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‘WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1941

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BRITISH SMASH DEEP INTO ETHIOPIA

FILES SUIT IN + TESTING LAWS ON ATTY. GEN,

Beamer Issues Opinion Act Creating New School | Board Is Illegal.

Moving on two fronts, Governor Henry F. Schricker today launched his attack on the constitutionality of the Republican Legislature's “decentralization” program Developments were: 1. The Governor filed a suit in the local Circuit Court attacking the legality of the two Attorney General acts, abolishing the office and providing for the appointment of an interim attorney-for-the-state until a new officer is elected in 1942. He] asked an early decision before the law becomes effective April 1 2. In answer to a request from the Governor, Attorney General George N. Beamer issued an opinion that] the law creating a new Staie Board oi Education ‘is void because it attempts to amend an act already re-| pealed.”

Other Suits Threatened

3. The ‘Governor, in a statement, said: "A controversy of vital importance has arisen be-| tween the Governor on the one] hand and the Lieutenant-Governor,! Secretary of State. Auditor and] Treasurer on the other. In prac-| tical terms, this controversy resolves itself into the question of deciding who is to be the chief executive officer of Indiana, with

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executive officers, in this particular case the Attorney General.” 4. Other State officials indicated that new suits te test the constitutionality of the Republican's] program to reorganize State gov-| ernment under four administrative boards of which the Governor isi a minority member, would be filed soon. 5. Republican officials declined to comment until after tonight's State Committee meeting at the Claypool. | G. O. P. attorneys who drew up the | controversial laws were out of town! today. The Education Board Act, passed over the Governor's veto on the final night of the Assembly's session, abolished the present Board and provided that a new one be appointed by the Governor and Lieutenant Governor.

Rules Act a Nullity

In todav’'s opinion, however, the Attorney General's office held that “the attempted abolition of the present State Board of Education by that act is a nullity and that the Board . . . appointed by vou in .. .! January, 1941 , , . is still in existence.” The bill which was declared void was Senate Bill 139, which amended a 1913 law creating a State Board of Education of 13 members. { In 1933, however, the Legislature passed a new act to cover the Edu- | cation Board and its members, | which stated that “all acts and parts | of acts in conflict herewith . , . are hereby repealed.” “It is apparent,” the opinion read, “that Section 7 of Chapter 24 of the Acts of 1913, which Senate Bill 139 purports to amend, was repealed by the Legislature in 1933 . . . and (Continued on Page Three)

PETAIN WARNS OF | ‘SEVERE MEASURES’

GRENOBE, March 18 (U. P).— Marshal Philippe Petain told the] people of Grenobe today tha. France| 1s subject to great difficulties and| is “menaced by even more severe measures.” He said that France is counting upon American aid, especially supplies to relieve the food shortage. He said that France's recovery “will take all the longer since we are opposed to the ideas of a certain number of Frenchmen who have not vet understood the necessity of the new order and remain, attached to easy living FIRE IN AIRCRAFT UNIT BUFFALO, N. Y., March 19 (U. P.) —Fire broke out today in a unit | of the $12,000,000 Curtiss-Wright aircraft factory under construction here. The fire was described by a workman as an ‘‘electeical fire,” A company spokesman said it was confined to a nearly-completed engineering office building.

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Mrs. Ferguson 14) State Deaths..

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Water Company Proposes

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Council Faces Dark Outlook On Daylight Saving Time

By RICHARD LEWIS COMPLICATIONS BOTH legal and historical grew up about the Daylight Saving Time proposal today, lending strong indications that a headache is in the offing for City Council. The principal hitch appears to be the historical fact that in 1928 the City Council passed a Daylight Saving Time ordinance and never repealed it. That's what the Council records show. The ordinance, however, became inoperative in 1929, when the General Assembly set the clock back by passing a law which placed Indianapolis permanently on Central Standard Time. For 13 years, the ordinance has been in a state of suspended animation, so to speak. It may become operative again by virtue of the 1941 General Assembly Act authorizing summer daylight time.

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TF THIS HAPPENS, it will not make any difference whether Council passes the present proposal, introduced Monday night, or not Indianapolis will automatically go on Daylight Time when the 1941 enabling statute takes effect on publication—probably in June. Unless, of course, Council either: 1. Passes the present proposal, which would ordinance . . . or 2. Kills both the present proposal and the 1928 ordinance with one blow The 1928 ordinance, which placed the City on Daylight Time between May and October, was passed over the veto of Mayor L. Ert Slack. A subsequent Council attempt to repeal it failed and the effect of the ordinance was nullified when the Legislature stepped in The legal complication consists of a doubt as to whether an ordinance, nullified by a State iaw, becomes effective when the State law is repealed. City Attorney Michael B. Reddington did not venture an opinion, explaining that the effectiveness of the old ordinance could probably be interpreted either wav. . What happens next is up to City Council.

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$1,600,000 DAM A Little Heat

To Replace Cold

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The cold wave lessened here to- | day and will abate even more toOaklandon. | morrow, the Weather Bureau prebos dicted. The normal mean temperp 5 t str $1,600,~ Permission to construct a LE ature for today is 41 but the mer000 dam and reservoir on Fall Creek cury is not apt to reach par, the near Oaklandon was asked of the bureau said. Public Service Commission today It will be mostly cloudy today and by the Indianapolis Water Co. as a | Partly cloudy tomorrow here and " the lowest temperature tonight will be 30 to 35 degrees, the Bureau said.

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of its long-range program. to the City's water supply

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reserves. J dz The Commission set March 31. at Meanwhile, the bizzard raged last

10 ‘a. m., as the date for a hearing. Bight in the Northeast Rng Swept Covering approximately 2000 out into the Atlantic A cearching acres, most of which the company Party found the 70th victiv of 1t§ already owns, the reservoir would | veek-end fury in the Dakotas and

: d Minnesota. provide a maximum reserve supply,

of seven million gallons. Company officials stated in the RESURFACING OF L AVE. 0. KD 5 k '

petition that the reservoir is needed because of the increased use of water and tne recent trend “toward a diminution of the flow in white River and Fall Creek during periods water use.” | The dam, during periods of heavy . precipitation, will store up water Improvement Will Extend which can be released when the vio ow is ow. North to 34th St. The Fall Creek Station filtration : plant work, costing nearly $1,000,000! The resurfacing of Central Ave. which was started in th> summer rom Ft. Wayne Ave. to 34th St. was of 1939 will be finished about July approved by the Works Board today 1, the company reported. on the recommendation of City EnIt was estimated that $1,000,000 gineer M. G. Johnson, will be spent in construction of the The Board ordered Mr. Johnson dam and $600,000 for roads, bridges, to prepare plans and estimates for other structures and additional land.

JAIL DELAYS START OF FARM PROGRAM

MONTREAL, March 19 (U. P.).— If perseverance means anything, Charles Connell and Russell Pois- present plans are to resurface the sant will yet have a farm. roadway with asphalt. The improveThey began an 18-month sentence ment is part of a long-range plan today for stealing a pig. Poissant in creating a through highway from 1932 got six months for stealing the North to the South Side. via a horse. The following year he Central Ave. and S. East St. The served 30 days for stealing hens. In link between Central and S. East 1937 both Poissant and Connell got probably will not be completed until a year for stealing turkeys. | next year, Board members said.

U-Boat Fears Recall 1918

NEW YORK, March 19 (U. P)). —~On an evening in May, 1918, a group of weary young men looked at the lights of New York City, and sighed for the delights of Broadway. They were on the narrow deck of a German submarine which floated on the calm waters of the outer harbor. In the spring twilight they were invisible from shore or from the decks of occasionally passing warships. No one in New York City dreamed of their presence. Not until years later, during a lull between wars, was their story fully told.

It was the story of the U-151 and how it slipped across the Atlantic, mined Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, cut cables in New York Harbor, and returned to | Germany after a 10915-mile | cruise during which it sank 23 ships aggregating 58,028 tons in American waters.

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struction job the City has sched|uled so far this year. { The entire cost of the resurfacing will be paid by the City, with the exception of $2500 which will

moving abandoned streetcar tracks.

The story is told in Henry J. James' “German Subs in Yankee Waters” along with the tale of five other U-boats which, in six months, destroyed 197,761 tons of shipping and 435 lives off the United States Coast. Mr. James’ story contains numerous parallels to British reports that, 23 years later, German submarines again are operating on this side of the Atlantic. He points out that only six Uboats raided American coastal waters then and that Germany has 150 submarines now, while her ally, Italy, has more than 100. Survivors of the 1918 raids reported that German submarine commanders told them of plans in the making to gas the entire Atlahtic Coast. The armistice intervened. The U-151's raid was the most spectacular of the six. Once she rested off the Virginia Coast and heard a Yo ig Yepont from Arling-

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the improvement, the biggest con- |

be | met. by Indianapolis Railways, Inc. | The utility will pay the cost of re- |

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MANY TRAPPED AS NAZI BOMBS CRASH ON HULL

Attack Lasts for Hours; Anglo-American Ambu- |

lance Unit Aids Relief.

HULL, England, March 19 (U. P.).| —German airplanes bombed this! northeast shipping center for hours | | last night, and today the toll of dead | [Hd injured was reported “fairly | ( heavy.” { | The attack was the severest and | most widespread upon this city since the start of the war. Many persons were left without] | homes and others were trapped in|

raid shelters. Public Shelter Is Hit

A fleet of automobiles of the Anglo-American ambulance organi- | zation sped here this morning to aid in relief work The emergency | workers toured the streets aiding in | rehabilitation efforts and delivering food and clothing to the homeless

raid victims. | on the Lofoten Islands off Narvik, Norway, is this one from Movietone News,

| Hull's anti-aircraft batteries sent | up a terrific barrage but the Nazi warplanes persisted in their attack |for hours. They dropped hundreds {of high explosive bombs and a rain of incendiaries. { One of the heavy bombs crashed | into a public shelter in a working] [class district and killed 11 persons. | lincluding a man, his wife and their | four children, |

Rescuers Dig in Debris |

({ One hundred and fifty persons [who had taken refuge in a movie | theater had a narrow escape when | ja heavy bomb crashed into the| [automobile park next door to the] theater and brought down houses| |all around the theater. In one of | | these houses 8 woman and six chil|dren were buried. Rescue workers still were digging today in hope of [rescuing them | | In another congested area 12 per-| {sons were Killed and 14 buried. | | Whether any of those buried would |be brought out alive’ was uncertain. | | Industrial premises were set afire | by incendiary bombs and the public {utility service of the town was damaged. { People walked te work through streets almost ankle-deep in shat- | tered window glass. |

Deb's Party Sees Measles Debu

Times Special |

“Just as the waiter was about to pass around the Bi'own Betty at a birthday party at the Shoreham vesterday, 19-year-old Sybella Clayton broke out with the measles. The party broke up.” According to the story, Clayton was relating how many G. W. U. students were having | measles when her face hroke out

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in a rash and one of the guests | said: | “Yes, and you have them. too.” She was right

THE WRONG TICKET

KOKOMO, Ind. March 19 (1. |P.) —Two Marion youths tame to | Kokomo to joint the scramble for] |basketball tickets for the State high school basketball tournament. They got a ticket—for overtime parking in the business district Cost, $1 ‘—and still no basketball ticket.

When Germans Sneaked Within Sight of Manhattan

“When night came we could see t

ton which concluded: “No marines. No war warnings.” Later, according to a subsequent report of the U-boat's boarding officer, Dr. Frederick Korner, “we could see the lights of Broadway.” “The morning of May 28, 1918, was fair, with a gentle west wind and. calm sea,” Korner gaid, “We 8

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‘As British Made Daring Arctic Raid

the wreckage of buildings and air| ° |

The most dramatic of the pictures which have reached the United

raiding party, guns poised for any sudden attack, watching fire sweep captured 215 Nazis and rescued 300 Norwegian patriots,

REPORT TURK MINISTER AND EDEN CONFER

‘Balkans Watch Jugoslavia Trying to Drive Hard Bargain With Nazis. By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent Great Britain's drive to wrest East Africa from the ‘hold of Italy appeared to ba nearing its final phase today |as the British and Germans | Jockeyed for strategic position on the new Balkan front. | The hard-hitting Imperial Army smashed another prop | from under Benito Mussolini's | tottering empire by capturing (the key Ethiopian town of \Jigjiga. Foreign Minister Anthony was reported in London conference with Turkey's Foreign

Minister Sukru Saracoglu today, | somewhere in the Near East.

Acme Telephote States since Britain's daring raid It shows members of the

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WASHINGTON, March 19 (U. P)

{in Secretary of Navy Frank Knox

NEARF.D. R. and Donovan Confer

| Eden has just completed confers {ences at Cairo with Iraq representa tives and it may be that he is dise cussing with the Turks the proe vision of British aid to Turkey —President Roosevelt today called| through the backdoor route of Iraq, and Harry L. Hopkins for a joint which adjoins Turkey to the Southe

[conference with Col. William Donovan who has just returned from a west

| secret mission to Europe

Rejection of Amendments Africa and the Near East, Mr

cha . and Mr, Hopkins in the President's To Appropriation Bill study on the second floor of the Is Predicted.

White House. President Roosevelt disclosed that he will take two members of his WASHINGTON, March 198 P.).—Administration leaders expect kins, on the vacation cruise which the House to reject all amend- | © expects to begin tomorrow in

{waters off the south coast of Florments to the $7.000,000.000 British- ijqa. He plans to leave Washington aid appropriation bill and pass it

later today, today with an overwhelming vote. Secretary of Interior Harold L Leaders hoped to be able to send Ickes, Attorney General Robert H the bill to the Senate by mid-| Jackson and Mr Hopkins will make afterhoon. That would set a speed up the President's party aboard the record for action on such an im- | Potomac, along with White House portant bill, it being only a week Secretary Stephen T. Early. Rear | ago that President Roosevelt sent Admiral Ross T. McIntire, Navy his request to Congress. Surgeon General, and Maj, Gen. Only a handful of House mem- Edwin M. Watson, military aid and bers are expected to vote against

secretary. the bill, many of those who voted Mr. Roosevelt expects to go by against the lend-lease program now special train to Florida. halting being willing to approve of funds brieflv at Jacksonville tomorrow for for its operation an inspection of the new naval air Similar quick action is base there, and proceeding to Port next week in the Senate Everglades, Fla., to board his vacht. now taking a two-day recess. When Mr. Roosevelt also conferred with it convenes tomorrow, a record

his administrative assistant, Lauch$3,446,600,000 naval appropriations lin Currie, who returned this month | bill will be ready for action. The

from China where he had been disSenate Appropriations Committee patched on a fact-finding mission. may report it today with only] : minor changes from the House | version. | 8 Before a final vote can be taken! siX amendments, some of which] were rejected by the House Appropriations Committee, must be considered.

ST, LAWRENCE RIVER POWER PACT SIGNED IRS

Project May Be Broadened wes Into Seaway Later.

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Presenting his report of weeks of travel and observations in Europe, Donovan met

| versations on China, (U.!Cabinet and his adviser, Mr. Hop- |

figured in reports that

War Moves Today

By J. W. T. MASON

The operation of German submarines on the American side of the Atlantic appears to be less a strategic extension of Hitler's “blockade” of Great Britain than a sign of Nazi bravado following the

seems pr should make some gesture to satisfy German puklic

lieves he is doing so by sending warships into the

Jugoslavia Holds Interest

Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Knox| Jugoslavia continued to hold chief — interest in the Balkans. The coun= Mr. Currie's conference completed try is under German pressure to the report he has been presenting make some move of sympathy toe to the President in a series of con- ward the Axis but is believed to be attempting to drive a hard bargain The President also called in Wil-| With the Nazis and to be resisting liam C. Bullitt, former Ambassador| German proposals that would drag to France; Wayne Coy, assistant to| her into a Balkan war on the Axis Federal Security Administrator Paul side. V. McNutt; and Budget Director Jugoslavia is reported to be mobi Harold Smith lizing troops in the expectation of Mr. Coy has been working on Mr. reaching peak strength about the Roosevelt's program for home de- end of this month when the Balkan fense and Mr. Bullitt repeatedly has front may see action, the home Istanbul reported that by April 1 defense structure soon might be Jugoslavia would have 1,7500,000 established. It was understood that men under arms for the protection Mr. Roosevelt might ask Mr. Coy of her independence and integrity. and Mr, Bullitt to present a final Meanwhile, according to Belgrade program for home defense upon his reports yesterday the Germans are return from the South. sald to have massed 500,000 troops Mr. Roosevelt also saw Secretary in Bulgaria of War Henry L. Stimsen and scheduled meetings with Chairman Walter F. George (D. Ga.), nf the Sen- Many of the Jugoslav troops are ate Foreign Relations Committee said to be going to the southwest and Acting Secretary of State Sum- corner near the frontier of Bulgaria ner Welles and the Netherlands and Greece which is traversed by Minister, Dr. A. Loudon the Vardar River Valley which The new, 11-man super-mediation Germany would like to use in board probably will not be estab-| launching an attack upon Greece, (Continued on Page Three) British pressure in Africa is ine creasing day by day. South African | troops seized Jigjiga, which is only {70 miles from the Addis Ababae Djibouti Railroad which already [is under bombardment, and to the (north in Eritrea there were indicae |tions that a final British assault iy Keren was developing favore ably. Once the British cut the Addis Ababa -Djibouts railroad—the only, (Continued on Page Three)

EXTENDS INQUIRY IN CLERKS’ ACCOUNTS

The Marion County Grand Jury will not confine its investigation of Municipal Court deputy clerks’ ace

Pressure on Duce Increases

‘nited Press War Expert

id to Britain bill obable that the Fuehrer feels he has the situation in hand and bereas for attacks on British shipping

tolls have been

the heavy

WASHINGTON, March 19 (U. P)

| President Roosevelt, probably Fri-

day, will send Congress a message announcing a joint agreement with Canada for power development on the St. Lawrence River. The project ultimately

may be

broadened to provide a deep water | Lakes |

passage between the Great and the Atlantic Ocean. In Ottawa the agreement signed formally by Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Jay Pierrepont Moffatt, American Minister to Canada, this afternoon.

he lights of New York City , ,

could see the beach of Fire Island, and the houses standing out so white against the low green hills. We dropped our cable-cutting shears attached to a grapnel overboard, attached to a long wire rope. “Back and forth we cruised, trolling not for fish, but for any

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taken German ships lurking along the | American shores of the Atlantic |have a much more difficult When merchantmen leave Western Hemisphere ports bound for Britain [they spread out into the broad At[lantic. Thev do not follow formal lanes of traffic, Tt is necessary, therefore, for German attacking vessels to engage in| searching operations covering enormous distances. The difficulty of {such operations is obvious. Coupled |with the intricate problem of trying |to locate the British food ships, scattered over the north Atlantic,

of the cables we might run across. The thrill was almost as great as fishing for bluefish. . . “When night came we could see the lights of Broadway. Some of the boys suggested that we sneak up the Hudson River and go to a show on Broadway. What a joke that would be! “These same boys were also anxious to swim in the surf on Fire Island Beach, and loll on the sands. The temptation was strong, but we had important work to do. “For three days we crossed and recrossed what we hoped were the cable areas, and for three nights we were tormented by the lights of Broadway.” The U-151 cut two cables and damaged others, and in an area of only 15 square miles, almost under the nose of the Statue of Liberty, destroyed nine ships. For days the submarine held 26 survivors of its victim ships prisoner while it flirted with death

is the question of fuel for the German raiders. The Germans can remain at sea

task. only a comparatively short time in

the Western Hemisphere because they quickly exhaust their oil. When they operate against the converging routes of the approaches to Great Britain, they have much longer operating efficiency. The Germans thus must expect to obtain fewer victims on the average by seeking their prey in the American waters of the Atlantic than by trans-Atlantic attacks. The bottleneck of the British port ap(Continued on Page Three)

in destroyer filled waters. Wild excitement prevailed all along the coast and increased when the 26 prisoners, placed aboard two life boats, finally were landed ir New York City, The Navy Department's announcement of April 28, 1317, that no German submarines were “likely to be sent over’ was fore gotten and U-boat rumors flooded the east. They were not all rumors. The U-156 followed the U-151 out of Kiel, laid mines in American waters, destroyed 34 ships totaling 33,582 tons, and, on July 21, a few miles east of Orleans, Mass. shelled a string of barges for more than an hour until all were sunk. The U-156's greatest prize, howe ever, was the U, 8. 8S. armored cruiser San Diego, 13680 tons. which struck a mine and sank 10 miles off Fire Island. Following the 1-156 at inter. (Continued on Page Three)

counts to the shortages charged in the State Accounts Board report, Prosecutor Sherwood Blue said toe day “I will recommend that the Grand Jury go into the entire pros cedure of record keeping in the Municipal Court at the Police Head quarters,” Mr. Blue said The State Accounts Board Mone day filed a report showing shortages in the accounts of deputy clerks in Municipal Court totaling about $45,000 over a period of several years “The situation over there appears (bad in many respects and I will ask the Grand Jury to investigate all conditions there,” Mr. Blue said,

NEW ALBANY GETS HOUSING

NEW ALBANY, Ind, March 18 (U. P.).—~The Federal Government today paid $19,533 for a 23-acre [tract just outside this city for a 100-unit defense housing project, John England, site agent for the | U. S. Public Buildings Administrae | tion, said construction would begin within a few weeks. Cost of the project has been estimated ag | $350,000.

MEET MR. ENGLAND!

Paul Manning writes about Winston Churchill, Great « Britain's great war leader, in today's Times.

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