Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1941 — Page 2

Reported Open to Planes! A Washi _Convoying War Materials. | WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (J. PJ.

—Preparations reportedly were un-| id der ‘way today) for American war-

armed v. 8s. sepia carrying

‘McKinney Demotion Proposal Tuesday. & Bropesal 1 the | raid Jury

Ee is "etpead i

; An authoritative source ‘sald it

t e continuatio be posed tol RY ; o . pursuit ship, th was a “logical De aha |

tions which consisted chiefly of dinates doing private work for. officers “on days off.” |. Reduced Home Cost The investigation was begun after an explosion at the home of Fred C. Kennedy, then fire chief, in which Fireman Alfred Stumm was fatally burned and another fireman ‘was injured. They were redecorating the recreation room in the basement, ’ The jury's letter to the Safety. ican, signed by all members of jury, charged that Assistant Otte McKinney permitted firemen

to- assist in the construction of his home on Pleasant Run Parkway in

.. “We call your attention to the ~ fact that the. cost of the construc tion of that ‘house was greatly reduced to Mr. McKinney by theins

and Sifter employees of the Indian- _ apolis Fir ES partment “on their ‘days’ and ‘just to help out’ ” the

Developed bythe Curtiss-Wright Corp. for the Army and Britain, this new type of = th Curtiss Hawk P-40F; is declared to be: the hardest-hitting fighting plane in the world, able “to blast out |, Would be done to as. of the sky any fighter or bomber in combat service abroad.” While the number and ‘calibre of its gubs [sure “maximum protection” to] has not ‘been disclosed, it has a fire’ power amounting to niore ‘than 60,000,000 foot-pounds of piel, per | American vessels when they inaugus | minute (measured: at the muzzié) with all guns firing. _It.is much faster and has a much’ altitude Tate direct service: to the - British | performance than its predecessor types. The plane is the: first military aircraft of its type in the Valter Isles. May; Step i Déliverics. States to be powered with the new American-built Rolls-Royce Merlin engine of British design. p

l. S P ERFECTS Two Will Speak Efficiency of this couritry's

ocean | - PUBLIC'S STRIKE guard. orces, he said, would, be in- oh _.| At Brandeis Rite | ANTI-TANK BUN. cic Armored Car Mounted on

voyage. He expected this ultimateoring the late Supreme Court HOSTILITY RISES Eight Wheels Capable

ly would have a far-reaching effect in stepping up the rate and safety Justice, Lo ule of deliveries to the British Isles. the Indians (76% Favor Induction Into Army. of Deferred Men 0f 80 M. P. H. Who' Join Walkouts. NEW YORK Nov. 15.—A new type mobile anti-tank gun that has

" ‘Heretofore, English-bound cargoes 5 World War By GEORGE GALLUP * the potentiality ‘to revolutionize our

had to go to Iceland for tranship-|. jment to British bottoms—because of Memorial at 3 ip 'm. tomorDirector, American Institute “of Public Opinion armored brigades is in production today and the first units will come

neutrality law restrictions — and Germany was able to concentrate row, was anoff the assembly line within three

its Taide in a relatively small area. |, The Navy recently established an operating base” at Iceland. The roland. thus could serve as a mid‘way Janchop: ‘point i which PRINCETON, N. J,, Nov, 15—One/| Warships and ‘planes. could opera of the many morale problems in the|in their widened patrols, while ac- '| American Army today is the ‘resent- [tual “convoys .could travel through ment of the draftees against strikes|lUmerous lanes hundreds of miles

nounced today by the Indian~apolis Zionist District. Prof. Fowler Harper of the Indiana Uni-' versity law

of. Harper to the south.

‘Spirit of Fairness’

“*It has been shown beyond any Telegram learned today. .

doubt that a great number of fire

months, the - New York World- | It is an eight-wheeled vehicle,

"School will speak on “Brandeis, the Jurist.” “Rabbi Elias ‘Charry will. discuss “Brandeis, the

in the defense industries, particularly in those cases where the workers on strike - include young men

. «Start Arming Ships: Soon To guard these routes, it was said,

.|deferred from the draft because! A they are needed a / A ‘recitation .|in «industry. , of the tradi- | If the public tional Jewish {had its way, all memorial “such deferred ‘J prayer, “El draftees w

department employees, and sub- capable ‘of speeds up to. 80 miles “ordinate officials , . .' worked in|an hour over good roads and ‘fair

speeds over bad terrain, powered grading the lawn of this property, by ‘an “air-cooled radial = diesel

did a great amount of work in the|engine “and mounting a 75-milli-basement of this house, wiring and!meter cannon. : electrical work and some painting, Rated High After Test - {jr “Racha- inducted into |

Baling some of the materials weed Designed by Floyd Brown of the mim.” will be {army when they { on 8 '|Trackless” Tank Corp, it is the| given by Can 180 On sitike, thorities on the use of bases might “The fact that the explosion and [nearest ‘approach’ to the tractor- Jor My Gas : e puklie: Be { ultimately be broadened to Ee : fire occurred in the basement of the| mounted attack gun used by’ the S. Shapiro lin olor end bases in the Mediterranean and the house of Pred C. Kennedy and that| Germans with devastating effect in (8 Shams {ins n-wide- poll coniducted we Pacific. a'life was taken and another per- France. It is, in design, a better] ‘deliver the : the Institute on the following issue: ‘Meantime, the Navy rushed plans son. seriously Injured does not. make| Weapon because of its much gr eater hie isivecation, “Should 2 workers in defense in- |, cpt American ‘merthe irregularities and selfish prac-| speed. ky, Indianapolis Zionist District Susie Who 1iavé hoeon geferred chantmen as soon as Mr. Roosevelt tices of Mr. Kennedy any different| After 10 days of tests by experts| So. preside. Prof. Har- |fense workers. bo drafted if the, |signs the neutrality revision bill, from those of Mr. McKinney ac-|of the armored force at Ff. Knox,| torn)” yo” recented by Max [go on strike?” €Y |officials indicated the arming will oording to our investigation. . . . , the machine was given a high/|| ‘Klezmer, a former pupil o> vote isha follo ay be a continuous process, with guns| “In the light of our complete rating, particularly because it main- : wat!

American warships and planes could operate from northern Ireland, where a British base has been built with the aid of American technicians; from British stongholds in worth Scotland, and from southern England. - Presumably, an agretment between American: and British au-

Zionist.” -

Captured and Sentenced to Death by. _ the Gestapo, (oerman secaer pouce) this Daring . Hungarian Soldier-Journalist, Who Fought with the French ‘Against. Germany...

| Escaped... Now Tells the

Rabbi Charry

Yes vi being placed aboard ships as a investigation of the e and initained a more stable gun platform serseviiinnressnnesess. 8% ‘keeping with the action that you |than other types of armored vehicle ‘already have taken reducing and because it was more mobile, Fred C. Kennedy to the rank of| As. a result of that test the Army captain, we are suggesting and|ordered 17 of the machines built at

return a U. S. ports es cesses : Mari e Commission experts beUndécidad sestressvecnnes.o & lieved about three ships can be Drastic Action Favored placed in the north Atlantic service per week without severely sri

recommending in the spirit of fair-|once. They are being constructed

ness that your board should now reduce ‘the present

tant chief the Indianapolis | Departnt; Roscoe A. McKinney, to the

at the Reo automobile plant in Lansing, Mich., and powered with Buda-Guiberson diesels.

~ Designed as a Tank

RITE 10 BE NONDAY

Funeral services for Mrs. Jose-

phine Harris will be held at ‘the home of her daughter, Mrs. Daisy.

Malling, 60 E. Regent St, at 2 p.m. [distin

The vote is an interesting ‘indication of the public's ‘present mood 80 ‘far as labor unions are concerned. Its hostility to strikes in the defense Industries is such that it is apparently not inclined to make. ctions between one strike or}

ing other schedules. The Navy has trained gun créws,

and plans to use three, four and five-inch 3 guns, depending on the size of the ship.

Uncensored Truth, Why France Fell!

A GRIPPING mega OF THE FACTS!

pode gy ed Yo pny

of captain, - ly i - “Conduct Is ellel’ : The conduct and the irreguties of these two officials in the epartment are parallel and on the ame plane.” iy its report to Criminal Court,

The big advantage of the new vehicle is in the use of individually hung wheels, four to a side, which are suspended on hydraulic jacks. It can be steered like a car, carries fuel for 800 miles, and can turn

o Recently arrived | in the United States ‘Girotigh =.

Special Visa granted by President Roosevelt, Hans Habe, former editor of the Viennese.newspaper, Der Morgen, ke

Mon urial the another on the merits of each case, Monday, with b » hl ne Now but favors drastic. action to curb at her daughter's home yesterday |all such stappages. : of ‘injuries received in a fall in Oc-|{ In four separate national polls tober. She was 87. on the poo {issue during recent

4} CLUB WINNERS HONORED AT DINNER

months, the Institute has. found

¢ Jury explained that no indictpents were returned in the probe | 2 ause there are no adequate laws

in a U movement in its own length at 30 miles an hour. operate, though at diminished

Mrs, Harris had been a member Methodist

It can stilljof the 49th Street

Church. For the past ‘five years

majorities of from 72 to "6 per cent in favor of taking the extreme step of passing & law. to forbid’ all strikes

Young persons. with ideas were feted last night at a dinner in the

Hotel Lincoln by the Indianapolis

ond League of Nations correspondent. for the leading - democratic newspaper of Czechoslovakia, Prager Tage:

she lived - with- Mrs, Malling, and before that had made her home at 4449 Baltimore Ave. She had come jo . Indianapolis from Mattoon, Til, in 1906 ‘with her ‘husband, william Harris, who. died in 1925. She is survived by two sons, E. W. and 'P. P. Harris; two daughters, Mrs. Malling and. ‘Mrs. Pearl Beck, all -of Indianapolis; 21 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.

T.'M. NEWBURN DIES: FUNERAL “TOMORROW

4 Tusers) services wil be hod atl by. those. hoi) favor the idea & ‘Buchanan Mortuary for Thomas ts lh oe Ton that eh eemalking. M. Newburn, a retired railway mail posed’ on Ser er 7h mn ali | Slats, Who died as Rev.| lowed their. deferment, and that it|cates. Mis he oi Ror | Members of the Indiana Canners’ Roy Ewing e of e raacle y Son, An. be closing session Eome Top as Ten Michele, 25 Presbyterian Church. will.-officiate |\S, Unfair for workers £0 go on strike| Box 59-B, cake icing demonstration;

; when the drafted men have Nad to|Miss Doris 8 two.day convention, yesterday |night in his ‘home. Burial will be, and burial will be at. Belleville, Kas. |; 01s their patriotic sacrifice at a|108-C, Ty, el Beto 2x . at Centerville. :

Mr. Newburn, who was 72, was hich begins born in Roseville, Ill, and bad lived vage wu At only at a lyn Minnich, “handicraft demon“Mr. Nichols was 83 ‘and was a re- month. stration. ter. He was a native of hére one year. He formerly lived

tired re pr Awards for exhibi | Kokomo and had lived here many | Allison, Kas BID APPROVED FOR or exhibits went, to Miss|

‘Minnich, and to Geo - also of ears. While a mail clerk, he worked on rge and Mon v : roe Skinner, twin broth 812 Survivors are his wife, Mis. Al- [the Missouri Pacific Railroad from HOSPITAL ELEVATORS ; tric The City Health Board last night

speeds, if four of its eight wheels are hit by shells—a great advantage over the caterpillar tread, one hit on which will usually ‘immobilize a tank. +As originally designed the weapon was a tank, mounting a 37-milli-meter cannon and a 5%caliber ma-. chine gun in the turret. After Army circles here got word of the success of the Nazi attack gun, which could fire forward while in motion, the Ordnance Department asked that the trackless tank be modified ned on many of Our govern- |i, a mount for an anti-tank gun.

| ns tal units by self-interested and = _ |CLARA LEE NICHOLS OFFICERS ARE NAMED| FUNERAL TOMORROW Funeral services will be-held at 10

BY INDIANA CANNERS a. m. tomorrow in the Leap Funeral

Power and Light Co. The guests, | who were accompanied by their]. parents and teachers, were 4-H Club members who won prizes in the rural -electrification project sponsored last summer by the Power and Light ‘Co. | Awards, presented by A. C. Crandall, vice president of the utility, | went to Miss ‘Anna Louise Brewer, 1253 S. Glenn Arm Ave, a student of home economics at: Purdue University, for baking; Miss Anna E.

in defense work. The primary objection to drafting defense strikers, .in the minds of| those ‘voters opposed, is that “céer- ; sion: does not solve labor problems.” A granite manufacturer in Barre, Vt., interviewed by Interviewer Mabl’ W. Mayforth stated the viewpols § typical of. those opposed when e sa ; -“There’s no point in. using the draft as a means of punishment, It would a poor soldier out of a striker.” pointed out that such measures would not “get at the root of ne roblem. of strikes.” ef arguments put forward

blatt, now fearlessly reveals startling, inside facts about German intrigue—never before told! ps

- This dauntless Hungarian fighter, described by his Colonel as “a man of extraordinary nerve,” enlisted as a volunteer with the French at the start of the war. His fact-account of the iron hand of German occupation i is the most stirring revelation yet brought to light. : i Rosemeyer, R. R. 19, Box 606, a

‘Read...“A THOUSAND SHALL FALL" home economics student at Indiana ; Central College, canning, and Miss| : * STARTING IN THIS SUNDAY'S

=== === | CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE

_eovering the specific practices found n the Fire Department, ‘The report described the alleged empleyment of firemen by superior ‘off cers in private work as “unfair, pulous and even obnoxious, should not. be tolerated any DN ger.” “We recommend that the General ssembly ‘enact such laws which pill correct irregularities and foror destroy the abnormal and practices which have been

nurse at St, Vincent's ‘Hospital, dressmaking, These were scholar-

r. Coddington, who is sales inate rer for the Ladoga Canning Co. ed A. F. Dreyer,

iy AND GIRLS!

. ATTENTION!

Gerard Dr., for an electric berta Nichols; a son, Oscar Nichols Atchison to Downs, Kas., for 34 s pig

years, He retired 10 years ago. lp various +H win-|-

all, vice president, and Robert E.

of Elwood, ‘and a .stepson, Edward W. Watts of Plainfield.

|Newburn : of.-

A member. of the Elks Lodge, he lis survived by a son, Lawrence

approved a contract: awarding the installation of three. City Hospital

ners .also received prizes.

Th were: Mrs. Maryle. Saylor, Mrs. Wil. :

‘Indianapolis, one

ackson, - re-elected executive sec- grandchild and ‘four sisters.

4 hres. directors also were chosen.

elevators to the Otis Elevator Co. on a high bid of $69,976. ‘The Otis Co.'s bid was $36 higher than that of the Westinghouse Electric Co. and more. than $2400 over the. Warner Elevator Co.'s bid. Health “Board officials said they awarded the.contract to Otis be cause “they have the best service acilities, ”.

liam Mowry, Mrs. C Horace B. pers Marion County orace on agricultural agent, was toastmaster at the dinner. Speakers were. Harry Ainsworth, state leader of Boy 4-H Club’ work; Miss Edna Troth, girls’ leader, and Miss Janice a ; Berlin, Marion County home dem«| A en taser ran ann a project for 1942. = Similar =

re EAGLES’ CHIEF TO SPEAK "George C. Tank, former Mayor of] avenport, Towa, and national presBeales sil Sacre he. SE 5 e erie Monday.

5 BURNED TO DEATH

MISSOULA, Mont., Nov. -15 terre shee eis P), ~The five small children oi REPLACE FASCIST GENERAL '|Mrs. Francis Winter Perrine, a| ROME, Nov. 15 (U. P).Gen. {widow, were ‘burned to’ death yes-|Francesco Pricolo was replaced as terday when their frame house on|{Chief of -Staff for. air and. Under the: outskirts of Missoula caught secretary for Air today by Gen. Rina fire. The .dead: Elmer, 9; Prancis,|Corso Fougier who commanded the 8; Richard, 4; Michael, 3: ‘Donald, Italian air force which operated for 5% months. 18 period on the English. ‘Channel.

\Ark Rove) 'Toppled Over Like fired Child’ After Torpedo Struck, Eye-Witness Says:

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stopped. ‘We glanced ‘at one ans: other and then ‘through the Joud-

, and

IRS. AGNES BRINSON 'IS-DEAD HERE AT 61

eed i ome, 1 ate St. ‘She was a member

flung up: trom ‘her and were caught * ‘and fastened,

Like: Monkeys Men Slip Down to Safety | i ONS te ut 1 | the Right deck 60 feet shove us, | ve ~CITY HOSPITAL DENIED $1,000,000 FWA AID}. City Hospital has lost the $1,000,000 Federal appropriation it hoped] ¢ {to get because ‘the Fegleral Works|

{Administration and other agencies |- |aid not rate, it, asa defense insti-

ad SUNDAY’S

ON. DAME TRUSTEE

H BEND, Ind, Nov. 15 (U. Kennedy; N York;