Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1941 — Page 1

- FORECAST: Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and tomorrow: lowest temperature tonight about 20 to 25,

SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1941

‘By LELAND STOWE

JppILight, 1941 by The Indianapolis Times The Chicago Dailv News. I

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HE really saved my life on the home stretch. To

hirik it because she wasn’t ery big. But she had all ds of courage and as a raveling companion under

[Essay port up to Sierra

{ Leone, West Africa. Noth-

. seemed to faze that and she had a wonderTul ‘name, too. It fitted her duet like Ginger fits Rogers. It’s a darn shame not to

he able to tell you—but you

know. All this wartime secrecy. She: was a little British cargo boat and rd like for her to live a

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imes they are away from “for two or three months

“The British have started at the

at a stretch, running the gantlet of Nazi U-boats, picking up all kinds of cargo sometimes inflammable cargo liké we had— and then racing for |home with squadrons of German ‘dive-bomb-ers to dodge on the final lap. ‘Nobody writes very m ugh about Britain's merchant marine, nor about those of the N orwegians and the Dutch and the other sailors who've stood by. But these are fhe ships and. these are the men who are fight+"

point where ‘death is an episode.”

ing one of the bitterest and most important battles of the war. Their men don’t wear the kind of uniforms that women turn

around and look -at. Just the same, if Britain and her allies win, the crews of the cargo boats will have made it possible. My ship was one of the small and one of the great. Every time her crew gets home again they don’t know whether “(Continued on Page 1; 2d Section)

¢ Vs. Decatur Tit the" " Regional Entrant.

(Box Scores, Results, Pages 6, 7) 3 By J. E. O'BRIEN . @hortridge, - lone Indianapolis survivor, was to meet the powerful Decatur Central Hawks in the fea-

ture semi-final game of the local

basketball tournament

g afternoon at the Tech gym. co-favorites for the .cham‘plonship were to play at 1:30, and

i Beh Davis was to engage Speedway

1:30. at, ts final game at 8 o'clock, ite the matinee winners, will de e who is to represent this al in the Anderson regional next week. "A similar three-game schedule was in effect at the 63 other sectional centers throughout the state.

* Most of the favorites had survived

the {two-day whittling process, al‘Winslow's Eskimos quickly had established a reputation as a giant killer Thursday night the Eskimos eliminated Huntingburg’s Happy Hunters and last night they upset Jasper, ‘another - Southern Indiana

power. An in-and-out team all sea-

son, Vincennes fell before Freelandville, 35-34. It was the first sectional loss for the "Alices since 1920. The Washington Hatchets, South d Central, Muncie Burris and ‘Wayne North Side—all title fa- = found : the second - round easy, but the same cannot be “for. Anderson. Markleville all the way, two late field goals gave the Tribe & 34-31 victory. °F ort - experienced the same trouble, but managed to overcome Colfax, 23 to 21.

OVAL TIME

is Exclusive interviews with . the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

Nassau. \ complete word-pic-of the Bahamas to-

He Wasa Tiny Barefoot Boy

NEW YORK, March 1 (U, P.), —Two policemen in a radio patrol car saw a tiny figure struggling along the sidewalk against a 30-mile wind &nd blinding

snow shortly after midnight today. They found a dazed three-year-old boy, barefoot and wearing only pajamas, stumbling through waist high snowdrifts. The patrolmen tock the boy to their station, wrapped him in blankets and fed hin warm milk. The child said he was Edward Helm. He did not know how he happened to be in the street, but information given: police indicated that his parents had gone out, leaving 11-year- -old’ James Gallagher in the house in case he awoke. The child apparently arose to go to the hathroom, and not being fully awake, wandered out-of-doors.

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ASSAIL PERMANENT OFFIGE OF REPORTS

GOP Fears Use as Homa: ganda, Censorship Unit.

WASHINGTON, March 1 (U. P.). —Republican members of’ the House Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments today assailed as an attempt ‘to’ perpetuate power in the Administration” President Roosevelt's propos:l for establishment of the Office of Government Reports as a permanent agency, They filed a minority report condemning the office as a propaganda unit and a possible instrument of censorship. They were outvoted by the Democratic majority earlier this week when the committee recommended passage of legislation to carry out Mr. Roagsevel’s plan. The vote followed testimony from Lowell Mellett, director of the office,

that the Adminisiration plans no

censorship on the , European model “even in wartime” “The establishment of this kind of official clearing house for the distribution of information means that ultimately only information satisfactory ta the powers that be will be publicized,” ‘the minority said.

POLICE 0 ON: N'ALERT F FOR 1940 AUTO LICENSES

City and State Police warned amotorists today not to drive ‘without 1941 license plates. State Safety Direcfor Don Stiver announced that State Police have orders to arrsst all motorists without the new plates. At. Police Headquarters, Chief Michael F, Morrissey issued a similar order. Parked cars found with= out 1941 plates will he towed to the Police garage, the order said. Sheriff's deputies also were on the alert. Under State law, the penalty for not displaying 1941 plates is a $10 3 and costs. :

STORMS BATTER 2 Ul. S. GOASTS

It’s Comparatively Balmy Here With Warmer Weather to Come.

By UNITED PRESS March came in today like two lions—one on the West Coast and the other on the East. Winds of near hurricane force swept torrents of rain over the California Coast, wrecking buildings and communications lines. A Nor’easter blew up the Atlantic Coast, burying New England and Middle Atlantic States under drifting snow and ice coated highways as far south as North Carolina. Four persons died of the cold in the Philadelphia region. Clouds hung over most of the Middle West and’ light snow or rain was forecast for most-of the Mississippi River Valley. Conditions in that area were not unusual, how- | ever,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES .17 10am. ...28 <17T ‘1am... 31 . 21 12 (Noonm).. 31 . 24 lL.ppm, ... 33

In Indianapolis, March slid in with comparatively. balmy weather. The forecast was warmer tonight and tomorrow. Cold extended far into the South with below freezing temperatures reported in Georgia and Alabama. The mercury dropped to 36 at Jacksonville, Fla., and to 25 degrees at Atlanta, Ga. Shreveport, La., reported 38 degrees and along the Texas Coast the mercury was near 50 degrees. Temperatures on the West Coast were between 50 and 60 degrees and at New York City 17 was recorded. The eastern storm blew in from the Atlantic over New Jersey, New York and parts of New England. New Jersey apparently bore the brunt of the storm. Heavy snow plows were dispatched last night to

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[HIGH COMMAND

IS BLOCKED ON VETO ACTIONS

Biddinger Leads Fight to Save Two Seats for ‘Our Party.

In the Legislature

The Hopper Gross Income Tax. Other Legislature News....

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‘Open revolt swept the Legislature |

for the first time today when ‘the G. O. P. high command refused to compromise with Fifth District Republicans on the reapportionment of Congressional Districts.

The Fifth District delegates in both Houses were resolved to prevent the overriding of any of the Governor's vetoes on G. O. P. program bills and those in the Senate vowed also to vote against any measure sponsored by any Senator who voted against the compromise. When the question was put to a roll call, Majority Floor Leader William E. Jenner asked to be excused from voting. One Fifth District House leader said “we’ll hold the Republican leadership responsible— and welll hold Senator Jenner just as responsible as if he'd voted.” As the bill left the House, Madison County—always heavily Democratic—would be shifted from the old 11th District into the Fifth, a Republican stronghold.

Fear Loss of District

The Fifth District representatives say the addition of Madison County

‘|would swing the district into the

Democratic column. Rep. George Freeman (R. Kokomo) attempted to make the change on the bill while it still was in the House. He was voted down and Fifth District delegates decided to block over-riding of the vetoes on the Attorney General bills. As a result, action on the vetoed Attorney General bills has been held up in the House. Today’s fireworks were touched off by a divided committee report on the reapportionment bill, with a majority of the committee members favoring passage of the Houseapproved measure. Biddinger Leads Fight Senator Thurman Biddinger, Marion Republican and head of the powerful Judiciary A Committee, one of the majority's floor leaders to date, led the fight for the minority report. “There is a bi-partisan relationship existing here and we should arise in arms and kick it out,” he said. - “We should rise above Fred Bays (Democratic State Chairman) and Arch Bobbitt (Republican State Chairman) and adopt the minority report. If you approve the other report, the Republicans will lose a (Continued on Page Two)

CHANCES FOR FREE TEXTBOOKS RECEDE

Gonas Fails to Get Bill Out 0f Committee.

Free textbooks for Indiana school children became mare inprobable today as an attempt in the Senate to bring out of committee a free text book bill failed. Senator John Gonas (D., Mishawaka), author of the bill which provides for free text books for elementary and high school pupils, urged the finance committee to report out the bill. The move was blocked by Majority Floor Leader William E. Jenner (R. Shoals), who said that he and’ the Republican Party favored free textbooks, but he could not vote for it until Senator Gonas could show statistics from Gov. Henry F. Schricker that the State could afford free books. A motion to bring the bill out‘of

the southern end of the state.

An electrical disturbance in the earth attributed to a brilliant Northern Lights display last night sent world telegraphic and wireless communications haywire today. Newspaper teletype wires in various places were “blind” and Western Union here reported trouble in getting messages through to New York, Pittsburgh and Detroit. Postal Telegraph said conditions west of Kansas City and in the East seemed the worst. The telegraph companies said the condition arises each year in the|¢ late winter and early spring months. In ‘Indianapolis lights appeared as a pale graygreen fog stretching down the sky"

.the northern ‘

from the North Star almost to the

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of the greenish light would shoot out from the misty effect; To the northeast the light bank, which was quite wide directly to the north, faded off into a deep red glow. People outside the brightly lighted downtown area reported an even more ° brilliant aurora borealis (Northern lights) display. The Weather Bureau said the Angola, Ind., observer telegraphed the dispiay was plainly visible there. The United Press in Chicago wired its Pt. Wayne bureau that ‘because of earth currents you are ‘blind’. »” The Chicago Daily News Service wired clients from New York that “Press Vhireless reports that due. ld-wide ain MOSHI

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Rep.. Winfield Denton (D. Evansville), House minority floor leaer, found three more supporters of - his legislative policy at work yesteray. They were his daughters (top to bettom), Beth, Mary and Sara, who acted as. pages. :

SENATOR LUCAS BACKS AID BILL

Says It Will Keep Fasdism From. America, Deniés FDR Wants War.

—Senator. Scott Lucas. (D., IIL), today defended the Administration’s

British-aid bill as’ America’s best insurance for peace and the perpetuation of democracy. : “By supporting Great Britain— with tools, not men—we can:eventually compel the war mongers to keep the peace,” he said. w “We who support this bill are the real guardians of peace . .. the realistic, hard-boiled avoiders of war. We advocate the only practical method of making America first in naval power, first in national power, first in the power of those ideals which guarantee life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” His speech was prepared for delivery in the Senate shortly after noon. He is expected to follow Sen-

leader of the opposition, whe held the floor for four hours yesterday but only completed about half of his 17,500 word prepared speech. Mr. Wheeler's lengthy address, in which he charged that .the measure would “strip us of our defenses, invite the Chief Executive to plunge the country into war, and create dictatorship,” touched off the most (Continued on Page Two)

CLAIMS LOCAL GROUP TO BUY BALL CLUB

LANSING, Mich., March 1 (U.P.). —Tom Vendervoort, president of the Lansing Class C Baseball Club, said today the club would bé sold to an Indianapolis, Ind. syndicate next week. Vandervoort said James Pierce and Thomas Kerthaval are representing the Indianapolis interests and that the deal would be completed at a meeting here Monday or Tuesday. Lansing businessmen sank $5000 into the losing club last year.

James Pierce, former trainer for the Louisville Colonels, said today no definite decision would be reached on the sale for about two weeks. ' He said the club’s former debts will have to be cleared first. Indianapolis Indians officials denied any connection with the trans.

action.

Spectacular Show of Aurora Borealis ‘Blinds’ World Radio, Telegraph Communications

to aurora borealis) transmission from its Berne Bureau occurs in fits and spurts today.

“There is no guarantee of clear reception of message, nor of any le continuance. period of traffic. Copy may come for 10 minutes and communications suddenly go dead.”

Telegraphic ‘engineers here explained that transmission on their wires depends on the earth as a conductor of electricity. A bright Northern Lights display will disturb the earth currents and thus throw | Fashions their systems ‘askew.

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WASHINGTON, March 1 (U. PB);

ator Burton K. Wheeler (D., Mont.),|

KING GEORGE V MEETS WINANT AS HE ARRIVES

|Personal Welcome to New

Ambasador Breaks British Precedent. LONDON, March 1 (U. P.) —King

{George VI in a gesture similar to

President Roosevelt’s personal welto British Ambassador Lord Halifax broke precedent today to

‘| greet John G. Winant, new United "| States’ Ambassador, at a wayside

station before Winant reached London. It was the first time a British

"| King had ever made such a diplo- | matic gesture, as far as records dis-

closed. Winant arrived at Bristol this afternoon by land plane from Lisbon. He was greeted there by Brendan Bracken, representing Prime Minister’ Winston Churchill, the Duke of Kent, representing. the King, and Sir John Monck, Vice Marshal of the diplomatic corps. Ben Cohen who will be one of Winant's chief aids in London, arrived immediately after the Ambassador in another plane.

‘Glad to Welcome You’

The party then left for London. En route there thé King met and received Winant at the wayside station. They had met once previously at Buckingham Palace when Winant was director of ‘the International Labor Office. “ Jam glad to welcome you here,” the King said. The two chatted utes and then d King’s car. It was understood that later Winant submitted to the King his formal credentiald and the letter recalling former Ambassador Joseph Kennedy.

Greets Cohen, Too

Before leaving the station the King also shook hands with Cohen. The King wore the uniform of a field marshal. After Winant had presented his credentials ‘to-the King he had tea with: the King and Queen. The reception of Winant by the King was as great a break wih precedent as Mr. Roosevelt's gesture in personally welcoming Halifax when he arrived on the battleship, George V, at Annapolis, Md. Ordinarily, an Ambassador first calls on the British Foreign Secretary and then presents his credentials at Buckingham Palace a week or more after his arrival.

Winant Says Little

Winant had little to say except that “I.am glad to be here—there is: no. place I would rather be at this time than in England.” When speaking before a microphone at Bristol Winant ‘laughingly agreed with newspapermen who said: “It is like waiting for the firing squad.” “It surely is,” said. He was conducted on an inspection of a company of guards before leaving for London.

ISLE'S RECAPTURE CLAIMED BY ROME

But London Says British Troops ‘Withdrew.’

ROME, March 1 (U. P.) —Italian sailors, landed from torpedo boats and supported by aviation, yesterday recaptured the Dodecanese island of Castelrosso, off the Turkjsh coast, and took British prisoners, a communique said today. The high command said a British expeditionary corps had taken Castelrosso from the Italian garrison holding it last Tuesday. The island now is back in Italian hands, the communique said. (In London yesterday the admiralty and War Office said British forces which had taken _Castelrosso, site of an Italian seaplane base, had been withdrawn after having accomplished their mission—apparently the destruction of the seaplane base.)

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Varna.

Adolf Hitler had opened the month of March—his favorite blitzkrieg month—Dby signing up Bulgaria in the Axis and planting the Axis war banner within 100 miles of the stra-

tegic Dardanelles.

Some reports indicated the military occupation of the Balkan nation of 6,000,000 persons had started even before Bulgarian Premier Bogdan Filoff affixed his signature to the German-Italian-Japanese. alliance at Vienna shortly before 2 p: m. It was 5 p. m. when mudspattered German military cars bearing uniformed Nazis—possibly staff officers arriving to set up occupation headquarters — rumbled through the main street of Sofia. All day German planes, often as many as 30 at one time, droned over the capital. Some of them were transports, some bombers. One arrived almost simultaneously with the military automobiles and was believed to have landed additional st& officers at the Sofia airdrome.

War May Be Declared

Britain’s reaction to these developments was immediate. The Legation spokesman indicated that formal diplomatic relations between Britain and Bulgaria might posgibly be severed before the night is out, A formal declaration of war may follow, with Royal Air Force bombings of strategic points in Bulgaria and the Rumanian oil fields to back it up. Sofia observers believed that actually the Nazi occupation may have gotten under way last night with the movement of large numbers of truck-borne German triopers into Varna, the big port south of Rumania. The Varna reports were denied

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had not been officially notified that the Vichy Government had. yielded and earlier today had told American consular officials that the latest Tokyo demands had been rejected.) . Foreign Minister Yosuka Matsuoka, under Foreign Minister Chuichi Hayashi and other high foreign officials conferred for two hours over the French reply. It was believed that further negotiations would result, despite the fact that the reply had been received after the Japanese “dead line” set at midnight last night for full. French acceptance of. the demands. It was indicated also that any negotiations necessarily would extend beyond the ultra-final dead line, intimated to be midnight tonight for a definite agreement between Indo-China and Thailand. The reply from the Vichy Government on Japan’s “final” demands

Both Red Fleet and Red Star,

Red Fleet said, “has become steadily less friendly. “The Japanese have been secretly building a fleet which the China war has not affected. Japan understands that only with an incomparably superior fleet can she win 8 war against the United States.”

: "The naval paper summarized a book by Japan's Gen. Sato on the

“inevitability of a Japanese-Ameri~

can war.” It Qughed. Sato as proposing the a Lies.

SOFIA ADDED T0 AXIS ALLIANCE “IN VIENNA PAC

Anglo-Turkish Tie Strengthened by Eden's’ | Visit to Ankara; British Capture 9000" :.

Italian Prisoners, Seize Bardera

(Today’s War Moves, Page Three)

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

German military cars clattered down the main streed of Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, tonight, Nazi warplanes droned over the city and it was relieved that Reich troops had already occupied the strategic Bulgarian Black Sea port of

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British Legation spokesmen, believing that a full-scale. German military occupation of Bulgaria was about to start, said that severance of diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Bulgaria might be “only a matter of houts.” "

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by Bulgarian officials but Sotadgpe: respondents regarded them as Tully. Me confirmed by today’s events,

Pattern Is Familiar

There was every indication that March, 1941, would follow the Hitler Pattern and that before April 1 the long-threatened all-out Axis attempt to smash Britain will be raging with full force.

March has long been Hitler's favorite month for action, day—or. at least the week-end-—also has figured in many Nazi “sure prises.” 4 It was in March that Hitles# scrapped the Versailles Treaty if 1935. In the same month of 1936 German troops marched into ihe Rhineland. In March of 1938 man troops moved into Austria. 3 March of 1939 German troops | moved into Czechoslovakia. Last year Hitler missed March by only few days with his: April ‘blitz into Norway and Denmark, : Today's Bulgarian move fitted tha pattern. It brought the seventh. ns tion into the Axis camp and may open up a new major fighting froht running from Albania, where heavy new Italian reinforcements have been reported, to Salonika and the thrace fortification of Turkey. od

Turkey in Strategic Spot

But this is not expected to be the only front that March will bring to the war. A new and more devastate ing air blitz is expected against Britain and intensification of the at sea in a desperate effort to cu Britain's lifeline of supplies, mii tions and planes to the Western, Hemisphere, Whether the Far Eastern partner, Japan, will time a move’

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TOKYO, March 1 (U. P.).—Japan has received a conciliatory reply

its demands for drastic territorial

sacrifices to Thailand, it was understood today. (A dispatch from Vichy also used the phrase

“conciliatory reply” At Saigon, Indo-China, however,

French officials were amazed and bitter at the reports. They said id they

was received as political and milks tary leaders were reported ‘to ‘he ' arranging a conference on action to be taken in case France failed submit to the demands which J

had made in Thailand's behalf. According to the newspaper

call "Charles Arsene-Henry, French Ambassador, and charge Government with “insincerity” “warn” him that “in. the’ : France has excessive expectatiohs of American and British poctations ) and slights Japan's determination, Japan will not be responsible HO whatever situation may develop.” » (British military informants: Bangkok, Thailand, said today additional Indian troops ‘were: the way to Malaya to guard ports. and supply depots so r { could be released for service on | Thai frontier.)

Hint Secret Tokyo Fleet =

MOSCOW, March 1 (U. P.) ~The newspaper Red Fleet, organ: Soviet Navy, reported today that Japan has been secretly naval fleet for use in event of a United States-Japanese war.

organ of the Soviet Army,

extensive space to what they called the “Far Eastern Crisis.” “The Japanese attitude toward the United States in recent, mo

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