Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1941 — Page 3

SATURDAY, DEC. 27,

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OP REACHES FOR

AUTO FEE ‘GRAVY’

Branch Managers Cash-in

Soon When New Plates Go

On Sale; Party in the Money for First Time in Ten Years.

By EARL

Like hungry children at the Christmas table, Indiana for their first taste of “real”|

Republicans are getting set political gravy in a decade. This “gravy” will consist

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of more than $500,000 in good

hard quarters and dimes—legal fees collected from the sale

of license plates and drivers jing public.

These fees will start flowing into Republican pockets| in sizable quantities beginning next Friday when the 10942

plates and drivers licenses go to flow into G. O. P. coffers until the Democrats capture

the Secretary of State's office. The Republicans got control of the Motor Vehicle License Bureau from the Democrats for the first time in 10 years last summer after the Supreme Court ruled the “decentralization” program invalid, but there have not been enough plates

and licenses sold since then to make the fees worth counting.

149 Get Branch Jobs

Secretary of State James Tucker has dppointed 149 auto license branch managers throughout the state and these managers will colfect a 25-cent notary fee on every license plate sold and keep 10 of the 50 cents charged for a drivers license as well as being permitted to charge a 25-cent notary fee on all title transactions. Out of fees collected, the branch managers must pay all costs of issuing the licenses. He must pay his clerical help, for his bookkeeping equipment, number machines, ete, as well as paying rent when he has to rent an office. The branch managers may set up as many pranch offices as they deem necessary.

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Keep Down Costs Most branch managers are good

enough business men to keep these) costs to a minimum-—paying their}

clerical help $12 to $15 a week and getting their rent free by setting up offices in business concerns. Many business concerns, particularly automobile companies, regard] it as good business to give space} rent free in order to get the car) owners and drivers to come into their place of business In Indianapolis, for example, 12!

licenses to the Hoosier motor

on sale and they will continue

3-MAN LABOR

Experts Recommend Group To Administer No-Strike Agreement.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (U. PD. —Administration labor experts are prepared to recommend to President Roosevelt that he create a three-man war labor board to administer the industry-iabor agreement for uninterrupted production, it was learned today. The board, it was understood, would be policy-making rather than an arbitration or mediation board. In personnel and procedure it would differ sharply from the war labor board set up during the first World War, While a majority of the Administration labor advisers were agreed on a three-man board, some favored a larger one, perhaps of nine members. Mr. Roosevelt was said not to have decided yet on the type to be set up. The industrylabor conference recommended, and the President agreed to, establishment of a board having the general purposes of the first World War labor board.

Willkie Mentioned

Three names mentioned in connection with the proposed board are | Wendell L. Willkie, 1940 Republic- | an Presidential candidate; James Farley, former postmaster genPy and Dr. John R. Steelman, | director of the U. 8. Conciliation Service,

of the 19 auto license offices Are] py; jx not believed, however, that

located in automobile offices. (All but four of the local offices are temporary.) Bradford Local Agent

All the fees collected in Marion County will go to James Bradford,

county G. O. P. chairman, who has|

been named by Mr, Tucker as county tag agent. The personnel inj all Marion County offices are em- | ployed by Mr. Bradford. State House sources that the fees collected in Marion Lounty alone will total over $30,000 These same sources estimate that) the net to Mr. Bradford will be at] least $16000, but of course, the county chairman will be expec

to pour a good portion of this into

the party treasury There are approximately 136,500 passenger cars, 18,000 trucks 4300 trailers, 2200 semi-trailers, and 500 house cars registered in Marion County and there is a total of over 1.170.000 motor vehicles registered in the State

Other Lucrative Spots

The lucrative fees collected in, Evansville, Terre Haute and Ft. Wayne will also go into the pockets of one man since only one license | branch has been set up in those cities. The Democrats formerly divided the Indianapolis business among a number of party members, Asked yesterday at the State House what he was going to do with his “pocketful of fees” one

license branch manager Qquipped:|

“Listen, brother, we can use them

after 10 years on the bread line.”

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COMPANY | ar Roosevelt will bring Mr. Willkie |

inte Federal service as a member or chairman of the war labor board. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and Isador Dubin, assistant to President Roosevelt, are among those working out details of the |plan for Mr. Roosevelt's considera- | tion. Calls on Specialists

One important difference between the proposed board and that created in 1918 would be that it would seldom, if ever, hold hearings and deleide disputes itself but would dele|gate that function to a staff of specialists in various fields, Its members would not be picked, as were the 1919 board, to represent equally labor and industry, but, as one official put it, “as Americans to represent a united nation at war.” The 1918 board had six industry and six labor representatives, each headed by a co-chairman.

SAVE THAT WRAPPING ‘PAPER, TYNDALL ASKS

| Marion County citizens were urged | today by Maj. Gen. Robert A. Tyndall to save all Christmas boxes and wrapping paper for national defense use. All paper should be folded and wrapped into bundles not to exceed 25 pounds in weight. A telephone call to Boy Scout. Headquarters, LI. 7391, will bring a Scout to collect the paper. Collections are also being made by the Salvation Army and Volunteers of America

upon request.

BOARD URGED|

CLEMENS BLANK DEAD HERE AT 67

Employed by Water Firm For Almost 30 Years; Born in County.

Clemens Blank, superintendent of construction and maintenance of the Indianapolis Water Co. for nearly 30 years, died today at his home on Lyndhurst Drive, south of Road 67. He was 67. Born in Marion County, Mr. Blank attended Wayne township schools and was a graduate of Ben Davis High School. For a short time in 1897 he was employed at the Vonnegut Hardware Co. and in August of that year he took a position with the water company. In 1903 he moved to Martinsville to manage the Gas and Electric Co. but returned to the water company here in 1912 as superintendent of new main construction. He was a member of the Irvington Methodist Church. Surviving are his wife, Ethel E; seven brothers, and four sisters.

FRANCIS J. ANDRES IS DEAD AT AGE OF 47

Francis J. Andres, a collector for the Dee Jewelry Co, died today in St. Vincent's Hospital. He was 47, and had been ill a short time. His home was at 939 N. Warman Ave. Mr. Andres was a member of the St. Charles Catholic Church in Peru. He had lived in Indianapolis about 35 years, having been born in Peru. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Inez Irene Andres; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Henry Goger Jr, and Mrs. Carl Lines, snd two sisters, Mrs Dr. G. LL Young and Nis. H. 8 Campbell; all of Indianapolis, Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Monday in the Conkle Funeral Home. Burial will be in Crown Hill

APPEAL DECISION IN ICED BEER DISPUTE

Groups affected by the Superior Court decision which held that the jced-beer provision of the Alcoholic Beverages Act was unconstitutional yesterday agreed on procedure to appeal the decision to the Indiana Supreme Court. Judge Herbert M. Spencer ruled last July that the provision, which prohibits the selling of iced beer by drug stores and grocery stores, was unreasonable and discriminatory. Agreement on the procedure was reached at a meeting attended by representatives of the attorney generals office, Albert Stump, attorney for the druggists, .and Judge Spencer.

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Active at 95

Friends Plan Dinner For Benjamin Frank lin Hayden. BENJAMIN Franklin Hayden, whose friends say he is the “most active man they ever saw,” cele« brates his 85th hirthday tomors row. Mr. Hayden had expected to spend a quiet day. He might have just taken a walk or brought his violin from its case to bring back memories, but his friends had different plans. They've planned a little celebration at the church Mr. Hayden attends. There will be a dinner at 5 p. m. and they hope to get Mr. Hayden to play something for them on his violin. “They have been keeping the party quiet,” Mr. Hayden said. “I just got on to it yesterday.”

MR. HAYDEN lives at 2304 Roosevelt Ave. with his stepson and his stepson’s wife, Mr. and Mrs. Preston Shepherd. He was born in Union County, Ind, Dec. 28 1846. He has lived here since 1803 when he retired from the drug business. Expected at the celebration tomorrow are his two sons, Charles, 72, a policeman with the-W. Lafayette force, and Thomas, 58, living in E. Lafayette. He has two other stepsons and one stepdaughter, William D. Shepherd of Chicago, Henry Shepherd of Los Angeles and Mrs. Gussie Pedigo, 573¢ Washington Blvd.

REGISTRATION BOARD SET UP IN GOUNTY

After six months of litigation in the courts and political bickering, a new bi-phrtisan voter registration board has been organized for Marjon County under a new 1941 law. Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox appointed George K. Johnson, former 10th Ward Republican chairman, and Harry J. Gasper, a deputy registration clerk, as members of the new board. Mr. Johnson was nominated for the appointment by G. O. P. County Chairman James L. Bradford and Mr. Gasper was nominated by Democratic County Chairman Ira Haymaker, A test suit on the registration poard’s setup was filed in Lake County, six months ago but was dismissed recently. It sought to enjoin the appointment of bi-partisan boards. Under the old law county clerks were in complete control of registration files. It was indicated that another test suit may be filed in Marion County to unseat the new appointees.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

End of Road for Nazi Tank. :

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Hive bods -of -HOMbEE oF the crew. of & Geran tank, which was knocked out of action on the Libyan desert, lies beside the tank. Two British soldiers investigate the tank’s machinery.

POLICE SEEKING TWO IN ASSAULT

Negroes Seize Mother, 39, As She Waits in Car

For Daughter.

With sketchy descriptions as the only clues, police today sought two Negroes who lest night kidnaped a 30-year-old mother, criminally as« saulted her and then drove away in her auto. The woman was kidnaped while sitting in the family auto in front of F. R. Bartlow’s veterinary hose pital at 910 N. Capitol Ave. Her daughter was inside the hospital in quiring about the condition of the family’s dog. The woman said the assailants jumped into the car immediately after the child entered the hospital. One threatened her with a revolver and shoved her over in the front seat, while the other took the’steering wheel. They took her to a lonely spot in northwest Indianapolis, criminally assaulted her and then abandoned er,

Almost hysterical, the woman found her way to a house in the 2300 block on Paris Ave, where she telephon~d police. The police took her home,

FAKE PHONE CALLS LURE GIRL INTO TRAP

Lured to a tavern by the voice of a man who pretended to be a “boy

injured, a 20-year-old girl

east of Indianapolis. The girl, who lives on Kingsley Ave, said she received three phone calls from the “friend” yesterday. She finally consented to meet him in a tavern on Tibbs Ave, in the afternoon. When she arrived there, she was

jured in an auto accident, and] wanted to see her. She was taken |

second man. When the men started to drive eastward, she protested that her friend did not live in that direction. After both men attacked her, they drove back to the city and one man left the car, Then the man who had met her at the tavern drove to the country once more and attacked her again. She said he brought her back to Indianapolis and let her out of the car at 44th St. and Norwaldo Ave.

CHARLESTOWN GETS 2 MILLION AND HALF

CHARLESTOWN, Ind, Dec. 27 (U. P) Officials of the Indiana Ordnance Works were notified today by the War Department that an additional $2500000 has been allocated to the Charlestown smokeless powder plant for the construetion of a pulp plant. Construction on the pulp plant, which will produce cellulose for the powder plant, is expected to begin immediately. Officials of the Charlestown plant explained that construction of the plant was made necessary by a shortage of linters, a fuss which clings to cotton seed after ginning. Although there is a large cotton supply in the country, only the fine cotton with linters can be used in the manufacture of powder.

HOOK EMPLOYEES SHARE IN PROFITS

The 950 employees of the Hook Drug Co. today received their fourth

bursements to employees this year amounted to $50,000, according to John A. Hook, president. All persons who have been em-

STUDENT TRIALS MONDAY Trial of two college students ea with distributing Commupamphlets was set for Monday John L. Niblack in I" Court today. One of the a girl, identified herscli ws freshman at the University of Wis The other said he was a at Purdue. They were ar-

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friend,” and then lured into an auto Japan was ahead of by a story that the friend had been countless aspects of culture.” today | lother article in the same number | told police she was criminally as-| |said Japan was using a book writsaulted by two men on a lonely road ten by Pelley, “No More Hunger,” as

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A dead Italian gunner lies beneath his piece “somewhere in Libya,” during ourrent British offensive in the western desert, x

Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 27-—The publications of William Dudley Pelley, Silver Shirt leader, which suspended since America's entry into the war, have been turned over to the Justice Department because of allegedly pro-Japanese statements, it was revealed today. Pelley moved his publications to Noblesville, Ind, and gave an Indianapolis address for his weekly Roll Call after he got into legal difficulties in Asheville, N. C,, where he had previously published them. He is scheduled for arraignment before a North Carolina court on Jan. 10, having lost an extradition fight before the U, 8. Court of Appeals in Washington. He is charged with contempt for allegedly leaving the state while on probation after conviction under North Carolina's “blue sky” law. Photostatic copies of the Liberation, the Revelation and the Weekly Roll Call, dating as far back as 1033, were scrutinized today by attorneys in the Justice Department. They included an article in Libera tion dated Dec. 3, 1933, and carrying this headline: “The ‘Heathen Japs' Fight the Battle of the Christians.” The article said Japan merited the support of the Silver Shirts because of its stand against Jews. A headline appearing in the Revelation last Jan. 14-after the Pelley publications were moved to Indiana —said: “Japan Is Ahead of Us." The article under the heading said America “in An-

“the Bible of her new economy.”

Justice Department Scans Statements in Pelley Paper

An article which appeared in the last issue of the Weekly Roll Call before its suspension was entitled “Oriental Psychosis.” It sald in

part: “There is no more enthusiasm throughout the United States to fight Japan than there is to fight Germany. There is no enthusiasm

throughout the United States to fight anybody. . . «+ The cold harsh focts are that stumbling and blundering diplomacy in the Far East may yet cost us the loss of the Philippines, Hawaii, and perhaps the best portion of our Pacific battle fleet. It may result in both England and the United States being driven out of the Orient, with Hitler's ascension of influence there without firing a shot. “One thing is certain. Nippon is neither bluffing nor four-flush-ing in her Asiatic ultimatums. Japan means business. She has discovered not only the racial secret behind Communism and the troubles of the inter-Aryan family, but she has had the shrewd sense to discern that Germany has already won the war and that Great Britain is all washed up. . . What is transpiring now is a thinly disguised effort to pull the United States down as Great Britain goes down, Hitler to take all when the submergence is over.

“Time was when sane and constructive statesmanship could have prevented all this mad nightmare of war involvement, east and west, But it was scarcely to be expected that men who had the supreme economic flop of the New Deal turn about in a twelve-month and show themselves wise men capable of outHitlering Hitler in his efficient and determined Aryanism.”

Joseph S. Madden, Tech High Teacher, Killed in Auto Crash

told that the friend had been in-|

A holiday visit with relatives ended in tragedy yesterday when Joseph S. Madden, teacher in the auto shop at Technical High School, was injured in an automobile collision near Palestine, Ill, and died later of a heart attack. Mr. Madden and his wife, Maude, had gone to visit Mrs. Madden's father, Jacob Winemiller of Pales-

SUIT FILED TO TEST BINGO GAME STATUS

A suit has been filed in Superior Court here to determine whether bingo can be considered a violation of State gambling laws. The action was brought by four members of the St. Anthony Men's Club who were arrested during a raid on an alleged bingo game at St. Anthony's school last Nov. 8. The suit asked a temporary injunction against Police Chief Morrissey to prevent police from raiding bingo games at the club.

“is not illegal and does not come within State gaming laws.” The plaintiffs are Oswald Litzelman, George W. Usher and Louis and Olifford Pluckebaum. They were freed of the charges in a recent report of the grand jury.

TAVERN OPERATOR FOUND DEAD IN HOME

Weldon Linscott, 49, was found dead by his wife, Alice, 52, in front of the fireplace at their home, 620 E. 25th St. early today. The Linsootts operated a tavern at Rural St. and Brookside Ave. Mr. Linscott complained yesterday that he was too ill to work. His wife worked there all day and when she returned home shortly after midnight she found him dead.

HOLC OFFICE TO OLOSE The Home Owners Loan offices in the Occidental Bldg. will be permanently closed, effective Monday, it was announced today in Washington, D. C.

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tine, over Christmas. « Mr. Winemiller and Mr. Madden were returning from a short trip to Robinson, Ill, when the accident occurred, Mrs. Madden was not with them. Hanson H. Anderson, principal at Tech, said he received word that Mr. Madden died shortly after the accident of a heart attack, Mr. Winemiller also was injured. At Tech for 15 years, Mr. Madden had charge of repair work and servicing. He was 52 and lived at 56 S. Linwood Ave. Apt. 14. He was a member of the All Saints Epis copal Cathedral,

RADIO HAMS TO MEET

A state-wide meeting of amateur radio operators will take place tomorrow afternoon at the Indianapolis Radio Club, Olney and St. Clair Sts. Leroy Waggoner will lead the discussion of plans for a statewide radio communication system in co-operation with the State Defense Committee.

LATIN AMERICAS TOLD WAR PLAN

Conference With Envoys of Other Nations Scheduled At White House.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (U. P.). -President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill today presented to diplomatic ene voys of the Latin American ree publics a general picture of the Anglo-American war effort as mapped thus far in the historic war strategy conferences. Ambassadors and ministers of this country’s sister republics met the two executives in the White House at noon. The conference was the first of six scheduled by the White House today during which the leaders of the great English-speaking nations planned to give all friendly nations a reflort on the war plans developed in the new nearly-finished Roose= velt-Churchill talks.

Brazil Is Absent

Brazil, Colombia and Panama were not represented at the meete ing

The President's first conference of the day with a foreign representative was with Chinese Ambassador Hu Shih. Churchill was not scheduled to attend. Both the President and the Prime Minister had lunch at the White House with Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinov and Harry Hope kins, Later they will meet with the Dutch Minister. Then the President and Mr, Churchill will receive British Ame bassador Lord Halifax, Canadian Prime Minister W, L. MacKenzie King, and the chief diplomats sta tioned here by the British domine fons. The President and Prime Minister will meet the chiefs of missions from all the other nations at war with the Axis except those whom they received earlier in the day. A Other Nations Atten/ fr

Those scheduled to attend this meeting include representatives of Denmark, Belgium and Norway. From understrappers in the Anglo-American war council dise cussions comes word that the oute look is good, or even better than that, on a long-haul basis. The production picture is ‘“cheerful,” to use the word of one participating in technical discussions of the war problem, The lend-lease plan is being made over into a two-way, high speed boulevard for fast armament traf fic. The new idea is to have a common supply pool into which British and American resources would be dumped to be drawn upon as circumstances require.

Need British Supplies

We are short on some equipment and weapons of which the British have, at least, enough to lend .us some. ‘They are going to do that abundantly. The big problem is shipping. But that is coming along, and throughout Washington today all inquiries are met with replies which fit pretty well into Churchill's pattern of an anti-Axis offensive in about 12 months. The plan not only is to take the offensive in 11M3 but to take it in “every part” of the globe. It was disclosed last night that Churchill will address a joint session of the Canadian Parliament next Tuesday. The exact time of his departure from Washington was not revealed. The technical discussions of the experts are expected to continue for weeks or months or, perhaps, until victory is won. The triumphant phase of the Churchill visit came yesterday when he addressed an informal joint session of Congress and, finally, walked slowly from the midst of an ovation, two fingers of his right hand held high with the confident sign: V (for victory).

POSTOFFICE REPORTS ITS ‘BIGGEST YEAR’

The busiest year on record at the Indianapolis Postoffice was reported by Adolph Seidensticker, postmaster, as Christmas mail helped swell the total mail handled through this office to 46,066,602 pieces, from Dec. 1 to Christmas Eve. Mr, Seidensticker said that other mail besides Christmas greetings and packages has been heavier than usual this year. The increase

is 8.67 per cent over any other year,

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