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.. DUNKIRK, O., Nov. 10 (U. P)— Twelve p were known dead _ today after a freak accident caused ‘derailment of a crack Pennsylvania passenger train as the flier roared through this central Ohio town last night at a speed of 70 miles an ‘hour.

_The.speeding limited jumped the} : tracks, according to F. R. Gerard, |

ir superintendent for Northwest division of the. railroad, when a huge 1000-pound cylinder head blown from a West-bound freight locomotive landed on the tracks in front of the express and the passenger crew had no time stop the train. The failure of a valve mechanism was i for blowing the cylinder , . head. two trains did not col6 nd Whe rth ran consid o a stop.

“en of the victims had been : bodies still © ve-

in the book _they are reading.

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“Big news for Peggy Gray and Charles Ditman is the activity of Baby and Tim, which is chivonicled! Bigger news for all school children, teachers and parents is that this week is National Educat! lon Week, Peggy and Charles are School 2 pupils. (Details of Programs, Page 13)

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High U.S. Tvibiinal Rules Federal Judiciary Lacks Jurisdiction.

The U.S. Supreme Court ‘ruled today that the Federal Courts have

“ino jurisdiction in the dispute over

> 'The : locomotive ped ‘on its side and skidded for about 100 feet. ‘The first coach was. cut cleanly ‘in two and piled up ahead of the Jo= ormotive. Part of the train smashed to and demolished a nearby nal tower. Several cars were telescoped into one another. - Pullmans Little Damaged The train had eight coaches. A Jatinge ear, a diner, and a combimation baggage and smoking car also were smashed. The although eralled, were . compara-

tively little: Railroad omciats at the scene of e wreck ‘announced that an in-

. division * headquarters, at 9 a... m, Wednesday. . | ,Splintered timber from the ‘smashed singal tower covered the

blazing high. ' | Towerman Cliff Schwartzkof was in the tower but he escaped without injury, though he suffered from ock. >

“I really don’t know what happened,” he said: “I suddenly found 1.was on the rails with the wreckage piled all around me. - Smoke Tom we locomotive just about cov-

When it left Chicago at 6:40 p. m. (E. S. T.) it carried 77 passengers. and a crew of 20. It had made stops at Ft. Wayne and Lima, O., and there was no way of ascertainng at once | ‘how. many passengers got off and on. * Volunteer workers: aided railroad oyees in extricating bodies and iding injured trapped in their cars. ia light snow was falling and flares |" vere set around the wreckage to | workers.

STRIKE CURB SOUGHT El Nov. 10 (U. P). les Bridges (R. N. H.) to-

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whether the City is bound by a 99-year-lease on property of the old Indianapolis Gas Co. The question’ thus-is thrown back. into Statecourt j ction. : The lease, covering roughly half -{the mains land other property used by the City-owned Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, -was negotiated in 1913 between Indianapolis Gas and its competitor, the gitizens Gas C9. When :the -City took over Citizens Gas in 1935, it refused to "be bound by the lease terms. ‘The h court’s ruling today upholds eral Judge Robert C. Balt. | zell’s original ruling in 1937 ‘that there: was’ no Federal - jurisdiction. The Circuit Court of Appeals .reversed his: decision and ordered the case hound by-the lease terms. The Circuit Court. last year reversed this

‘Iruling and the case. then:went to

the Supreme Court. ‘State Suit Pending . ‘With the case back to where it

{was in 1037, the next logical step,

attorneys said, is t0 revive the dormant suit pending in Boone Circuit Court at Lebanon. suit was filed in Superior Court here in 1937 a few months after Judge Baltzell’'s “no jurisdiction” ruling, but was left “pending” when" the ° ral Court case was remanded here for trial. Pendix i called 1 : been ‘by the utility into an escrow fund which now totals more than $2,000,000. ~ The high .court’s. today was 5 to 4, with Justices Harlan PF. Stone, Robert H...Jackson, Owen J. Roberts and: Stanley ¥. Reed: dissenting. The majority opinion was Written by Justice Felix Frankfurter,

EK WILL STRESS CIVILIAN DEFENSE

any Local Groups. Will . Participate. in Program. | Civilian Defense Week—A week] set aside throughout the nation to

acquaint the .public with the fact that the new. war not only is a

| war of soldiers but of civilians as

well—opens ‘tomorrow. . - ‘Civic clubs have arranged special American. Legion nave panned

| Lottery Broken +

_today-to have resulted.in the indictment of 83 individuals and one. corporation for -a lottery swindle estimated to have cost the public $1,250,000. Two sealed indictments tor mailing of lottery tickets, ‘mail fraud and conspiracy were opened in Federal Court today.’ The ring allegedly sold lottery tickets for the Irish Sweepstakes, two other ‘lotteries and for two fictitious sweeps. It was alleged to: have | published a fictitious issue of a Havana paper which inadvertantly carried the name of the Indianapolis florist as a “winner.” When he sought to collect he was offered only a refund of ° the money he spent in purchasing tickets.

I'S A BRIGHT DAY T0 STATE HUNTERS

Hunting Tszany Opens; "Freeze Again Tonight.

TODAY'S TEMPERATURES

6am ...31 10a m.... 32 7am ...31 11am... 3 8§ a.m. .,. 31 12 (noon)... 33 9a.m ...31 1p.m ...34

Hunters are funny people. Of their own free will they decide to spend a day—today for instance—in the

fields and woods. And they were

overjoyed: when the day turned out to be: cold and blustery. What's more, the Weather Bureau predicts that we'll have more of the

same . tonight and "tomorrow and that the lowest temperature tonight will be from 28 to 32.

Walter Harris, 68, of Cambridge|

City, became the first victim of the new hunting season when he was ‘fatally wounded by. Mrs. Herbert Harris, his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Harris said her gun discharged accidentally when she turned to see whether Mx, Harris had killed a Pheasant at which he had fired,

By. Local Floris i

| | THe complain int of ‘an eT 3 : Indianapolis florist’ Was ‘revealed |’

ACTION SPEEDED,

purse matchings, a Jrotal o of 10 arrests have. been made

Favorable House: Yate This Week.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (. PJ). ~The Administration hopes {0 complete Congressional action this week—the 23d ‘anniversary “of the World War Armistice—on Neutral-

ity Act reyision which will permit:

armed American vessels to carry iend-lease ‘cargoes through war zones to belligerent ports.

President Roosevelt receives from|

his legislative leaders today reports on the prospects of quick House action on the Senate-approved bill Earlier estimates that the bill would pass the House by 75 to 100 votes have been revised downward to 50, and one Administration House leader said he would be “satisfied with 30.” The Rules Committee 'toliny. approved arrangements for eight hours of debate. "But Congress will be in:recess- tomorrow—Armistice Day—and will not ‘be able to start work on the bill until’ Wednesday. : Some ered looked to an address by the President tomorrow to bolster their effort to obtain more votes. - Mr. Roosevelt speaks during

the Armistice Day ceremonies at

the tomb of the Unknown Soldier

‘in Arlington Cemetery. His address

is ‘scheduled for 10 a. m, (Indianapolis Time) on all major radio networks. The 17-yote majority given the neutrality revision bill in the Sen-| ate Friday night—heralded by Berlin as “scarcely a great victory ’—is causing the House leaders some concern, although it is corifident of

passage Meanwhile, Rep. E..E. Cox (D. Ga.) demanded that all foreign policy legislation be held up: until

President Roosevelt recommends.

anti-strike legislation.

CRASH KILLS ELWOOD MAN NEW LEBANON, 0O., Nov. 10 (U. P.).—~Charles Green, ' 6%, : Elwood, Ind;. was killed today in a threecar collision. Mrs. wood, was injured - critically .and ‘Virgil Green, son of the dead man, Fecaived minor injuries. .

1 Patr Imen Ordered Back on

{the last ‘few months, from purse {grabbings to beatings, has made the | | police department fighting mad.

| men will be walking the old neighborhood beats as they used to years i ago. Extra squad cars will be out.}

| busses—invariably ‘at night, |

{15 rape complaints, 36 reports of |sluggings and 143 purse snatchings. {Most of the purse snatches Were ac-| | {ecompanied by blows or kicks by lassailants who popped out of {bushes, . doorways, [automobiles.

3 borhood nuisances has. multiplied

: fa nor SS iy Administration Hopeful of|

|the ' window in the 100 block N.

Beats; Extra Squad Cars Assigned. A wave of assaults on women in

Tonight every night, patrol

Detectives and plainelothesmen are working overtime.

So far this year, police have re-|

ceived 192 complaints of assaults on| | lone women, in homes, on streets,|

alighting . from street cars and

143 Purse Snatchings ; Of this number, there have been

alleyways or In addition, the number of neigh-

this year. There have been 27 reports of peeping toms and 669 comBlan on oer. reported this Of rapes re year, seven have been cleared thus far by arrests. There were 34 rape complaints last year. Woman's Leg Broken

Of the 143

Late Saturday night, & woman received a broken leg when she, her husband and other man attempted to hold & prowler caught peeping in Miley Ave Police later arrested a suspec Also reported to police over ‘the week-end were two more purse snatchings, the attempt of a man to seize a woman ‘while she was walking near her home in Woodruff Place and the complaint of a housewife that a man followed her home in the 200 block Layman Ave. and peeped in through the front window.

Chief Asks Co-Operation

- The annual holiday wave of purse snatchings is‘ starting earlier this year and is attended with more

violence than for years, Police Chief L.

Morrissey said. He said the department’ was making a determined effort to halt both these crimes ‘and neighborhood nuisances. He. urged householders to report all: suspicious noises or persons in their neighborhoods. “We want to: be notified when any householder feels uneasy,” he said. “It’s no trouble for us. That's what we're here for. Even if 49 out of 50 calls prove false alarms, the one man we get is worth it.” “There have been five more purse snatchings so far this year, than the same period of 1940, police records showed.

WHEELER TOLD THAT JANES SANK SUBS

Reads Letter That Sailor Sent Mother. WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (U. P). —Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D.

Mont.) said today he had received a letter written by a Reuben James

sailor to his mother, asserting that]

the destroyer had sunk two submarines before it was Jorpedoed.

According to Mr. Wheeler, : letter added that the destroy “ex pected to get more sul es,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (U. P.). —If an invading Army had pene-

man Army has driven into the Soviet Union, it would be fighting

| trated the United States from theft Eastern Seaboard as far as the Ger-| ot

or jas, the gates of Indianapolis (Mos- | {

U. S. Invasion as Deep as in Central Russia Would Bring Army fo Indianapolis Gates:

In its comparison, - -however, Society noted several major :

oR A. F. Contiiuas:

Blizzard Sweeps War News on

Attack ron Reich; Russian Front. Inside Pages

Churchill Speech and Details of Figh re | ‘Hitler's Munich Speech fing

Stokes Finds Apathy Regarding War. .

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Clapper and Binder Discuss Kurusu Mission Weessnssnsensnionare

‘By JOE. ALEX ‘MORRIS ‘United Press Foreign’ Nows Editor

Great Britain ranged itself squarely on the side of

‘Prime Minister Winston:

| United States today in the Far Eastern crisis.

Churchill warned Tapani tha

| Britain would fight beside the Americans in any Far : |ern war, claimed air superiority over the German Lufts and rejected in advance any peace offensive by. which

Winston. Churchill . . , says “net of doom” closes on Hitler.

STRIKERS DEFY

o A. F. L. Council Calls ou

! : wk By, taiTED PRESS 5th The A. 'F. of L. Building Trades Council today answered a Navy ultimagim to: end a defense construc-

tion strike ‘at’ San Diego, Cal; by extending the: walkout to- include {: 3000 workers employed on $35,000,000 worth of military building. The Navy had threatened to continue construction of three defense |g projects, woth $10,500,000, with nonunion labor unless 1409 A. F. of L. workers who struck Thursday returned to their jobs immediately. Instead of sending the strikers back to their jobs, the A. F. of L, Council ordered out 1600 workers ‘on seven other projects totaling $25,000,000. Settlement of the railway express strike at Detroit awaited word from Daniel J. Tobin, of Indianapolis, international president of the A. F. of teamsters.

Discuss Mine Dispute

Representatives of the five operating ' railroad brotherhoods ad- |g, Journed yesterdey, announcing they would. strike “on or about Dec. 5” because of dissatisfaction with" the wage proposals’ of the Presidential fact-finding board. They were cer-

tain the President would seek t

further negotiasions to prevent a transportation stoppage: during the defense emergency Officials of the 14 non-operating unions meet Wednesday to consider the report. - The, National Defense. Mediation Board is expected to complete its recommendations this week in the “capti ‘mine dispute involving the steel company mine owners and the United Mine Workers ¢C. I. O.). U. M. W. President John L. Lewis reportedly has said he will not yield on the union’s demand for a closed shop. Mr, Lewis’ deadline for medi« ating the dispute expires Saturday.

BEAMER APPOINTS * KILGORE AND AGNEW

Obed Kilgore, 4051 Winthrop Ave; and Robert Agnew, Frankfort, have been Sopolates deputy attorney 9 an. Gen.

‘Ito the Far East, where he sald

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| | Hitler might attempt to escape “the closing net of foots The Prime Minister's: speech at' the Lord

luncheon in London came at an hour when the British. stirred by a naval victory over the Italians Jn the

terranean, when the R. A. F.

was pressing a “winter

offensive ‘against the German war machine with 1 Hamburg and other northwestern centers and w {Red Army appeared to be holding its: lines i in new ba the blizzard-swept Eastern Front.

Churchill made one of his’

famous fighting speeches that ea

covered the world scene from,

Britain now

the power of the democracies was growing constantly without yet approaching any limit of strength:

+ Losses Called Staggering

One of ‘the most remarkable of Churchill’s statements concerned the claim of equality—if not superiority —in the air war. The Germans had been reported to have some 35,000 war planes, including reserves, and British experts said that the Prime Minister’s claim was based on greatly increased American and British production as well as on the. staggering losses suffered by the Germans:in Russia. ; The only specific claim of Axis in. Russia was 125 miles | southeast of Leningrad where Berlin said that the important railHom junction of Tikhvin had been aken. The Nazis. also. made unspecific claims of progress in the Crimea toward Kerch and Sebastopol, which was severely bombed. Berlin said that the Luftwaffe heavily attacked Moscow, as well as railroads in the Donets and Volga area. i But in most of the important. operations in the air and on sea, the Bah continued to hold the initia-

Rome acknowledged in an official ren that an attack by

tish cruisers and destroyers. on|air

a Mediterranean convoy en. route|African fronts

{% North Africa had resulted in theters,

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Libya: whers, the ‘British have b expected to attempt a win offensive designed to’ knock

North Africa points were contint Ten were killed and 25 inj Naples. In recent months, the ish claim to: have destroyed 40 per cent of Axis shipme 1 Libya. .

In the Atlantic, the claimed that they. had si British ‘merchant ps 25,000 tons and. . the . B:

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tles against the German flee

In the air, the Royal Air Fe continued tor the third night its battering winter: offe against Germany, reporting big fires had been started damage. done at Ham haven, Emden and other; zi 10] {ern points, = | : The offensive, intended as tial answer to demands for

ond front against Germany, has

an estimated 900 plants into & in day and g night raids - day, but has cost the craft on the European open oa pisciuding 55 8 #

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