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FEATURES NEWS WOMAN'S MISHAWAKA The South Bend Tribune. SECTION TWO SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1942. SECTION TWO. JURY DEBATES LOFTUS' FATE IN MURDER CASE Bruin Follows Bruin as Irish Captain. GEORGE MURPHY.

The 1942 Notre Dame elected Pat Filley, former eleven, captain of the tral gridiron ace. Thus star follows another as coach, Frank Leahy, at St. Joseph Valley in the football monogram men established South Bend Central High school 1943 Fighting Irish. Filley succeeds for the first in Notre Dame's captain. The retiring captain and the testimonial banquet tendered the Indiana club Tuesday night.

FRANK LEAHY. PAT FILLEY. a record Tuesday when they star and junior guard on the Irish George Murphy, also a former Cenhistory a former South Bend prep the captain-elect are shown with their Irish by the Notre Dame Club of the -Photo by Tribune Staff Photographer. Pat Filley Named Irish Grid Captain BY BOB OVERAKER. team," said Rev.

Hugh O'Donnell, Tribune Sports Writer. Patrick (Pat) Joseph Filley, junior left former South Bend Central High school star, will captain the University of Notre Dame football team next season. Announcement of Filley's election was made last night by Coach Frank Leahy at the testimonial tendered the 1942 Fightbanquet, by the Notre Dame club of the St. Joseph Valley in the Indiana club. Thus, for, the first time in the history football at Notre Dame, former South Bend Central stars were successively named to captain an Irish eleven.

The 1942 team was led George Murphy, right end, the same position he played on Central elevens. Filley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Filley, 226 North St. Peter street, is aged 20 and is enlisted in the marine corps reserves.

He was employed last summer in the Kingsbury ordnance plant. He also becomes the third native son elected to the Irish football captaincy in 33 years. W. Howard (Cap) Edwards 'was the 1909 leader, and it was not until last year that another South Bend product was voted that honor. Competed as Wrestler.

The was a member of both the football and wrestling teams at Central, having been captain of the wrestlers in his senior year. competed the 155- 165-pound weight divisions, although his weight now is 180 pounds. Filley, like retiring, captain Murphy, was Jones, former Central mentor, who now is a lieutenant in the army signal corps. The 1943 leader was a member of the All-Twin City honor eleven in 1939, and placed on the second all-state team the same year. Revelation of the honor which the 1942 Fighting Irish voted.

Filley high-lighted the 23d annual banquet to Notre Dame elevens sponsored by the St. Joseph Valley club. A capacity gathering heard ringing salutes in praise of the achievements of the 1942 team from speakers representing various: walks of life. There was comedy, too, for the banqueteers, a brand of buffoonery new to these annual affairs. It was the rippling rhymes concocted extemporaneously by Bob Hall, veteran radio and stage comedian.

Churns Out Verse. Hall churned out rollicking patter in machine-gun fashion and his targets were speakers on the program. Hall caught up the threads of those who preceded them and turned them into jargon. He appeared on the program through the efforts of Carleton S. Smith, of Drewrys, U.

S. President, for which firm he serves as good-will ambassador. The courage and success of the 1942 eleven served as the keynote of speeches. Speakers couched their tributes in high praise for "work ing the long and gruelling season which found the Irish winning seven, losing two and tying two in playing an 11-game schedule. 1942 Notre Dame football Still Unsolved.

Today marks the 79th 79 pal Police clewless triple report day in murder they the case. Kor- still have unearthed no leads in the murder of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Korpal and their 18-year-old son, Ernest, all of whom were bludgeoned to death in their beds in their home at 1138 West.

Jefferson boulevard the night of Sept. 21, BOARD SET UP TO HEAR PLEAS FOR MORE GAS Appeals Will Be Taken Thursday; Red Tape Cut. An appeals board to hear the cases of motorists dissatisfied with the gasoline allotments they received under the rationing program will go to work Thursday at 222 West Bronson street for St. Joseph county rationing areas Nos. 1 and 2.

Slicing through red tape to make the procedure as simple as possible, the appeals board announced this plan of action: Complaints will be heard orally by panels of two who will make decisions immediately and adjustments, if decided on, before going on to' the next case. In other words, if you were denied supplemental rations or are dissatisfied with the supplemental allotment awarded on your original application, you are entitled to go before the board with your plea for adjustment. You won't have to wait for an answer, unless your case is unusual, for the hearing panels are empowered to make immediate adjustments. If an adjustment is made in your case the whole matter will be settled before you leave the board room. The board will be in session from 9 a.

m. until noon and from 1:30 to 4:30 p. m. Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday and next Wednesday and from 9 a. m.

to noon Saturday. In appearing before the board motorists are required to' show all the gasoline ration books issued them, the certificate of registration of their cars and the original application form (if it hasn't been lost or discarded) in where the petition was rejected by the processors and returned to the applicant. In cases of lost forms new ones must be made out. Salesmen who were denied books should not apply for adjustments at this time as a spokesman for the rationing boards said, because the boards. still lack official information on the procedure for remedy in their cases under relaxed regulations.

Rationing areas No. 1 and 2 all of South Bend and Portage township and all of German, Warren, Olive, Greene, Center, Liberty, Lincoln and Union townships. Rationing board No. 3, in Mishawaka, is devising its own plan for -tackling the appeals and adjustment problem. ELIGIBLE FOR EXTRA GAS.

Whole Sticker Must Show, OPA Chief Tells Drivers. The Tribune's Special Service, INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. replying to complaints of an Indiana circuit judge and a judgeelect that persons on jury duty had been denied an extra allotment of gasoline by local rationing boards, James D. Strickland, Indiana OPA director, today said jurors are eligible for cards for the time they serve. Strickland explained that the jurors were not entitled to an unlimited supply of motor fuel, and added that most counties seem to think a card would take care of the problem.

Judge Harold J. Barger, of Shelby circuit court, and JudgeElect William H. Schannen, of Alcircuit court, had criticized refusal of boards to grant additional gasoline to jurors. Meantime, state rationing offcer Kenneth Kunkel warned holders of books that the entire sticked must be displayed on windshields. Kunkel said many motorists were reported showing ony the upper part of the sticker which bears the letter and not the lower part, which lists 17 classifications of motorists entitled to supplementary rations.

The lower part of the sticker also bears a check mark designating the reason why the particuular automobile was eligible for rations, Kunkel added. He pointed out also that only one sticker need show a one sticker need show on winda shield- -the sticker with the highest value. Speaking through office of war information press channels, Kunkel reminded gasoline dealers that they must show justification for Continued on Page Seven. Column Six. Mishawaka Ushers in Christmas Season.

THREE-HEADED DRAGON AMUSES CHILDREN. HUGE TRAIN AND SANTA ARE PARADE FEATURES. Children squealed with delight and adults were equally pleased and excited although they didn't show it outwardly as much as the children when Mishawaka staged its Pearl Harbor day and pre- parade Tuesday afternoon. The three-headed dragon in the top photograph brought screams from the tots and from the thousands of adults that lined the streets along the line of march. Hundreds of children danced with delight as the giant replica of Santa Claus, shown beside the 350-foot train, and the live Santa Claus that rode atop the locomotive passed along the line of march, The three men standing in front of the locomotive as the parade was about to start are, right, Mayor Carl J.

Castleman, Joseph M. Bowen, president of the Chamber of Commerce and sponsor of the parade, and Mason L. Petro, Mishawaka war bond sales chairman. The sale of war bonds was pushed heavily during the city's four-day, Pearl Harbor days program and was successful to the extent that $29,600 worth of bonds were sold during the first three days in the bond shelter booths along the sidewalks in the business area. (Story on page five, section three.) -Photo by Tribune Staff Photographer.

Four Donors Start City's Blood Bank The process of building up the recently established blood bank in South Bend was to get under way late this afternoon with each of four donors giving up a pint of blood. At the South Bend Medical laboratory, 531 North Main street, headquarters of the bank, the plasma will be extracted from the whole blood, quick-frozen and put into a giant refrigerator for storage against the time when large quantities of plasma might be needed to cope with an emergency. The bank, established at a cost of several thousand dollars for equipment alone, was set up in South Bend because of this city's being the hub of an area heavily dotted by war factories. Appointments of donors are being arranged through Mrs. Ames Marsh, 1818 North College street, who has been given this assignment by the volunteer services division of St.

Joseph county chapter of the American National Red Cross. Mrs. Marsh is culling the list of persons who signified willingness to contribute blood when they registered for civilian defense corps activities. Others who wish to volunteer can communicate with her at her home by dialing phone No. 4-8673.

Goal of the bank is 500 units. Once it has reached that point it will be maintained under a revolving plan like this: Individuals using plasma from the bank will be required later to supply replacement blood personally or through friends and pay for the processing at the rate of $7.50 a unit (one-half pint of plasma). City Gives Up Holiday Lights To Conserve Its Electricity Conforming to the request of the office of civilian defense that unnecessary holiday decorations involving use of electric current be dispensed with as much as possible in the coming holiday period, South Bend will not present its customary brilliant holiday spectacle this year. This means that The Tribune's annual campaign conducted for many years for outdoor illuminated Christmas trees will not be made. It also means that the gorgeous illuminated Santa Claus spectacle which last holidays attracted thousands of OUT 21 HOURS; LIFE OR DEATH ONLY CHOICES Ardent Plea Made by Defense as Trial Ends.

The Lyons Den. -BY LEONARD LYONS.Last week Gary Cooper visited Jesse Jones in the RFC building and the news of the star's arrival spread through the building. A The foyer and corridors quickly became crowded with girl workers waiting for glimpse of Nelson Rockefeller pushed LEONARD LYONS. through the jam to confer briefly with Jones. He then fought his way out and into the waiting elevator.

"Sorry, mister," the elevator man told the head of our Latin-America good will program, "sorry, but this is for Gary Cooper." Cooper finally emerged and was startled to see the mob of girls lined in the corridors and foyer. "I guess," he said as he left, "this must be pay day." A large number of industrial plants, made idle by the war production program, will be packed and shipped to South American countries Deems Taylor's "Looking Glass Suite" is on its way to Russia, on microfilm Jack Haley says: If Jessel's drafted, that means the Japs must be in the lobby." Representative Lyndon Johnson, of Texas, has a private collection of. war films he made when, as lieutenant commander, he few with the American air forces in Australia. Johnson brought the films back with him, but not his camera Before one bombing flight, as Johnson was getting into a plane, a colonel asked him where his camera was. "I'm not taking it with me this trip," he answered.

"Then let me use your camera," said the colonel Johnson walked across the field, got his camera and returned to his plane. The colonel already was in that plane; he had taken Johnson's place Johnson gave him the then entered a second plane where the colonel was 'to have sat. The first plane, flying the colonel wha took his seat, was lost at sea. Noel Coward, who is receiving $500,000 for the American Which We Serve," asked Clifton Webb to send him the one thing he wanted from America--a thing unobtainable in Europe- French toilet water Swift, the songwriter who married a cowboy, is in N. Y.

now to. discuss with Simon Schuster the publication of letters she wrote to her friendsletters in which she contrasted her life on a ranch with the days when she was a sophisticated lady writing torch ballads for Libby Holman. To the army's film-center at Astoria shortly will arrive large contingent of civilian movie writers. They're relinquishing high salaries to work at the specialist's rate of $23 a day. Most of them earn five times as much in Hollywood But they will be working beside four men whose.

Hollywood salaries totalled more than $8,000 week- -but who will be paid $1.65 a day. They are Private William SaroyContinued on Fuse Seven, Column Five. The fate of Robert J. Loftus, 43- -old Rockford, ex-convict charged with shooting to death William E. Tennell, Lacrosse, State bank teller, in a holdup June 2 26, 1933, hung in the balance at noon today as a circuit court completed nearly 21 hours jury, deliberation and recessed for lunch, to reconvene at 1 p.

m. Life or death are the only alternatives in the verdict to be returned by the 11 men and one woman forming the jury which began deliberation at 3:15 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. If found guilty of murder while perpetrating bank robbery, Loftus must die in the electric Nearly as as Loftus to hear the verdict were Louis E. Kunkel, of Michigan City, attorney for Loftus, and Prosecutor Howard DeMeyer, of Laporte, who headed the state's case against the white-haired, dapperlooking defendant who has spent 17 years of his life in Illinois penal institutions. Circuit Judge Dan gave no indication of when he would intervene to.

dismiss the jury if a verdict could not be reached. Mr. DeMeyer said that if the jury failed to reach a verdict he would move for immediate retrial. Attorneys Make Pleas. The jurors filed out of the courtroom Tuesday afternoon with dramatic words of accusation and defense ringing in their ears.

The jurors heard Loftus' attorney scream out that the state had not given the defense a chance to question state police about fingerprints found in the bank. They heard him describe his client as an "old timer" at the game of crime "who wouldn't kill unless someone was trying to stop his escape." He admitted to the jury his client had a bad record and that he might, if freed, go out and steal again, but that "if he were SO bad as to kill William Tennell, Miss Younggreen (Miss Lillian Younggreen, bank cashier and eye-witness to the shooting, who identified Loftus as the killer) would not be here to testify C. S. president of the university, "was the grandest Notre Dame team I've been privileged to see. characterized the phrase in the 'The Victory March' -'what though the odds be great or small, Old Notre Dame will over all', Your comeback last Saturday against Great Lakes was one of the greatest displays of overcoming odds ever courage, any Notre Dame team.

"You played inspired football, and your president is proud of you. And he says to each and every member of the squad, well done good and faithful servants." Waldorf Praises Team. From Lynn Waldorf, Northwestern university's head football coach, the Fighting Irish heard their efforts against Great Lakes, which netted them a 13-13 tie after trailing 13-0 at the halftime, termed "one of the finest achievements in the annals of the game. "It is a great privilege for me," he said, "to salute and congratulate, on behalf of Northwestern, one of the finest and most courageous group of football players I've ever seen in action." Commendation was also given the Irish by Arthur Valpey, as sistant football coach at the University Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and Jim Costin, sports editor of The South Bend Tribune. Clarence Harding, president of the host club, served as temporary chairman and introduced Dean Clarence E.

(Pat) Manion, of the Notre. Dame law school, who served toastmaster. Mayor Jesse I. Pavey tendered the civic welcome, and Coach Leahy introduced each member of the 1942 squad. WSBT, The South Bend Tribune's broadcasting station, aired the program from 8:30 o'clock until 10 o'clock.

AUTO LICENSE ORDER REDUCED BY TWO-FIFTHS By International News Service. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. three-fifths as many automobile license tabs are being ordered for 1943 as were ordered last year, R. Lowell McDaniel, director of the state automobile license bureau, revealed today coincident with announcing plans for mailing appliforms for the licenses. Applications for the licenses, which will be tabs to be attached to the old plates, are to be mailed Dec.

28 to avoid the Christmas mail congestion, the director said. Deadline for purchase of the 1943 licenses is March 1, as set by the 1941 general assembly. The tabs will go on sale Jan. 1. McDaniel that the bureau had 600,000 tabs as compared with a 1942 order of 000,000 plates.

Arrangements for obtaining another 200,000 tabs have been made if more are requested than estimated, he said. PRIEST WILL AX TO GET TREES FOR CHRISTMAS Rev. Louis Furgal, C. S. husky assistant pastor of St.

Casimir's Roman Catholic church, will. wield the ax Thursday morning to provide Christmas trees for his church. He was the first to call on John Tafelski, 1713 South Walnut street, as soon as he had read in The Tribune Tuesday night that he is offering two large evergreens in front of his home to anybody who wants to remove them. To be certain he will get the job done, Father Furgal said he would take along some of the more muscular boys from the eighth grade of the parish school. against him." Talks Less Than Hour.

Burns Fatal. HARRY VAN SLEET. Harry Van Sleet, aged 35, of 913 Lincoln Way West, one of two employes of the carburetor division of the Bendix Aviation corporation who suffered serious burns late Saturday when an ammonia tank of a refrigeration unit plant No. 3 exploded, died in St. Joseph hospital at 5:45 a.

m. today. The condition of John Morris, 35, State Line road, the second victim, is reported to be fair today in Epworth hospital. The results of an investigation into the causes of the explosion have not been made public by plant and government officials. The refrigeration plant plays a part in the testing of carburetors.

Mr. Van Sleet was born in Kankakee, Feb. 16, 1907, and came to South Bend from Chicago two years ago. He was married to Miss Frieda Senn, who survives. Also surviving are the mother, Mrs.

Florence Van Sleet, of South Bend; two children, James and Patricia, at home, and two brothers, Elwood and Reginald. Van Sleet, both. of South Bend. 'SEABEES' SOUGHT HERE. Chief Machinist's Mate Cleburne B.

Hatfield, of the Chicago district navy recruiting office, arrived here today to recruit "Seabees" aged 17 or over 38. The "Seabees" are members of the construction regithe navy. ALLEN LEADING WAR BOND RACE St. Joseph County Drops in Week's Standings. Allen county (Fort Wayne) is the new leader among top-population counties in the state competing for the honor of attaining the highest percentage of business firms and industrial plants in which workers are investing at least 10 per cent of the firm's over-all pay roll in United States war savings bonds.

In forging to the front with a percentage of .195, Allen county unseated St. Joseph county, the leader in last week's report. The leading county has reported 94 firms of 481 in that county as meeting the requirements of the 10 per cent honor roll. St. Joseph county, second in the percentage standings, is credited with films on the 10 per cent list out of 565 firms in the county, for a percentage of .173.

No Gain Over Week. Following in order are Marion county (Indianapolis) with a percentage of Lake county, .096, and Vanderburg county, .078. St. Joseph county shows no percentage improvement over last week, but William Klusmeier, chairman of St. Joseph county's war savings staff, said today that this county's latest reports sent to the state staff evidently had not been incorporated in this week's standings.

He indicated that much improvement should be noted in next week's report but was uncertain whether it was enough to regain the lead for this county. Indiana's war bond race to Continued en Page Seven, Column Six. 13 DAYS SHOPPING LEFT ast a DUDE gent? oh the Buy Christmas MERRY Seals After Mr. Kunkel had talked for less than an hour of his hour and 15 minutes of allotted time, during which he read a short script from the Bible which tended to imply that, no person should be convicted murder on the voice of a single witness, Mr. DeMeyer quietly opened one of the most dramatic pleas for the death penalty ever given in a local.

court. Speaking softly, the young prosecutor told the jury that no fingerprints were available in the bank because crowds had entered the bank before police arrived and blurred them out. Just as softly he told the jury that he had never sent any man to the electric chair and would not ask the jury to "do something I would not do myself -and I am asking you to find this man guilty." Mr. DeMeyer asked what the state must do to prove murder against a defendant. He asked: "Must we take movies of the, crime; must we have someone go with the killer and after the crime is committed ask the killer to his fingerprints so that we leave, have them to convict him? Seldom is there an eyewitness to a murder, but Miss Younggreen was an eyewitness to the killing of Mr.

Tennell. It is a miracle they did not kill her. She was in the bank for 15 or 20 minutes with the killer, so close to him she could touch him. What did Lillian Younggreen have to gain by telling what she did? She has nothing to gain by a conviction." Discusses Alibi. Mr.

DeMeyer's tone became louder as he told the jury how the state had attempted to bring into court Dr. Julius I. Mandle, of Chicago, only person who could definitely establish the alibi of Loftus that he was in that doctor's office in Chicago very conviently at the moment Mr. Tennell was shot to death in Lacrosse, Ind." "He was not our witness. He was named in the alibi notice filed with the prosecutor Loftus through his attorney 10 days by, fore this trial started.

The alibi gives the doctor's address as Northwestern avenue and not until he got on the stand did Loftus or his attorney tell us where the office is and then he testified it was on Western avenue north. His attorney knew where it was and said so." When Mr. DeMeyer attempted to show that Loftus had been in the physician's office in the afternoon and not in the morning on the day of the killing the prosecutor was halted by the court. The prosecutor then lashed Lottus' brother, Lester, of Rockford, and Lester's wife for their admitted shielding of Robert in other crimes, but declared he could prove by Robert's own admission that the could have been Lacrosse at 8:15 a. m.

on' June. 26, 1933, the time of the holdup. persons to Potawatomi park will not be shown this year. The park board will have the "Nativity" display shown in Howard park for several holiday seasons but will not go further in Christmas decorations. Decoration of South Bend streets as done in past years will be dis1 pensed with in order to save electrie current and materials.

Store fronts probably will present some decorations but the aim will be to conform closely to the request avoid using electric current unnecessarily and to be cautious in the use of materials..