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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 309

THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1941

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. Pretty Penny to Know, But Can’t Find Out.

By SAM TYNDALL

Many of Indiana's 410,000 draft registrants would give a pretty penny ta learn definitely if and when they will be called in the draft, but getting the answer is pretty much like finding a needle in the proverbial haystack. There apparently is no reasonably accurate rule of thumb method by which the individual registrant can gauge his prospects of donning the Army’s khaki. This lack of a formula for forecasting induction dates accurately

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of constantly varying local and national factors.

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Service System. This Much Is Known This much is known about the situation in Indiana: If you are single and able-bodied —Class 1-A material—and haven’t yet received your draft question-

naire, don't worry; the Army hasn't

forgotten you. In Marion County, if your number is listed in the lower-one-third of the draft numbers in the order drawn, you probably will be inducted by July 1, it is estimated. In other words, local boards in Marion County expect to run through one-third of the board lists to fill the quota by July 1. In the State as a whole, boards expect they will have to run through ‘half of the list to find enough Class 1-A eligibles to fill the State quota of 21,087 by July 1. Even these are just estimates and may prove “way outside” by July 1.

Factors Vary Among the varying factors influencing the situation are: 1. A possible fluctuation in the percentage of rejections for physical and other reasons. The percentage now is 13. 2. The number of volunteers in the next few months. For each volunteer in the service, the coun-

‘ty’s induction quota is reduced by

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one. 3. Changes in some of the registrants’ personal or ‘occupational status, removing from or placing them in Class 1-A. 4. The question of whether the President will use his power to proclaim a registration day for those who have become 21 since the original registration day. A majority of these youths, should they be called to register, would be Class 1-A material, it is believed.

g 5. The possibility of war. If we

should go to war, the present draft quotas would rise by leaps and bounds. Quotas haven't been set yet for ‘periods after July 1, but. it seems - likely the State will be called nn to furnish an additional 21,000 in (Continued on Page Seven)

LOCAL COUPLE HELD _BY POLICE IN OHIO

‘COLUMBUS, O., March 6 (U. P.). An Indianapolis couple and a Chicago man who had $1200 in Government bonds, nearly $500 in cash, jewelry and other valuables in their possession were detained by Columbus police today pending an investigation. Authorities in at least one other city, Long Beach, Cal., have notified Columbus police that the men are wanted on charges of swindling and extortion there,

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GOING’—ENDS LIFE

JERSEY CITY, N. J., March 6 (U. P.).—Edward Hamel, 54-year-old grocer, got up tired today. He went into the kitchen, wrote a note to his wife, and shot himself. The note Said: “I am tired ,and this morning I can’t get going.”

JOHN ROOSEVELT IN HOSPITAL

WASHINGTON, March 6 (U. P.). —White House Secretary Stephen T. Early disclosed today that John Roosevelt, youngest son of the President, recently underwent a minor operation in Naval Hospital here. Young Roosevelt is recovering

satisfactorily, he said.

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$40 REJECTION STARTS DISPLAY

Crook Waves Tin Horn in Speech Greeting Report 0f Committee.

In the Legislature The Hopper State Faces WPA Aid Loss.. Other Legislature News ivan vssvinsrrave 48,9, 13

Tempers flared to a new high in the Indiana House this afternoon as the conference committee rejected the $40 minimum for old-age pensions. . Rep. Thurman Crook (D. South Bend.), who was successful in amending the bill to provide for the $40 minimum, charged there are “a thousand rackets going on, and the State needs a thorough disinfecting.” Members of the Republican side took exception to his remarks, especially one in which he said that “I have never opened an envelope and found a $20 bill rolling out.” The Crook amendment on the bill which originally was intended to increase the maximum from $38 to $40, while the measure was on second reading in the House. The House members declared they were “put on the spot” by the amendment and accepted it. . The Senate, however, refused to concur in the amendment. Senator William E. Jenner, Republican floor leader,, described the House as “tin horn politicians.” The conference committee then was appointed and its report was the subject of this morning's fiery debate. Waving a 10-cent tin horn, Rep. Crook attacked Senator Jenner for his remark and referred to some opponents of his amendment as “cheap politicians.” Rep. Roy Harrison (R. Attica), a member of the conference committee, explained to the House that the (Continued on Page Seven)

IT'S THE RELAXATION BEFORE THE STORM

Legislature Faces Hectic Afternoon Session.

Indiana’s legislators relaxed a little today after a hectic three-day drive in which they rushed controversial measures through final passage to get them on Governor Schricker’s desk before the pocket veto deadline at midnight tonight. House members, weary from the battling over budget, liquor, old-age pension and gross income tax, which has featured the last two days, spent this morning in approving minor Senate-passed measures. The oratory and fireworks was to be resumed this afternoon when the Representatives take up the budget again. The Senate marked time this morning, advancing measures on its calendar to the final passage stage. It will speed up later to clear the decks for the budget bills when they come over from the House. Meanwhile, bills which have been

bly continued to pour in on the Governor's office. Any received after midnight tonight may be vetoed the Governor with no

1 from his establishment last night.

House Tempers Flare Over Pensions

. A Senate-House conference committee today discussed probable elimination of the $40 minimum monthly old-age pension amendment placed in the old-age assistance bill by the House. On the committee, composed of Republicans, are left to right) Senator Albert Ferris of Milton, Senator William Jenner of Shoals, who called House members “tin horn politicians” for putting in the amendment, and Rep. Roy ii George Henley (R. Bloomingtén) also is a member of the committee,

Egg - ravating To Say the Least

JACK KASEFF, who operates the remains of a poultry house at 1214 N. Senate Ave. reported to police today that somebody stole three cases (80 dozens) of eggs

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Fire Tuesday at Mr, Kaseff's place roasted 275 chickens and did other damage. | He had boarded up the hack door after the fire and the thieves gained entrance by prying it off. Mr. Kaseff doesn’t know just what the thieves will do with the the eggs, for they were rather well-cooked in cooked in Tuesday's fire.

|TWO GET DAY IN JAIL FOR 40 MPH

Eleven Drives Atrested on 2d Day of Drive; Deaths Rise to 14.

Two motorists were sent to jail on speeding and reckless driving charges today in Municipal Court as police entered the second day of their intensive war on traffic law violators. The traffic safely campaign was spurred as the City's 14th traffic death of the year was chalked up. Although police motorcycle operations were hamperec by wet, snowy streets, 11 motorists were arrested during the morning, Yesterday, with fair weather and the entire motorcycle squad = operating, 92 erring motorists were bagged. At the same time, it was announced that the Mayor's Traffic Safety Advisory Committee, headed by Wallace O. Lee, will swing into action in the campaign with a meeting at 2 p.| m. tomorrow at the City Hall. The committee will hear a report from a subcommittee; headed by Dr. R. N. Harger, which lias been studying the City’s enforcement methods. The subcommittee is expected to make recommendations designed to reduce the accident toll. The jail sentences were imposed by George Rinier, judge pro tem in Municipal Court 4 The defendants, George Cummins, 21, of R. R. 7, Box

MRS. DARRACH DEAD AT HOME

Member of Pioneer Family

Had Been Active in Civic, Patriotic Groups. Mrs. Eugene Haslet Darrach, a

member of a pioneer Marion Coun-

ty family and longtime resident of Indianapolis, died today at her

home, 4409 N. Meridian St.

In April, last year, Mrs. Darrach was elected national president of the Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, and had been active for years in the Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter of the D. A. R., the Mayflower Society, the Magna Charta Dames, and the National Organization of the Colonial Wars. She did extensive research

in genealogical history.

Propylaeum Member

She was a member of the Propylaeum and of the Women’s Department Club in Indianapolis. Mrs. Darrach was born in Cumberland, Ind., the daughter of Spencer Wallis and Sarah Taffe

‘| Huntington. She ‘was married to

the late Eugene Haslet Darrach June 28, 1893. They lived in Chicago, Minneapolis and ‘Detroit before making Indianapolis their home in 1899. Two sons, Haslet and Eugene, died in infancy. Mrs. Darrach attended the public schools and Butler

Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She was an active member of the Central Christian Church, of which her mother was a charter member.

Wintered in Florida

She spent her winters in her Miami Beach, Fla. home where she was a member of the Woman’s « of Miami. She is survived by two brothers, E. C. Huntington, Cumberland, and John Taffe Huntington, . Florida. Funeral services will be at 2:30 p. m, Saturday at the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary with the Rev. William Shullenberger, Central Christian Church pastor, in charge. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery.

FIRE SWEEPS FOUNDRY

PLYMOUTH, Ind., March 6 (U. P.) —Fire of undetermined origin last .night swept an Argos foundry building with an estimated damage of $5000 to $10,000 in machinery

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and equipment.

CHICAGO, March Gutzon Borglum, who carved in the hills of South Dakota a memorial that will endure with the ages, died in a Chicago hospital today, years before his greatest work could be completed. - Mr. Borglum died of a heart ailment. He had been in Henrotin Hospital several weeks and his condition was known to be critical. But 12 hours before his death, which occurred at 7 a. m. his physician had noted an improvement in his condition, The sculptor would have been 7 years old on March 25. Mr, Borglum was taken to the hospital for a minor operation. which was performed on Feb. 17 He recovered frerm the operation, according to his physician, Dr. William D. Jack, but his heart re-

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DOORS SLAM IN FACE OF DUCE AS HULL ACTS

Lists Detroit and Newark, Asks Curb on Movements Of Other Officers.

WASHINGTON, March 6 (U. P.). —The United States today asked Italy to close two of its consulates and to restrict the movements of all its consular officers in this country. Secretary of State Cordell Hull disclosed that he had sent a note to the Italian Government regarding the restrictions and the request for the closing of the consulates at Detroit and Newark. The tone of the note left no doubt that the restrictions are in retaliation for restrictions placed on the movement of American diplomatic and consular officials in Italy and the closing of two U. S. cousulates there.

Curb Officials’ Movements

The note requested that the officials outside of Washington confine their movements to the area over which they have jurisdiction. While not applying to members of the accredited diplomatic corps in Washington, the Italian embassy was requested to keep the State Department informed of the movements outside of Washington of the military and naval personnel attached to the embassy. Mr. Hull also requested that if the Newark and Detroit consular officers remain in this country, their whereabouts be reported to the State Department at all times,

. Dies Charges Recalled

There-have been various charges by membéf§ of Congress and the Dies Committee that German and Italian consular officers have been active “beyond the call of duty” in trying to spread Axis philosophy in their respective areas. The State Department already has investigated such charges against Baron Edgar von Spiegel, German consul at New Orleans, and indirectly criticized some of his activities in a memorandum to the German embassy here. No German consulates have been closed, however. “The Italian consulates at Detroit and Newark are located in vital American defense centers. Nearly three weeks ago Italy asked the United States to close its consulates at Palermo and Naples, apparently because the two cities are now zones of military activity, the State Department acquiesced. The Italain embassy said it had advised the Rome Government of the State Department’s request. It was believed that Italy would comply with the request without comment. It appeared that the State Department had adopted a-policy of “a consulate for a consulate” in meeting foreign actions to close American offices abroad.

Italy Has 51 Offices

The Detroit office is under Vice Consul Giacomo Profili, who has been there since Nov. 23, 1938. Head of the Newark office is Renato Della Chiesa D’Isasca, who took up that post March 11, 1937. Italy «maintains a total of 51 consular offices in the United States and its possessions, including the Detroit and Newark consulates. Several of the offices are not fullfledged consulates, but merely small offices under the direction of a “consular agent.” This nation has consulates in 10 Italian cities, including those which are being closed at Palermo and Naples.

SNOW--THEN RAIN--THAT'S THE MENU

West Coast Storm Moves Into Midwest.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a.m. ....31 10a m. ... a.m .... 30 11 a.m. ... S8a.m. .... 29 12 (Noon). a.m .... 29 1p mm...

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Nearly spent after subjecting California to “unusual” weather that created floods, the West Coast storm moved over the Middle West today and brought light snow to Indianapolis and the north central states. There will be more snow tonight and tomorrow, the weather Bureau predicted. There will be no decided change in temperature. As much as eight inches of snow was reported in parts of Kansas and Nebraska. The same disturbance caused rain from Texas and the southern plains states as far west as Utah and Arizona.

DROWNS IN CAR PLUNGE LOGANSPORT, Ind., March 6 (U. P.).—Walter Petrie, 30-year-old Pulaski County farmer, was drowned last night when his car plunged

GERMANY'SE# SCATTERED DIVISIONS |

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LIBYA

Each time Adolf Hitler puts another country under his “protection” it means he must assign troops to that area, thus further scattering Germany’s 250 divisions—comprising about 4,000,000 officers and men. This map shows how these legions are deployed, with only about 64 divisions (1,000,000 men) left as a striking force for invasion of Britain or other contemplated operations,

intervention by Japan, was averted

armistice between Thailand and Indo-China had been prclonged indefinitely.) (Coincident with easing of tension here, Shanghai dispatches reported that Japanese military forces had consolidated positions along a 250-mile stretch of the South China Coast within striking distance of Indo-China. In Malaya, British land, sea, air and civil defense forces started important military maneuvers.) The Bangkok radio announced that Thailand had accepted French reservations to the final Japanese peace terms.

In Tokyo a communique said

drafted a tentative British aid bill

Navy abroad.

reached as to whether it would be presented to the Senate before a vote is reached on the controversial Ellender amandment. The Ellender proposal would have the bill state that it creates no additional authority to employ the land or naval forces outside the Western Hemisphere or U. S. possessions. Senator Pat Harrison (D. Miss.) said the Administration was hopeful of working out something that would “satisfy everybody.” It was understood that the tenta-

tive draft contained no mention of a

Mr. Mason

military matters.

strategy was based on a deadlock along the Western Front, with neither side able to make headway

Weygand school of

Indo-China Accepts Terms

TOYKO, March 6 (U. P.).—Danger of renewed hostilities between French Indo-China and Thailand (Siam), with the possibility of armed

at least temporarily today.

Japan announced an agreement between Thailand and Indo-China on the principal points of the peace terms which it had proposed. (It was stated officially in Saigon, French Indo-China, that the

that “remaining points of detail” were likely to be settled within a few days. The Japanese information board said Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka conferred again today with French Ambassador Charles Ar-sene-Henry and discussed points not already agreed upon by the French and Thailand Governments. It was indicated that France, faced by an implied threat of Japanese armed action if Japan’s peace terms were rejected, had conceded the major points of the demands Japan made as “media~ tor.

Draft Ban on Use of Troops

WASHINGTON, March 6 (U. P.).—Administration strategists today

amendment designed to allay fears

that the measure would authorize war-like use of the U. S. Army and

Chairman Walter F. George (D. Ga.), of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said, however, that no definite decision had been

Western Hemispherical limitation because Mr. George felt that any mention of this hemisphere as a limitation would serve to give Japan the idea that she had a free hand in the Orient. That belief is Secretary of State Cordell Hull’s major objection to the amendment drafted by Senator Allen J. Ellender (D. La.). Mr. Ellender still claimed it had a “good chance” of being adopted. Meantime, White House Secretary Stephen T. Early denied that Presi(Continued on Page Eight)

‘War Moves Today

By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert

General Weygand’s return to France from North Africa for conferences with Marshal Petain may presage strengthening of Vichy’s policy against Hitler's extra-armistice demands. The. increasing entanglements of the Fuehrer which are carrying him nearer to estrangement with Russia may be expected to form an important part of the discussions between General Weygand and Marshal

Petain. At the outset of the war, it was General Weygand’s opinion that the final decision would come in the Near East. He was in command of the French forces there and is France's leading specialist on Near Eastern

The Weygand conception of grand | Germans in southeastern Europe and so end the war.

Even though France has surren-

against the other. Thereafter, the [dered since this plan of operations ght believed was formulated, a deadlock dosh, gxwith ist in the west, as between G

DEMAND ON VICHY FOR NEW BASES INDICATED AS HITLER W00S TURKS

Two Blitz Experts Meet With Boris In Sofia.

On War Front ~~ Today's War Moves......Page 1 . British Seize “Quislings”...., 8 Other War News. . wed

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

Gen. Maxime Weygand, Sue preme French Commander in Africa, flew to Vichy today, and belief increased that Adolf Hitler hopes to time an African stroke simultaneous ly with a Balkan ‘thrust. Weygand’s trip to France, his first since going to Africa after the French collapse last. summer, was surrounded by ¢ mystery. But London heard that Nazi pressure to obtain African bases is increasing and that more and more Gere man military specialists are appearing in the French cols. 3 onies. ;

Weygand went into mediates 5: conference with Marshal in A Philippe Petain. London re doubts of Petain’s ability to witha :

stand heavy Hitler pressure for the vital French bases.

Russia Shows Interest

In the Balkans the struggle be= tween Germany and Britain for the strategic initiative went on hammer

and tongs with Russia still on the sidelines, despite indications of ine creasing Soviet interest in develop ments. An apparently authoritative report. of Hitler's message to Turkey was transmitted by Dana Schmidt, Unite a Press staff correspondent at An« ara. Diplomats at Ankara heard that. Hitler had invited Turkey to send a high representative to Germany to discuss “closer co-operation” or as an alternative that Turkey allow: a German statesman to visit Ankara : for such a discussion. Other points made in the note were said to assure Turkey that Gers many entertained no ambitions for the Dardanelles and had no aggres= sive ‘aims against Turkey and to claim that Britain had consistently mistreated “small nations,” including her Turkish ally.

Blitz Experts in Sofia

Some panic among British and Jewish residents was reported in Istanbul where they were said te be withdrawing funds from banks . coincident with the constant ine’ crease in German troop concentra tions less than 100 miles away on the other side of the Turkish forts in Thrace. A Turkish high military official hoped for bad weather that would block the mountain passes of Buls garia and Greece, explaining that

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enabled the Germans to move into Bulgaria in such force and so rapidly. 1k Ch The - Moscow army paper, Red Star, cited unnamed “foreign obe' servers” as a source for the states . ment that Turkey might aid Greece if Germany attacked Salonika by allowing British warships to transi the Dardanelles and British troops to base on Turkish soil. Bucharest reported that Soviet representatives appeared to be (Continued on Page Seven)

Tomorrow

Leland Stowe has been flooded with questions from. readers from all parts 9 of the United States in c o nnection with his series of arti--cles. Mr. Stowe is answering these questions and The Indianapolis Times will publish’ series form this im question-and-answer

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