Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1940 — Page 5

GREEKS REPORT * GREATHOLESIN | ITALIAN LINES

Claim Key Albanian Port;

THURSDAY, NOV. 21,

Threatened; Nazis Raid British Midlands.

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ported to be falling back on Argy-|:

rokastron itself. ! Advancing Greek froops reported capture of 200 trucks, tén heavy siege guns, four 3.7 anti-aircraft guns, hundreds of machine guns and large quantities of hand grenades, rifles, ammunition and motorcycles in this area. Allied bombers, after giving the Albanian capital i i heaviest bombing of the war yesterday, Argyrokastron

Valley, reportedly

turning the Italian retreat into a|#

panic. It was along this valley that the Greeks were forced to use ‘cavalry to keep up with the retreating Italians. Albanian Revolt Bared The first stories from prisoners captured in this drive describe how the rout began when| Albanian natives revolted, shooting their Italian officers. The entire front then began to break, falling back rapidly. ‘During the early morning hours Nazi air attacks centered on a west Midlands town which was hammered by waves of raiders. After the first wave, | however, only occasional single planes carried on. | Slight damage and comparatively | few casualties were reported. The Air and Home Securities Ministers in London characterized the night’s raids as “widespread| but desultory + « « intermittent and on a minor scale.” The all-clear sounded in London only a few minutes later than usual, ending a night of “ghost-like” raiding—long, quiet lulls interrupted by bursts of anti-aircraft fire as lone bombers droned over and dumped a few bombs on outlying districts. The Royal Air Force struck at airdromes, freight yards and submarine bases on the Continent. The Air Ministry’s communique said that “our bombers carried out attacks on airdromes in enemy-occupied territory and made a very heavy attack on a freight-marshaling yard in Germany.” Lorient, German submarineybase in France, also was heavily bombed, according to the communique. London, the Midlands and “many widely scattered points in the southern half of England” were hombed during the night, as were one point in northwest England and a point in south Wales, the | joint commu-

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CORFU ATTACK SENDS GREEKS T0 CATACOMBS

{| Other Civilians Seek Shelter

In Mountains From Italian Bombs.

The first connected story of events on the Greek island of Corfu during the first days of the Italo-Greek war follows. It was written for the United Press by Alma Godfrey, 28, a native of Cornwall, England, who was employed as a governess on the island and was the last English woman to leave.

By ALMA GODFREY Written for the United Press ATHENS, Nov. 21.—Corfu, an island paradise, has been turned

into an island of terror by Italian bombers. The inhabitants for a fortnight

have been living in the hills, in

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HOUSE TO MEET IN CAUCUS CHAMBERS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (U.P.) — Starting Monday the House is expected to meet in one of its caucus rooms, moving out of the chamber it has occupied continuously for 86 years, in order to permit repairs to the roof. Under plans of leaders the daily or semi-weekly sessions for the rest of the year will be hel dwith members of the press the only outsiders present. There will be no room for spectators and tourists. House Majority Leader John W. McCormack (D. Mass.) disclosed that when the House meets again tomorrow he will offer a resolution to authorize the transfer, and that Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R. Mass.) has consented. Rep. McCormack said he did not

know what plans had been made by Senate leaders. It was expected the upper chamber will not move at present, because of efforts to get action on the Walter-Logan bill, but since its roof needs improvement also, it may later move temporarily

nique said today.

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Santa Coming by Air Tomorrow

SANTA will fly into Indianapolis tomorrow! Yep, at 11 a. m. the jolly old fellow will arrive at the Municipal Airport in a giant passenger plane. :

Executives of the Wm. H. Block Co.,, who have helped make ®arrangements for Santa's early visit, said that in view of the lack of snow, Santa's sleigh was impractical. Instead an Eastern Airlines plane will bring him in.

DAVID M. COSSELL RITES TOMORROW

Funeral services for David M. Cossell, a lifelong Marion County resi-

dent, will be held at 2 p. m. tomor-,

row at the home of a brother, Israel

Cossell, 4938 Rockville Road. Burial will be sat Floral Park. David Cossell, who was 76 and a retired farmer, died yesterday at his home on Cossell Drive, two blocks north of the Rockville Road. He had lived there 55 years and had heen ill two years? ‘Surviving are his wife, Margaret F., and three brothérs besides Isrdel, John, James and Charles, all of Indianapolis.

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10 EAT AT HOME AS ARMY CALLS

Go to Fort Tomorrow for * Draft Into Army; 63 Head South.

By EARL RICHERT

Thanksgiving dinner with the home folks had a special significance today for 10 young Marion County men, . Tomorrow they will go to Ft. Harrison for induction into the U. S. Army as a part of the third contingent of 110 draftees reporting this week for a year's military training. As the members of the third contingent wound up their affairs at home, the 100 draftees in the second contingent, inducted yesterday, prepared to leave by train for Ft. Thomas, Ky. late today. There they

will be uniformed and classified before being sent to training stations.

4 Fail to Pass

The first contingent of 63 draftees inducted Tuesday, left by train for Ft. Thomas yesterday. Seventy-five men reported to the post Tuesday, but four failed to pass their physical examinations and eight others were held at the fort, pending further physical examination. The final contingent of draftees in the first call for men will report at Ft. Harrison Monday. Thirteen of these will pe from Marion County. The 10 local men scheduled to report at the fort at 8:25 a. m. tomorrow are from Local Draft Boards, 9, 10 and 11. They are Ernest George Greenwood, 22, of 924 N. Oxford St., filling station attendant; Robert Christman Thomas, 23, of 203 N. Tacoma Ave., printing press operator; Loren Richard LeMasters, 21, of #t N. Temple Ave., construction laborer.

And The Others

Robert Edwin Belton, 18; of 913 E. Iowa St., unemployed; Marshall Atlee Hermer, 24, of 1811 Prospect St., turret lathe operator at Liberty Electric Co.; William Fetcher Pear-

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son;-23, of 1905 Lexington Ave., apprentice inspector at Allison's Engineering Division of General Motors. Charles Donald Causey, 21, of 5750 W. Morris St., clerk in the Railroadmen’s Building and Loan Association; Harold William Kubley, 24, Bridgeport, farm laborer; James Rudolph Tucker, 23, of 842 S. Belleview Place, unemployed; Rex Speer, 21, of 24 S. Addison St.

FIREMAN SAVES BOY ° AS MOTHER SCREAMS

Last night Mrs, H. E. Pruitt stood in front of her burning iouse at 329 N. Gray St. and screamed for firemen to rescue her 4-year-old boy. She believed he was trapped on the second floor. Firemen made four .attempts to get to the second floor but were forced to retreat in the “ace of the flames. Then another fireman, fighting the blaze from the first floor, spied the boy, Charles, hiding under the dining room table. He was not hurt. The fire destroved the home, with an estimated $1500 loss.

Joe's Elected But Which One?

DETROIT, Nov. 21 (U, P.).— Joe Foster has been elected County Surveyor, the board of canvassers announced today— but no one seems to know which Joe Foster. The job pays $10 a week, but the County Surveyor does no surveying. The surveying is done by the County Road Commission. There were no candidates, so voters were instructed to fill in the name of their choice. - Fifteen voters wrote Joe Foster on their ballots. But, officials pointed out, there is a Jong list of Joe Fosters in the telephone "book.

and knew what to do for it. Nowadays we have many polite words for it, meaning the same thing, but when we are listless, have bilious spelis, bad breath andl gas pains with sluggish intestinal action we still use ADLERIKA, the product Grandma found best 40 years ago. Take home a bottle of ADLERIKA today and

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caves and in ancient catacombs to escape the showers of death which have not ceased since hostilities began. Five monoplanes bombed us on Nov. 2 and then went away, only to be followed by others. At first they confined their attacks to Corfu. After pounding the town for as much as eight hours a day for several days, they attacked the whole island. When I left they were bombing not only towns and villages, but fields and isolated cottages in the hills.

75 Killed in Fortnight

In- just over a fortnight’s bombing they had killed 75 persons and wounded more than 400. Everyone thought those first bombers were Greek, so the people cheered. I stood in the streets with the German consuls wife and watched them, when mechanically and slowly they started to unload their cargoes of death and destruction. Frau Spangler, the consul's wife,

caught my arm and screamed: “Take cover, you fool!” We darted into ’a nearby cellar. The first bombs buried 17 persons alive in one house. The German consul immediately hufig out five large swastika’ flags, apparently hoping the Italian pilots would see : them and leave him alone.

Take Shelter in Catacombs

Even during the first day’s raids people began fleeing to the hills, living in the open, sleeping on blankets and with nothing to protect them from the incessant rains. There was nothing left to eat in the town except bread. The poorer people took shelter in the catacombs beneath the ancient Phoenician fortress built more than 600 years ago. About 700 people still live there. Most of them took in folding ¢ots and blankets and never leave the catacombs. After the first day of terror, abou$§ 2'o'clock the next morning, I heard what I thought was loud thunder. A watchman rushed into my house yelling that the Italians were attempting to land.

Sky Lighted by Flashes I scrambled out of bed, pulled on a few clothes and rushed out. I could see a confused mass of warships off the town, which I took to be British, Italian and Greek. The sky was lighted up by flashes from the naval guns and explosions rolled

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sible he may do so later, as the outlook changes. Russian delegates to the peace conference would have their own ideas. of terms, as affecting their own country. They would have to be given consideration. It would not be diplomatic, therefore, for the British to proclaim all-inclusive peace conditions now, while Russia remains in & fluctuating position. Too, peace terms would depend on the precise condition of all the kelligerents at the war’s end. Nobody can foretell, with exact detail, what will happen in the closing phase of the conflict, nor whether the number of belligerents on either side will be increased. If, for instance, there were to be an uprising in the French African colonies allowing Free France to become a powerful belligerent leading to an Axis defeat, then Free France would have a legitimate claim to exert influence on the peace terms. Thus, though the time is not ripe

War Moves

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for Britain to announce: full conditions of a peace settlement, it would be appropriate - for the Eurgpean democracies to make known their - alternative to a totalitarian reorganization of Continental Europe. There can be no doubt important changes will occur after the war in Europe; and it is not good diplomatic strategy for the British and the associated independent governments now functioning in London to allow the Axis an exclusive opportunity to tell the world what the future of Europe may become. Axis experts have been busy for some time drawing up financial and economic plans for post-war rehabilitation of the Continental countries. These arrangements change from time to time, as they are revised in conference; but they are known in their main outlines. They are based on German domi- ° nation of the Continent’s industrial production, with an extension of the barter system.

and rumbled, echoing from the hills. I saw one slip hit—there was a

terrific flare and an outbreak of flames. The ship slowly sank beneath the waves, stern first. I was told that the Italians made another attempt to land later; but I saw nothing of the attempt. At any rate, no Italians did succeed in landing. Food supplies were soon organized, but Corfu became a town of the dead.

I left aboard a motor-boat manned by a Greek -skipper, two men and a boy, none of whom could speak English. I lay for the most part on a plank, protected from the incessant downpours by one sodden blanket. We picked our way gingerly through mine fields and finally arrived in Patras, more dead than alive.

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