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R. A. F. CAUSES HAMBURG, RUN
Report Bulgars Mobilize;
Nazis Feel Irish Neutrality Problem Is ‘Timely.’ By UNITED PRESS Diplomatic moves and battlesnews shared Europe's war spotlight today. _ In Greece, an Italian effort
to rally invading forces. was
“completely smashed” with heavy losses, Athens reported. Rome jndignantly denied reports of Italian failures, branding them “British propaganda.” Mystery Clouds Objectives
In Berlin Soviet Premier V. M. Molotov conferred with Adolf Hitler and other Nazi Hignitaries for two
| Georgia Boy, 2, Found Dead
Under Tree Mile From Home
No * Evidence of Violence; Exposure Indicated as
Death Cause.
CARTERSVILLE, Ga., Nov. 12 (U. P.).—Murray Upshaw Jr., 2, object of a widespread search since he disappeared last Friday, was found dead today a mile and a half back of his parents’ farm northeast of
Cartersville. Joel Parker, farmer and one of more than 200 men who renewed the search for the boy after a temporary halt to allow possible kidnapers to contact the family, came upon the body lying face down under a pine tree. Mr. Parker said the body bore no marks of physical violence, indicating he had died of exposure some time during the four days and nights since he wandered off from the Upshaw home. '
- Body Not Moved The body was not moved, pending
an examination py the Bartow County coroner.
Murray Upshaw Sr. the boy's]
52 DIEIN U.S. 4 IN STATE AS WINTER COMES
Mercury Tumbles Freezing; More Cold, Snow on Way.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6Ga.m. ....28 10am. .... a.m. .... 2% Ham .... S8a.m. .... 27 12 (noon) . 9am. ....27 1pm. ....
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clamped most of the nation in a wintry grip today as gales which left at least 52 persons dead in the Midwest, four in Indiana, battered furi-
ously at the Eastern seaboard.
In Indiana, of the season tumbled temperatures below freezing. Thé€ mercury (dropped 39 degrees here from yes|terday noon to 7 a. m. today, when
father and a prominent cotton and|it hit a low of 27.
Snow and freezing weather |
the first cold wave:
and a half hours. Mystery still clouded the objectives of his momentous visit—his first trip outside Russia.
corn farmer, was so shaken by the! Although the temperature startnews of his son's death that he ed back up under a bright sun and could not at once speak. The 30- reached 33 at 11 a. m., it will dip year-old mother, who had been on|to around 20 tonight, the Weather the verge of collapse during the|Bureau warned. Light snow flur-
On the talks, however, may hinge Axis plans for a continental organization of Europe and an offensive to strike at the British Empire, root
‘ and branch, from the stormy Eng-|
lish Channel] to the China seas. | In Turin, Italy, the newspaper |
La Stampa said the Molotov-Hitler conference was arranged to study
extension of JRusso-German collab-, DR A FT N EE DE D
oration to include possible Russian | participation in the | German- | Italian-Japanese military alliance. |
Berlin Watches Ireland |
Other late developments: 1, Information made available to the foreign press by the German official news agency D. N. B. in Berlin said that the problem of Irish neutrality has become “timely” because of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's desire for Irish naval bases. What action, if any] might be taken in view pf “rumors abroad that Churchill is considering violating Ireland’s neutrality” was not revealed. ’ 2. In Sofia a considerable number of Bulgarians, possibly as many as three divisions, were reported to have been called up for military service. Three divisions would total 45,000 t0750,000 men.
Claim Hamburg Faces Ruin
{53 men in the first Selective Service
long search, seemed slightly relieved because ‘at least we know what happened to him.” Members of the searching party said the spot where the body was found had perhaps been overlooked in the previcus searching. Authorities had been inclined to believe the boy was a kidnap victim after his small white dog, Nicky, which had disappeared at the same time, came home yesterday.- The
{dog's coat was dry and it appeared T0 FILL UOTA ‘well-fed, leading to the belief that | Nicky and perhaps .the boy as well
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Murray Upshaw Jr.
hunt ends.
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150 Called for Examination;| Mother Dreaded Exposure
Mr. Upshaw attempted to make 53 From County to the dog retrace its route home but . the mongrel was unable to do so Get First Call. and this morning the search was re- ; newed with greater intensity. By EARL RICHERT | The apparent cause of Murray's Several men will have to be draft- death — exposure — was what his
ied to fill Marion County's quota of jmother had dreaded most.
“God knows, he’s never been cold
: never been hungry and never bee call, Nov. 19-25, it appeared today. | Geared of a she said be-
Officials of Draft Boards 9 and 15 fore the body was found. “I just
3. The British Air Ministry said that reports reaching London indicated that Germany's great northern port of Hamburg is facing economic ruin as a result of the smashing eff:ects of constant R. A. F. attacks. ment and discontent among the workers were reported with more and more industries being moved fo
eastern cities and occupied Poland. !
4. Official sources in [Vichy believed that the Free France forces of Gen. Charles de Gaulle had cap-
tured Libreville, capital lof Gabon,
in French Equatorial Africa. 5. The British Ministry of Home Security said that 6334 civilians were killed and 8695 injured in air raids against Britain during October. The Minisiry said that the death roll included 2791 men, 2900 women and 643 children under 16. Dispatches to Belgrade ‘from the Greek frontier said an Italian
*counter-offensive, launched yester-
, town of Biglista, were
day on the extreme right wing of the Koritza front, had failed. The Greeks, fighting toward Koritza on the road from;the border impor to have captured Cangon, an important mountain pass town, forcing the Italians to retreat toward Plyasa, which is only about five miles from Koritza. Athens reported that the Italian (Continued on Page Three)
THREE SEEM FROZEN IN ICE TO WAISTS
WINONA, Minn., Nov.| 12, (U. P) —Max Conrad, aviator directing the rescue of duck hunters marooned by the storm in the Winona “pool” along the Mississippi River, reported today that he saw three hunters who appeared to be “frozen up to their waists in ice.” “1 couldn't tell whether they were alive or not,” he said.
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Growing |unemploy-|propable that all
trants in their areas had volyp- | little fellow is out in this awful teered for the one year’s military Weather.” training. Draft Board 9 is. scheduled to supply three men and Draft Board 15, two men. RECORD HOG SALE Volunteers were reported by the! 13 other county boards, but in some | cases the number of volunteers does | LIKELY HERE TODA - {not equal the board's quota. Board | 12, for example, must supply four| i — {men in the first call and it has only : three volunteers. It is highly im- Weather = Swells Supply; three volunteers (will pass the physical examinations. | 20,000 May Be Sold. Other boards such as 1 and 11] |have seven volunteers. They must| The prospect of winter weather {supply four men apiece, and it |is resulted in a record number of hogs (possible that because of the volun-|being brought to market at In(teers failing to pass the physical dianapolis today., | examinations they, too, will have to| It was expected that nearly 20,000 draft one or two men to meet their hogs would be sold before night(quotas. : : fall—the largest number since 1924. It had been believed previously by Marketing experts pointed out that Selective Service officials that there farmers were selling their hogs would be enough volunteers to fill because the weather prevented the first quota. feeding outdoors. Several draft board officials re-| 1lndianapolis received one-fourth ported that young men had indi-|0f all’ the hogs sent to 12 major cated to them their intention of |markets in the nation today. At volunteering and then had come One time trucks were lined up from back later to say that their parents the stockyards unloading platform had vetoed the plan. {to Harding St. about a mile. A Selective Service officials said the|few trucks were lined up on Hardsituation in Marion County was ing St. comparable to that in the state. The . . State’s quota for the first call is| Rails Lead Market
395 men. One draft board in Lake To Higher Ground County reported 25 volunteers and |
{another at Terre Haute reported 12. poity sh led the st r'Other draft boards have no volun, | Loaroal Shares led: the sick ma
{ket higher today after earlier profitLeers. . [rine There was no particular The 15 local boards have mailed news to account for the rise in rail notices to approximately 150 dvaft issues. {registrants to appear at the Na- : {tional Guard Armory, 711 N. Penn- KILLED BY CRASH (Sylvania St. tomorrow afternoon, EVANSVILLE, Ind. Nov. 12 (U. for medical examination. Each |p) Injuries received in an autolocal board is sending approximately |mobile accident were fatal last 10 men to be examined. These con-|night for Leo A. Greubel, 21, Haubsist of the volunteers plus as many stadt. Theo Smith, 27, Haubstadt, (Continued on Page Three) was injured critically.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (U. P.). —|
{ries are predicted for tomorrow. Pacific Coast Escapes | Winter's early invasion was the {most severe in decades for the U. | S., causing millions of dollars’ property damage in the Midwest and South. And the force of the storm—a | terrifying compound of wind, snow land cold—was not spent. Fifty- { mile-and-hour winds tore at prop- | er in New England and | Middl
Icy squalls and snow pounded at the Rocky Mountain region for the
| fourth day.
Only the Southern Pacific coastal area escaped the storm's | which swept in from the extreme ' Northwest five days ago. | Winds Do Most Damage
! The U. S. Weather Bureau at Chicago forecast , continued cold, with snow flurries and frosty winds in the North Cenjral states. The outlook along the Eastern seaboard twas for severe cold and snow. | Flurries had started today in the northern points of New York. The cold was as sudden as it was severe and caught agricultural areas off-guard. The accent of winter was'in Montana, where Belgrade
reported 30 degrees below zero with |
| two inches of snow. Cheyenne, Wyo., recorded 3-be!nw
zero, while it was 2 below at Bis-| marck, N. D. and within 5 degrees |
{of zero through the northern tier of |states from the Rockies to the Great Lakes. | But the cold did not match the (Continued on Page Four)
MERCY KILLER SLAYS ' WIFE, THEN HIMSELF
| NEWARK, N. J, Nov. 12 (U. P.). | —Ernest M. Lougee, 65, a phar{macist, shot and killed his de|pressed and ill wife as a “mercy” | gesture today and then took his own life. Lougee, according to police, awakened in his apartment early today and shot his sleeping wife, Eleanor, 67, through the temple. Then he fired a bullet from his revolver into his own mouth. A note written by Lougee said: “Am sorry to make such a& mess, {but I promised Neli I would go You can see it is better for her to go so I will go with her. Please see us the rest of the way.”
| Summer Time
BUENOS AIRES, Nov, 12 (TU, {| P.).—Showers were forecast for today after three days of “muggy” weather. The maxi- {| mum temperature yesterday was 77.58 at Buenos Aires, normal weather for this city | below the equator where summer, is just beginning.
By RICHARD LEWIS pointment out of their eyes and Like an army which maps itg plotted the new campaign. strategy far in advance of the bat-| There are whisperings in the wind tle, the Democrats at City Hall are that this will be a campaign such preparing to defend their citadel as Indiandpolis has seldom seen beagainst the impending Republican fore. It is expected to be fought onslaught in 1942. by and large by a man who does With the country preponderantly [not choose to run for a third term— Republican, the Democrats know | Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, their position as king of the mu-| In the hands of this gray veteran, nicipal hill is precarious. They know, who, despite his years of Demotoo, that the Republicans know it. [cratic politics, still commands a All indications point to a two-|large nonpartisan following, lies the year running fight, with plenty of fate of the 1942 mayoralty election. fast action and sideshow. {What he does now the. strategists The battle lines for 1942 were say, will count then, drawn last week, almost before the | Mayor ‘ Sullivan is the huild-up ballots had been counted. Demo- man, the interference runner, and cratic politicians rubbed the disap- his role will be to pave the way
Democrats, Citadel at City Hall Tottering, Plan Fast ‘Oomph’ Strategy for '42 Election
|by a model administration. The campaign of his successor will be {largely based not on what will be {done but on what has been done. A primary consideration in the campaign that is starting now is a - “clean administration.” In the next two years and from now on, no ‘effort will be spared to avoid political mudholes.- No ammunition consciously will be supplied the “enemy.” Another main consideration is a low tax rate, a balanced budget. The administration will try hard to wipe that $350,000 deficit incurred by a budget error off the books, without, raising the rate. A third angle will be law en(Continued on Page Three)
the | e Atlantic states as temper-| {atures dropped to freezing levels.
wrath, |
jpowertul influence to the support of
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This damage was done to a Chicago boat storage house by a 60-mile-an-hour gale, worst since 1898,
as wintry blasts swept the Midwest. Two men were killed in the city, and property damage was placed at
a million dollars.
Winds Damage Chicago Boat House .
‘GIVE MINORITY F-- WILLKIE
vole 'F. D. R. Has No Comment;
Martin Applauds but McNutt Is Critical.
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By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—Wendell L. Willkie's program for national unity today awaited Repub|lican Congressional ratification and President Roosevelt's reaction before its ultimate scope could be determined.
Mr. Willkie outlined his program last night in a radio address from New York, telling the millions who supported him for the Presidency thay unity depends upon Administration moves to prevent inflation tand correct “some of our economic errors.” President Didn't Hear It
from suppression of the minority, Mr. Willkie called upon Mr. Roosevelt to take into account ‘‘the very powerful opposition” which was recorded at the polls last week. President Roosevelt passed up an opportunity to comment on Mr, Willkie's five-point proposal to deal with “economic - errors” when he canceled his afternoon press conference on grounds that he had no news to offer. Presidential Secretary Stephen T. Early said that there was no White House reaction to Mr. Willkie's address. “The President did not hear Mr. Willkie last night and has not had time to read the speech,” Mr. Early said. The only. Republican leader in Congress available for immediate comment was Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr., Republican House leader and chairman ot the Republican National Committee. He was glad that Mr. Willkie “is to give his
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MRS. ETHEL HURTY DIES IN HOME HERE
Member of Pioneer Family; Active in Clubs. :
Mrs. Ethel Johnston Hurtly, member of a pioneer Indianapolis family,
Meridian St. The widow of Dr. John N. Hurty, former state health commissioner; she was one of the organizers 50 years ago of the Contemporary Club. She was born in Indianapolis in 1856. the daughter of Dr, John F. Johnston and Mary Stephens Johnston. She was educated in private schools here and at Kemper Hall, Kenosha, Wis. " Mrs. Hurty was a member of Christ Episcopal Church of which her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stephens, were among the founders. She was a member of the Propylaeum, the Fortnightly Literary Club and Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Chapter, D. A. R." She is survived by a brother, Frederick F. Johnston of San Antonio, Tex. and a daughter, Mrs. Anne Hurty Vinton of Indianapolis. A son, Gilbert Johnston Hurty, died
{last June,
Funeral arrangements have not heen completed.
Warning that national unity was. up to the Administration and that discord and disunity would arise
died last night in her home, 1512 N.|
Alice Marble
Signs as Pro
NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (U.P.).— Alice Marble, the California blond who is the world’s best woman tennis player, has turned professional. Miss Marble said today she signed a contract three days ago with Jack Harris, promoter of professional tennis tours. Her first match will be played Jan. 6 at Madison Square Garden, but no woman opponent has yet been chosen. Miss Marble will make a tour with Don Budge and Bill Tilden.
NLRB HOOSIER ORDER UPHELD
Muncie Firm's Contract With A. F. L. Invalidated By Court.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (U. P). —The Supreme Court today af-
firmed a National Labor Relations Board order invalidating a closed shop contract between an Ameri-
{tan Federation of Labor union and ; an Indiana corporation in which the flexible price system for the present
C. I. O. United Automobile Workers claimed a majority of all plant employees. A. F. of L. attorneys had told the court that the case was of vital importance to the existence of all craft unions, especially in those plants where such organizations compete with larger industrial unions. The invalidated contract was between the A. F. of L. International Association of Machinists,
ployees of the Serrick Corp., Muncie, Ind, a parts manufacturing plant.
Relief Repayment Not Required
In another labor case the Supreme Court ruled that the NLRB has no legal power to require Wagner Act violators to reimburse public relief agencies for amounts paid to strikers or workers’ illegally dis-
|charged. The decision came in a
Republic Steel Case, one of the numerous litigations growing out of the “little steel strike” of 1937. In a third major action the Supreme Court agreed to review a lower court decision denying the Government the right to sue for (Continued on Page Three)
MOTHER, SON SLAIN IN BURNING HOME
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 12 (U. P.).—Firemen who rushed into, a home to put out a fire today discovered a Spiritualist mother and her 8-year-old son shot to death. The mother had been gagged. The victims were: Mrs. Alma Katzenmiller, 36, and Noel Katzenmiller, 8. | The coroner 'said both appeared {to have been killed by a shotgun.
which |. claimed to rep.esent tool room em-
SEEK INCREASE IN MILK PRIGE
Dairymen Petition for Cent More a Quart; Ruling Due This Week,
Indianapolis consumers may - be
for a quart of milk in the near future. Representatives of three Indian-
day to increase the price they get for milk from $2.18 to $2.50 a hundredweight so they can meet increased costs of winter feed and labor. Guy L. Roberts, manager of the Roberts Dairy, said this would boost
the delivered price of milk here from 11 to 12 cents.
matter under advisement, and is to rule later in the week.
Agree on Price Raise
Representatives of the three as{sociations agreed on the immediate Ineed for a price increase, but dis-
|agreed on a plan for substituting a
[fixed price system. Carl Hedges, manager of the Indianapolis Dairymen’s Co-operative Association, said that a |scale based on the Chicago butterfat market would be more fair since milk prices would go up when
lowing the law of supply and demand.
price system had be
Fight Sliding Scale J. D. Littleton, president of the
cil, and D. E. Long, secretary of the Independent Milk Producers Association, said they opposed the sliding scale system. Mr. Long said that if the dairymen were paid now
getting $2.43 a hundred and it was necessary, counting she cost of production, to get at Aeast $2.50.
“The flexible price system will not contribute to market stability. It
conditions. I am for the fiat price because-it means more money in the dairymen’s pockets” Mr. Long said. The dairymen in their petition for today's hearing had asked for an increase to $254 a hundred. After consultation with Indianapolis distributors it ‘was agreed to lower the request to $2.50.
ELDER STATESMAN ILL
TOKYO, Nov. 12 (U. P.).—Prince|
| Kimmochi Saionji, sole surviving |genro or elder statesman, was suffering from a cold at his homé in Okitsu today. Concern was felt because of his age. He is 91.
"The Voice of Destruction ?
The sensational exposure of Hitler's secret plans
By DR. HERMANN RAUSCHNING
former member of the Nazi inner party council,
will begin next MONDAY
in The Indianapolis Times
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asked to pay an additional penny
apolis dairymen'’s associations asked | the State Milk Control Board to-|
The Miliz Control Board took the
sliding
but- | ter prices would go up and would | go down when they came down, fol- |
He said that if fhe sliding scale] in effect dur- | ing October in place of the $2.18 fixed price, dairymen here would have received $72,000 more revenue. |
Indianapolis Dairy Producers, Coun- |
on the sliding scale {they would be!
doesn’t give consideration to local]
ALL INT HOUR: 13 DEAD, FEAR TOLL TO 60 UP
FBI Agents Called Ing $1,000,000 Army Materiel Destroyed in Atlanta. |
Jy UNITED PRESS Three terrific powder plant
| explosions in the industrial
East, a spectaculay fire in the South that destroyed $1,000,« 000 worth of Army materiel, and a suspicion of sabotage ‘at a Far Western shipyard ‘engaged in Government work were investigated by Federal, State and City authorities to-
| day.
At least one of the plants
B | was working on national de- | fense orders.
Thirteen persons, probably more,
{were killed and scores injured in
the explosions. The blasts occurred at the United Railway Signal Corp. Woodbridge, N. J.; the Trojan Powder Co. at Siples Station, Pa., near Allentown, and the American Cyanamid & Chemical Corp. at Edinburg, Pa. The three explosions, all of which shook the surrounding country= sides, took place at ge the same time—between and 8 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). FBI agents were called in but : there were no immediate indications of sabotage, : .
One Has Contract With U. S.
The Trojan Powder Co. had a die rect contract with the Government, according to War Department rece ords. - It recently was awarded a contract to make $163,000 worth of smokeles powder for the Army. It also has a $42,750 TNT order with the Navy. J
The United Railway Signal Corp., | Woodbridge, was believed to have a sub-contract. The American Cyanamid & Chemical Corp. plant at Edinburg, was not shown to bs handling defense orders at this time, The known casualties: ’ At Woodbridge—at least seven killed, 40 injured and in hospitals. At Siples Station—three killed; a number reported injured. At Edinburg—three killed; none believed injured.
Jar Felt 20 Miles Away
Although the Woodbridge plant is a small one—made up of half a dozen scattered, one-story structures—the detonation there was terrific and was felt sharply even af; Jersey City, 20 miles away. Motor|ists driving in Staten Island, across {Raritan Bay, felt their cars jerk out {of control from the concussion. The Edinburg blast took place in (the Burton explosives division of tha | plant. The three workers. were (killed when dynamite they were [packing in the gelatin tank house |exploded. The 600 -square-foot {building was shattered. Authorities (Continued on Page Three)
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2 COLORADO CONVICTS KILLED IN EXPLOSION
CANON CITY, Colo., Nov. 12 (U, P).— Two Colorado penitentiary (convicts were killed today when a | Prison-made bomb ‘exploded in a cellhouse. | The dead men were Eugene Mill~ iken, 35, of Denver, serving a 10 to {14-year sentence for assault, and James Valentino, 31, of Colorade Springs, under sentence of from 25 years to life for rape. Warden Roy Best said the erude bomb—believed to be a, lead pipe filled with dynamite and metal 'scraps—exploded as Valentino and |22 others were returning to their
icells from the dining hall.
CHAMBERLAIN GETS CHURCHILL PRAISE
LONDON, Nov. 12 (U. P.).—Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the late Neville Chamber- - lain in the House of Commons today, asserting that “he was deceived and cheaied by a wicked man.” “Whatever else history may or may not say of these tremendous and terrible years we can be sure that Neville Chamberlain acted per< fectly sincerely according to his lights,” Churchill said.” “He was deceived and cheated by a wicked man.” Churchill disclosed that after ree ° signing as Prime Minister Chambage lain had refused all honors.
HAWAII DRAWS IN DRAFT HONOLULU, Nov. 12 (U, P)).— The national draft lottery reached Hawaii today, and Governor Joseph Poindexter was scheduled to draw the first capsule: from a revolving wire container in the Senate chamber of Iolani Palace. Samuel W,, King, territorial delegate to Cone
and Mayor Charles Crane of Honolulu, the third. : §
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gress, will draw the second capsule,