Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1941 — Page 15
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RAT CONFERENCE
. eSociation, County Clerks Association, | County Auditors Association,” Coun-
2500 EXPECTED
State, County and Township- Officials to Meet Here Tomorrow.
The Indians County and Township Officials Association with associate branches will meet here tomorrow for a three-day conference. ‘More than. 2500 members of the association are expected to attend the meetings in‘the Claypool Hotel, Meeting with the Officials Asso-
ciation are 11 associate organiza-
tions. They are: Township Assessors Association, County Highway Supervisors Association, County Attorneys Association, County Treasurers Association, County Surveyors and Engineers ' Association, County Recorders As-
ty Commissioners Association,
County Assessors Association andf
the County Prosecutors Association. Joint Sessions Thursday
A joint session of the groups will be held Thursday night and Will H. Smith, collector of internal reveha will speak. With the exception of this meeting the 11 groups will meet individually to transact business, discuss their problems and listen to prominent speakers. Governor Schricker and Lieut. Gov. Charles M. Dawson, have been invited to address the Trustees Association Thursday afternoon. The trustee group is the largest single unit. homas Hendricks,’ secretary of the Indiana Medical Society, and Leo X. Smith, the trustee’s legal adviser, will speak to the trustees Thursday afternoon.
Other Speakers Listed
Dr. C. T. Malan, State Superinfendent of Public Instruction; Homer Chaillaux, director of Americanism, American Legion, and Otto K. Jansen, chief examiner for the State Board of , Accounts, are also scheduled to speak to the trustees. | Dr. J, W. Ferryee, secretary of the State Board of Health, will address the meeting of County Clerks Wednesday afternoon and on Thursday the clerks will hear Judge Edgar M. Blessing of State Appellate Court; Harry Ferguson, former
. Clerk of Marshall County, and Mark
Gray, secretary of the Indiana Officials Asoociation. Samuel Hadden, chairman State Highway Commission, will address County Commissioners Thursday afternoon followed by W. Vincent Youkey, executive secretary of the Indiana Municipal League.
FREIGHTER SUNK BY: BOMBS, NAZIS CLAIM
BERLIN, Dec. 2 (U. P.).—The High Command said today that
German bombers sank a 2000-ton freighter and damaged two other ships off the English coast yesterday. German planes last night were reported to have ‘raided ports on the British southwest coast. A communique issued from Adolf Hitler's headquarters said that during November German air and naval force destroyed a British aircraft carrier (the Ark Royal), one cruiser, three destroyers, four speed boats, one escort vessel and e patrol boat. In addition, the High Command said, German air and naval forces damaged two British battleships,
two destroyers, seven speed boats|
and three other naval vessels and sank 48 enemy merchant ships totaling 231,870 tons.
FAVORS BID SYSTEM
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (U. P).— Chairman Andrew J. May (D. Ky.) of the House Military Affairs Committee today proposed that the Government return to the competitive bid system of letting all defense contracts—instead of by negotiation. His committee will investigate the activities of “defense brokers” who Sepure contracts for private indus- , tries.
CREDITS WORK |" FOR LONG LIFE
Local Woman Critical of Younger Generations; Guest at Party.
On the occasion of her 101st birthday today, Mrs. Eliza Wright of 3229 S. Keystone Ave. observed that the first century of a person’s life is the hardest. In the second century, a person can afford to relax and regard, somewhat critically, the doings of the younger generations. Thus reflected a venerable old lady today as she sat erect on the sofa in the home of her granddaughter, Mrs.- Arthur Burgmann, 3231 S. Keystone Ave. while one and one-half year-old Judy Louise Burgmann played at her feet. There was a birthday party for Mrs. Wright at noon at the Burgmann home.
Always Worked Hard
Hostesses were her three greatgranddaughters who, in addition to Mrs. Burgmann, are Mrs. Charles Bumb, 6611 E. 34th St. and Mrs. Sidney Chandler, with whom Mrs. Wright lives. Mrs. Wright said her formula for longevity was hard work and as far as the younger generations are concerned, she is not quite satisfied with the way: they do things. But times change as she has seen. She was born in Boyle County, Kentucky, Dec. 2, 1840. “Years ago it was all hard work,” she said. “We made our shoes and our clothes. We did everything with our hands.” -
0. K. BILL TO PURGE DISLOYAL WORKERS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (U.P) — The House Immigration Committee today approved a bill to require all present civilian and military employees of the Government to take an oath renouncing any allegiance to a foreign Government. The legislation would affect approximately 4,000,000 civilian employees, soldiers and sailors. The bill is designed to weed Axis “dual nationals” out of Government service. Any person refusing to take such an oath would be subject to discharge “with prejudice” at the discretion of his superior.
AVERAGE SIZE CORSET TELESCOPES LONG-WAISTED FIGURE
Of all the problems that confront a corsetiere the long-waisted one is just about the most deceiving and the most universal, It is deceiving because it generally looks average; and more offen than not is average in height. A woman with a long-waisted figure often does not know she is long-waisted. All she knows is that the average girdle gives her a roll around the waist; and that the average all-in-one, drags’ her down at the shoulders. She doesn’t know why this happens; therefore she doesn’t know. what to do about it.
The long-waisted figure is a wuniversal figure problem because the American feminine figure tends to be long-waisted naturally. We have a national long lean look that has made us internationally famous, but unfortunately corset designers didn’t pay much attention to either: t fame or the look. Therefore, 3 it ‘was a ‘pretty universal problem . it was also, for many years, one of the most difficult of all problems for a corsetiere to solve. It was a problem corset designers ignored almost completely (except in the very high price range) and there was little a corsetiere could do about it. But eighteen months ago corset ‘designers. through the. insistence of corset sellers, became actively aware of the problem and set out: to solve: it. They found, by survey, that the long-waisted figure didn’t. need a length |, added to the skirt of, foundation, but that she did néed and
: had’ to have about two inches
more foundation right in the middle of the garment (if it were an all-in-one) and at the top of the garment (if it were a girdle). In other words, a long-waisted. woman needs added length in her foundation just where she is long— .in the middle of the torso, from he waistline to the bustline. Other- , the girdle cuts off too abrupty ‘giving her a “spare tire”
F around the waist, spoiling her entire silhouette. : Pots her down at ‘the Shoulders,
Or the all-in-one
ets her bustline sag, the shoulder straps cut painfully into the flesh and the result. is extremely uncomfortable, ‘plus ‘a Srasued-down
the sil-j' jy
figure seem much older than it really is, Y One of the best solutions to: the long-waisted figure we have found is the Gossard all-in-one sketched here at 5.95. It has no bones, ‘It is a pull-on type. It is no longer in the skirt than the average corset but it has a good two inches of material added right in the middle of the figure—from the bustline to the waistline, so that it fits the long-waisted figure . perfectly and without "discomfort. . It is fashioned of lastex with Darleen ‘elastic sides and has a very low back for evening. If a long waist is one of your problems won't you come in and let us ‘help you solve it?
Thin Glos
*GORSETS--SECOND FLOOR
Passes 101st Milestone
4:| West Coast. “| the country, it said, authorized Ford
Mrs. Eliza Wright and Judy Louise , . . 101 and 1%,
. Memory Keen at 96
DU PONT
0f Powder Plant to Which It Held Title March 1:
The E. I. du Pont de’ Nemours Co. must spay state property: taxes
title March 1, 1941, the State Tax
| | [Board ruled today.
Mrs. Barbara Smack « o « baked biscuits for Watsal
Youth Denies Love Slaying: Terre Haute Trial Nears End
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Dec. 2 (U. P.) —Prosecutor H. Dewitt Owen today prepared to cross-examine Cozzie M. Jones, youthful son of a West Terre Haute minister and alleged “love-slayer” of 12-year-old Edith Idelle Barton. Both defense counsel and the prosecution indicated the case may go to the jury today. After two days of testimony in which 20 witnesses were called, the state ‘rested its case -against Jones yesterday, and the defendant faced the 12-man jury of farmers and businessmen with a plea in his own defense. The packed courtroom listened tensely as the. 23-year old youth monotoned the story of thie Sunday night date with the Barton girl. Denying that he killed her, Jones said that on April 20, he took the girl for an automobile ride, that he assaulted her, and that when she saw approaching lights she became frightened her father would find her and fled. "Then, he testified, the girl stumbled and “the next thing I knew I heard a splash and saw her lying in the water of Sugar Creek. “I knew I was in enough trouble already, having just been paroled from the reformatory, so I weht home” he told the jury. Jones testified the girl had admitted having dates with other boys without her mother’s knowledge, and that she “was calm and quiet all the time during that evening until she suddenly became frightened.” The youth's handsome face became haggard and his eyes blood-
shqt during the hour and 38 minutes he was on the witness stand, and he paused frequently toward the end of his recital. During his testimony, Jones revealed he became addicted to morphine while in the Pendleton Reformatory when he was under the
observation of Dr. Kaldl in the pris-|
on hospital. He said he was given the drug every .two hours during his three months association with Kalal. Dr. Kalal was later sentenced to Federal prison when authorities discovered his mistreatment of his office. The youth said that after Dr. Kalal’s arrest, he was cured but that he still took about eight sleeping tablets every day to “steady his nerves.” / Earlier yesterday the jury heard Cozzie Montana Jones, unordained minister and father of Cozzie Jones, weep as he, fold of the happenings of the night of April 20. On that night, the elder Jones testified, his’ son asked to use the family car “to take a boy home.” After warning the youth that his driving privileges were restricted because he was ‘on parole from a vehicle-taking sentence, the father relented and permitted him to take the machine. When young Cozzie returned later, the minister told the jury, and told what had happened, the elder man suggested they return to the scene to ascertain‘ whether they 'might save the girl. The youth fled, leaving his father to accompany police to the spot where the child’s body was found half submerged in a creek.
F. B. 1, NABS 30 IN STOLEN PARTS QUIZ
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (U.P.).— Sejzure of 30 persons allegedly engaged in interstate traffic of stolen auto parts valued at several million dollars was announced today by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation after sitnultaneous raids in Detroit, Chicago and New York. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the raids culminated several months investigation centering in Detroit. The investigation revealed that vast quantities of Ford automobile parts
were stolen ‘from the Ford Motor]
Co. plants, in Michigan, and were sent to New York, Chicago, Cleveland and other cities through a complicated maze of fences. He said the FBI investigation indicated that the ring’s operations so far this year have netted at least $1,000,000. Mr. Hoover said the operations of one fence in New York City “were so extensive and profitable that his company published and widely distributed a catalog in which he freely advertised genuine Ford parts for sale in direct competition with authorized distributors of the Ford Motor Co.” The FBI said that the stolen parts had found their way into legitimate trade channels as far away as the In many sections of
dealers suffered financial losses due to the influx of genuine Ford parts at lower than factory prices. The thefts were committed by factory employees and others who
:|had legitimate business in the faci | tories, it said.
RITES THURSDAY FOR MRS. OTTIE VAUGHT
Mrs. Ottie M. Vaught, a resident of Indianapolis 50 years, died today at her home, 1153 W, 35th St., after an illness of several months, She was 74. Mrs. Vaught was born in Browns-
burg, but her father was a pioneer
resident of Indianapolis. Surviving are her husband, William T. Vaught; two nieces, Mrs.
George P. Earhart, and Mrs. David W. Stilley, and a nephew, Earl B. Davis, all of Indianapolis. Services will be at 2:30 p. m. Thursday at the home. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery.
NEW BENDIX AIRPORT NEAR COMPLETION
SOUTH BEND, Dec. 2.—The Bendix Airport near here, a $327,000 projéct, will be completed sometime this month. For the past three years the American Air Lines planes have been stopping at South Bend but the “ new paved taxi strips, and aprons, and the other improvements of the field will bring two new airlines to South Bend. They are the United Air Lines and TWA, WPA furnished $225,825 of the cost, Improvements include the resurfacing of the north-south runway, about 3500 feet long, construction. of the mnortheast-southwest runway, about 4000 feet long; and new hangar foundations and floors. Since 1935 the WPA has spent
$1,277,000 in improvements at the field. X -
(War Moves Today
- By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst
Britain hopes to overcome erin; but prob-
~|'ably in not less than two years, by
manpower and
excelling her in
¥ ipment. That is the ence of the message given to the
| British people today by PBrime So far, Germany has had the advantage ermany probably has reached the
Churchill. in “both. ip
peak of war production or close to
ster Winston:
it, even includ-
ing the output of the occupied ‘countries. Britain and the United States are getting into full stride for a pace that Ger-
many cannot match.
It was disclosed that Britain already has more workers in industry
and under arms than she had after four years of the World War. Now she -is going to conscript men and women of all ages. In military manpower, Germany was overwhelmingly predominant up to last June 22, when She attacked Russia. There Hitler took on a foe whose great strength is in seemingly unlimited manpower, The Nazi attack was based on the assumption that this manpower was ill-trained. and - ill-equipped and would “be disorganized and overwhelmed by German superiority in arms, = But Russian equipment, especially in the air force and tanks, proved far leyond all expectations. The Russians also turned out to ‘we firstclass fighters and tacticians
Churchill obviously hopes to keep |.
Russia ror her manpower in the}
from the United States are being
diverted to Russia to supplement all that the British chn spare above
their needs in Africa and the East. Russian successes in the :Rostov region also may be only temporary, while the Germans are concentrating on Moscow and diverting equip- |- ment to North: Africa. But. whatever the outcome in Russia, it does not look at this moment
that Germany will triumph soon.’
She has already paid a frightful toll
in lives and equipment and thej drain will continue through the win-
ter if the campaign continues. Britain - meanwhile is - growing
daily stronger, In the future,
RECALLS CIVIL WAR ‘INVASION’
She Was Forced to Bake ‘Biscuits When Morgan Came to State.
By EGAN LECK
‘At what age does a woman lose her vanity? Well, when 96-year-old Mrs. Barbara Smith, who as a young girl was forced ' to cook for Gen. Morgan's raiders from the South, was asked to pose for a picture, her redction was typically feminine, “Oh, go way!” she said, then— “Wait!” And when her pink bed jacket was adjusted, she posed, just as she had planned to all along. Mrs. Smith was 96 last Nov. 19, and her memory is keen. She remembers crossing the ocean in a sailing ship with 400 others, 87 years ago. She remembers landing at New Orleans in time to celebrate Christmas in 1853 and later coming to a farm which her father, John Jacob. Runck, bought near Harrison, O. Saw Raiders at 18
This was when she was 9. She was born in Germany near the Rhine and had one year of schooling. At that time she was taught Biblical rhymes in German, which she still recites. Barbara Runck was 18 when Morgan’s raiders came through southern Indiana and Ohio. She describes the scene vividly. . “He came through on the 13th of July,” she said, “and they threw wheat from my father’s field to their horses. Then they came in the
kitchen and said that I had to bake
biscuits for them. There was a whole regiment. “I baked from 10 in the mobi until 2 in the afternoon, and all the time a man stood there to see that
I didn’t poison the biscuits.
“But I didn’t. I made them the
same as I did for the family, - Morgan Helped Self -
“After awhile Morgan himself came. He rode between two men, and he was a ‘sandy’ man. He took a biscuit right from the pan, and he wasn’t grabby.”Mrs. Smith described the departure of the regiment, how the men took beds from the house of a neighbor who had refused to lower the Union flag, and how Morgan met a man on the road who claimed to be a friend of his. “If youre a friend of mine, give me those mules,” said Morgan, and moved on. Mrs. Smith has lived for the last three years at the home of her niece, Miss Margaret Yeager, 809 S. State Ave. Until nine years ago, when she broke her hip, she lived on her seven-acre truck farm at Churchman Ave. and Raymond St. Now, however, she is bedridden. Her son, Frank, lives in Batesville. She has a - daughter, Mrs. Sadie Lambert, who lives at Lagrande, Ore.
600 MILLION FRAUD IS CHARGED BY U. S.
DETROIT, Dec. 2 (U. P.).—The
the Fidelity Investment Association of Wheeling, W. Va., four subsidiaries and 13 individuals of a $600,000,000 fraud. of investors in. 26
-| states...
A" Federal Grand’ Jury worked until late last night to beat the statute of limitations in the. three-year-old case, Defendants. were charged with the sale -of securities. while the
and of concealing the real value: of assets-behiftd subsidiary companies. Authorities said the parent com-
Virginia.
STEALS $2500 CHALICE EVANSVILLE, Ind. Dec. 2 (U..P.). —A thief entered the sacristy of the Assumption Catholic Church here during Mass yesterday and walked off with’/a jewel-encrusted .chalice valued at $2500 from an unlocked
32 diamonds and sapphires.
DR. CRONE. TO SPEAK Dr. W. IL Crone of Martinsville, Mstnper of the State Welfare Board, will speak at Chiropractors’
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Breakfast’ Club ee at 8 a. m. :
tomorrow in the Riley Hotel. Dr. D, G. Walesby, organization president, will be master of ceremonies. SHIPS MILK PRODUCTS : ‘NOBLESVILLE, Ing. Dec. 2 (©.
ipducts Was atinoiticed: today ky tl Tadiane Condensed 1
Federal Government today accused |
company was ‘ynsound financially |
pany now is in Fecsivership I in West |
safe. The chalice was studded with|
P.).—The movement to the Bast| Coast of 21 freight cars loaded With|
The assessed valuation of the powder plant real estate and improvements in the du Pont Company’s name last March was approximately $184,000. The du- Pont Co. has contended | that it was merely buying the prop-| erty for the Government and was transferring the title to the Federal Government. Titles to most of the powder : plant property had been
transferred before last March 1.
Beamer’s Ruling Followed
in accordance with an opinion by Attorney General George Beamer that the. person holding legal title to the property as of March 1 each year is the one who must pay taxes on it for the next year, despite the fact that the property may be transferred- later to a Federal agency. The board’s decision: was expected to set a precedent in other defense projects where private companies act as agents of the Government in acquiring property which will
Government,
company will take the matter to court. The tax board’s decision, if upheld by the courts, will mean approximately $6000 in property taxes
to Clark County. MURDER, INC., CHIEF
SENTENCED TO CHAIR
NEW YORK, Dec. 2 (U. P.).— Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, who rose from a petty thief to boss of Murder, Inc., was ‘sentenced today to die the week of Jan. 4 in the electric chair at Sing Sing. The mandatory death sentence was handed down in Kings County Court by Judge Franklin Taylor. Lepke and two underlings, Emanuel (Mendy) Weiss and Louis Capone, were convicted early Sunday of the 1936 slaying of Joseph Rosen, a potential witness against the Lepke racket interests. Buchalter will try to delay execution of the
Le is a Federal prisoner.
CRIMINALS WITHIN C. I. 0. DIES SAYS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (U. P).— Rep. Martin Dies (D. Tex.) today presented to the House during debate on anti-strike legislation, a photostat document which he said contained the -criminal, records of 20 officials of nine C. I. O. unions. Rep. Dies said the records. were collected by investigators for his special committee investigating unAmerican. activities. He also presented the names of 15 C. I. O. leaders whom he ‘previously hss charged with Communist connegtions. : “Time and time again,” he charged, “we discovered that C.I.O.: leaders had both Communist and criminal records.”
MUST PAY TAX]
Board Orders Levy o Part
in 1942 on that portion of the} $115,000,000 Charlestown = powder} plant to which the firm held legal} §
The State Tax Board's ruling was|
The famous Churchill face tubs up in Russia, this time in a fence post caricature by a Nazi comio artist, aa ’
STRIKE. POSTPONED AT BELL AIRCRAFT
BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 2 (U. P.). —A “strike of 11,000 Bell Aircraft Corp. workers, schediiled for tomorrow, was postponed indefinitely today. : | Representatives of the company and the U. Al 'W. accepted invitations to continue negotiations for
higher wages and union maintenance before Labor "Department
| Ut ities Set.
Howard: Ba , public couniselop with the Public Service Commission, and John Conley, head accountant for the P. 8S. C., left today for Washe ington to confer with Federal offi’ cials on. Indiana utility matters. Their trip was believed in State House quarters ‘to foreshadow pose sible utility rate reduction moves in
|the State by the P. S. C.
. Mr. Batman said he and Mr, Conley had conferences scheduled
- with the Federal Power Commission,
Securities & Exchange Commission and the Federal Communications Commission, He said the confers ences were preliminary to taking action in regard to certain utility problems and complaints in the
He declined to discuss any pose sible rate reduction moves, stating that “we might find out when we get down there that we can do what we think we can do.” , The conference with the Federal Communications Commission will concern telephone rates and the defense situation as it pertains to the telephone industry, it was learned, Among the Indiana problems to be discussed, Mr. Batman said, is the coming Federal Power Sommise sion hearing on the action by cere tain Pt. Wayne citizens to have the existing Ft. Wayne gas contracts broken so that natural gas can he brought into the on. froin nearby
officials at ‘Washington tomorrow.
in Ohio.
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eventually be turned over to the|’
It is expected that the du Pont}
death sentence by claiming that
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