Winant, the new American envoy, in. very room where Joseph P, X used to hold forth, Mr, ‘Win spoke off the record to them. The impression Mr, Winant gave was distinctly favorable, It was generally agreed, by those who had not met Mr. Winant before, that his very soft-spokenness might be an asset here.

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