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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 260 ' " D. R. AS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1941
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind,
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Cold When British Forces Maneuver
PRICE THREE CENTS
17-BILLION BUDGET, NAVY OF WAR STRENGTH
TOTAL
FLEET DIVIDED INTO 3 PARTS;
PLEA MADE FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY
Needed to Arm Axis’ Foes. WASHINGTON, Jan,
, {Warns More Billions
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(U. P.).—President Roose= velt today laid before Cone gress a $17,485,528,049 budget ‘‘for the total defense of
our democracy.” He served notice that he soon will ask still more billions to provide mu« nitions for Britain and other coune tries battling the Axis. Informed Legislators talked in terms of $3,000,000,000 to $10,000,000,« 000 for helping Britain over a long
period. Any such sum would ‘push the budget far past $20,000,000,000. But today’s budget was all for America—an America in’ which the President said “democracy as a way
HEADS SHIFTED
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Knox Says 40,000 Will Be Added ‘in Rearrangement To Fix Facts.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (U P.) — President Roosevelt! today created three separate American | fleets, changed the Navy High Command — |and ordered every 1). S. warship to { be manned at full wartime strength.
Mother Nature adds her obstacles in the North African war. Here New Zealand troops are shown battling the blinding, cutting blast of a sandstorm as well as the heat of the sun. These soldiers are moving up to te front line.
the desert
Practice made perfect. The countless times which the Australian cavalry! maneuvered stronghold
sands of Egypt proved of value when the time came for their successful #ttack on the Itali of Bardia. »
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Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, who announced the sweeping reorganization and the addition of 40,-
FASCIST ARMY Victim’ s | Relatives Oppose
ADDS 500,000
German, Press Call F. D. R. ‘War Profiteer No. 1’; Tobruk Siege Near.
BULLETIN BUCHAREST, Jan. 8 (U.P.).~= Maritime circles in Constanza. reported today that a number of Soviet warships, estimated :t about nine, have been warned io stay out of Rumanian territorial waters after appearing off Sulina, Rumanian Danube port on the Black Sea. There was no official confirmation of the report.
By UNITED PRESS : Italy called 500,000 youths to Army duty today as a made-in-England “blitzkrieg” sizzled across the Libyan desert west of ToRruk and raised the question whether the British would halt short of an attempt to drive the Fascist Army out, of North Africa. Italy’s military plight shared at- - tention with an officially fhspired press explosion in Berlin against President Roosevelt's State-of-the-Union message to Congress. Authorized Nazi sources and the Sernan press reacted with charges hat: President Roosevelt and the “U. 8. people” are enemies of “Ciermany, Italy, Russia and Japan.” President Roosevelt is “war prolonger No, 1 and war profiteer No. 1.” The President's address was “provocative and marked by arrogance which would hardly be exceeded.” :
Bulgaria on Watch
Other developments included: The German anger was accomspanied by London reports that Ciermany is moving increasing forces of planes and unknown numbers of troops into Italy to aid Benito Mussolini’s hard-pressed forces. Some. previous reports have said that German planes were being sent to new bases in Sicily and southern Italy in a position where they could co-operate in the defense of North Africa both by pro- - tecting Italian sea routes from the mainland to Libya and by attacking British sea communications and land forces in the desert.
Air War Restricted Today was the day selected by
Freedom
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Tell Clemency Commission o
at a hearing today.
BUTSCH ASKS NEW JUDGE IN BAIL PLEA
Adjudged Sane hy Jury and Refused Guardian.
Counsel for Williaint Ray Butsch, under indictment for the murder of Mrs. Carrie Lelah Romig here two years ago, asked today for a change of judge in a hearing for bail set for Tuesday. Butsch, who had been found of unsound mind in Criminal Court twice, was adjudged sane by .a Probate Court jury yesterday, His attorney, T. Ernest Mahoim, had filed a petition for & guardian for Butsch in order to conserve his assets. ; Immediately after the jury decided Butsch was sane and did not need a guardian, Mr. Maholm filed a motion for a writ of habeas corpus and a petition for bail in|; Criminal Court. Judge Dawey E. Myers set the hearing date. The clerk of the Supreme Court submits a list of three judges and each side will strike! one name. If Butsch is tried for murder, Judge Omar O’Harrow of Martinsville will preside at the trial. Butsch testified yesterday that he owned several pieces of jewelry now held by police. He said. he also owned a gold mine in Colorado. He said he had {eigned insanity two years ago and had wanted to be committed to an institution until “the heat died dow.”
Buchanan Voter Turns 100 Today
PLYMOUTH, Ird., Jan '8 (U.
many Balkan sources for a German move into Bulgaria” But the hours ticked away without evidence that the muech-rumored invasion w | about to come off. ¥ The Bulgarian - Government an-| nouaced that Premier Bogdan Filoff and other spokesmen will address the nation Sunday at meetings in 11 sections of the country to, “explain the Government policies.” . Air action by both Britain and Germany was restricted by bad - weather. The German High Command reported scattered attacks in Britain yesterday and an attack by (Continued on Page Three)
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Clapper .,... 9 Comics ...... 16 Crossword .. 15 Editorials ... 10 Fashions .... 12 Pinuponl « sens 1%
g 1 Gallup Poll.. : 4 . Homemaking. 12 3
Mrs. Ferguson 10 Music 13 Obituaries ... 8 Pegler | Questions ... "Radio . 1 ‘Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Serial Story.. 16 Side Glances. 10 «11,12
P.).—Harry C. Anderson, who, by his own admission, voted for the first time when ne was only 15 —for James Buchanan for ‘President—and who | has voted for every - Republican Presidential candidate since, :ncluding Wendell Willkie, celebrates his 100th birthday here tocay. Born in Sullivan County Jan. 1, 1841, Mr. Ander son helpad with the work on“his #randson’s Marshall County farm: until he broke his hip about a year ago. He has been bed-ridden at the Morris Hospital since.
ENGLAND CUTS MEAT RATION TO 24 CENTS
LONDON, Jan. & (U. P.) ——Reduction of the meat; ration from 30 to 24 cents worth per person per week | Was announced togday by Food Minister Lord Woolton, shortly after he had disclosed thai Britain, for the first time since the war began, was unable ‘to Provide the meat ration last week. . There were excellent reasons for the lower rations & luncheon address.
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f Fears If He Bhs Paroled;
Minister and Others Tes tify for Prisojer.
Fears that D. C. Stephenson, fornier Indiana Kian dragon, would jattempt to “get even’ with some witnesses if paroled fr¢m his life sentence for murder, wire voiced before the State Clemierfey Commission:
The Commission, which heard a dozen witnesses both | tor and against Stephenson's parole, continued the heering until tomoripw morning to
hear additional witi esses. The hearing was ¢n Stephenson's formal petition for parole from a lifé sentence for the, murder of Miss Msdge Oberholtzej, Indianapolis 's ago. Marshall Oberholizer, Indianapolis, a brother of the murder victim, testified that Stepiinson is a dangerous man.”
Wife Testifies
Mrs. Marshall Operholtzer testified before the Com mission that she feired for the safety of her daughter, if Stephenson should be released. “He has threaten afiaid that somethii to| my daughter if she said. Commission men Mis. Oberholtzer a and she explained { to! the threats t against the family the trial. ‘We've heard no shie said. 5
od us and I am \g might happen ‘he is released,”
bers questioned »out the threats hat she referred iat were made at the i of
recent threats,”
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Two Indianapol lehders who refus¢d to give nZmes for publicition also tected Stephenson's parole. “We object on nioral grounds to release of a man af this type,” one ofl them said. i “The name of Indiana was never more disgraced thin by the Stepiiehson case and surely no one is considering disgraring the state|p again’ by releasing iim, * she added. {Alban Smith, Le Porte, attorney far Stephenson, resented seven witnesses who urged a parole for thie prisoner.
Sponsor Offers Job
George Weber, |'a South Bend manufacturer, whi) sponsored the parole petition, testified that Stephenson has ¢ ‘prorhised us all that he has no intentioh of going out to look for any eneraies if released.” He said the prisonir would be given & job in his factory. George Richter,
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former Circuit
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HEAD OF NEW ‘PROP
B..) Sheidel of of Curtiss- . Wright Co. Reaches City.
'R. J. Sneider, v ho is to head the Curtiss-Wright tlizplane propeller iactory here, arrived in Indianapolis today and jnspected the site in the 1200 block, W. Morris St. The factory ii to occupy five buildings of the }farmon Motor Co. development and renovation of the structures is expected to start next month. At present the buildings are being used as wareliouses and garages by Stokely Bros. Co. Greyhound bus lines, the Indiana Farm Bureau Co-operative, International Harvester and Armour’s. Curtiss-Wright will make electrically controlled, variable pitch
“Would you rasher have a little, less meal for a week or two or |
Inside Indpls. 9|Sports Johnson. 10| 8
would you rather have Bardia?” hi asked,
building
propellers and vill employ many women. About £100,000 is expected to be expended in reconditioning the
dent pro .tem,;
judge at La Porte, testified that the |
~ PLANT T VIEWS SITE
GOVERNORSHIP FIGHT HINTED
Lake County Candidate Charges ‘Thousands of ‘Aliens’ Voted Nov. 5.
By EARL RICHERT
tossed in their laps today. It was a possible protest against the election of Governor Henry F.
Schricker on the basis of charges made by Virgil Whitaker, Hammond attorney, who was defeated in a Lake County judgship race Nov. 5. Mr. Whitaker alleged he had proof that “thousands” of aliens voted in the recent election in Lake
Schricker. Protest Expected
Up to noon today, State G. O. P. leaders said that Mr. Whitaker had
that Mr. Whitaker is to file his protests with leaders of both Repub-lican-controlled houses. Glen R. Hillis, Republican candidate, who ,was defeated by Mr.
knew of the investigation but asserted that he was not a party to| the protest. He said he would take no steps toward asking for a legislative investigation “without approval of the State Committee.” William E. Jenner, Senate presisaid the matter would be discussed at the party caucus this afternoon, regardless of whether the protests had been filed by that time: He said Mr. Whitaker would be permited to explain his charge. if he appears. Arch N. Bobbitt, State G. O. P. (Continued opt Page Three)
CLOUDY, WARMER IS WEATHER FARE
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m . 33 10 a. m.... 7am 33 Ham... 8am ... 33 12 (Noon)... 37 9.a.m ... 33 1pm.... 37
The Weather Bureau today predicted that tonight and tomorrow will be cloudy and warmer, with the lowest temperature tonight about 35.
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Ernie Pyle
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LONDON (by wireless).—Although I've had my big night of fire and plenty of bombs, too, I have not achieved. any intimate acquaintance with a bomb. - And I'm quite willing to have the -introduction
“things pend-
plenty of Ernie Pyle bombs explode at a distance, and I've even felt the building I was in shake, but I
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Republican legislators, already in| a turmoil over cutting the patron- | age melon, had a new bombshell |
County, which went heavily for Mr. |
not contacted them. It is reported Roosevelt Counts on OPM to
Schricker by 3478 votes, said he
Someone as Bombs Fall
filed ‘under your first bad scare. Well, one
Hoosier Troops At Fort Custer
BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Jan. 8 (U, P.). — Pt. Custer’s soldier population hit & high of 11,000 today with the arrival of the 11th Infantry from Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind. one of the three infantry regiments making up the. principal strength of the Fifth Division." Concentration of the Fifth Division at F't. Custer, with the exception of two Second Infantry battalions will be com--pleted Friday with the arrival || of the 50th: Medical Battalion and Seventh Engineer Battalion from Ft. Harrison. \ As soon as the concentration is complete, officers said, the division will start an intensive . winter training program which will include instruction in the use of skis.
"SUPER FOUR’ OPENS DRIVE TO REARM
‘Make U. S. an Arsenal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt's new super defense agency, ready to subordinate |everything in national life to rearmament efforts, began its drive today to make the United States the world's”great arsenal for the defense of democracy and treedom OPM~—The Office for Production | Management—came into existence last night when Mr. Roosevelt signed commigsions of the four members—Industrialist. William 8S. Knudsen, Labor Leader Sidney Hillman, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. The letters OPM probably will become as significant and well known to the average citizen as did NRA in the early days of fhe New Deal. Whereas NRA ‘was one of the
President’s attempts to defeat the]
depression of the 1930s, OPM is designed to gear war production (Continued on Page Five)
YEGGS TAKE $500
Burglars broke into the office of the Seaboard Co., insurance agency, in Room 303 of the Security Trust Building last night and escaped with approximately $500 after rifling drawers and knocking the combination from a safe.
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G.0.P.SPLITON ASSEMBLY EVE
Seeks to End Cleavage Before 61-Day Session Opens Tomorrow.
With the opening gavel less than 24 hours away, Republican ma jority leaders of the 1941 General Assembly struggled today to line up balky | members on a program to take over the State House and its patronage. This intra-party activity overshadowed all other developments as the 150 Senators and Representatives moved into town and squared away for the 61-day session beginning tomorrow. There were other attractions— lobbyists already in action, organizations polishing up bills they hope to see passed, and informal gettogethers—but the four-star special
000 more enlisted. men, saifl that it was a “rearrangement to fit the facts.” : Effective Feb. 1 there will be an Atlantic fleet, a Pacific fleet and an Asiatic fleet. Commander+in-chief of the U. 8S. fleet will le Rear-{to Admiral Husband E. Kimmel. He also will become commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet. The present commander-in-chief, Admiral James O. Richardson, will report to Mr. nox for a new assignment. The Asiatic fleet will continue under command of Admiral Thomas C. Hart and the new Atlantic fleet, heretofore known as the Atlantic patrol force and Comprising about 125 warships, will be under command of Rear Admiral Ernest J. King. 232,000 Enlisted Men The additional authorization of enlisted naval personnel raises that force from 192,000 to 232,000 men. Mr. Knox expressed as his own personal opinion that the Navy should not transfer more destroyers to Great Britain. He said that such additional transfers might seriously
was this “afternoon's final presession G. O. P. caucus..
Put Reorganization Ahead
At a last minute session, the Steering Committee decided by unanimous vote this afternoon to put their reorganization bill into effect May 1. : Other committee action included: + 1. Approval of a bill to place the State Welfare Department under a four-man board, {two members to be appointed by the Governor and two by the Lieutenant Governor. * 2. Approval of a bill to separate appropriations for State educa(tional, penal, benevolent and cor!rectional institutions from the wel- | fare budget. In this afternoon's caucus the | leadership of the Republican .steering committee faced its acid test. The leaders: were prepared to wield their biggest clubs to swing a .solid party vete in both houses for their proposed State Government “decentralization” bills. They admit that failure to get a united front might bring defeat for their proposals. Jenner Expects Unity
“If we go to the floor of the General Assembly with two or three different party measures for government reorganization there will not be time enough to straighten out the differences “In. committees before adjoyrnment, ” declared Senator William E. Jenner, Republican Senate Majority Leader. He and his political associate, Rep. Frank T. Millis, House Majority Leader, spent most of yesterday conferring on strategy with State Republican Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt and Lieut! Gov.-elect Charles M. Dawson, who will be presiding officer of the Senate. . Senator Jenner said he expected most of the differences to be ironed out this afternool and tonight. If (Continued on Page Three)
bomb whistling right down toward me. Just the same, I've: had this weak old heart Stopped once. It didn’t happen on our big night of fires. It happened before that. During your first few days in London you are all at sea. You are tense and jumpy and exJfecdan, waiting and wondering ow you will feel when you get
night I was awakened by the guns about 2 a. m. They kept firing off and on for about an hour, and then stopped. Lendon was black.and silent. There yas no sound of any kind anywhere. I just lay im the bed staring at nothing. : Te
STOCKS UP SLIGHTLY ON BUDGET MESSAGE
NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (U. BP.) —Wall Street's first reaction to the President’s budget message today was bullish. The stack market rose fractions to more than $1. There was strong demand for railroad shares based on anticipation that the excess profits tax setup, which favors railroad shares, would be changed little,
BILL STRIKES AT BRIDGES WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (U. P.)~— Rep. A. Leonard Allen (D. La.) today introduced a bill to require im= mediate deportation of ° Harry
Bridges, ‘Australian « born. West 1, Maritime. Union
impair the fleet's efficiency. Mr. Knox also said that he will ask Congress soon for authorization to construct 280 auxiliary vessels for the Navy. “We gradually have been enlarging our Atlantic fleet and it has assumed the dignity which warrants setting it up as a separate fleet,” he said. He added that no change in the size of the Atlantic fleet is contemplated now, Its force now is composed of about 125 ships. Plan Pacific Maneuvers
Mr. Knox said the reorganization, so far as can be determined now, will -have no efféct upon plans te hold customary fleet maneuveys in the Pacific next spring. { The increase in enlisted strength also applies to reserves. Mr. Knox said that as the fleet grows, further increases’ will be made. Mr. Knox announced that about Jan. 18, the command of submarines in the scouting force will be given to Capt. Thomas Withers, present head of the naval: torpedo station: at Newport, R. I. He will succeed Rear Admiral Wilhelm L. Friedell, who will report late in February to take over the Mare Island Navy yard.
RED CROSS 10 TOAD SPAIN AND FRANCE
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Mercy Ship to Leave U. S.
proved tax system.
at $8,275,435,000—an all-time
of life is at stake.”
Silent on New Tax Plans
It is going to cost the taxpayers
a lot more to defend this stake than he is paying now and there will have =
e many moré taxpayers, but Mr, recom
velt made no specific
mendations for new taxes.
The when and how of the.
will ‘have to be worked out at
ferences between Treasury and Con=
gressional experts and Mr. Rog said that he hopes that the
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will be a completely revised and fm
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His broad recommend
taxes as sales levies in favor.
higher assessments on incomes, pare ticularly those fattended by the des 4 tense program. {
The - figures he presented for 1942 fiscal year, beginning this J
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seemed to rule out such restrictive
of
1, shattered precedents in almost 3
every category.
Projected spending hit within: ‘o
Military Costs Jump
billion dollars of the 1918-19 all-time high when the nation actually wag at war.
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Cash outlay for Army, Navy and
other strictly defense items: jum $4,347,390,700 to
ped $10,811,314 ,600—63 cents out of every dollar proposed ta be spent next year.
The Army gets $5, 956,600,000; the
Navy, $3,447,394,000. requested contrapt authorizations for defense to $1,263,931,089, fo be paid out of 1 appropriations.
In addition,
The new defense items bring tha,
Government income was
12th Deficit in Row
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total defense program initiated siet June 1940 to $28,480,000 000, Mr, : Roosevelt said.
zat
Despite the huge revenue, the
deficit will be $9,210,093,049. It is the 12th consecutive deficit and the largest in peace time history,
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And the national debt will reacly
Every American,
$58,367,065,056 by June 30, 1942, Mr, Roosevelt estimated, He indicated he felt all statutory limits on the debt = should be removed. The present limit of $49,000,000,000 wil} be passed this June. : Mr. Roosevely said, regrets the necessity for load= ing the budget with armament ex< penditures.
“A wry turn of fate places this
burden of defense on the backs of a peace-loving people,” he said in the message which clerks read to the House and Senate.
“We can meet the demands of
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armament because we are a people
Late This Month.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (U.. PJ). —Chairman Norman Davis of the American Rec Cross announced today that a mercy ship bearing vitamin concentratés and milk for unoccupied France and flour to Spain would leave late this. month. The Ministry of Economic Warfare at London had announced earlier in the day that it had agreed] to passage through the. blockade of such shipments: which: are to be distributed undeér Red Cross supervision. The distribution, chiefly to children and mothers in unoccupied France, was regliested personally by President Raosevelt, A Red Cross spokesman explained that if the first shipment and its distribution are successful, other shipments will be made to France and Spain and that Spain likely will receive some wheat.
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P.). ~The Budget in a nutshell
or ‘war year 1918-19. Ao et
314,600 for U. 8. alone, u y347,000,000. Billions Dats Britain to be asked soon. Non-Defense
-this, year. Revenue — $8,275,435,000, an all-time high. highest on
says President.
Toes Westiuinstes City Hall and the Temp havi damaged in re-
Deficit—$9,210,003,049, second record. :
Defense Budget At a Glance
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (U.
Total Spending—$17,485 049—highest in history RAB. 4 ense Spending — $10,811,+
more for :
s $6, 674,213,449, a little less than
Taxes—More : will be needed,