Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1940 — Page 3

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- MONDAY, DEC. 9, 1940

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ATTACKS

IN NORTH AFRICA

Greeks ~ Pushing Beyond Argyrokastron; London Bombed 8 Hours. -

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troops would move into the Near East. The British attack also may be designed to determine whether any of the big Italian forces in North Africa have been shifted to Greece, where frontier dispatches today 1c: ported the Greek troops pushing forward toward Telepini in the south and Elbasan on the north front. Dispatches from Rome said that Premier Benito Mussolini | might ,5oon make a personal inspection tour on the Albanian front, where today’s * Italian communique admitted the Joss of Argyrokastron.

Aerial War

" Last night's German air ati tack on London was said by some to have been the heaviest of the war. The Germans reported they dropped 1,540,000 pounds of high explosives on the city and 80,000 to 100,000 incendiary bombs—apparently fire ‘bombs of exceedingly small size. The German report said that Nazi ‘planes dove low over the city, silencing anti-aircraft guns and wip‘ing out searchlights. The British : reported that they swept sone areas : with machine gun fire, indicating : very low altitude’ flying. German planes coasted down on the metropolis with their motors cut . off in order to escape detection until they were over their| objectives.

Nine Hospitals Struck

The German report said that parts of London were “seas of fire” after the attack. London said the raid went on for eight hours and caused heavy damage and heavy casualties. Many persons were trapped in the wreckage of buildings and shelters. Nine hospitals, four churches, a convent and four vicarages were among the structures hit. The attack was preceded by a. period of 44 hours in which London had hardly any raiders overhead. While it was going on, the Royal Air Force attacked the bases in northern France and the Low Countries which the German bombers fly from and it was believed inflicted severe damage. They also attacked the Ruhr where Duesseldorf was heavily bombed. The British attacks were intended to lessen effectiveness of Nazi bases in Belgium, Holland and France. Among the targets were the sub- _ marine base at Lorient, the shipping and harbor installations at Bordeaux and Brest (from which Nazi U-boats have been operating in the Atlantic), the ports of Flushing, Dunkirk and Gravelines and several encmy airdromes. Two British planes were missing” Huge Fires Reported The attack on Duesseldorf, second in importance only to Essen in the industrial Ruhr Valley, was particu- + larly heavy. Nearly 4000 incendiary : bombs and many explosive. bombs . were loosed on two great blast fur- ' nace and steel works, those of the Press and Walzewerke companies, it was asserted. The bomber pilots were guided by “flames streaming from the -windows” of German steel works and war factories, the Air Ministry said. They reported “great destruction” and said that “one whole building was a glare against the sky long after our aircraft had departed.” Huge fires also were ‘reported at Bordeaux, Brest and Lorient.

Greek-ltalian War

‘ In Albania the Greeks were following up the capture of Argyrokastron with advances toward Elbasan, the central Albanian fortress city and Tepelini, north of Argyrokastron. Adance guards were sald to be only eight miles south of Elbasan at Gjinari and not much further from Tepelini. Greece’ now holds 4000 square miles of Albania’s 17,000 square miles, it was estimated. Durazzo and Valona, the two main ports for entry of Italian supplies and men, were bombed with important effect, Athens reported. Italy announced that her Army

had succeeded in making orderly withdrawal” from Argyrokastron without loss of men or material. Italian prisoners were quoted that Valona, Albanian port, was crowded with wounded, many of whom lay on the docks waiting for transportation back to Italy; that the docks were choked with munitions and that transport service had been completely disorganized by unceasing Greek-British bombing raids. News of the Argyokastron victory reached Athens and other Greek cities last night and set off the wiidest demonstrations since the war began. Tolling church bells brought crowds into the streets. The crowds clamored for King George and Premier Gen. John Metaxas. The King appeared in front of‘ the searchlights, wearing khaki field dress.

i” Rome believed that Italians were

forming a new line of defense in Albania, designed to protect Valona, 50 miles north of Porto Edda. In Ankara it was believed that the Dodecanese islands, Italian base off the Turkish Coast, would have to surrender in two or three months because they were cut off from supplies from Italy by the Anglo-Greek blockade.

Fascist Shakeup

Il Duce contiriged his shakeup of the war machine’ by placing new men in top naval posts. His new naval chief, Admiral Arturo Riccardi, was described as an expert on airplane-battleship to-ordina-tion. His appointment was announced in a communique which disclosed the resignation “at his own request,” of Admiral Dominico Cavagniari, chief of the naval staff and Undersecretary of the Navy— both jobs going to Riccardi—and the appointment of Admiral Angelo Jechino as commander of the fleet on the seas, and of Admiral Inigo Campione as Assistant Chief of the Navy Staff—both new offices. Two high Italian generals! were killed in an airplane crash. One of them was Air Gen. Aldo Pellegrini, second in command ' to Marsha] Italo Balbo on Balbo's famous flight to Chicago in 1933. Pellegrini thus met death in much the same fashion as his chief-—also the victim of a plane crash only a few months ago. The other was Gen, Pietro Pintor, president of the Armistice Commission, former chief of the {raining office of the artillery command at Tripoli and former commander of a Libyan army corps.

Danish Unrest

Copenhagen reported the most serious outbreak since the Nazi occupation. Some 350 Nazi demonstrators fought police in a threehour battle at Haderslev in South Jutland. Police finally placed them in jail the populace. cheered. The crowd sang’ Danish national songs and booed Fritz Clausen, Danish Nazi leader, who entered the jail during the investigation. Clausen had arrived at the scene during the battle and had attempted to intervene but policemen would not talk to him. The first clash occurred yesterday when a few policemen attempted to halt the march of several hundred Nazis into Haderslev from nearby towns, it was reported. Police reinforcements arrived from Kolding and Odense in the evening and aided Hardeslev police in besieging a hall where the Nazis were meeting. Fighting continued until midnight, when the last of the Nazis surrendered.

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Far East

In the Far East Hanoi reported serious fighting along the Mekong River with Thailand. The French were shelling Thailand positions and exchanging machine gun fire. Warplanes of both sides took the air and engaged in bombing attacks. Japanese Premier Yosuke Matsuoka granted an interview to newspaper correspondents in which he emphasized that Japan would not

|niecessarily enter the war if the

United States did.

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REPORT BRITISH CRUISER CHASES GERMAN RAIDER

Enterprise Believed to Be Closing In. Off Brazil; Nazi Freighter Taken.

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left Tampico with the Idarwald under circumstances of such apparent urgency as to: suggest that one or both were assigned to refuel and

‘| revictual a sea raider at some secret

rendezvous at sea.

The fact that the Rhein was no longer sailing with the Idarwald when the Diomede found her, suggested to some maritime authorities that the Idarwald had been sacrificed in order to occupy the British cruiser and permit the Rhein to escape. The Idarwald, in company with the German freighters Phrygia, Rhein and Orinoco, left Tampico, Mexico, Nov. 19 to run the British blockade. Just outside Mexican territorial waters, they saw warships which they thought were British. The Phrygia’s crew scuttled her and the others fled back to Tampico, where they insisted the warships were British and Mexican authorities said they merely were American destroyers on neutrality patrol.

Tried It Again.

On Nov. 29, the Idarwald and the Rhein left Tampico to try it again. They were last seen steaming southward down the Mexican coast, followed by a warship which Mexican sources identified -as an American destroyer on neyireliiy patrol. On Dec. 1, the Rhein was heard frantically trying to contact a Mexican radio station. Then there was utter silence from the German ships until yesterday afternoon when the Idarwald’s radio announced her predicament. Disaster overtook the Idarwald off the coast of Santa Clara province, southern, central Cuba. On Saturday there had been rumors that she was passing through the Yucatan Channel, which is 120 miles wide, with the western tip of Cuba, Cape Catoche on one side, and Cape San Antonio, Mexico, on the other. She was being trailed then by a warship, it was said.

Kept Close tc Shore

Cuban sources reported that the fdarwald kept so close to the Cuban shore that the trailing warship couldn’t attack her without violting Cuban territorial waters. But when she reached Cortes Bay, Pinar Del Rio province, she was forced by the shallows there to head out into the Caribbean, toward the Isle of Pines, 40 miles off the southern coast of Cuba. These Cuban sources suggested that the Diomede raced around the island and encountered the Idarwald again in the open sea, some 30 to 50 miles off Cuba.

In Belem, Brazil, the German cargo ship Norderney was raising steam today, apparently for an attempt to run the British blockade. The Nordérney has been tied up here since the war began. It was reported in Belem that British authorities boarded the Brazilian steamship Cantuaria when it stopped at Trinidad, and questioned German nuns aboard. The ship was allowed to continue. The nuns had boarded the ship at La Guayra, Venezuela, for Brazil. The Cantuaria is en route from New York to Rio de Janeiro. In Havana the chief of the Manzanillo naval station reported that a submarine of “unknown nationality” had been sighted off the Cuban south coast between Manzanillo and Santa Cruz Del Sur, 300 miles east of the Isle of Pines, where the Diomede intercepted the Idarwald.

Shipping Attacks Continue

The Carnarvon Castle was having new plates welded into her hull to replace those shattered by German cannon fire. It was understood in Montevideo that the plates had been salvaged from the Graf Spee. Her remains had been sold to an Argentine salvager. Meanwhile, the German attacks on British shipping continued. The British freighter Empire Jaguar reported yseterday that she had been

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IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record : County City Total 1939 Secs sR Bree 40 52 r 92 1040 ..co0iee inc BD 87 136 —Dec 7 and 8— Injured ..... 17 | Accidents ... 54 Dead .... 3 | Arrests .....147 SATURDAY’S TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines tried - tions paid 4 $15 0 0

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— MEETINGS TODAY Sclentech Club, luncheon, Board of Service. ¢i Club, luncheon, Republican Club,

sili oe santos Tuncheon. Canary "Board of

coyiage. Dame Club, luncheon, Cenleal 1 Labor Union, meeting, Plumbers’ oa diana Taiversity Club, luncheon, Comeeting, Amal-

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n ims Title Association, Peeling ang

juncheon, Hotel Washington, 9 a.

noon enltural ‘Association, meeting DeKalb To Hig Hotel Washington, 10

3 Sa lesmen's Club, luncheon, Hotel Wash1m a0 iypers * Union, meeting, Hotel

: Hey In atitute of_Banking,- Indian- + apo chapter, dinner, Hotel Washington,

“Grocers at Indians, dinner, Hotel

Allied : Vindiasapeiis Svninstie, C Clekuers, meet- . ing, Hote gton, 8 p, m. = =

MEETINGS TOMORROW : Rotary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel, 2 °F Mews Club, luncheon, Y. M. O. A. au Om luncheon, Board ot

Claypool Hotel,

Mercator Club, Hotel Lincoln, noon

Universal Club, luncheon, Columbig Club,

on. iversity of Michigan Club, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. Knights of Columbus, luncheon, K of C. Clubhouse, no Lutheran Bervice Club, luncheon, Canary Cottage k Co.

oon. ne Pay er Credit ( Grou Grille William H. Indiana Motor a Rion: luncheon, Antlers Hotel, noon. Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, election, Chamber of Commerce, all day: Indiana Horticultural Society, ual meeting, Hotel Severin, all day. Indianapolis Medical “Society, Indianapolis Athletic} Club, 8:15 Indianapolis Home SatRiers’ Association, dinner, Hoosier a tic Club, 6:30 m. Indiana Users Contérines. luncheon: glaybost “Hotel. 12:15 Indiana Association, breakfast and meeting, Hotel Washington, 8:30 and

* Alpha Omicron Alpha, Gamma chapter, meeting, Hotel Washington, 2 Indianapol Estate Board, meet-

ing, Hote ton, 3:3 Indiananol ing 3 Fishing Clu,

meeting, Hotel Washington, 7:3 MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from offielal records in the Cennty Court House. The Times therefore. is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)

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William W. Hill, * 90, of 1535 W. Vermont; ! 619 W. York.

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oolley, 21, Ind.; Margate J. Hirschmann, 23, of 262 Sutbarl Ress Bellows, 49, of 2251 s Meridian; Flo oy N M. Shields, 49, of 1801 8. Meridian. bert L Wrig ht, 27, of Crothersville, Ind: I ua ne C. B Horst, 26, of Crothers-

ey 'H. Toler, 19, of 1057 N. Balmont; Clarissa L. Bridwell, 19, of 1104 N. Bel-

ont. Charles Branhard, 21, of bn N.| Capi18 of 61 Arbor,

f 6 821 N. "Delaware; Gere Rodger "26, of 3720 N. Pennsylvania, No. :

BIRTHS * Girls Harold, Pauline Davenport, aE City.

‘Wilson, ay Earl, June Prince, at City. Isaac, Lilerbell ‘Anderson, lic Walter, Grace Schenck, at St. Payiom Marcella Schilling 2, ran Russell, Ruby Eibling, at St. Francis, - Herberf, Lavon Kelly, at St. Francis, ( riett Pansing, at Colenian, ! tha Harrison, at Colemun.

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Grant, Helen Rogers, at Methodist. Orville, Thelma Ross, at 1639 Nopapn.’ Arthur, Emma Pierce, at 527 N. Pine. wo ise, Freda Johnson, at 541% S. Dela-

ames. Martha Doom, at 215 N. Oriental.

DEATHS saaresia E. Casey, 19, at City, poliomyeBH strive Marie Sims, 17 days, at City,

bronehopueumonia. James Robert Lewis, 44, at City, cardio

vascular renal. Andrew Green, 54, at 1423 Columbia,

cerebral hemorrhage.

Fada Punde, 63, at 5135 College, endocar an iam ‘Barnett, 51, at City, lobar pneu-

moni. Arbuckle, at Qisinadist, carcinoma. DE DE 83. at 3414 N. Chester, hyc_pneum

nia. Por illie Bell, 64. at 614 W. 20th, carcinoma. Anna Henderson, 70, at City, abscess of

ung. Ben jE emphus, 68, at City, arterio-

scleros Fron Edward Reed Mo at Central Indiana, general paralys: a ook, 20. at Yong. hepatitis.

Royse, 71, at 911 Dawson, bronchopneumonia. Jam! gnths, at Methodist,

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plastered by the Italians on the walls of buildings. The Italian defenders used heavy tanks to block the narrow streets, The Greeks fought their way -from house to house, attacking the tanks like madmen, push-

ing rifle butts into treads on the tank runners, or dropping from the balconies of houses and pushing grenades through the gunners’ lookout slots. Anti-tank units helped shell the Italians from barricaded buildings. The assault proceeded with the precision of a field maneuver. Greek batteries in the surrounding hills flashed viciously in the half-darkness, signaling the bat-

looking mosque on the outskirts, where the Italians held the main road under control.

Mosque Roof Collapses

Five shells landed dead on the target and the doomed roof collapsed like a cracked egg shell, I saw the Italians run for cover, outlined .by the glow of burning storehouses. Greek machine-gunners, who had worked down to the outskirts of town under cover of Satknesy caught them in a crossre. The heaviest fighting ended quickly and the Italians evacuated everything but a skeleton “suicide” force to cover the retreat. The siege of Argyrokastron was directed from a fortress in a vil= lag2 high on a mountain, overlooking the countryside like an eagle’s nest, where the Greek di-

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visional command set up headquarters. Far below, a main road winds to Argyrokastron through a valley flanked with snow-capped peaks, some of them hidden in the swirling clouds. The advance was a feat in mountaineering. Torrential rains had made the steep village streets as slick as glass. The village is built of slate-like slabs, of the same stone as the

of Argyrokastron and Porto Edda is shown on the m Valona, second largest Albanian port, 50 miles nort heel of Italy’s boot across the 75-mile Strait of Ot ranto.

surrounding mountains,» and must

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Rain Falls on fv Italian Dead in Argyrokastron :

While Greeks Celebrate Mass of Thank.

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U. S. Calendars on Walls

Greek officers stood under a balcony with their field glasses trained on tiny figures on the opposite mountain ridge semaphoring news of the battle in the Arkyrokastron valley below. Inside the large house used as headquarters, log fires cast their glow over brightly-colored rugs

The Greeks now dominate all of south Albania. The direction of the Italian retreat following the fall ap. Rome indicates the new battle line will defend h of Porto Edda whose capture brings the war to the

and there was a tangle of field telephone wires. From an inner room a radio transmitter spluttered out news of the battle, or transmitted fresh orders from the High Command somewhere be= hind us. : Calendars from the United States adorned the walls. The house belonged to a Greek sailor, Athanas Kystis. One calendar - showed the city bottling works of Pittsburgh, Mass. Photographs of

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Fascists Fight Almost to Last Man; Foes Attack ‘Tanks Like Madmen. #

Kystis and his relatives taken in Worcester, Mass., lined one wall. The carved wooden ceiling was done in the Greek national colors —blue and white. . On my visit there Mrs. Kystis ‘was making coffee for the Greek officers. She wore the attractive Greek costume with white headdress and blue skirt. During Italian occupation she had kept the costume hidden. Cathedral Unharmed Today's. mass of Thanksgiving was held at 8 a: m. in the Greek Orthodox Cathedral, which came through the battle virtually withe out damage. Archbishop Spiridion, who is held in almost superstite ious awe by the Greek peasant, had doffed his plain khaki army chaplain’s uniform for. the gorge eous ceremonial robes of the Orth odox archibishop. ‘ He was accompanied by Governor Philosofopoulos of Epirus. After giving his blessing to the Greek troops and civilians at the doors of the Cathedral, the bishop went among the Greek and Itale | ian wounder, offering consolation. Official sources reported that many Italian prisoners had been taken, including two Alpini peel ments and one of the fam Bersaglieri fighters. The khaki-clad Greek troops paraded through the captured city shouting, “Long live the Greeks! We will continue to advance until the Italians are thrown into the sea.”

As I te this dispatch, church bells are out in token. of the Greek vic ! i

ARMS MAKERS MAY GET BONUS

Plan Is Studied by Defense Commission as Stimulant To Efficiency

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U. P).— National defense officials today are considering a plan for bonus payments to armament contractors who can save the Government money by reducing production costs. The idea was suggested by technical experts of the Defense Commission who have been studying World War bonus contracts and the bonus system being used by Great Britain.

No decisions have been made, but it was learned that the plan would apply to contractors producing armaments for the Government on a cost-plus-fixed fee basis. A certain percentage of the money saved for the Government would be paid the contractor as a bonus in addition to the fixed fee. Some officials believe such a system would stimulate greater operating efficiency and development of cost-reducing techBigues, Plan Described

One Defense Commission official described the plan with the following illustration: A corporation contracts to build 1000 tanks in a Governmentequipped factory at an estimated base cost of $10,000,000. The company would receive no profit other than a fixed fee of $100,000 for operating and managing the plant while fulfilling the contract. If the corporation completes the contract at a cost of $9,500,000, it would receive part of the $500,000 as a bonus.

The British have been using similar contracts successfully, defense officials said.

The bonus plan was disclosed as the chief of the Navy's Bureau of Supplies and Accounts criticized the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act as a “disturbing factor” in producing some supplies and the labor policy committee of the Defense Commission pledged continued cooperation of labor in achieving uninterrupted production in defense industries.

Minimum Pay Is Problem

- Rear Admiral Ray Spear, in his annual report to the Secretary of the Navy, said that while many of the early difficulties with the WalshHealey Act have been eliminated, “the promulgation of minimum wages has created new problems which seem to be difficult to over-, come.” . He revealed that many manufacturers will not bid and take a contract subject to the act, and that os will accept all provisions exthose applying to minimum

ORIENT REFUGEES HOME

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9 (U. P.). —The American Liner Washington, 24,000-ton luxury ship diverted from regular service to bring refugees from the Orient, docked here yesterday with 1342 American evacuees, the largest number of passengers ever transported across he Pacific on a single passenger ip.

os u Simms:

. S. War Peril to Rise Unless Aid to Britain Can Be Speeded

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor

other munitions can be speeded up

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Unless production of planes, ships and

sufficiently to permit Great Britain

to win the war in comparatively short order, there is increasing danger

Secretary of State Cordell Hull down, both in and out of Government and diplomatic circles. Such being the case, those who want the United States to stay out of the war view American production with grave misgivings. The average American’s mental picture of a vast and steady stream of > planes ‘and other |W. weapons flowing across the Atlan- . tic from this country to England is highly Mr. | Simms fanciful to say the least. The “50,000 planes a year” we were going to turn out is only a mirage, and the “flying fortresses for Britain” are still in the conversation stage.

Difficult. io Learn Facts

Figures are difficult to get hold of. These vary according to the source. But I am not far wrong in saying that to date Britain has

‘|received only 2500 planes from the

United States, of which some 1044 were pursuits, bombers and.so on. The rest were trainers. . At the end of November we were delivering 400 planes a month of all types to Britain. And it will take until next July to step this figure up to 700. Last June, when the British army escaped from Dunkirk almost literally in its undershirt to land in England without equipment of any kind, the United States sent over approximately 850,000 rifles and small arms, 50,000 light machine guns, 25,000 heavy machine guns, and a large portion of our 3450 French Seventy-fives plus amunition and some other stocks left over from the World War. with this/ went 50 naval reserve bombers d 80 Northrop ' attack planes contributed by the War Department, Subsequently, in exchange for naval and air bases, the President turned over to Britain 50 over-age destroyers.

Cash Paid Thus Far

Add dto the above 130 merchant vessels—-86 of them cargo ships—

was approved by the Maritime

Commission, and you will have a fairly complete picture of our aid 1to Britain to date. “For all of this Britain has paid cash on the barrelhead. Despite R. A. F. bombings, it is believed Germany now is turning out more planes than a year ago. In fact, reports received here indi-

‘| cate she is turning cut more than

twice as many as Britain and the United States together. But perhaps Britain's greatest menace just now is at sea. During the World War Britain not only had ‘a bigger Navy than she has today, but on her side were Ireland, France, Japan, Russia and the United States. And Germany's fleet was bottled up in the North Sea.

Today, Britain faces Germany alone. The Germans have bases all

JERSEY CITY, N. J., Dec. 9 (U. P.).—Fritz Thyssen, German .industrialist who financed Adolf Hitler during his rise to dictatorship, and subsequently was reported to have turned against the Nazis, is living in Cannes, France, within easy reach of the Germans, Prof. Georges Bally of Vanderbilt Uniyoriy. said today. Prof. Bally ay with 181 other passengers aboard the American

Export Liner Exeter “hin Lisbon, Portugal

Thyssen Lives in Reach of ‘Nazis, Professor Reveals

Nazi,” Prof. Bally said. “If that is so, what is he doing in Cannes, where the Germans can take him if they want him?” Prof. Bally is a French citizen, but has spent many years in the United States. His wife is the former Vivian Cady of Minneapolis. Spending a sabbatical leave in France, he was mobilized as a lieutenant in August, 1939. He was demobilized last July.

Prof. Bally said ihat there was al France and}

wave of ' sabotage ‘in

whose transfer to British registry

that the United States will be drawn into the conflict. This can be said to be the well-nigh unanimous conviction of everybody here in a position to know—from President -Roosevelt and

along the French, Belgian, Dutch, Danish and Norwegian coasts. Italy and Japan are on Germany’s side and Russia is at least friendly to ‘the Nazis. The reduced British fleets, scattered all over the globe simply can not hold their own against the foe at sea. Britain lacks the necessary warships for convoy purposes. Even were we to turn out more planes than the Germans, still it would not do: much’ good if they were sunk while being transported across the Atlantic. What Britain needs’ ‘and needs right, now is more and more planes and ships, with safer sea.lanes between her ports and ours. These, plus 24-hour days and seven-day weeks in’ Américan production, are vital if Britain is to win the war before we are drawn in,

AUTO RECORDS LOST IN GREENFIELD FIRE

GREENFIELD, Ind., Dec. 9 (U. P.).—Authorities are investigating a fire in the basement of the Hancock County Court House which last night caused an estimated $5000 damage. : > - The floor of the branch automobile license bureau, on the first floor, fell into the basement and records were destroyed by smoke and water. Old papers stored in the basement continued to smolder and kept firemen at the scene for hours. Insurance protected the loss,

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Continues Caribbean Cruise After Shipboard Parley Off Martinique.

ABOARD U. S. S. MAYRANT IN THE CARIBBEAN, Dec. 9 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt proceeded today toward an unannounced destination, uncommunicative about his onehour shipboard conference with United States naval and diplomatic officials off Ft. De France, Martinique, one of the Western Hemisphere’s potential trouble spots.

Mr. Roosevelt is touring the Caribbean, anchored three-miles off the French Island, where are the French aircraft carrier Bearn and about 100 United States-made fighting planes that the United States Government has tried in vain to get back. The destroyer Sims, on neutrality patrol duty near the island, went to port and brought out United States Vice Consul V, Harwood Blocker Jr. and Capt. Ernest J. Blankenship, U. S. N., Navy observer at Ft. De France, to confer with Mr. Roosevelt. During the conference, the Tuscaloosa and the destroyers: Sims, Trippe and Mayrant were grouped off the port, their officers observing it with field glasses. The planes in Martinque sold to France before she capitulated to Germany and taken there on the Bearn, have been a

several months, since Martinique has remained loyal to ihe Vichy Government, The President was estimated to be about 1200 miles from the place in the Western Caribbean where a British cruiser captured the German freighter Icdarwald, off - the south coast of Cuba,

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The cruiser Tuscaloosa, on which

source of anxiety in Washington for

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MRS. NANNIE ELLIS DIES VLE SHOPPING

Mrs. Nannie Ellis, 72, of 650 KE,

while Christmas shopping in & downtown store. Mrs. Ellis lived in Indianapolis for two years with her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Nowacki.. Born in: Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Ellis spent’ moss of her life in New Albany. A son, Oscar Ellis, Bay City, Mich. also survives her. Funeral services and

burial will be in New Albany.

PEACHSKIN

395

Pure Silk and Bemberg Rayon combined—coat or middy styles. A half dozen colors.

AMERICAN BEAUTY

Pure Dys Silk and Rayon Satin finish. A half dozen colors.

Of course we have pajamas at $2 to $20, but we like to give these the spotlight for they ars very popular to put on before going shut-eye .". . and very good to’ put into gift boxes.

They' re tailored by a man who | knows anatomy! They fit beauti= fully, comfortably—they are as good to look at as they are pleasant to be inl

Toye are

values § to dream about!

34th St. died today of heart disease + | |