Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1941 — Page 3

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‘SATURDAY, APRIL 19,

In An End

Every One to Death,

‘Never Has Hitler Been So Prodigal With Lives as in Greece,’ Reporter Writes.

By RICHARD

United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH IMPERIAL ARMY AT THE GREEK FRONT (Via Athens), April 16, 11 A. M. (Delayed). —Up the Servia Pass, guarding the western slopes of Mount Olympus, Germany's young “blitz men” have streamed like ants, hour after hour in an endless line, every one

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Australian machine gunners have mowed them down until the gun- |

ners have fallen exhausted. Occasionally German tanks have thundered up from the valley, over the heaps of dead, to be picked off one by one by British anti-tank guns mounting the ridges, or by British tanks firing securely from behind rocky boulders far above the main body of British troops. The pass, from the crest down beyond the precipitous, hairpin slopes, was a slaughtering ground for Germans, many in their teens, who had been recruited from Hitler youth organizations to serve as shock troops in blitzkriegs. Finally, the battle of Servia was fought out. The Germans, conhe of the futility of it, turned ay to look for some softer spot in the British-Greek defense line. Servia will have a place in the history of this campaign. For all his conquests, Adolf Hitler never had been so prodigal of his troops as on this mountain battlefield. The German Army and Air Force obviously is vastly superior in numbers to the defenders of Greece. But I have never heard the Anzacs or British express anything less than fighting courage and a determina-| tion to make the Germans pay dearly for every foot of soil they take,

British tank squadrons, supported by machine gun regiments, are having to roam the whole front, hunting out bulges in the defense line

Il Duce Duped Again?

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor

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| As crossed a ridge in the shadow

lana reinforcing them. Their Job | 'done in one sector, they move to, another, helping the Greeks one, hour, rushing to counter-attack on/ a British sector the next, mopping’ up on Austrian Alpine troops the | next.

The Germans have brought a new |

weapon into play—a gun mounted

on tank tractors that plows over @

‘the battlefield with great mobility. | They also are making good use of their Alpine troops, who scramble among the rocky crags, using alpenstocks to gain footing. British troops lie in wait behind rocks for the

| Alpiners. It was a long, arduous drive to | reach the front lines. I had to travel on roads so steep and narrow | that traffic moves with difficulty in| a single line. Long before reaching | the battlefield I saw evidence of| ‘the German total war—towns and villages bombed to rubble. |

of Mount Olympus, German planes were putting the finishing touches on Larissa, which had Been evacuated by its civil population. The German bombers had no opposition. Rritish fighting planes were over the front, warding off German air attacks on British troops.

WASHINGTON, April 19.—Hitler pushed Mussolini into sacrificing

so he could rush needed reinforcements past the British Fleet to Libya

part of the Italian Navy as decoys in the Ionian Sea battle of March nl |

according to reports received here. The Nazis, it is said, began the

North Africa with 2 lice o oni about 50.000 men which they had col- President Roosevelt's move to reduce |, es in his leg still have not pparently they | -

lected in Tripoli.

drive against Gen. Wavell's army in|

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Auto Accident,

of Beech Grove.

NEW TROUBLES IN COAL STRIKE

South's Plea for Freight Rate Cut Protested by Northerners.

By UNITED PRESS New troubles today beset the Government’s efforts to end the 19-day-old work stoppage in the nation’s soft coal fields. Northern coal operators, ready to sign a new contract with the United Mine Workers (C. I. O.), protested

freight rate differentials to Southern

believed they could do this safely | tween Sicily and the African Coast. |.ompetitor operators. The Southern

because of reports that the British were vastly reduced in number, In any event, the Italians seemed on the point of being knocked out of | the war entirely, and something had to be done at once, regardless. The British had withdrawn their thin covering forces left behind at] El Aghelia, Agedabia and Bengazi and, as anticipated, the Nazis at first met little resistance. But resistance grew as they advanced, and the farther they got from Tripoli the more tenuous grew their line of communications. | Quickly, therefore. their need for both troops and material became imperative—especialy tanks, guns, trucks and heavy equipment not easily ferried across the Mediterranean by plane. These things would have tc come! hy sea, and the British were playing havoc with Axis vessels, whether fighting ships or merchantmen. Ships were being sent to the bottom all around the toe of the Italian boot and right be-

Stone Wall i

Then, it is said, Berlin intervened | at Rome. Berlin told Rome to trot

to sea to draw off as many of the British as possible, especially from the vicinity of Sicily, and give] Hitler's panzer divisions a chance’ to dash across. | Thus, on ‘Thursday, March 27, British reconnaissance planes caught sight of three Italian battleships, 11 cruisers and 14 destroyers moving in a southeasterly direction— |! away from Sicily, towards Crete. What followed, of course, is history. The British scored one of the biggest naval victories of the war. But the battle was a race and more than two days time, from | first to last, was consumed. Meanwhile, according to the report, the Nazis got across. : The story may not be confirmed | or otherwise until after the war. Neutrals, however, are inclined to take more stock in it than the widely publicised version that Hitler got his army to Africa through the connivance of Vichy.

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By J. H. YINDRICH United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH EMPIRE GARRISON BESIEGED AT TO-|it in New York. BRUK, April 16 (Via Cairo and London: Delayed).—A new attack by German and Italian mechanized forces on this desert outpost of the day between anthracite operators Army of the Nile has broken against the stone wall defense of intrepid

pounding Australian infantrymen artillervmen. About 300 Italian infantrymen,)

with a stiffening of Germans, broke through the outer perimeter of the semi-circular defenses of Tobruk at the peak of the attack. About 200 were killed. Thirty were captured. Seventy got away. For six days the Germans and

Italiahs had been making repeated attacks from the southern sector,

west of the El Adem Road. |

and British machine gunners and

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out to see what trouble they could! find. They brought back 70 Italians even before the attack started. “The artillery fire" had broken their morale,” a staff captain told me, “Several of them came in | weeping and expressed their pleas- | ure at being captured.” Then came the attack, and its re- { pulse, After it was over, the Australians

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‘Automobile Workers Union

operators have refused to sign a contract which would a 40-cent differential favoring the South. The President has asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to look into freight differentials which Southern operators have contended place them at a competitive disadvantage. Northern operators said the issue was “simply a smokescreen to deceive the people and the Government.”

Asks Negotiations

Labor Secretary Frances Perkins asked that Northern mines resume operation next Tuesday. She urged Southern operators and the U. M. A. to resume negotiations. The Southern operators told Miss Perkins that they were proceeding immediately to renew their offer to the U. M. W. to begin negotiations. Today the Scutherners had bolted the New York conference and had gone to Washington, seeking Federal intervention. John L. Lewis, U. M. W. head, had told Southerners he was willing to hold separate negotiations. The utherners wanted the conference in Washington and the union, fearing “political atmosphere,” wanted

Negotiations will resume Tues-

and the U. M. W. which has demanded a new contract to replace agreement which expires

At Detroit. conferences were resumed today between the United (C. 1 0.) and officials of General Motors Corp. The union has filed five-day notice to strike for a 10-cent an hour wage increase, vacations with pay and other demands.

Dewey Reports Progress

Federal Labor Conciliator James F. Dewey said satisfactory progress

Yesterday they attacked from the turned the defense into a mild|N2S been made on the question of

west, between the Tobruk-Derna

Road and the sea, The day before

they had been

offensive. They went out and pushed the Germans and Italians off the!

selecting an umpire, Speaking before the American Society of Newspaper Editors at

taking positions on top of the escarpment from which they had | ‘vashington, Sidney Hillman, OPM escarpment which dominates the commanded a view of the British 2ssociate director, appealed for “an

territory between the Tobruk-Derna

Road and the seashore. |

The artillery opened on them at once. For several hours the British gunners smashed at every concentration of troops and tanks they could spot. The boom of the guns echoed and re-echoed through the Wadis, the dried stream beds, which cut through the British defenses. The gun fire ceased. A patrol of infantry from South Australia went

positions. ol Their next attack should be hard- | er for them. The perimeter defenses. which the Italians had built and made almost impregnable for | | determined men, have been | strengthened. They bristle with field guns, machine guns, Bren guns, anti-tank guns and anti-air-| |eraft guns, with tanks and armored cars, not to mention men, to back them up. |

Here Is the Traffic Recor

240 23 32 OAR .ciiencecaiiin 29 20 a“ —April 18— Accidents .... 29 Injured

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Cases Convic- Fines inglon Bivd.; Dand E. Wilking, 24, of 5733

tried tions 12

paid Speeding Reckless driving .. Failure to stop at through street .. Disobeying traffic signals “ivans Drunken driving .. All others 30

MEETINGS TODAY

na Council of Teachers of Mathewa meeting, Indiana World War Mem 1, all day. Indiana Junior Historical Society, conference. Tech High School, all day. Kiefer-Stewart Drug Co., dinner Hote! Severin, 9:30 p Beta Sigma,

Pr : Indiana Central College Luncheon Club, Catherine's Restaurant, 12:30 p. m.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

are from official records to TE ats Court House. The Times

m. meeting, Hotel Severin, 8

Fla.. Annie R. Henderson, 25 I. U. Medical Center : Paul R. Smiley, 24. of 815 Laurel; Olia A. Pringle, 19 of 516 8. Alabama. | Paul . Chapman 22 Zionsville, Ind.: jnna = Harding, 20, Zionsville, Ind.

| Winton Shepherd, 22 of 603 Birch: Helen M. Curtis. 18, of 812 N. East, James Wilson, 19, of 545 Arbor: Waneta Monroe, 17, of 563 W. Wilkins Wayland W. Gray, 21, of 207 N Catherine FP. Woods, 20, of 602 Lockerbie John E Messick Jr. 22 of 3525 Wash-

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BIRTHS Twins, Boy and Girl Robert. Naneglia Hudson, at 8t. Francis. | Girls Clarence, Anne Nahas, at St. Francis. William, Beatrice Surge, at St. Francis . , at Coleman. Lon. Rosie Lucas, at Methodist.

Nathan, Frieda Blachschieger, at Methodist.

Bors

William, Virginia Shideler, at St. Rrancis. Roy, Mary McDaniels, at St. Francis. Henry, Juanita Lantz, at St. Francis. Albert, Doris Johnson, at St. Francis, Leroy, Mattie Bunson. at City. Victor, Louise Harris. at Coleman. William, Verdie Kringle, at St. Vincent's aa Mary Lou Christian, at St. VinFloyd, Blanche Dunham, at Methodist. James, Bette C. Lamb, at Methodist. Robert, Pauline Conway, at Methodist.

DEATHS

Harry E. Harlan, 57, at Methodist, gastrie ulcer. Jennie Morrow, 6§1, at Methodist, cévebral hemorrhage. i Jacob L. Updegrafl, 69, at Central Indi- | ana, coronary occlusion | Raymond Baird, 56, at 1945 Park, inter-|

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Herbert Brown, 18. of : Sa Dyes 14, of 1433 Columbia ! rl D. Barnett, 30, Detroit, : Margaret Vian, 27, of 20 X | Vit a f 321 E 13th ai Virginia L. e,. 19 o L i Le r., 20. of 2102 8. Meridian; | hafer, 21, of 1815 Union.

W. Hennessey, 58 Dayton, O.;

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1505 Yandes; |

Nh. Clair, chronic myocarditis.

stitial nephritis. Lucinda Smiley, 68 at 2405 N. Oxford.

iabetes. Nellie Cochran, 43, at 1601 E. Tabor, cerebral hemorrhage. Martha Goodridge, 79. at 2508 E. St. | Adolph Greathouse 47, City, monary tuberculosis Ulysses Brnuson, 73, at City, hemorrhage. Augusta Yakey., 87, at 4134 Bowman, cerebral embolism 69. at 1128 Lexing-

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honest and fair appraisal of any strike” and declared that “co-op-eration of free men cannot be obtained by coercion. Elsewhere on the lador front. here were 17 labor-management disputes in defense industries,

OFFICIAL WEATHER

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considerably cooler, with afternoon tem-

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With a stream as a vanity, these trees are arranging their summer foliage, now almost

Part Couple

The longest period of separation in more than 50 years of married iife began six months ago for Mr. and Mrs. James L. Cooning. That

was when he was struck by an auto as he was homeward bound from work and was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital with a broken leg. Mrs. Cooning had not been well for a year and a half and her illness became more and more serious as the separation period extended week after week. Today she died at her home, 2310 E. 12th St, with Mr. Cooning, who had received a broken leg in the accident, still in the hospital. The

Knitted. This afternoon a relative is to tell him of the death of his wife.

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"THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES “-= in a Wr s Its Summer Make-Up

BLACKOUT ISN'T IN PITTSBURGH

Traffic | Gets Tangled Up; Some Street Lights Fail To ‘Co-operate.’

By RICHARD LEWIS Times Staff Writer PITTSBURGH, April 19.—One of the largest industrial units in democracy's arsenal, Pittsburgh, underwent a trial blackout for five minutes last night and a record traffic jam resulted. This correspondent, en route to view the experiment from Mount Washington high above the golden triangle, got stuck in the jam.at the foot of the mount and spent the “blackout” there, wedged bumper to bumper with hundreds of cars driven by other perspiring motorists. As viewed from this vantage point, the blackout was only a partial success, with two stréet lamps and one electric sign in the vicinity refusing to co-operate, Motorists not only were unable to see much evidence of a “blackout,” but they could not even hear the radio broadcast reports of the experiment's progress because of the interference of nearby high tension lines. Mayor Overhead in Plane

The citizens who were aware of what was going on for the most part were those who stayed home, listened to their radios and watched the street lights go out in the neighborhood. High above the city, the lights of several planes were visible. Mayor Cornelius D. Scully and army officials who conceived the blackout idea to determine the effectivemess of voluntary defense efforts cruised in a large transport plane. The lights of metropolitan Pittsburgh and industrial suburbs were supposed to blink out at 10:10 p. m. Motor traffic was supposed to halt and automobiles were to pull to the curb. The dimming of lights was sugGesu but not compulsory, and few did so

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Then Death Wed 50 Years

He had known, relgtives said, that her condition was critical. Mr. and Mrs. Cooning were born in Rushville ad met and married there. They have lived in Indianapolis for the last 48 years. He was a harness maker for Van Camp Hardware Co. Mrs. Cooning, who was 76, is survived, besides Mr. Cooning, by two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Sichler and Mrs. Helen Allison; two sons, James L. Cooning Jr. and Leon Cooning, with whom she made her home; a brother, Edward Lushell, and six grandchildren, Funeral Services will be at 8:30 a. m. Monday at the Harry W, Moore Peace Chapel and at 9 a. m. at St. Philip Neri Catholic"Church, Burial will be in St. Joseph's cemetery.

; Good Show Anyway

Most commercial buildings in the triangle doused lights, although a few office buildings windows remained bright despite Fire Department sirens announcing that the blackout was on. Lights in a few hotels remained on, but all street lamps on principal thoroughfares downtown and on

LEGION OFFERS ‘SPOTTING’ AI

Posts and Volunteers to Be Mobilized to Watch For Air Raids.

Services of the American Legion national organization and its 11,766 posts in organizing air raid precautionary services were offered to the Army today by Legion National Commander Milo J. Warner, In a telegram to Lieut. Gen Delos C. Emmons, commanding the GHQ Air Force, Commander Warner said theh Legion officers in each state and volunteers in each of the posts will be mobilized for voluntary service at such times and places and under such onnditions as will lend the utmost assistance to theh Air Corps program just outlined. “The Legion,” he wired, “already has made a study of these services at home and through our mission tc Engiand, and has functioned effectively in test operations conducted by the War Department in

specific areas.” | “We await the call of yourself

lor the commanding officers of the]

| Interceptor

your instructions and suggestions land perfect

Commands to receive] details for civilian volunteer co-operation.”

DARMODY BUILDING LEASED BY ADAMS

The J."F. Darmody building, 25 W. Maryland St., has been leased by Adams, Inc. furniture firm at Maryland and Meridian Sts, to provide space needed for expansion, Jack Adams, president of the firm, announced. The lease was arranged through Klein & Kuhn, Inc, property management firm. The Darmody building first floor is being remodeled and is to be opened Tuesday as a display and sales room for summer furniture. The remainder of the building, also to be remodeled, will be used as a warehouse and as working space for the firm's drapery, refinishing and

i TEMPERATURE ~—April 19, 1948 8 oo mh........

| 6:30 a. m.... 2087

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MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana: Showers and and somewhat colder tonight. Tomorrow cloudy and considerably colder, preceded by light rain in north portion in forenoon.

Miineis: Showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. Tomorrow north, partly cloudy in south portion: colder tonight, considerably colder tomorrow.

Lower Michigan: Showers and thunderstorms, cooler in south and west portions tonight: tomorrow cloudy, light rain and colder. Ohio: Showers and local thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow; cooler tomorrow afternoon, much colder by Monday. Kentucky: Showers, and thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow! colder tomorrow and in extreme west portion tonight: much cooler tomorrow night and Monday.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M.

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TO INSANE HOSPITAL

HACKENSACK, N. J, April 19 (U. 'P.) —Donald B. Converse, age 32, who ran amok in the Bendix Aviation Corp. plant at Bendix, N. J, April 4 and smashed $100.000 worth of models for precision aircraft instruments, was committed temporarily yesterday to the Trenton State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. Examining doctors found Converse, an inspector in the plant, {mentally unbalanced. Converse told one doctor that in destroying the models he responded to a “divine command.”

TRAFFIC VICTIM IN COMA

A man, identified tentatively as Thomas Wade, Mooresville, lay unconscious today in City Hospital of injuries received when he was struck by a car at Kentucky Ave. and the Belt Railroad. The car that struck him was driven by Glenn Weber, 3317 Central Ave., police said.

LINEMAN ELECTROCUTED

BRAZIL, Ind. Apri] 19 (U, P.) — Walter Martin, 48-year-old public service crew lineman of Terre Haute, was electrocuted yesterday when he came in contact with a 6900-volt primary wire while work

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bridges were out. If the blackout was not an overwhelming success as a voluntary defense drill, it provided entertainment for the citizens. Nearly everyone who had a car was out on the streets. Hillsides and the roofs of tall buildings were jammed.

Holiday Atmosphere

There was an atmosphere of holiday festivity downtown. Horns and sirens hooted and wailed with New Year's Eve gusto. Disappointed. at not being able to see anything, hundreds of motorists caught in the Mount Washington jam, got out of their cars amd walked around, exchanging information pieced through the static-gar-bled reports from automobile radios. While all bridges and river boats were dark, the steel mills along the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers be{trayed their positions by the orange glare of the Bessemer converters.

Words of Wisdom

Along the sweeping curve of the Monongaiela, the giant furnaces showered sparks into the darkness and the characteristic glow of the mills hung in the sky. “They're a dead give-away,” one police official admitted. “No one evar will black those out.” One perspiring motorist, desperately trying to wiggle out of the mile-long traffic jam, got this advice {from a traffic policeman, also per-

S. P. C. A. Opens Kindness Week

STARTING TOMORROW, for a solid week, the main idea of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is to create in America a pup paradise. It is Be Kind to Animals Week. The national society has estimated that 100,000,080 animals are killed by. cars annually in this country, and it says that a large number of these are deliberately run down by vicious motorists. The society in Indianapolis also points out that pups, as pets, should have consideration that approaches the consideration one has for persons. Diet is important. This is the 27th annual “Be Kind to Animals Week” and the society believes that each year sees less and less wanton destruction of pets on highways and more and more care of pets in the home.

MURDER WARRANTS ISSUED IN MINE FIGHT

MIDDLESBORO. Ky. April 19| ino. (U. P..—Bell County authorities,| “Take it easy, buddy, we'll all live acting after engineers located a longer.” state boundary by starlight to es- | tablish jurisdiction, were to serv

fugitive warrants today on ev OPM AID SAYS MORE wounded survivors of a coal mine JOBS OPEN TO WOMEN

battle in which four men died. A murder warrant naming the nine men and two mine union offi-} Women are finding an even widcials was issued last night, in Clair- ening field of possible employment borne County, Tenn. after an en-|pecause of national defense, Miss Thelma McKelvey of OPM said today.

gineers commission appointed by Governors Keen Johnson of Kentucky and Prentice Cooper of Ten-| Miss McKelvey outlined the new nesseee reported that the deaths/development in a talk at a Butler occurred on the Tennessee side of {University clinic sponsored by the the boundary last Tuesday. Pre- College ol Education and the NYA. viously, authorities of both states| “There is increasing evidence had been uncertain as to jurisdic-|from many parts of the country of tion in the slaying. the employment of women in industrial occupations, light assemb¥ work, and in simple inspection and packing,” she said. Miss McKelvey pointed out that of some 4400 workers to be employed at the Goodyear Bag Loading Plant at Charlestown, about 70 per cent will be women.

FRANCE QUITS LEAGUE VICHY, France, April 19 (U. P.). —Vice Premier Jean Francois Darlan informed the League of Nations Secretariat today that France had decided to cancel its membership in the League.

Burned Body of Missing Choir Girl, Janitor Says

church. When he returned Sunday morning, the girl was dead. He placed the girl's body in the furnace Sunday morning shortly before Easter services began, Dr. R. E. Amos, Summit County coroner, identified the bones found in the furnace as human bones and A. W. Zwicker, father of the girl, completed identification from two false teeth and the charred remains of her brooch, ring and a purse. The girl failed to return home last Saturday evening and her father feared at first she had suffered an attack of amnesia. Her automobile was found in front of the church. Police had been searching for a week for the girl and at first had inclined to the theory that she had eloped. Miss Zwicker was a graduate of the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, N. Y.,, and was one of eight children. Police said Lukens, father of three children, was employed at the church for 15 months. They said he had been dismissed as auditor at City Hospital because of ‘“‘discrepancies in his accounts.”

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AKRON, O., April 19 (U.P.).—An elderly church janitor has admitted burning the body of pretty Ruth Zwicker, young Akron music teacher, in the furnace of the North Hill Methodist Church, Detective Inspector Verner KE. Cross said today. The charredsbones of the 24-year-old girl, missing from her home since last Saturday, were removed from the furnace last night by detectives. Mr. Cross said that Albert Lukens, 58, gray-haired, partially bald janitor at the church, admitted placing the girl's body in the furnace last Sunday, but denied that he killed her. Mr. Cross said he would be charged with murder Monday. ¢ According to Detective Cross, Lukens also told him that he committed a murder in Cincinnati when he was 18 years old. He told Mr. Cross he served eight years in Mansfield Reformatory for manslaughter in that case. Mr, Cross said Lukens told him that Miss Zwicker was practicing on the piano on the second floor of the church last Saturday. Lukens asked her to kiss him, Mr. Cross said, and the girl slapped him. Lukens grabbed her and in the scuffle she hit her head against the piano. : He carried her down to the basement and hid her behind a coal pile, Mr. Cross quoted him. He went to his home which is adjacent to the

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SCHRICKER TALK DRAWS ATTACK

Gilliom Sees ‘impropriety’ in ‘Governor's Claim of Court Victory.

Governor Henry Schricker today was accused of ‘‘gross impropriety” for an alleged prediction of a court victory in his fight against the G. O. P. “decentralization” program stripping him of administrative and patronage power,

The charge was hurled by Arthur Gilliom, chief G. O. P. counsel, in an address before 700 Marion County precinct workers at the K. of P. Building last night. He cited a press report of the Governor's speech at Tipton Wednesday and said such statements were “responsible for some very obnoxious implications.” The Governor withheld comment on the charge today, but indicated he would answer Mr. Gilliom in his address before a state-wide party rally at the Claypool tonight. Meanwhile, county party workers were cheered by Mr. Gilliom's report on the progress of the litigation over State House jobs, and State Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt's assurance that Marion County would get a fair share of the appointments,

Charges Impropriety

County Chairman James Bradford urged the party members to “have a little more patience” and other leaders said a program for dispensing the jobs had been worked out and would be put into effect as soon as the court fight is settled.

In making his charge against the Governor, Mr. Gilliom said:

“Because it is always highly improper for anyone publicly to debate cases still pending in the courts or to predict their outcome, I shall not do so nor will you expect me to. It was reported in the press that at a political gathering at Tipton on April 16, the Governor publicly predicted court victory for himself in the cases which he brought to strike down the laws made by the lawmaking body of the state.

“If those press reports are true, the Governor is not only guilty of gross impropriety, but is also responsible for some very obnoxious implications that flow from such a prediction on his part, especially so when he lacks legal training on which to base such a prediction,

Points to Opportunity

“The courts will make their decisions in due course and it is only after these cases are finally disposed of that it will be proper for anyone, the Governor included, to make public discussion of these questions.” Pointing to the “great opportunity and responsibility given our party” last November in the election of a G. O. P. legislature and all State officials except the Governor, Mr. Gilliom added: “What needs to be done now is to make good appointments and employments when the opportunity comes and give honest, efficient and economical = administration. That done, and we need not fear the peoples verdict in 1942."

Says Party on Trial

The G. O. P. attorney said that the party is on trial before the people, “and they will render their verdict at the polls in 1942. We may be certain that they will ke fair-minded and will give our party a fair trial. Also that they will not feel kindly toward anyone who may unjustifiably interfere with the proper discharge of our party’s responsibility to the people.” Mr. Bobbitt lauded the County organization for its work in the last election and urged them to carry on for the 1942 election. Other speakers were Henry Ostrom, county committee treasurer; Robert Smith, election commissioner, who explained the new election laws, and Dailey McCoy, assistant county chairman.

AGREES TO PAY BACK TAX

WASHINGTON, April 19 (U. P.). —Robert Jackson, former secretary of the Democratic National Committee, agreed today to pay the Government $257,212 in back income taxes due since 1928. . Jackson, who also served at one time as Democratic National Committeeman from New Hampshire, agreed to enter into a consent decree for that amount in Federal District Court here.

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rence here today face a real They haven't fared so well in the

In 1938, they lost control of the Indiana House, dropped six congressional seats and were beaten in the Secretary of State race. year, they lost another congressional post, both houses of the Legislature

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and all State officers excepting the Governor, They dropped quite a few county and city posts, too. That's a lot of ground to regain and calls for some sleeves-up hard work. And party leaders hope to speed up that organization tempo at the pow-wow this week-end. Fortunately, they say, they have a good foundation to start with—labor. They believe that the heavy employment pickup in the State due to defense production and new plants will add to their total in this field. But’ ° they also realize that they must gather in a great many more farmer and white-collar votes if they are to succeed. They also are cheered by the fact that strictly State issues will be involved in most of the 1942 races. There will be no Presidentia] or Senatorial candidates on the ballots. Except in Indianapolis, there won't be any municipa] candidates. The skip elec= tion law passed by the G. O. P, Legislature put the mayoral balloting back to 1943. Party leaders realize that many things may happen in the next 18 months. They know that the present interparty fight over patronage and the public's reaction to it may play an important role, But they're not in the Jeast pessi« mistic.,

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Reason for Optimism

One of the - reasons Marion County Republicans are optimistic about their chances for landing 800 to 1000 jobs is the report that Allen County, the only other major industrial center which rolled up a sizeable G. O. P. ma= jority last November, isn't ine terested in many jobs. The Republican organization up there has the situation well in hand with control of patronage in Ft, Wayne and the entire county, Practically all of their workers have been taken care of, it’s reported. Incidentally, the Allen County organization setup is regarded as a model. Weekly meetings and continuous contact with the voters by precinct workers is the basis of the setup.

Bedwell Likes Bench

Seventh District Democrats who had hoped to see Charles Bede well of Sullivan in the race for Congress again next year probe ably are doomed to disappointment. The former State Senator's appointment as Indiana Appellate Court judge has proven a popular one and he likes the judicial role. So it's likely he will be a candidate for re-election to the bench in 1942... . Quite a few Republican county chairmen are getting State appointments in the departments in which Governor Schricker has told elected officials to make their own selections. . . . Some leaders of the Willkie Clubs here are reported at odds with the regular G. O. P. organization. They claim they spent time and money in the last campaign, and now can't even get small favors.

DECLARES ENGLAND TO WIN EVENTUALLY,

HONOLULU, April 19 (U. P).— England eventually will win the war because Germany will exhaust herself trying to control conquered na=tions, Prof. Frantisek Wolf, refugee Czecholovakian mathematician, said today upon his arrival from Japan on the SS Yawata Maru. Prof. Wolf, who is en route to St, Paul, Minn,, to join the faculty of Macalester College, predicted that the German people soon will tire of war, and the Czechs, Dutch, Norwegians and other subjected peoples will revolt,

AUTO INJURIES FATAL

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. April 19 (U. P.).—Jacob Smith, 60, Bloomington, died yesterday of injuries received April 5 when struck by an automobile.

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