Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1941 — Page 7

| TUESDAY, APRIL §, 1 Mayor Repeals His ‘Open Door’

MAYOR REGINALD H. SUL-

LIVAN'S “open door” policy was |

“repealed” today, When he was elected Mayor the last time, and while still in the flush of victory, Mayor Sullivan snnounced that the door to his inner sanctum at the City Hall always would be open. And. up until today. it has been open about 95 per cent of the time But today the Mayor called his istant = secretary, Mrs. Frata McCabe and told her to tell Secretary Russell E. Campbell, who was absent at the time, to keep 1e private office door locked so ‘no unauthorized information will get out.” Newspapermen, who occasionally have used the telephone in the inner sanctum for privacy, were informed that the “locked door” well as anyone else. The Mayor could not be reached for an explanation of what caused the about face in policy.

NORWAY GETS SHIPS LONDON, April 8 (U. P.).—Norv's Navy has taken over four of e 50 over-age United States deroyers traded to Great Norwegian Foreign Minister Trygve Lie told American last night.

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6. 0. P. BLOCKS EARLY RULING

Lawyers Can't Agree, So | Supreme Court Hearing | On Writ Goes On.

(Continued from Page One) | until the proper parties were before | a court,” he said. The Republicans have contended that no justifiable controversies have been raised the Democrats be-

cause no appointments have been made by the newly created boards. | They contend that the three declaratory judgment suits filed by Governor Henry F. Schricker and

|still pending in Circuit Court are not just cases until the new appointments have been made and the | new officers attempt to take over | the offices from the incumbents. Frank C. Dailey, representing Judge Cox, said: “The Democrats in the declaratory

judgment suits have sought an early | settlement of the momentuous issues | of constitutionality. We have to do so here again today. All we have] met are diliatory tactics and] questions of legal procedure.” i Appeal Termed Remedy

He alleged

correspondents by the Republicans was not proper, |

|and that their own remedy was an appeal to the Supreme Court of | Judge Cox's decision. He said that evidently the Republicans were attempting to have the Supreme Court ruie that the Circuit Court lacked jurisdiction

not only in the injunction proceed- |

lings, but in the three pending declaratory judgment cases as well. { “Right or wrong in its decision, | the lower court does not lack juris- { diction.” Mr. Dailey said.

"'CLUB SEEKS FROGS

FOR BOSTON'S POND

AMESBURY, Mass. (U, P.) { questing clubs for tired men have been legion, but 26 executives of an auto parts manufacturing concern here operate one that is really distinctive. | Members of “The Long Range Thinking Club” use as a badge a plastic statue of Confucius, who they believe was history’s greatest | long-range thinker, and announce a | definite purpose of “making every-| thing in America live up to its name.”

-Fun-

Frog Pond on historic Boston Common. Samuel R. Bailey, club president, says “a frog pond without frogs is no good.” |

‘ONE VERMONT TOWN

WOODFORD, Vt. (U. P.).—This] may be a strictly G. O. P. state but this town has failed to follow the tradition. At a recent election there was no mention of the Republican | | party on a completely Democratic | ballot. x 4-H CLUBS HELP DEFENSE LAFAYETTE, Ind. (U.P.).—Four- | H Clubs, a national movement for | rural youth, expect to do their share {in any national emergency. Main- | taining food production for the | people at home, raising standards of | health for the farm youth and

projects of the clubs in the National

business- / {

Dean to Speak

Prof. Ivan C. Crawford

Prof. Ivan C. Crawford, new dean of the University of Michigan, will speak on “What a Westerner Thinks of the University of Michigan” at 7 o’cloec ktonight in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. His talk will be given at a dinner for Michigan alumni, former stu-

that the writ sought dents and professors. oF

" THE INDIANA

NAZI ‘SURPRISE FLANKS GREEKS

Jugoslav Rail Center and Key River City Seized, Reports Say. (Continued from Page One)

lonika is not so vital a point as it! was in the World War. Both Lon-|

don and Berlin indicated that the big British Expeditionary Force in Greece has not yet made contact with the German troops. Indicating that it has taken defensive positions along the Vardar line. The Greek radio, however, reported that British troops were already on Bulgarian soil. The German reports were vague. One report from Budapest, however, indicated that no important advances have been made and that the German Air Force still is bearing the brunt of the attack, concentrating softening-up raids upon airdromes and communications centers. The Budapest report spoke of the blowing up of a bridge across the Drava River by Serb troops. This lis on the Jugoslav-Hungarian| | border and if it is only now being | |dynamited there can have been no| {important advance in that neigh-

The Michigan dean was named to | borhood.

succeed the late Henry C. Anderson : : He was dean of |Jugoslav air force were active in

this school year,

The R. A. F. and presumably the

the University of Idaho Engineering (attacks behind the German lines

College.

University of Colorado in 1912, Dean

crawford worked as a railway engineer He joined the University of Colorado faculty in 1915 and went the University of Idaho in 1923, He now holds a commission colonel in the Army Reserve.

MURRAY TALKS WITH |

C. I. 0. Chief Pays Surprise Visit to Detroit for Strike Parley.

(Continued from Page One)

agreement between soft coal opera-

tors in Northern states and the

Pet project of the club is the United M¥ne Workers (C. I. O.) was| stocking of the traditionally frogless| expected today despite objections of |

Southern operators who protested abandonment of a 40-cent wage differential in their mines.

The strike called against U, S

today, was averted temporarily Workers' Organizing Committee (C. I. 0.) demands that any agreement reached in future negotiations be made retroactive to April |, original expiration date of the previous contract. April 15 was established as the new deadline for completion of negotiations. Work on an estimated $7,000,000 vorth of defense orders was halted n the San Francisco Bay area by strike of A. F. of L. machinists iemanding wage increases. Acceptance of a company proposal providing wage increases to-

some 400 tug boat employees of the Great Lakes Towing Co. which would have tiled up shipping in 17

| projects of morale are current

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day averted a threatened strike of

After graduation from the 11 both Bulgaria and Hungary. At

|least three towns in Hungary re-| ported air alarms.

Germans Are Cautious

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The German High Command was | [cautious in its claims. That, it was] recalled, followed the pattern of | {German announcements in previous | |offensives into Poland, Norway, the {Low Countries and France, i The Italian High Command, how- | ever, reported a possible significant | item from Africa. In a special bul-| {letin it announced that the Italo- | {German column in Libya, driving | with unprecedented speed, had en-| [tered Derna, 160 miles northeast of | | Bengha?zi. | Derna is almost 100 miles beyond | lany point at which this blitzkrieg | [column previously had been report- | ed. If the report is correct, it would | make even more evident that Gen.|

{Sir Archibald wavell has moved his |

entire fighting force to Greece, leav- | {ing only the lightest kind of rear | guard to protect Libya. | Reports from Greece bore out this (theory. They told of the arrival of “scores of thousands” of British] troops and told of an armada of | hundreds of vessels on which they | were transported from Egypt to Greece. | The British, however, displayed no particular nervousness about the | situation in Libya. Their forces

| Steel Corp, scheduled for midnight jaye almost completed the conquest

of Italian East Africa and it was

BOLTS REPUBLICANS when the firm agreed to Steel pelieved that already many thou-

[sand troops employed in that thea[ter are being rushed back to Egypt [to counter the new AXis threat. The Italo-German column still has 200 miles to go to the Egyptian | frontier and another 150 miles to the railhead at Marsa Matruh. |

Hungary Feels Blows

In the Balkans, Jugoslav attacks upon Hungarian soil in the vicinity | of Szeged were reported while Jugo-| slav forces were said to have moved | against Zara, Italian port on the] Dalmatian coast and Scutari, north- | ern Albanian port. Though Jugoslavia had been com- | pletely “blacked out” to newsman | for three days, there were indica-| tions that the Serbs were fighting | (hard. Zurich diplomats heard re-| ports that Italy had completely | evacuated Fiume, the city which | Fascists took from Jugoslavia after | World War treaties had given it to the Belgrade regime. The Royal Air. Force carried out

division would consist of a full time | gineer under the Works Board to

POLIS TIMES

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Department of Traffic Engineering Urged As Major Link in New Safety Program

ostensibly to discuss only the alloca- Department, depending on the

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(Continued from Page One) . : ‘ tion of gas tax funds. availability of draf the Mayor's Advisory y of draftsmen. yor's Advisory Committee, yo cifety program itself was! Mr. Keach declined to discuss the

the International Association of | kept a closely guarded secret and |OPeration of the traffic engineer in Chiefs of Police Accident Preven-/City officials today were reluctant| relation to the Police Department.

tion Division and the National to comment on it until Council acts | Safety Council. All three organiza- on the proposals—probably BRITISH SOCCOR GETS | YOUNGER PLAYERS

, ; _ (next meeting. tions have surveyed traffic condiLONDON (U. P.).—More and more |

: | Works Board Vice President Leo | tions here, | FF, Welch said, however, that it had boy players are taking part in the | big professional soccer games in

The proposed traffic engineering | been decided to place the traffic enwould work with City Engineer M. Whether Police Department Britain, helping to keep the game

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G. Johnson and the Police Depart- draftsmen would be shifted from ooing. sonnel would be made available 10 Bold Presidant Leroy J. Hasch, & present, plans for intersection con- | yp, the club managers have no alBT fee ts ; ; ternative but to call ) | This would make it unnecessary for | yrs 3 ile all signal installations are | on youths in : have been used by the 11 L b : : ; ) ondon some WPA help will be considered. | siderable shuffling of blueprints be- [clubs and their average age is only ras Setually ecimed Bt a meeting | selves co-ordinating the work, Maps |and already a number have si y epartmen neads with and charts for traffic control have | professional forms, although they

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ment. Headquarters to the City Hall was ; City engineering and police per. LO! uecided, according to Safety As Increasing number of regu- : | (ular first team men are being called the traffic expert for surveys andj. , . i installations, according to the pl {ol ate Srawn at police hesceus wo sary for| Signal Division at |their teens for assistance. 2 ity ho employ a special staff city Hall. Forty-three boy soccer plavers r safety engineering, although| Aj the result, there has been A dor a Haug the hey feseiy program tween the two departments, with|17!2 years. Big futures in the game sclos In the ordinances, it the Safety Board members them-|are forecast for nearly all these boys Mayor Sullivan last Friday. The|been mad i ini yo : y. | e by the City Plan Com-|will receive no retaining fee while! meeting was called by the Mayor! mission and the City Engineering 'the war lasts. : Buy on

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