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Mrs. Caroline G. Payne, 45-year- |.
id newspaper - executive, charged With the murder of Charles O. Mattingly, attorney-examiner of the
public service commission. | ~ Mrs. Payne will take the witness|
staid in her second trial, defense attorneys said, to tell her story of events precéding the slaying of Mattingly. The newspaper woman's testimony was expected to support
the defense contention that Mrs.|
Payne is not only innocent of the Brie but also innocent by reason iof insanity. : Dr. J. W. Wiltshire, a Blooming- _ Ington physician who treated Mrs. Payne onthe night of the slaying, also was scheduled to appear.as a Satense. witness, Testimony : by; ‘the defendant and
Dr. Wiltshire: ‘Was expected to com-|
“ plete the. defense. case. Psychiatrist Is Heard
; Dr. Leon Lu. ‘Solomon, Louisville psychiatrist, testified for three
‘believed Mrs. Payne suffered amne‘sia on July 5, 1941, the night which ‘Mattingly- was, slain as he talked iwith friends in the kitchen of their : ‘Bloomington home. | ' Dr. Solomon said Mrs. Payne was sane at the present time and that “her behavior was not that “of a ‘murderous individual.” He attributed the defendant’s alleged mental illness to a brain injury sus-. tained in an auto acciden’ in JanHe said the brain in-
tingly deserted. Mrs. Payne to marry. his secretary. _ Six business associates of Mrs, Payne testified she became “moody and hysterical” after Mattingly’s marriage. All .testified they noted “strange actions” by the defendant, ;
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS IS FATHER AGAIN
: NEW YORK, Dec. 2 (U. P.)— The birth of a nine-pound girl to Lieut. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, was announced today. | The 'baby ‘was named Victoria Susan and was the second daughter born to the Fairbanks. Mrs, Fairbanks is the former Mary Lee Eppling Hartford. Her first husband was, Huntington Hartford, chainstore heir. Fairbanks is here on leave from active duty fr m the navy.
STEEL BOSS WEDS SECRETARY TODAY
NEW YORK, Dec. 2 (U.P...—Tom M. Girdler, board chairman and former president of the Republic Steel Corp., marries Miss Helen R. Brennan, a secretary, here today. It will be the fourth marriage for Girdler, Last Saturday his marriage to Lillian C. Snowden was terminated by a Reno divorce. They had been married since April, 1924,
In Charge of Flag
P.)—A Monroe county circuit .
Mrs. Goldie . Schlegel
Arrangements will be made by the Indianapolis chapter, Order of DeMolay, Mothers’ club to buy gifts for the 44 DeMolay boys in service at a covered dish luncheon meeting at 12:30 p. m. Friday at the chapter house, 1017 Broadway. Mrs. Goldie Schlegel, publicity chairman, has charge of the group’s’ service flag and is the only grandmother of the local ‘chapter. Mrs. Leona Yarling will preside at the business meeting at 2 p. m. All DeMolay mothers with sons in service are requested to attend.
VICTORY COMMITTEE T0 MEET TOMORROW
The Thursday discussion ‘group of the Indiana Committee for Victory will be addressed tomofrow evening by John K. Ruckelshaus on “The Crisis of Liberalism.” : The meeting will open at 7 o'clock in the assembly room of the Fletcher Trust Blag., 13th floor. The talk will be followed by an open discussion. Interested individuals are invited, Dr. John G. Coulter, committee secretary, said.
Wilfred H. Gallienne, British consul general in Chicago, will arrive here tomorrow morning for his address at the World War Memorial auditorium Friday night at 8:15. The talk, “Men, Women and War” will be given under the auspices of the Indiana Committee for Victory.” ‘Admission is free.
A. F. L.-C. I. 0. UNITY TALKS: NEARING END
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (U. P.. —Unity discussions between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations -appeared today to be nearing an abrupt conclusion. “We expect to conclude meetings at the afternoon session,” W. L. Hutcheson, A. F, of L. vice president, said at the close of a threehour morning session. Philip Murray, C. I. O. president, said he expected a formal statement would be issued late today by the six-man joint negotiating committee.
YULE PARTY TOMORROW
Pilgrim Shrine No. 12 will sponsor its annual Christmas party tomorrow at 6 p. m. in Castle hall. A covered dish dinner will be served. Members are asked to bring dona-
and have four children.
tions for Christmas baskets.
RETAKE 2 HILLS:
AT STALINGRAD
Heights, Continue Gains
__.In Rzhev Area. (Continued from Page One)
the Russians could not observe enemy. positions or reserves approaching the city, Red Star said) This hill dominates the railroad detrained troops and supplies for transport by truck into the city proper. For 2% nionths they had fortified
trench systems and artillery emplacements to protect its southern and southeastern approaches.
‘|Rzhev and Vyazma.
The Red army shock troops took it in face of desperate resistance. The Germans, determined to get it back, detached 75 tanks and an entire infantry division but they gave it up after seven desperate counter-attacks which left the hill dotted with German dead.
Whole Township Siezed
The height north of the city, known as the Mamaev hill, was stormed by Russian marines after it had changed hands several times.
The two hills were described as the most important heights strategically, in the Stalingrad sector. Although the Russian drive on the central front made further progress with the reported capture of a fortified township on the Rzhev-Vyazma railroad, the capture of the southern hill outside Stalingrad appeared to be the big victory of the day and one of the biggest of the week.
‘The entire German position northwest of Stalingrad was threatened by the Russian general offe..sive. The Soviet troops had crossed the Don from west to east and had driven deep into enemy defenses constructed on the east side of the river, to protect the rear of the Germans inside Stalingrad. Here the Russians were driving eastward along the KharkovStalingrad railroad, attacking in the direction of the city.
The Germans, numbering many divisions, were fighting with desperation .inside a triangle, facing attacks from west, south and east and, perhaps soon, by the Russians inside Stalingrad.
Fight Through Blizzard
On the central front west of Moscow, the Russians continued to advance slowly west of Rzhev and east of Velikie Luki. Marching through blizzard snows, the Russians took a number of villages and smaller fortified points, dispatches said, and killed 3200 Germans in the last 24 hours. They had captured in the same period 39 guns | and damaged 12 tanks. A crack Jaeger battalion of German shock troops was driven out of a strong fortified point between
-It was indicated that this Russian success, reported in dispatehes, was the same as that announced in the noon communique, in which a fortified township was taken the Rzhev-Vyazma, railroad and 500 Germans were killed.
PENSION GROUP TO MEET
age pension program will meet to- |S morrow evening in Room 124 at the S
English hotel.
against Russian attack, building |
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What You Boog Wilh WAR BONDS
Although most of our ships are running “dark” these days, searchlights are still essential. They are used in various and multiple capaci-
candlepower up to powerful lights of many thousand candlepower.
Principal difference is in the lamps used. Small lights use the incandescent lamp while the higher powered use the open carbon arc or some modification of it. Price ranges into the thousands of dollars. Your purchase of war bonds will help buy these searchlights for equipment of our ships at sea for each ship uses several of them. Invest at least 10 per cent of your income in war bonds every payday. Become a member of the patriotic Ten Per Cent club.
SPEAKER TO TELL OF DAMAGE IN ENGLAND
speak on the “Bombing and Destruction of English Towns” at 7 c’clock today to first-aiders of civilian district 24. The public also may attend the lecture in the Hawthorne library, 70 N. Mount st. The district is bounded on the north by Michigan st., on the south by the Pennsylvania railroad, on the
east by Belmont ave. and on the west by the city limits.
LAKE TUG CAPSIZES IN STORM, 14 DIE
CLEVELAND, Dec. 2 (U. P.).— Lake Erie's treacherous wind-swept waters claimed the lives of 14 inland seamen today when the tiny tug Admiral capsized 15 miles northwest of here, leaving a heavily laden fuel oil barge wallowing helplessly in the icy waves. The £J-foot Admiral was towing the barge Cleveco toward Cleveland when she suddenly “disappeared” from the view of the barge crew,
ties. They vary in size from a few]:
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WARPOWER BILL
House Committee Seeks ‘Public Sentiment on FDR’s Request.
. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (U. PJ). —The house ways and means commitee today voted to hold public hearings on a limited war powers bill giving President Roosevelt authority to suspend tariff laws. The committee formally instructed Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C.) to introduce a bill so that public hearings on specific legislation could start. “It must be understood this is ot a committee bill,” Rep. Doughton “It is just a basis for public hearings.” Earlier the committee defeated, 13 to 7, a motion to lay aside the entire matter, Republican members opposed the measure, which Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins, (R. O.) described as “totalitarian in the ultimate.” , Jenkins predicted that “aroused agriculture and dairy interests” will crusade to defeat the measure.
FUTURE BRIGHT, COL. KNOX SAYS
Hour for Axis Draws Near In Tunisia, He Tells
Industrial Group.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2 (U. P).— Navy Secretary Frank Knox, reviewing the first year of war today before the war congress of American industry, declared that the “horizon is brighter than it has been since that dread day three years ago” when hostilities started. “French North Africa is in our hands and in Tunisia the axis’ hour draws near,” Col. Knox said. “Italy totters.” With the united nations advancing elsewhere, Col. Knox said, a brighter picture could be drawn despite the cost in men and money that the allies face. The cost so far will be dwarfed, he said, by 1943 expenditures in excess of $70,000,000,000, or more than $200,000,000 a day. ! “The tide of war production is rising relentlessly,” he said. “Twelve billion in 1941; 46 billion in 1942; 70 billion plus in 1943. By next De-
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2 Lucky Bounces ; Save Cadet Pilot
~ PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 2 (U.P.). —Aviation Cadet Floyd F. Pankhus, Templeton, Iowa, may not be the pilot of the year, but he’s certainly the luckiest. When his training plane developed engine trouble yesterday, he tried to land in a lettuce patch. Instead, he bounced under hightension power lines onto a highway. The plane bounced again, this time under telephone wires and across an irrigation ditch into a cotton fleld. Neither. plane nor ‘pilot was injured in the least.
MERCURY DIPS T0 3 DEGREES
Local Transit Lines
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home.
of about four degrees every hour,
and 8 a.m. Two Women Are Victims
Colton st, was found by police unable to walk. She was taken to her feet had been frozen. Park ave. slipped and fell on the received a broken arm.
25, of 2628 E. North st, into a streetcar operated by James
sts., causing considerable damage.
Two Hurt in Falls Mrs. Lula Tuley, 47, of 130 Ww.
Market sts. this morning and broke her left ankle. Rolin Tamler, 38 years old, 16 S. Biltmore ave., fell as he was entering the administration building at
one eye.
ridian sts.
not estimate the damage,
Woman's Feet Are Frozen; yumm
dropping six degrees between 6a. m. |=
Mrs. Emma Flynn, 55, of 1009|8 sitting on a fence near her home|§ city hospital where physicians said . Mrs. Molly Williams, 72, of 334, i icy sidewalk near her home and :
A car driven by Frank Barnes, . skidded |
Donahue at Oxford and Michigan &
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Municipal airport. He broke his E glasses and received a cut above Eg
Fire destroyed the interior of a|E filling station at South and Me- |S this morning as pipes E were being thawed. Firemen did|E
FLEE CITIES, DUCE TELLS ALL ITALIANS
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heavily. damaged, 411, slightly damaged, 1973. TURIN—Destroyed, 161, heavily damaged 874, slightly damaged 2195. SAVONA—Destroyed, 6; heavily damaged, 44, slightly damaged, 970. GENOA-—Destroyed, 187 in the central area and 203 in greater Genoa; 1006 heavily damaged in central Genos and 1049 in greater Genoa; 4569 slightly damaged in central Genoa and 4869 in greater Genoa. Mussolini said 21 British generals, 2412 officeras and 39,089 men had been taken prisoner.
Discussing the war at large, he said it was extending to wider parts
globe long to conclude” He said little regarding iierionn landings in North Africa; but declared that “the disembarkation of the allied forces was not a glorious action.” But he sald Japan's entranpe into
the war was an absolute guarantee
of axis victory because Japan was untouchable and unbeatable.
BOSTON FIRE VICTIM
IS IDENTIFIED HERE
Don F. Stiver, superintendent of *
state police; today announced his department helped identify one of the burned bodies in the Boston night club fire. : : The person ‘was identified as Harry Watkins of Boston. A letter, dated Nov. 18 and sent from Pvt, T. H. Murphy of Camp Atterbury, was found on the fire victim. :
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