Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1941 — Page 20

AS A “LOTHARID

Wooed 3 Others Just Before Wedding, Court Told in Slaying Trial.

MONTERREY, Mexico, Nov. 27 U.P.) —Dr. Arthur Frederick Tor- = rance was making love to at least : three other women just before he « married the wealthy, 65-year-old widow he is. accused of murdering . with a thermos bottle, it was re- ., vealed today. Judge Jesus B. Santos is deciding _ whether he is guilty of murdering . his bride. , He jilted Barbara Bowen of Fonolui society to marry Mrs. Ada . Lovelan Mrs. AF G. Brewton of Honolulu charged in a letter to Nuevo “Leon state authorities that he had . tricked her out of a $1500 bracelet. It was disclosed that he had ca-

, Lothario. » Explains About Ring

_- muck,” and would only «his acquaintance with Mrs. Bre

paid her passage from Bangk kK to Honolulu,” he said. He said he had done her » favors, including getting her « Which she lost. Disgusted, he

-Dr. Torrance swore it was still there, so far as he knew. \

Former Navy Chaplain

described in Who's Who in A ica as a noted authority on tropical diseases and author. Gilberta Zardaneta, a crimi ogist, said he had identified Torrance’s fingerprints as tho, a man who kad been a chaplain the United States Navy in 1917 and _who was discharged ifi 1920. That . was a previously undisclosed chapter in his adventurous life. ' Judge Santos already has com- _ mitted him to prison, tantamount in Mexico to grand jury indicH

A TOTAL OF 68,000 adult vis- = ftors thronged the buildings of the Indianapolis public school sys= % tem during American Education ". Week, Nov. 9 to 15, according to William A. Evans, director of - school publications. This is 2500 »~. more than last year. ~ Highest attendance was report- - ed by Technical High School, with 7000 parents and friends inspecting displays and meeting teachers. Crispus Attucks was next in . the high school group with 5100. Firteen

thriving for: described to | members of the Exchange Club during their regular weekly meeting tomorrow noon in %the Hotel Severin. : The speaker, Harry C. Hyatt, di.rector - of - conservation for the Indiana Coal Producers Association, will give an illustrated lecture on “Trees of Yesterday and Tomorrow.” He will tell the story of the ‘oldest known method of mining coal and how, in co-operation with ~ the Conservation Department, the association is reclaiming the waste -land left by strip mines for forests and recreational purposes.

-| levels,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. U. P.) The first flag captured. by the American Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic, a big swastika banner taken from ‘the German freighter Odenwald, is hanging in the. office of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. - Secretary Knox remarked that it was not the flag the ship was

First Nazi flag captured by U. S. hangs in the office of Secretary of the Navy Knox.

. flying when it was captured by

i |day denounced anti-strike legisia-|

the cruiser Omaha. At the time of the capture, the Odenwald was disguised and was flying an American flag. The German flag, hanging from a wall opposite ‘the secretary’s . desk, has a- swastika in a circle . of white surrounded | by a red border.

|UPTREND HIKES

DEFENSE COSTS

Rise About $2,440,000,000 During First 17 Months Of U. S. Program.

" WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (U.P.).— Rising costs of material and labor— particularly material—have boosted original estimates of defense costs

by about $2,440,000,000 during the first 17 months of the defense pro-

ent, | gram

Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, lend-lease and other defensespending agencies agree that defense costs so far have gone up “10, 15 or 25” per cent because of increasing prices. This represents “lost” money for which no guns; bullets, vlanes. tanks or ships will be received.

Government price statisticians estimate that in 17 months approximately $2,080,000,000 has been paid out for armaments in excess of anticipated costs. An estimated $350,000,000 has been paid out for increased labor costs. Using August, 1939—the month before the war began—prices and labor costs for a comparison, the statisticians state that of the $2,440,000,000 total, about $400,000,000 was paid out for increased costs during October and another $440,000,000 probably will be paid out this month. That indicates that excess costs are increasing rather than decreasing. Bernard M. Baruch, head of the 1918 War Industries Board, has estimated that spiraling costs upped estimates of last World War expenditures by gbout $15,000,000,000. In comparison, the Baruch estimate may be eclipsed during the current armament effort, defense officials said. Even if wages and prices do remain at their present more than $7,000,000,000 would be paid out for armaments “that never roll out of a factory door,” one official said.

SUNDAY’S WIDOW SPEAKS PORTLAND, Ind., Nov. 27 (U.P.). —MTrs. W. A. Sunday, widow of the noted evangelist Billy Sunday, will speak at Sunday morning and evening services of the First United

Brethren in Christ Church here.

L S. AYRES & CO.

and other f am ous makes /

Barber Offers ‘Shop for Taxes

MUNCIE, Ind, Nov. 27 JU. P.).—Add to the list of Govern-ment-owned businesses today one barber shop—maybe. Jack Ridgeway, Muncie barber, has offered his shop to the Federal Government for $402, the sum the Government says he must pay for delinquent Social Security taxes and penaities. “They .can have it,” Ridgeway said baldly. “I refuse to pay. “I was told five years ago that I did not have to, because I lease the chairs in my shop to the men who operate them.” ‘The Treasury Department, unwilling to split hairs but- wanting the taxes, was undecided.

MURDER CHARGED IN TRAIN. WRECKING

RENO, Nev., Nov. 27 (U. P).—A preliminary hearing will be held tomorrow for Clarence J. Alexander, 24, charged with murder in connection with his confessqd wrecking of the streamliner City-of San Francisco. The former section hand and onetime inmate of an Oaklahoma insane asylum was charged last night with murder with intent to commit robbery, an offense punishable by death or life imprisonment. The charge specifically accused him of the death of Miss Helen Henry, 30, of Oakland, Cal., one of the 24 passengers killed when the train plunged into the Humboldt River near Harney, Nev., two years ago. One hundred and eight persons were injured. Alexander told police he derailed the train with the intention of robbing the confused passengers.

FAMED JEWEL UNDER HAMMER IN PARIS

VICHY, Nov. 27 (U. P.).—One of the most famous jewels of Europe —the 136-carat emerald of the late Countess de Mershof—goes on sale at the Drout auction hall in. Paris today. Legend says the stone will bring good fortune to its owner but if the owner loses it, he will have nothing but bad luck. Countess de Marshof fell down-

killed, 12 hours after the stone had

:| basis, “with management and la

; Siristive

stairs three years ago and was

Like That: of 1918 in House Testimony,

—President William Green of {h American Federation of Labor: fo-

tion and proposed that a Natiohal War Labor .Board, similar to dne which functioned during WwW ie War 1, be established. < Testifying before the House Lahor he said more g

a, set-up—created on a co-operafii

both represented—than under legislation to

James B. Carey, secretary of Congress of - Industrial Organi tions, ‘propose convocation of a.: tional conference of labor, indus and government to work out as

to extend the Previdente plant s vi ure authority to cover strikebor nd plants.

Hits Connally Bill

Martin H. Miller, legislative retire-, sentative of the Brotherhood | of Railroad Trainmen, declared {th Connally bill was aimed “to: restrict and hinder” rights of collective kb '- gaining. - Industry was expected to join organized labor in opposing’ the ‘Administration’s proposal for comjjulsory arbitration. Charles Hook, president of the National Assotiation of Manufacturers, planned! to appear before the House commijtee in opposition. While that program calls for utilization of every known method of bringing management and lebor to peaceful, voluntary settlemen| of disputes which might interiuptH arms production, it includes -chmpulsory arbitration, at the direcjion | 3 {ie President, if other met} ods

Provides stiff Penalties

Mr. Roosevelt has been c¢hmmitted indirectly by legisletive leaders to the program which wauld give him the power to require pmployers and employees to accept|the findings of an aribtration board in and dispute that cannot be sefitled by mediation. : Management would be obliged te accept the arbitral findings or have its plant seized by the Governnient. Labor could refuse the arhifers’ decision only on pain of losing virtually all rights under Federal law in addition to subjecting itself fo anti-strike court injunctions batked up by stiff criminal penalties. The program worked out at| the White House was submitted in| bill form to the labor committee [yesterday by its ranking Democratic member, Rep. Robert pn of Georgia, who attended the co: ops ence Monday night. Rep. F speck emphasized that he perso; ally as not committed to the bill,

EVANSVILLE CHOIR SINGS HERE SUNLAY

The Evansyille College A Capella choir will give a public conceit of sacred and miscellaneous musiciat 3 p. m. Sunday in the sanctuary of the Roberts Park Methodist Chijirch. Prof. Carl Hjortsvang, the thoir director, will be heard in a solo presentation of the Bach-Gounod ‘Ave Maria,” with the choir voices as a background, and a violin obbligato by Clinton Purdue. Other numbers will be “The {College Hymn,” written by a studept of Evansville College in 1926, and a group of Negro spirituals. There are 50 mixed voices ir} the choir.

8 JEWS SLAIN IN WARSAW BERLIN, Nov. 27 (U. P.).-+The Warsaw Zeitung, German language newspaper of Warsaw, reported today that two Jewish men and six Jewish women have been exetuted for leaving ghettoes in violatidn of regulations. They were sentenced to death Oct. 15 by a special qourt, the ‘newspaper revealed.

been stolen from her.

. By UNITED PRESS

The most serious strike hamper-. ing the nation’s defense production ended today as ‘two new, disputes jeopardized labor peace on the Pacific Coast. The A. F. of L. Machinists union called 8600 members back to work at 400 plants in the St. Louis metropolitan area, ending a three-day walkout. The union voted to call off the strike at the request of the Army and Navy and to continue negotiations for settling its jurisdictional dispute with A. F. of L. operating engineers. The back-to-work order spurred operations almost immediately at the Curtiss-Wright Aircraft Corp. plant, which had been forced to

St. Louis Strike Is Ended as 2 Tieups Threaten on Cocist|

The purpose of the telegrams was to dissipate confusion occasioned’ by reports that two “little steel” tompanies did not consider themselves bound by the proceedings. In addition fo asking steel tompanies to clarify their positior} the telegrams also contained the cuestion, “Do you wish: to appear bifore the board?” At Buffalo, N. Y., Leo G. Laniotte, assistant aircraft director for| the United Automobile Workers (7. I. 0.), said union officials had |prevented a strike of “between 300(| and 14000” men dissatisfied with deldy in settling a wage dispute with the Bell Aircraft Corp.

At Kenosha, Wis., 195 A. F.: of L.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (U. B).|

-Here’s a scale model “of” the streamlined steam locomotive of The Challenger, crack train to the Pacific’ : Coast, exhibited in the Chicago & Northwestern station in Chicago. Twenty feet over all, if develops 40 horsepower ‘with 150 pounds of stearn pressure, and can run 20 mijles in one hour with two bushels of ‘coal for fuel. It has a 14-inch gauge, 14-inch drivers, 4x5 two and a : Jnalf tons. Miss Peggy Barr is seated in the cab.

4x5-inch cylinders. In’ working order, | it weighs

[or construction of an annex to

‘Court House as a storage vault for tons of County records. Pie The action followed warnings is-

_|sued several weeks ago that th

floor supporting thousands of rece ord books on the top floor of the

{building was in danger af collapsing.

Commissioners also . have ‘been

on the fourth floor. / Commissioner William T,

‘County Council for “$10,000 or $12;

000 to build the annex and vault.’

0) 1; MONTH SALE

% Ayres' E. O. M. sale is the regular clean-up of odd lots, broken sizes and’ soiled merchandise.

* November.

E. O. M. is especially value-full, bringing you many gift items as well as wearables for yourself and your family.

Come early, stay late. Look for a great many unadvertised values on every floor and in every department.

NECKWEAR, BLOUSES

NECKWEAR—Was originally-

1.00. Collars, collar and cuff sets. Now ....... iain sais 3%e BLOUSES — Were originally + 1,00 and 2.00. Some long- ' sleeved shirts included....8% BLOUSES—AnNd some jackets. Were originally 2.00 and 3.00. Now ...iiienenn. vevenvan 1.59 BLOUSES—Rayon jerseys and long or short-sleeve rayon crepes. Also some skirts in‘cluded. NOW ....cocvene. ’

—AYRES—DRESS ACO ORIES, STREET FLOCR.

E.O. M. Special!

(100) Leather or Suede Handbags Were Originally $5 3.89 - Broken assortment of

colors’ but tremendous - nValues.

. —STREET PLOOR.

COSTUME JEWELRY

(100) NECKLACES—Were originally ‘1.00. All single-strand “styles with -attractive -clasjps. ieee vans for 1.00% JEWELED CLUSTER NECK- - LACES—Were originally 1.00 to 3.00. Studded with simulated ruby, emeralds, topaz or amethyst. Adjustable cord in back sa that they may be worn high or low.

SIMULATED PEARL

| HANDKERGHIEFS

HOSIERY

| SUITS, GOATS

COLORFUL PRINTS — Were 5¢. Now E

HAND - EMBROIDERED HANKIES — Pastel and high shades on white sheer cotton. Were 47c. Now......14¢c Each

¢ —AYRES—HANDKERCHIEF SHOP, STREET FLOOR.

WOMEN’S GLOVES

pesca sess

RAYON GLOVES — Were

originally much more. Odd

lots, incomplete assortments.

Mostly white. Now..... ..19¢

LEATHEE, PIGSKIN, CAPE GLOVES — Were originally much more. Blacks, browns and. some whites. Broken size PANEER ...uovdiiiviennnsss 1.49 BETTER GLOVES — Originally much more, now priced for clearance. Blacks, browns, white, Incomplete assortment of sizes ....... 2.49 ~GLOVES, STREET FLOOR.

COLLEGIENNE SHOP

COLLEGIENNE DRESSES— Were originally 7.98 to 12.95. Rayon crepes and a few wools. Broken size ranges. Now OY. in ibiasiiivnine 4.90

s00se vss es

COLLEGIENNE DRESSES— .

Were originally 12.95 to 29.95. Wools, rayon crepes, some

styles with jackets, a few eve-

ning dresses. Tremendous vale ues, broken size assortment. Now only ........ as 9.90

COLLEGIENNE FUR-

TRIMMED DRESS (OATS

Taken from regular stock and reduced. : Richly furred; fine values. Now ............48.00 COLLEGIENNE SPORTS COATS — Were - originally much more. Unfurred classic types. Broken size range.

CAMEL’S HAIR AND WOOL COATS-—A very limited number but very special values.

(61 Prs.) SEATING SOCKS—" Were originally 75c. Sizes 9Assorted colors. Good gift ideas for ice or roller skaters. ;

10%.

Now

. (15) FALL SUITS — Were originally 10.98. To wear now under your coat and all next spring. - Broken size range. NOW .......0..c00000 0k . -5.00

—HOSIERY, STREET FLOOR.

(8) FUR-TRIMMED SPORTS

BUDGET SHOP

E. 0. M. Priced

1.90

Vas originally 10.95 to 6.95. right through the holidays and all winter. Sheer wools, rich rayon crepes. Desired undercoat colors as well as blacks . Good size range from 10 to 20.

—BUDGET SHOP, THIRD FLOOR.

DRESSES

To wear now,

and browns.

COATS — Were originally much ‘more. Excellent values, but a very broken size range.

(15 FUR - TRIMMED SPORTS COATS—Were orig=inally 69.95. Beautiful classic ag richly furred. Broken

“10% Tax on most of these

coats. 0 —pe—coiry 8 PhiRD “FLOOR.

GOWN ROOM DRESSES

GOWN ROOM DRESSES—

Were originally 19.95 to 29.95. dinner

Day, afternoon, some ! and evening types. Broken

| BUDGET HATS

size ranges. - Now.......10.000 GOWN ROOM

Clearance of BUDGET HATS —Were originally 2.95 to 7.95: 1.00, 2.00 and 3.00

—AYRES' BUDGET MILLINERY, THIRD FLOOR.

Were originally 22.95 to 39 Day, afternoon, dinner and evening styles. Some Jacket suits. Broken sizes. i

GOWN ROOM DRESSES

SPORTS ACCESSORIES

Were originally 29.95 and $35. Fashions in dresses for day or evening to wear now and all winter, Broken sizes. ...19.90

SPORTS SKIRTS — Were originally 5.98 to 10.95. Exceptional values and fine, endur-

ing quality. Not all sizes. Now

BETTER SPORTS JACKETS —Were originally 7.98 to 22.95. To wear with dresses or separate skirts, slacks. Britishe pe. wools and colors. Brose

originally 3.50 to 4.50. Argyle plaids in warm, rich colors on neutral grounds. Special for

—GOWN ROOM, THIRD FLOOR,

shanna DRESSES

(25) SPORTS DRESSES Were originally 5.98 to 7.98, Wools and rayon crepes. Bro-. ken size assortment. : Now We Bassas ass Ivan

. (45) SPORTS DRESSES -

Were originally 8.98 to 12 Sheer wools and vic crepes. Broken size

curtail production drastically . on| City employees were on strike de: $100, 000,000 worth of trainer, and|manding dismissal of the city than transport ‘planes. ager, and reinstatement. of six |dis Employees of the McDorinel Air- | charged employees. After a tlireecraft Corp., which has $4,500,000 in hour, meeting last night, the unio: contracts for airplane parts, were announced it would not compromise ordered to report at 7:30 a.m. [its demands. A skeleton shift cpp At Redding, Cal, a strike of '65|ated the city bi department A. F. of L. operating engineers|police and firemen remained threatened to halt construction on duty. ass det ject. The shrncore| 7 : a defense projec : left jobs at the sand and gravel pit SANTA'S WONDERLAND i supplying the entire project, which} employs 2700 men. i ‘A second Pacific Coast strike t

Deferred Payment . 5 i threat eame from independent weldPlan Available! ® ers demanding recognition of. their CHIMNE' bY A ps eb i

: is autonomous union. The welders reAsk About Old Machine Fully Equipped, %

Now........2 for 1.00 to 1.50*

'+10% Tax will be added. . —STREET FLOOR.

0 [3 AYRES & COMPANY *

Chapter _— the Land of Toys!

vi annrneneniel

Broken size range. Now.14.90 | E.O. M sevinissd 99 } —SPORTS SHOP, THIRD ) FLOOR.

| —coLLEgIENNE —SP ACCESORIES, =e ND FLOOR. ORTS ATRD FLOOR.

/ Electric Sewing Machines

® Floor Samples

DESK MODEL ROTARY ELECTRICS

® Demonstrators

®Display Models As Low as

jected an 08M propesat to put them| [Zp DR Allowance! ! li HlLyneder & io LEE \

*All Makes Sewing Machines P.epaired ¥ : ; ont with the| A, °F. of L. They returned to work}

NO CHARGE FOR ESTIMATE AR They setuid {0 3 : ] A ; In New York the captive Soa) Adjustable cording foot, 50c.