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Project for E. 10th and Massachusetts.

The city’s first plan to relieve intersection copgestion by channelizing traffic flow was approved by the Works Board today in a $12,000

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improvement project for the inter-|f

section of Massachusetts Ave, and 10th St. The channel plan, which would separate traffic moving in six directions, was proposed by the Board by Traffic Engineer James E. Loer. It was immediately approved as a solution to congestion at the triple intersection which Board members sald created one of the city’s worst traffic problems. ig Other proposals to abatement of traffic log-jams by the channel method are expected to be made by ‘the engineer if this pioneer effort proves successful.

How It Would Work

* The channel plan calls for the ‘separation of traffic moving in three directions from the east and in three directions from the west as follows:

1. By the construction of a low -concrete curb, studded with bulleye reflectors, which would ‘along the center of Massachusetts Ave. and 10th St. from Cornell Ave. to Dorman St. . This would divide the two thoroughfares into north and south segments. | ++ 2. By the construction of an Lshaped safety island at about the center of the Massachusetts and 10th : St. intersection, 3. By the installation of a stop"go. light system at Massachusetts ‘and Lewis St., which would direct .traffic ‘automa tions + Complicated Problem

The problem is complicated by the fact that 10th St. is a virtual continuation of Massachusetts Ave., Mr. Loer said. According to the routing created by the dividing curb, the safety island and the lights, traffic approaching. the intersection from the east would move. as follows: 1. To ‘continue east on 10th St. trafic would keep to the right of the divider curb and continue moving without any stop on a perpetual green light. 2. Trafic turning left on MassaJhusetts Ave. would also go to the right of the divider, keeping to the left of the double lane between the sidewalk turb and the divider and make the left turn when the light permits at the end of the divider and the safety island.

Left Turns at Lewis St.

3. Traffic turning left on Lewis St. from: Manssachusetts Ave. would go to the left of the divider and make the turn when the light permitted. All westbound traffic would keep left of the divider. Traffic moving west from 10th St. onto Massachusetts Ave. would keep between the divider and the safety island, Traffic making a right turn on 10th St. from Massachusetts Ave. would bear right of the island and traffic turning right from Lewis St. onto Massachusetts Ave. would keep to the north curb. As part of the improvement plan, the intersection would be reconstructed, the car tracks being removed, and the entire area of the roadway resurfaced with concrete, according to the plan.

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JURY QUESTIONS WELFARE CHIEF

Blue Threatens Action in Court to Force Testimony On Department Files.

Prosecutor Sherwood Blue announced. today that he will start proceedings in Criminal Court to force Welfare Director Thomas L. Neal to testify before the Grand Jury. Mr. Neal was subpenaed to appear before the Grand Jury today. He appeared but refused to answer any questions regarding information on the confidential files of the Marion County Welfare Department, Mr. ‘Blue said. The Welfare director is said to have told the jurors that State law prohibits him from giving out any information from the department's files. + Prosecutor Blue, who- declined to

“vestigated: by : d he is faking the: position: that the Grand Jury under the law is entitled to any information in its investigation of criminal matters, public or private. . “I will file proceedings in Criminal Court immediately,” Mr. Blue said, “to test Mr. Neal's position in refusing to give out ‘this information and will seek a court order forcing him to testify.” } Mr. Neal ‘declined to comment on the situation.

Freeze Tonight; Cold to Remain

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a. m ... 57 10a. m ... 60 7a. m ...58 11 a.m. ... 60 8a m. ... 58 12 (noon) .. 62 9am ... 58 1pm... 63

It was bound to come sooner or later, but the Weather Bureau said freezing temperature would be here “sooner”—by tomorrow morning, in fact. Weatherman J. H. Armington predicted that skies would clear this afternoon and.the temperature: would drop tonight to 32 degrees—the freezing mark—and possibly two or three degrees below. The “cold wave” is e ted to last through the next couple of days. X

PAMELA GOES HOME ; LOWELL, Mass., Oct. 27 (U. P)). —Plucky Pamela Hollingworth, 5, who survived eight days in a mountain wilderness, was able to go home today after three weeks’ hospitalization for frost-bitten feet. She was

put to bed immediately.

15 Killed, Seven Injured

In Flaming Alabama Bus

CLANTON, Ala,, Oct. 27 (U. P.).— Relatives and friends of missing persons crowded two funeral parlors here today as police sought to identify victims of a bus disaster in which 16 persons were burned to

on a authorities searched the bus wreckage and reported. no trace of other victims. ‘ Patrick Alton, bus driver, had muttered before he died

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Montevallo State College Women. The bus side-swiped the wall of a culvert and the gasoline tank, mounted along its side beneath its body, ripped open. There was an explosion and in a split second flames were leaping through the floor, between and around the seats. Only those passengers who had been seated at windows which happened to be Spen, Seoaped The e-f Sthers ! perished gasoline-fed Authorities suggested that Alton may have dozed at the wheel. The bus belonged to the Alabama Greyhound Co.

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the ruins of the big machine were horribly charred and authorities

fespaireq of precise identifications. Among Scroggins

the survivors was Robert of - who described the accident as follows:

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Which Way Will Japan Go—North or South?

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‘By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

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The Red Army again pushed back}.

German jabs into the wintry Moscow front today but in the south Ukraine faced a mounting threat to the Donets Basin and the road to the Caucasus oil fields. Despite tremendous losses, the Axis armies were hammering so violently at the gates of Rostov on the Don that Sir Archibald: Wavell, commander of an army of probably 1,000,000 British Imperials in the Near East, was said to have started urgent consultations at Tiflis for joint British-Russian defense of the Caucasus area. : In the Far East, the Russians reported—and Tokyg denied — that Japanese troops had crossed the Siberian frontier in what presumably was a test punch on a minor scale of the Soviet defenses, which had been reported weakened by transfer of possibly 500,000 troops to the west. There was no indication that the clias hwould he immediately

followed by further military opera-|f|

tions. i Fear Burma Road Blow

The. Chinese, . on . the contrary, |& reported that Japan was more like-

ly to strike in the south, tending

-Chungking’s military spokes-,

cut the Burma Road and prevent | make public the nature Sead u S.-British ‘aid from reaching

man reported that the Japanese are { bomb-

building an airdrome for 300: within striking distance of the Burma Road and that large-scale maneuvers will be - held there shortly. ]

The European fighting front, anf

arc before Moscow, has shown little change in approximately two weeks, although battles have Taged -sq

fiercely that the Soviets reported

around 50,000 Germans killed: in recent days. The Germans said that tne Red Army ‘had suffered “tzemendous losses” during “succesful”

Axis attacks on the central iront|: was

where . one ‘German division - credited with capture of 27,500 prisoners (according to DNB) and 211 guns. It was significant, however, that Berlin claimed no recent gains toward the Soviet capital, although the Nazi press published dispatches attributed to Swedish sources saying

that the Russians planned the de-}|.

struction of Moscow and Leningrad if the defense of those two great

cities was broken. ’ Gain Near Mozhaisk ,

The Moscow radio said that the Germans had made slight advances on the southwest sector of the capital defenses but that a Russian counter-attack had recovered important ground on the western sector near Mozhaisk, where 500 German. dead were left on the field. There were no definite positions given by either Berlin or Moscow in connection with the fighting on the south front for Rostov but both sides ‘indicated that the battle was close to that important communica~ tions and industrial city, which guards the path to the Caucasus oil fields. This Axis advance was believed responsible for Wavell’s - reported talk with Soviet Marshal Semyon

: Timoshenko on joint defense measures.

British Inspect Ground Some of Wavell’s staff officers,

London believed, have already in-| spected the terrain east and south

of Rostov in preparation for recommendations on ‘the disposition of joint ~~ British-Russian Caucasus troops. All available road-building equipment in the ‘Middle East was reported being brought into play to improve communications routes

Fourteen bodies removed from |Mareh

BICYCLING? WELL, NO, DECIDES FIRST LADY

ASHINGTON, Oct. Mrs. Roosevelt's with the again, she a bicycle daily to her Office of Civilian defense

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‘| Sterling. Coal

Coal Pit Believed Near Scene of Explosion. NORTONVILLE, Ky., Oct. 27 (U.

; P.) —Forty-three miners trapped by

an explosion at the Daniel Boone Mine west of here early today have been brought to the surface unharmed, according to - Assistant Mine Superintendent T. H. Rhodes,

‘Ibut 15 men still are unaccounted ;

for. ’ An official check showed 50 men were at work at the time of the blast. i ‘Mr. Rhodes said no contact had been established with the men remaining in the mine, but that so far none was known to be dead. Cause of the explosion which rocked the mine about 7:30 a. m., was still a matter of “guess work,” he said. State Mine Inspector Moss Patterson was reported en route to the scene and Federal Engineers were expected from the U. 8S. Buyeal of Mines station at Vincennes,

Fifteen Still in Mine

Meanwhile, rescue squads worked to clear a way into the section of the mine where the explosion occurred: The 15 still in the mine

‘were believed to have been very

near the blast while the 60 who were brought to the surface who reported to have been working in a shaft some distance away. The mine is the property of the Co. of Dawson Springs, Ky: W. A. Vinson, mine rescue official in charge of the rescue work, said the missing men were in an “entry” branching off the main

|shaft where most. of the miners

- were when the blast came.

The thoughts of many Hoosiers turn naturally this Navy Day to the U. 8. S. Indiana, one of Uncle Sam’s four giant battleships now under construction. Here the State’s namesake is shown at the Newport News Shipbuilding Co. where she is being prepared for launching in December. Note the impressive depth of the hull which dwarfs

the ‘great vessel's super-structure.

FDR Asks Willing Sacrifice

To Help Halt

WASHINGTON, Oct, keynote for observance of Navy Day and “willing sacrifice” 'so ‘that the of evil” and

‘remain united and unconquerable.’

'Forces of Evil’

27 (U.P) —President Roosevelt sounded the Vv. today with a call for “total defense”

United States can halt the “forces

In a letter of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox urging expansion

of the traditional 20-year-gld salute fense Day,” the President set ‘the stage for his - nation-wide radio broadcast tonight at 9 o'clock (Indianapolis / Time)’ over all major networks. . ‘ Congressional - leaders « who: conferred ‘with - Mr. ‘Roosevelt this morning, were given ‘a preview of the address. They reported it would deal in large measure with foreign licy ‘issues. ‘The President will

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NAVY TO SWEAR IN ~ GLASS: AT CIRCLE Ceremony Among. Features

Of Local Observance.

“The U. 8. Navy has scheduled a

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| funeral director, said

Felt ‘Big Gush of Air

deaf- : Paul Gannon, operator, said the

- | following were unaccounted for:

Alberty Keys, Robert Jocey, Will Cormdton, Gus Pryer, Burt Cunningham, Edgar Adams, Neely Todd, Junior Gamblin, Obey Wells, Other

| Sisk, - Benny Martin, Robert Dun- | | nig, Don Pearson, Ike Whitfield and Goldie Gamblin.

17° ARKANSANS DIE IN TWO TORNADOES

Many Are Injured, Property Damage Heavy.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. 27 (U. P)). —Tornadoes struck at two widelyseparated points in Arkansas last night and early today, leaving at least 17 persons dead and causing extensive property damage. Eleven were killed in Hamburg, Ark, Six others died at Dardanelle and New Bethel when another torRade ripped into the Arkansas River

Raymond Stephenson, Monticello “30 or 40” others were injured at Hamburg, some of them seriously. The wind wrecked communication lines, homes and automobiles. Soldiers from Camp Alexandria, La., patrolled the town. Many vietims were asleep and. their bodies were blown from their beds, Mr. Stephenson said. A heavy rain accompanied the storm. * Four bodies were in Dardanelle rEves and two others at Russelle. : }

|BIOFF ‘MESSENGER’

NEW YORK, Oct. 27 (U.P.).— William Bioff testified at his extor-

picture industry “over $1,000,000” in cash across the continent ‘at a time when the novies Jus fighting “sandbagging

legislation. Bioff denied that he ever extorted money from the companies. He

- Miners who came up after the 3 said they felt “a big {gush of air” followed by .the “| ening blast.

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Rep. Cox, Frequent Labor Critic, Sees Defense in Peril; Strike Reported Gen-

erally Effective;

53,000 Affected.

By LYLE C. WILSON :

United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Congressional foes of John

L. Lewis today demanded prompt Federal action in the captive coal mines strike, in which President Roosevelt ape parently was headed toward a national defense crack-down

on the labor chieftain.

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Rep. E. E. Cox (D. Ga.), urged in the House that the people put “guts in the bellies and iron in the blood of those that represent them in Washington” to deal with Mr. Lewis

and “labor despotism in this

country.” He was joined in

the attack by Rep. William M. Colmer (D. Miss.), and Reps

SHIP WORKERS’ STRIKES SPREAD

6000 Go Out in Brooklyn; Welders Quit Work In California.

By UNITED PRESS Strikes rocked the shipbuilding industry. on the east and west coasts today.

A strike of 5800 men in: behalf of wage demands was called: at. the

Brooklyn planv of the Robins Drydock and Repair Co., New York, by the Industrial Union of Marine and shipbuilding Workers (C. I. 0.): The company holds contracts to repair all damaged British merchant ships entering New York harbor. Union members - claimed, to be striking for a 10 per cent wage increase promised by the company. officials of the firm said the closed shop was the strike issue. A welders’ strike which already has crippled five Puget Sound shipyards spread today to four southern California shipbuilding plants holding defense contracts valued at $500,000,000. The Puget Sound yards have contracts totaling $365,000,000. Strikers in both areas demanded an autonomous union. Most are members of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Shipbuilders, Welders and- Helpers (A. F. of L.), which has threatened them with expulsion unless they return to work. : Welders in San Francisco Bay shipyards, which hold another half billion dollars worth of defense contracts voted to ballot Wednesda on whether to go out in sympathy. K. V. Morris, president of the United Welders, Cutters and Helpers Union, an independent group, said welders in aircraft plants may join the strike unless demands are recognized by the Government and the companies within three days.

RECORD STEEL WEEK DUE NEW ¥ORK, Oct. 27 (U. P).— Steel mills of the nation, despite the strike in their captive coal mines, plan to produce a record tonnage of ingots this week on the basis of operations at 99.9 per cent of theoretical capacity, the American Iron & Steel Institute disclosed today.

CLARK HOSPITAL GRANT O. K. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (U. P .) "rr President Roosevelt today approved 18 more defense public works projects including an 85-bed addition to

emorial pital at Jeffersonville, Ind., in which the Federal share will be $165,000.

Roosevelt Letter to Lewis

Dan McGehee (D. Miss.). Mr. Roosevelt was still awaiting a reply to his sec" ond plea to Mr. Lewis, in

which he asked for immediate resumption of work in the captive mines that are owned by seven major steel companies and opers ated exclusively for their use in producing steel. If the stoppage is prolonged, steel manufacture would be seriously jevpardized. The captive mines employ 53,000 miners who were called out' by Mr, Lewis Saturday night, in defiance of Mr. Roosevelt's first plea for a continued truce in the dispute be" tween the United, Mine Workers Union (C..I. 0.) and the operators, The strike actually became effective RN Yoon ver the , weston ‘would op { . Weektow: a

Generally Effective

‘Reports from the mining districts in Pennsylvania, West virginia: Kentucky and Alabama indicated the strike was generally effective although in Johnstown, Pa. some 400 U. .M.. W. miners were reported at work. Mr, Lewis and U. M, W. leaders were in conference at his U. M.' W, headquarters. here, and the former. C. 1/10. president announzed that he would hold a press conference at 4 p. m, : The White House had no coms ment on the failure of Mr. Lewis to reply immediately to Mr. Roosevelt, but some sources speculated that the President would have something to say about the situation when he addresses the nation tonight on “total defense,” as a part of na= tional observance of Navy Day.

Hull Stresses Urgency

Secretary of State Cordell Hull, meantime, emphasized at a press conference the urgency of getting a maximum amount of war materials to countries resisting aggression. He did not refer specifically to the captive mines dispute, but made the statement when asked whether Britain or her Allies ever had come plained about delays in deliveries due to strikes. He said they had nog made any such complaints to Reps. Cox, Colmer and McGehe attacked the Lewis strike call early, in the House session. Later Leland M. Ford (R. Cal) demanded that the Administration cease its “weak-kneed, mealy-mouthed ap= peasement appeals and tell this subversive group that we are going to have a defense program.” Rep. Cox, frequently a critic of Administration labor policies, de= clared that “as regards the labor

grmment and the capitalistic sys “In the do-nothing policy whicki has heen adopted, the Goverriment (Continued on Page Two)

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