Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1943 — Page 3

3. Leaving Burning Lights Unattended in Homes and Business Places Prohibited; Transit Vehicles to Stop for 10-Minute Interval.

hour blackout at 9:30 p. m. Sunday.

* tomorrow at the J. C. Wilson Chapel

Leaving burning lights unattended in business estab4 lishments or homes is prohibited under new regulations adopted today to bolster the city’s civilian defense ordinance. * Mayor Tyndall filed the revised regulations with City

Clerk Frank Noll, preparatory

The néw measures state that, lighting will be considered unattended unless “a competent individual who is a member, employee or guest ‘of the household or business establishment” is present to assume responsibility for blacking out lights upon proper warning. All transit vehicles in the local system will be stopped during the blackout from 9:40 until 9:50 p. m.,, officials of Indianapolis Railways have announced. Streetcars will stop clear of all street and alley intersections, and all lights will be extinguished. Trackless trolleys and motor coaches will pull to the curb and stop, except in the downtown area where the trackless trolleys will stop in the center of the street. : All lights twill be turned off and these vehicles will be parked so as not to block alley intersections or fire hydrants. The operator and passengers will remain on the vehicles during the blackout.

Speed to Be Reduced

All vehicles will be operated at reduced speeds for ten minutes preceding the complete blackout at 9:40 p. m;, and for three minutes following the termination of the complete blackout at 9:50 p. m. the transit

officials stated. : Another blackout order issued today warns against illegal use of civilian defense insignia. ; ' Mayor Tyndall or Harry E. Yockey, director of civil defense for Indianapolis, are giyen authority to mobilize all civilian defense workers in the city, the revised ordinance provides. Violations of blackout rules are made punishable by fines not to exceed $300 and jail sentences of not more than 180 days.

No Wholesale Arrests

Jurisdiction over violators of the ordinance will be held by judges in the two municipal courts. Appeals will be tried in circuit court: Commenting on penalty enforcements, however, Mr. Yockey said, “It will not be the object of the mayor, the city director of civilian defense or any other member of the OCD organization to endeavor to cause wholesale arres Copies of the reinforced blackout prdinance are open for inspection at the city clerk’s office, the Indiang state library, the Indianapolis central library, the downtown business branch library and police and fire: ‘department headquarters.

ARTHUR O'DONNELL BURIAL TOMORROW

Arthur O'Donnell, 2425 S. California st., who had ‘lived in Indianapolis all of his life, died yesterday ‘at St. Francis hospital after an illness of three months. He was 55. Services will be held at 2 p. m.

of the Chimes, = Burial will be at ‘Mount Pleasant cemetery. - Survivors are the wife, Mrs. Chloe O’Donnell; nine children, Mrs, Margaret Breeden, Mrs. Marion Scott, Florence, Rosalind, Chester, Joseph and Robert O'Donnell, all of Indianapolis; Charles and Arvine O'Donnell who are in the army, and two brothers, Everett O'Donnell,

air officer.

not reported, Advices said they.

outside communication,

Portuguese authorities insisted that they go to South America.

‘than that of Tuesday, which result-

to the initial county-wide half-

SPANISH ‘PLOT’ STORY REVISED

Fugitives Now Believed to Be Monarchists Who

‘By VICTOR PETERSON ‘While housewives: ‘count and recount, juggle and rejuggle their 48 points a month per person ‘under rationing, the grocers daily face the same problem on a magnified scale. For like the housewife, they, too must surrender points to stock their shelves, but they juggle thousands . .. not 48, A survey of grocers throughout the city. shows, however, that the system - is functioning smoothly under conditions never before faced by American store owners. Their problems are manifold. The housewife should be glad she is on the tail end of the battery . . . “catching, not pitching.” As pointed out by an official of the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. here whose warehouse services stores in central and southern Indiana, western Ohio, eastern Illinois and northern ‘Kentucky, points are money. The consumer surrenders points to the grocer who banks the coupons like money. When he wants to lay in.a supply of goods he draws two checks .. . one for money, the other for coupons. He can buy to the extent of his points.

of £ points he is in a position similar to the improvident housewife, Such a case is "not . likely, ‘however, as points are taken. in every day. Should the ‘case arise in which he has overstocked on. an item ,|that can be purchased at but one time a year, and exhausts his points, he can freeze his overstock and borrow points against it from the OPA. As he liquidates his stock he pays back the loan. But under a point coupon system, that is only the beginning of the difficulties the retailer faces, All agree that the system doubles the bookkeeping of accounts receivable and payable, it increases the mechanical operation of ringing out a sale by 100 per cent as the second process of point deduction must be made and it doubles the expense of marketing canned goods if both the price and point value is placed on each item. In large stores and chain organizations the operators face the additional problem of a great turnover in labor as employees go into the armed services and war plants. For example the A. & P. through the country has lost nearly 16,000 From the Indianapolis area 200 to

Mrs. Marguerite Black, cashier at the Arlington super market, clips point coupons and deposits them in an especially constructed register.

And so the great problem facing

employees to the services alone.|300 have gone.

extra half-poun

If he should exhaust his supply

the store owner is not necessarily

the intricacies of point values but

the difficulty in acquiring help. as|char

both the quantity and quality ‘has deteriorated, - More than one store owner sees

possible trouble with; the rationing|!

of meat March 29. Mrs. Earl Little, who with. her husband, Earl Little, operates ‘a

“market on W. 40th st, near Boule- * vard pl, agrees with Joseph Gui-

“done, owner of the Arlington super _ market,

The difficulty could follow these

- lines:

Assume chuck roast has a point value of five points a pound. A customer orders a three-pound roast at 15 points, and 15 points is all she has. The butcher, in cutting, makes up ‘a three-and-a-half-pound roast. The question: What about the d? In this cese, according to butchers, you can’t throw the half-pound into hamburger or other meats of ‘lower point value. The butcher hasn't points to lose. [And if the meat should be thrown with that ‘having a higher point value the consumer won't give points for it. ‘To compensate for such conditions

however, for in the original an= nouncement, on meat rationing it was stated that points could given in change as in money. While there ae Boadastios inl ; ent in the system, e overall pi pi ture findg the store operators gl to see oning. “1 that sationide and poin values under the OPA are par said Mr. Guidone. di - “Rationing and points are like & new car , . , you can’t run quite as fast to start with but the ‘bugs’ work themselves out. “Without OPA control you couldn’ buy a: pound of coffee for a dollar, and for the average, well-organized grocer the system has not caused . insurmountable trouble,” he said. He At markets throughout the city, the consumer is ro-operating well and seems to understand the meth= ods to be used. And as for the headaches, “We can take aspirin,” owners say.

Criticized - Franco.

LONDON, March 26 (U. P.).—A new version of the flight of Spanish officers to Portugal to escape the| Franco government was reported by reliable sources here today. : The original version, contained in private advices to the United Press in New York, was that half a dozen high Spanish officers, including two generals, escaped by plane to Portugal after being threatened with| arrest for complicity in an antiFranco plot-stemming from Franco's purported preparations to re-estab-lish a monarchy, London sources said, however, that only two officers were. involved | : and both were radical monarchists who were convinced that Pranco|?¥ has no intention of Testoring the Bourbon throne,

Feared Reprisals

They fled because they feared reprisals from Falangist party members and the government for expressing .anti-Franco sentiments, London informants said. They believed no actual plot against Franco was involved, however. Two officers were identified as Lieut. Col. Ansaldo, widely-known Spanish navigator . who. formerly served as Spanish air attache in London, and Col. Aleman, also an

Identity of other ‘passengers was

were held "Portuguese authorities at hotels, and-—were permitted no

The officers were said to be trying to reach Great Britain or North Africa, but it was believed the

RABAUL: BATTERED FOR 2 FIERY HOURS

MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, March 26 (U. P) —U. S. bombers battered the major Japanese base at Rabaul again yesterday in a continuation of the relentless pounding designed to: blast any enemy hope of regaining the offensive, a communique reported today. r two hours before dawn, Liberators dumped one-ton bombs into Rabaul town and harbor. Huge

sending smoke 3000 feet into the air. The raid lasted 30 minutes longer

ed in heavy damage to Japanese aircraft at Rabaul airdromes. Today’s communique said the explosive cargo of 2000-pounders carried by the Liberators yesterday was the largest ever taken over Rabaul, which is on vital New Britain js-

West Newton; and Earl O'Donnell, Terre Haute. *

"IN INDIANAPOLIS

7 EVENTS TODAY ttish Rite candidate class, Scottish Rite Bde). ceremony at 1:30 p. m., banquet at 6 p. m. i li diana chapter of National Association Tad Pos rs luncheon, Hotel Washington, 1 p.m. i Indianapolis Medical society au iaty, meeting, Ayres’ auditorium, 1:30 p. di lis Federation of Civic Clubs, Toi aE, Hotel Washington, 7:30 Im . MoC mon "0. meeting, Hotel ashe A 2 Five Obiefs aiscciation, | banquet d on Hotel Linco iis Siu, luncheon meeting, Claypool

hotel, ahiek Co., meeting, Hotel Severin,

EVENTS TOMORROW Indianapolis py orchestra, concert, Murat theater, 8:30 m. Presentation of AEE ‘of merit to military police from Ft. Harrison, south steps of Soldiers. and Sailors’ monument, 12:30" p. 'm. Phi Beta Kappa, spring jneeting, Indian-

apolis Athletic club, 8:15 p poh Atecis of y Menchers me English, Inesting. a Attucks high

school, 10 a Indiana Ponty “Society, meeting, Central library, 1:30 p. m Daughters of the conference, : Hotel Lincoln, 10 m. Beta, 3 srovince conventjon, "Hotel Lincoln, all day Ward-Stillson style show, Hotel Washing-

“ton, 3 p.m.

<, Sr ——— i MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are from official records in theref i mo ee eons s “in names and addresses.

‘Walter Joseph Ond re, 21, Ft. Harrison; roy Miko, 19, of Dayton, O. Howard Baker, 321, of prez. = er; Betty Lou 18, ol

Union,

ate. Shelby, Miss. ; ‘Nellie Whitlock, 186, of N. Keystone. - Ernest Schenck, 24, Zijtshoro, Ind.; Reed, 21 rmel, . Ph Deu ree, 26, Chicago, n.;

Chicago, Iil. of Vermont; i: Gladys na % Lm raont.

‘of 814 S. Whitv, 42, R. R. 6, | 849 Ingomar; of 3550 E.

17, R. a * | Chica

land north of New Guinea.

Blanche Napoleon West, 37, 505 Minerva; Alvania Williams, 33, o 505 Minerva,

‘ BIRTHS Girls Frank, Helen Peters, at Colem: Eugene, Helen Barnell, at Methodist. Ross, Faye Hinman, at Methodist. Frank, Marian Leary, at Methodist. Robert, Nina Palmer, at: Methodist. Kenneth, Jean Wooldridge, at Meshodist. Morris, Louise Lucas, at 255¢ E. 55th. Harry, Josephine Helfrich, at Séor E. Michigan. Boys

James, Kathryn Hurley, at St. Prancis. Silas, Mary Bland, at on Cay: Julius, Helen Sparks, t. Vincent's. Dr. Otis, Ruth Olvey, ut St. Vincent's. Joseph, Mary Silmes, at St. Vincent's.

DEATHS

Thomas Jefferson Gore, 70, at 6110 Norwaldo, coronary occlusion. Rollie Edward James, 56, at City, coronary «oeclusion. Seth F. Bailey, 59, at Veterans, ruptured aneur: Fannie B. Duncan, 35, at 334 Spring, car-

cinoma. £6, at 1519 W. Ohio, coronary

Mdx Haas, occlusion. Peairl B. Healton, 58, at St. purpura hemorrhagic. Marvin Conway, 11 mo., at City, measles. Dennis Robbins, 5 mo., ‘at Riley, bronchopneumonia.

Vincent's,

STRAUSS SAYS:

i iv + JT'S ONE DAY NEARER VICTORY

fires burned on the waterfront,|

MEN’S CLOTHING THIRD FLOOR

MEN'S HATS AND FOOTWEAR FIRST FLOOR

MEN’S SHIRTS. TIES, SOCKS . and SPORTSWEAR

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8. Weather Bureau ___|

Sunrise 6:39 | Sunset ....... 7:08

TEMPERATURE =March 26, 1942— 54 2PM rr 60

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7:30 a. m. Total precipitation since Jan. l..coes B

The following table shows the yemperar, tation in other cit les: :

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hid iy (City) sevsscsnsasees 04 rRansas City, MO. «ooivssiivanssne 67

essvessnnee 11.

(All Data in Central: War Time) |

Deficiency since Jan. 1........cc.0se0. 2.98)"

- FIRST FLOOR

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THE BOYS SHOP b Is ON THE SECOND

“THE WOMEN'S SHOP 5 oy THE SECOND] FLOOR

ATURDAY and MONDAY People will storm the Man's Store for SPRING and EASTER OUTFITTING!

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And The Man’s Store is prepared on the 3 great clothing fronts— a) : the Pedigreed— (2) the Medium pricea— (3) the Popular priced— SUITS and TQPCOATS—the pick of the cream—at whatever price you have in mind.

HATS by John Cavanagh Dobbs.

OXFORDS by Hanan—Nettleton. +~Customfield and Service.

~ About the finest, choicest, eye-

fullest collection. of NECKWEAR that Indiana v lis has ever known.

FLOOR

SHIRTS—for a man to take proudly to his bosom—Bruxt Arrow—California—Canterbury.

These two days—Saturday and Monday—will likely be among our