Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1941 — Page 3

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HOLIDAY TRAFFIC

KILLS 16 IN STATE

Two Die Here, Bringing County Toll for Year to 132;

Evansville Man

and Three Sons

Are Crossing Victims.

Traffic accidents in Indiana over the Christmas holiday killed 16 persons, two of them dying in Marion County,

bringing the local death toll to 132 for the year.

There were 46 traffic accidents in Marion County during

the last 24 hours, injuring 23 persons, two of them critically.

William Hughes, 68, Missouri and 15th Sts., was killed yesterday when struck by an automobile driven by Roma Henry, 42, of 913 Camp

: St., at Senate Ave. and 11th!

St. John W, Faulkner, 60, Bloomington, was fatally injured here Christmas Eve when he lost control of his car and crashed into a bridge on Read 37 near Troy Ave.

Car, Trolley Collide

Thomas Woods, 32, of 2179 N. Gale St., was seriously injured yesterday when the car he was driving collided with a trolley car on E. 38th St, near the Fair Grounds. His son, Thomas Woods Jr., was only slightly injured. Clarence Sams, 3018 Central Ave. was operating the trolley car. Howard Boler, 32, of 522 Blackford St., was critically injured yesterday when his car collided with one driven by William Gillenwater, 23, of 115 E. 9th St, at Blackford and North Sts.

Father, 3 Sons Die

Those killed in the state included: GARFIELD BURDEN, 59, and his three sons—Billy, 30; Avery, 35, and Basil, 22, all of Evansville, killed as they returned from a hunting trip when their automobile was splintered by a train at a crossing near Evansville. MRS. MARY VAN DALY, 69, Evansville, killed when she was struck by an automobile while crossing a city street. RALPH McLAUGLIN, 32, Gary, injured fatally when his automobile struck a parked car on Road 41, careened across the highway and crashed into a truck, and then burst into flames. WILLIAM FOX, 69-year-old farmer of near Middletown, killed when he crashed into another car on a county road three miles east of Middletown. JOH’{ D. GRAHAM, of Ridgeville, was killed instantly two miles east of Hamlet when his automobile struck a bridge on U. S. 30. RAYMOND RANDALL, 38, Clinton, died shortly after being struck by an automobile while standing in front of a theater at Clinton. Five other persons were Killed in Christmas Eve accidents over the state.

PLEA MADE TO AVOID FALSE RAID ALARMS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U. P). «Declaring that “false rumors to alarm the people are a recognized form of Fifth Column activity,” the War Department today issued detailed instructions regarding air raid precaution measures.

By all means, the Department warned, don’t make requests for information about reports of pending air raids to interceptor command headquarters or agencies in th! interceptor command. All agencies of the interceptor command must be left free, in event of actual air attack, to take necessary steps to repel the attack, it was explained. “Even loyal individuals report false alarms to military authorities in good faith,” the War Department’s instructions said. “Serious consequences have already resulted.”

BELIEVED MISSING, SON REPORTED SAFE

PERU, Dec. 26 (U. P.) —Mrs, S. F. Fuqua, Peru widow, received the “grandest Christmas present in my jife” in the form of a message from the War Department Christmas Day informing her that her son Richard Lee, 24, was not missing in action as reported earlier, but was “safe and well” The youth is a seaman, first class, with the Navy at Pearl Harbor,

LOGANSPORT, Dec. 26 (U. P) — The Navy Department notified Mr. and Mrs. Fred Oberlander of Wolcott, Ind. that their son, Francis Robert, was “missing in action.” He had enlisted in the Navy in January, 1941,

MONON, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—Delbert

Names Spencer of Monon was repo killed in action at Pearl

Harbor in a notification to his parents from the Navy Department.

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CAPITAL'S BOOM DWARFS "17-18

Temporary Buildings Crowd Mall; Mansions Made Boarding Houses.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—Wartime Washington, its monumental buildings guarded by sthart-pacing soldiers and antiaircraft guns, is riding a boom that already dwarfs the frenzied days of 1917-18. Nearly 200,000 Federal workers, an all-time high, are crowded into the District of Columbia, and thousands more are on the way. Hammers ring on temporary office buildings being thrown together on the broad green Mall that stretches west from the Capitol. Others edge close to the Lincoln Memorial. Some even spread out into Maryland and Virginia. One after another, stately mansions in the embassy section are made over into Government offices or into boarding houses to take care of the thousands of new clerical workers. Constant expansion of building developments in all directions never quite keeps pace with the demand. At the War and Navy Bulidings long queues of people seeking appointments wait for special passes of admission, and no one gets in without registering and receiving a badge. Marines in the Navy Department halt even officers in uniform, demanding their passes. A Federal pay roll of about $33,000,000 a month is dumped into Washington, and on the twice-a-month paydays the stores and night clubs are jammed.

Hotels Jammed Every Night

Most of the hotels are filled every night. Some visitors have found it necessary to put up in Baltimore, 40 miles away, and commute to the Capital. In Washington and in adjacent Virginia and Maryland communities air-raid wardens stand nightlong guard in relays. Metal identification tags have been given to some schoolchildren. Block-by-block meetings are held to organize civilian defense units. Government telephone business was so great in the first days of the war that the telephone company ran newspaper advertisements asking p.ivate subscribers to curtail calls. Women are replacing men in many types of work. The War Department recently moved into a new $10,000,000 building, but it is far too small, and a building costing more than $30,000,000 is rising now across the Potomac in Virginia, close by Arlington Cemetery. Agencies fight constantly for office space. The District Park and Planning Commission, trying to preserve the beauties of Washington as laid out in the early 1800's by Maj. L'’Enfant, voices continued protests against putting buildings where they mar the magnificent distances, but often in vain.

Finish Building in 38 Days

Thirteen temporary frame buildings, barrack-like structures in which work:rs are crowded together in acres of floor space, have been or are being built, in addition to huge new buildings in Arlington County, Va.,, and Prince Georges County, Md. New penthouse offices have been added to Navy and War Department buildings. The Government has taken over many hotels and apartment buildings. The Government is paying $5,000,000 a year in private property rentals. A temporary building with office space for about 1500 persons was finished in 38 days. It cost $712,000. After the war it will be razed. The 1940 census gave Washington a population of 663,153. The population now for the city and immediately adjacent communities is far beyond 1,000,000. The peak of Federal employment here in the first World War was 117,760. That already has been exceeded by about 80,000, and officials are predicting it will be doubled.

SEEK DEAD MAN'S KIN

Officials at the City Hospital are attempting to find relatives of James McClelland, 65, believed to be from Muncie, who died today at the hospital. Mr. McClelland was ad-

mitted to the hospital Monday.

ALLISON TOPPED CLOTHE-A-CHILD

Its Employees Provided for 360 Children in Record Campaign.

Final #uditing of the Clothe-A-Child books for 1941 today showed employees of the Allison Engineering Co., holding the top position in The Times’ twelfth annual Christ-

mas campaign. Various departments of the Allison plant clothed 190 children directly. Cash contributions from

other departments totaled $2210.91, which clothed another 170 children, meking a grand total of 360 children for Allison employees The largest single ‘direct clothing donor was the Herfi-Jones Guild (425 employees), who clothed 250 children at one time. Proceeds from the 1940 Golden Gloves tournament clothed 153 children. Employees of other Indianapolis plants also were large contributors: RCA (95 children), International Harvester, J. D. Adams, P, R. Mallory, Link-Belt, Real Silk, Stark & Wetzel, E. C. Atkins, SchwitzerCummins, Curtiss-Wright, Kahn Tailoring, Diamond Chain, Indianapolis Power & Light and others. Employees of the downtown department stores also contributed generously. One interesting phase of the 1941 campaign, which broke all records in clothing the total of 2919 children, was the fact that the famous Mile-Of-Dimes came very close to reaching an actual mile. The dimes were in the 32d row when they were swept up at 6 o'clock Wednesday night. Thirty-four full rows would have made a full mile.

FLYING DUTGH SINK 2 SHIPS

Toll of N. E. I. Air and Sea Forces Now 15; Lose One Submarine.

BATAVIA, N. E. I, Dec. 26 (U. P.) —Dutch bombers today reported the sinking of two more enemy warships, boosting to 15 the number of enemy ships sent to the bottom by Netherlands air and sea forces. A communique said that the Dutch Army bombers sank a Japanese “destroyer or transport” near Kuching, capital of Sarawak, on the north coast of Borneo. Previously they had sunk a destroyer. The destroyer was of the 2100ton Amagiri class, and probably carried 200 men and officers. It was torpedoed Wednesday by a submarine. But one Dutch submarine, returning from an “important and successful mission,” struck a mine and sank “some days ago,” a communique of the Netherlands East Indies command said. All on board, except one man, were lost. CREEL'S WIFE DIES SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 268 (U. P.) —Private funeral services will be held today for Blanche Bates Creel, former stage star and wife of George Creel, U. S. Information Chief during the World War, who died at her home here last night. She was 69. .

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What beautiful teeth you have, Uncle Sam! The better to chew you up, Adolf and Benito, and you, too, Togo, Tojo & Co. Fred Darrough inspects a power gear which he has just finished grinding at the Curtiss-Wright propeller division at 1231 W. Morris St. Few photographs have been made inside the plant.

How ‘Open City’ Saves Civilians

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U. P).—-The right of defending forces to declare an open city was agreed to at The Hague conference of 1907. Both the United States and Japan subscribed. An open city is one free of armed forces and without means of defense. By declare ing a city undefended, authorities hope to spare it the damage which may be caused by heavy guns and bombs. The most notable example of a city being declared open in the present war was that of Paris, which the French chose not to defend when the German army got within easy striking distance.

RUSSIANS DRIVE AHEAD IN SNOW

Ski Troops and ’Chutists Slash at Running Foe On 100-Mile Front.

MOSCOW, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—Russian ski troops and parachutists slashed at retreating German forces on a 100-mile snow-covered front north from Volkhov today and won new ground in their fight to lift the Nazi siege in Leningrad. Dispatches from the front lines reported that Gen. Meretskov’s forces “routed” the Germans in the vicinity of Volkhov, smashing two Nazi infantry regiments and regaining four towns in a 13-mile advance, = me ski detachments, reports , raced as much as 65 miles a roy "through the forests and across|Po the frozen lakes to carry out mae chinegun attacks on the rear of the retreating Germans. In the area west of Moscow the Russians were preparing to chop off the deepest salient which the Germans had pushed toward the capital. A communique asserted that between Dec. 21 and yesterday the Russians on the front west of Moscow had killed 10,200 Germans. A dispatch from Sevastopol said 20,000 Germans had been killed in a ferocious German offensive in the Crimea. The temperature had fallen to 40 degrees below zero Fahrenheit on the front south of Leningrad.

RILEY SPECIALIST WINS CLINIC COURSE

The selection of Miss Charlotte Anderson, physiotherapist at Riley Hospital, for training at the Sister Kenny clinic for infantile paralysis at Rochester, Minn., was announced today by hospital officials. A graduate of the Harvard University school of physiotherapy, Miss Anderson has treated several hundred victims of infantile paralysis at Riley Hospital. Upon her return from the six-month training course at Rochester, she will train other therapists here. Miss Anderson’s study will be financed by a special grant of $1000 from the Marion County chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

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Propeller hubs by the hundreds already are rolling out of the Curtiss-Wright plant. going to keep on rolling until the Axis gets the ax. The workmen are determined to produce more and more propellers. As Roscoe Reel of the hub department put it: “It is up to each man to put his shoulder to the wheel to keep ’em flying.” Robert L, Earle, vice president and general manager of the Propeller Division, makes no secret of the fact that production quotas have been exceeded.

Planes and Subs to Win For U. S., Admiral Claims

SMASH JAP SUB ON WEST COAST

U. S. Patrol Bombers Halt Raids on Pacific Ships; 9 Craft Attacked.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—United States patrol bombers and warships sweeping the Pacific in search of enemy submarines today appeared to have halted, at least temporarily, raids on American coastwise shipping. There had been no reported attacks on American ships since Wednesday. Nine ships had been attacked along the coast between Dec. 18 and Dee, 24, of which one was sunk and two damaged. Six seamen have been killed and five injured. The last definite news of Pacific Coast submarine warfare was the War Department's Christmas communique announcing that a U, S. Army bomber had smashed one Japanese submarine off the California coast. It. was known that U. S. planes were in action against the submarines in at least three of the attacks, .

Location Not Given

The communique said that a bomber of Lieut. Gen. John L. Dewitt’s western defense command “successfully attacked an enemy submarine off the California coast,” “Soon after the submarine was sighted it made an emergency dive,” the communique detailed. “A bomb was dropped and the submarine emerged and then sank. Two more bombs were dropped, apparently direct hits, filling the air with debris.” Location of the action was not divulged by the Army. The Berlin radio quoted the Japanese Domel news agency as reporting that five ships had been sunk off the California coast. Official U, 8. quarters, however, have announced only the sinking of the tanker Montebello off California and the freighters Cynthia Olson, T00 miles offshore, and Lahaina in Hawaiian waters.

BRITISH LINES HOLD IN MALAYA FIGHTING

SINGAPORE, Dec. 26 (U.P). Japanese shock troops were reported suffering suicidal losses today in a desperate battle on the Perak River 300 miles north of Singapore. On

the east coast the Japanese were approaching the Kemaman area only 225 miles from Singapore. A Malaya command communique reported empire lines holding firm with the situation unchanged. It noted engagements between patrols in the Sungei Siput and Perak areas on the west side of the peninsula and north of Kamaman in Trengganu Province on the east coast. The positions cited indicated that the empire forces were holding still their new east-west line across the Peninsula, and that on the east side a real test of strength was imminent. It was admitted that there had been no further news from Kuching, capital of Sarawak in Borneo, where communication had been cut off since late Wednesday when it was indicated that the Japanese were landing troops in the area.

ARMY TO WITHDRAW FROM BENDIX PLANT

BENDIX, N. J, Dec. 26 (U. P.) — The Army awaited today only the signing of a contract between the United Automobile Workers (C10) and Air Associates, Inc., before moving out of the plant and relinquishing it to private management. Employees vote today on a oneyear contract providing a um hourly wage of 75 cents for men and 60 cents for women, a 10-cent an hour general wage increase and a modified union shop. The Air Associates board was expected to consider the contract Monday.

periodically delayed work on war orders totaling #5000000 for ve months.

FDR GREETS AUSTRALIA WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U.P) —

‘ Propeller Hubs Roll Ever Faster .

By WILLIAM TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent

ABOARD A FLAGSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES FLEET, Dec. 25 (Delayed) —The admiral in command of this combat unit conceded today that airplanes and submarines will be the most important weapons in the Battle of the Pacific. He said strategists were re-esti-mating the situation, in view of

present circumstances, and, “it may take a long time, but we will get after them.” He was awaiting only the word of Allied strategists, he said, before swinging his unit into action. Today, it was guarding against a surprise Christmas attack by the Japanese, Its crews were at their guns, eager to fight. “The most cheerful thing I can say is that the lesson learned on Dec. 7 has been taken to heart,” the | Admiral said. “It brought home the necessity at all times of taking utmost precautions. Our men have seen what it means now.” Although he deplored the sneak attack as most unfortuhate, he said: “The reaction of the crew now is ‘get up and sock ‘em.’ “Since that unfortunate affair,

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everybody wants to be a machine gunner, and, as a result, we are better off today than we previously were.” The attack damaged this ship some, but not enough to keep it out of action, Nor has it kept other ships out of action. Even the destroyers Cassin and Downs, which Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said were sunk, are doing their part. Their guns are back in firing order and being used elsewhere as anti-aircraft weapons.

NAZI PRESS CHARGES NEW ALTMARK CASE

BERLIN, Dee. 25-~(Official Broadcast)=~The German steamer Benno was sunk Wednesday by British fighter planes near the harbor of Puerto Carino, off the northern [coast of Spain, the official German news agency said today terming the sinking “a new Altmark case.” (The Altmark was sunk inside Norwegian territorial waters before the German invasion of Norway. The Axis alleged that British flyers bombed the ship when it already was sinking and machine-gunned

URGE SCHRICKER OUST OR. FERREE

Party Stalwarts Say Health Board Secretary Fired Some Democrats.

By EARL RICHERT

With two “tough” Indianapolis city judgeship appointments out of the way, Governor Schricker now must settle a strictly intramural battle that has been going on bee hind-the-scenes at the State House. It concerns Dr. John W. Ferree, secretary of the State Health Board, Dr. Ferree, who was named to the $5400-a-year job by former Govere nor Townsend in ‘the fall of 1940, is up for reappointment and a nums ber of prominent Democrats, ine cluding some members of the Gove ernor’s official family, are known to be opposed to his reappointment. The anti-Ferree Democrats charge him with playing Republican poli= tics and as one of the black-marks against the Health Board secretary the fact that since he assumed cone trol of the department 28 Demoe crats, some of them veteran eme ployees, have lost their jobs. A large number of these jobs were filled ‘with Republicans, they assert: Dr. Ferree Silent Further, they claim that Dr, Ferree is a Republican “deep down at heart,” pointing to the fact that his father, John D. Ferree of Mdrion, is a former Republican Grant County official. Democrats who were active in Governor Schricker’s behalf during the last campaign also are incensed still about what they term “the lack of support” given the Governor by Dr. Ferree and the Health Departe ment. Dr, Ferree declines to discuss the fracas, but his friends say that the only Democrats who lost their jobs since he became head of the Dee partment were those who failed to pass the merit system examinations last January. They alsq say that the Republicans who got the jobs were the persons who made the highest grades. Registered as Democrat The Health Board Secretary, who is a registered Democrat, has a long-established policy of none participation in politics and has made a pronounced point of that policy—quite to the dissatisface tion of some Democrats. Neutral State House observers predict that since the charges aaginst Dr. Ferree are chiefly. of a political nature that he will be ree appointed. A number of physicians are reported to be prepared “to go to bat” in Dr, Ferree’s behalf “if it seems necessary.” The anti-Ferree Democrats are known to be searching for a doctor with an outstanding reputation whom they can recommend to the Governor for the appointment, State House Republicans are mere rily watching the affair from the sidelines. Commented one: “I have no reason to be for Dr. Ferree, but if he is let out for the reasons I have so far heard propounded against him, I want to make the

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