Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1941 — Page 6

MORE DIE IN. LOCAL TRAFFIC

City-County Toll for Year Now 29, Double Same Period in 1940.

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Turk Fighter

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Ten persons were fatally injured In city traffic during the corresponding period last year. . The deaths of the two pedestria .overnight makes a total of nine Marion County persons killed since, "Sunday. Five of these were killed In train-auto accidents, a young| ‘woman was killed near Logansport, and a pedestrian was fatally inJured. .

. The accident which resulted in Mr. Harmening's death happened at 7:45 o'clock last night during the rain. Police said he was crossing Prospect St. when a car driven by ~ Lawrence Keehan, 20, of 2720 E. Washington St., struck him. Mr. Prevott was crossing College Ave. when he stepped in front of 8 car driven by Louis Rodger, 24, of 1912 N. Tacoma Ave. police reported. He received a broken right leg and head ihjuries. Police said he had just left the home of Dr. Charles Keever, 5210 College ave., former Marion County Coroner, where he was employed, when the accident occurred. Mr. Harmening was born in Indianapolis- and had lived here most of his life. He was formerly a street ‘car conductor for the Indianapolis Railways. Survivors are a son, Fred Harmening of Indianapolis, and five brothers, Charles - Harmening of Chicago Heights, Ill.,, George Harmening of Florida, and Frank, William F. and Chris Harmening, all of Indianapolis.

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Turkey is a nation of fighters. Not only the men, but also the women, serve in the military forces. Here is an attractive feminine flier in the Turkish air force.

ACQUIS LIESE IN DEATH TRIAL

Time; to Look for Job,’ ‘Youth Says. (Continued from Page One)

“weak” alibi. Liese was charged with first degree murder. The défendant’s attorney decried any motive. He told the jury they weére being asked to .believe that Liese, who was 16 at the time of the slaying, killed his “best friend and benefactor.” Liese testified yesterday that Mr. Hunt dropped him off the route

1 truck. He said he came into town

and when he read in an extra newspaper that “Jimmie” had been killed, he became frightened and ran away. , Reporters Testify Newspapermen who were employed .on evening newspapers at the time testified that the slaying was reported originally at the sheriff's office as an accident. They said they did not notify their newspapers: until they had investigated and that it was too late to get the story of the slaying into the evening newspapers. On this testimony, both assistant prosecutors attacked Liese’s story as ‘weak and lame.” Mr. Holder said also that it was “evident” that Liese had returned to “whitewash” himself only after the selective servicé registration made it difficult to hide his true identity. Mr. Rochford told the jury that the State had failed to make a |strong enough cireumstantial case. | “Life or death penalty is a pretty big thing to hang on a boy on cir|cumstantial evidence, let alone direct evidence,” he said. He spent

AUTO INJURIES FATAL

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LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 11 (U, Lafayette, died yesterday of injuries received Feb. 15 in an automobile

a good part of his hour-and-a-half closing argument reading verbatim from the last case in Indiana sought to be proved on circumstantial evidence. Taking the stand in his own behalf earlier, Liese told the story of

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his six years’ wandering all over the United States.

Tells of Wanderings

“I 'went to St. Louis that night,” he sdid, “but I went right through the town and on to Kansas City. I stayed in a hotel. It was two bits.

I gaye the name of John King. “I'went on to Denver. I worked there about a week. I don’t know why I left there. I just kept on going west. It was at Salt Lake City that: I changed my name. I kept that, name. It was Kelly.” From there, Liese said he went on to Nevada, Oakland and back to Salt Lake City. Then he went East, to Buffalo and New York City, where he sold newspapers. He said he was in Ft. Wayne in May, 1935.

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“Later I went to Ft. Dodge, Iowa. I joined a carnival there and we

went to Canada, Moose Jaw, I think it was. I was with the carnival five weeks.” In response to questions, Liese declared that he had never been married. He said he had thought often about coming back and that he was in Missouri a week before her walked into Mr. Rochford’s office here on Sept. 20, 1940. He was arrested the next afternoon and has been at County Jail since that time. A motion to be allowed bail was denied by Judge Myers on Jan. 15, 1941.

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has more of this type of heavy bomber than any other. The British some time ago were given prior delivery .on. 26 Consplidated four-engine bombers which originally were intended for the Army air corps. Some of these have already been delivered. The Army possesses one or two of this type at present. Officials said that while they felt it was almost certain that the British would get some ships, including destroyers and merchant vessels, they were uncertain as to when the transfer would be made of¢ the number involved. The reported decision to send the bombers and other aid to Britain as soon as possible after signing of the bill was said to constitute in part a reply to Axis threats that such equipment never will be permitted to reach its destination. “The President is moving steadily along *in the direction of getting things prepared by the executive branch for as nearly immediate action as possible when the lendlease bill is signed,” White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said. He also arranged a conference with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Acting Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff; Rear Admiral R. E. Ingersoll, acting chief of naval operations;

Under Lend-Lease Program

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Fly to Britain

Rear Admiral Ben Moreell, chief of the Navy’s Bureau of Yards and Docks; Budget Director Harold Smith and the Army Quartermaster General. Later Mr. Roosevelt will hold a conference with Bernard Baruch, chief of the War Industries Board during the World War. It was noted. that Lauchlin Currie, one of the President’s administrative assistants who was sent to China last month to confer with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, is en route back to Washington. He arrived in San Francisco yesterday. His early return led to speculation that the program for aid to embattled democracies may include more for China than has been anticipated. During recent weeks discussion has centered almost entirely on equipment for Great Britain. | Meanwhile, Senate opponents of the bill met in the office of Senator Hiram W. Johnson (R. Cal.) to plan strategy for their “crusade” against involvement in the war. ° Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.), leader of the unsuccessful fight against the British aid bill said the group would “watch closely” appropriation bills on the aid program. He recently announced he would launch a “crusade” against American involvement in war and would stump the country from coast to coast. :

DEFENSE BILLS TOTAL 9 BILLION

House May Vote on Four Preparedness Measures

In Next Few Days.

WASHINGTON, March 11 (U, P.). —The House may vote within the next few days on four bills appropriating more than $9,000,000,000 for preparedness. If action is completed promptly on the British-aid bill, leaders planned to call up the first of the four measures today—the $1,533,567,102 fourth supplemental defense bill, passed by the Senate yesterday. The House will be asked to accept Senate revisions or send the bill to conference. The three other bills all are pending before the House Appropriations Committee in varying forms. They are: 1, The $3,546,000,000 naval appropriation bill for the coming fiscal year. Plans are to bring it up to the floor Thursday. 2. The $3,812,311,197 fifth supplemental defense bill carrying funds for various Army activities, including a big item for the air corps. It is slated to follow the naval supply bill on the floor. 3. A bill to comply with the request sent to Congress yesterday by President Roosevelt for $300,841,820 to meet emergency Navy needs, including more guns and ammunition and acquisition of 12 more auxil« iaries for the fleet.

HOOSIER DOCTOR AND WIFE DIE IN CRASH

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Oberlin of Hammond, Ind. were instantly killed this morning when their auto skidded on slippery pavement and crashed into a truck near Cook, Ind.,, on State Road 41, State Police reported here. Ed Holtz, Desplaines, Ill, driver

of the truck, was in a critical con-|.

dition in a Gary (Ind.) hospital.

SCHENSKER HOPES T0 JOIN HIS WIFE

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quiry in November, 1939, and reported to former Governor M. Clifford Townsend that it found the State still owed Mr. Schlensker about $40,000 of the original $50,000, discounting some of the money for “shortages” in the transactions. About a year after the transaction, Mr. Schlensker said he was forced out of business by unfavorable publicity incident to court fights. “I was able to pay off all my debts and keep a little real estate but as the years went by I had to sell these to live on and finally went to a farm to try to make a living for my wife,” he said. “She became ill three years ago and I had to send her out west. . . . I'm going to take the first train out there when I get that check from the State.” The bill for the appropriation was introduced in the House by Rep. W. O. Hughes (Ft. Wayne) and sponsored through both Houses by Perry Easton, former State Senator, who tried to get action in the 1935

Legislature but failed.

marine menace. Two solutions are awaiting application. The first is more rapid unloading and loading of cargoes. Ernest Bevin, British Minister of Labor, said last week that the time taken for this action can be reduced by 40 per ceat. Reorganization of the work of

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War Moves Today

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British ports, with that end in view. When it is completed, the British will have partly met the submarine danger by more efficient handling of cargoes. The second method is to build speedier freight ships. Twenty knot freighters might not be economical in large numbers during peace time but their present value is two-fold. The more rapidly they can make their ocean journeys, the more voyages they can undertake and the more cargoes they can carry over an extended time. One 20-knot ship can do about double the service of a 10-knot freighter, even allowing for some possibly extra time for construction. Speed, too, has value in escaping from submarines. It is seldom that a submarine can get a fast moving ship, not only because of its ability for rapid retreat but also because it can zig zag faster and thus distract the aim of the submarine gunners. A convoy’s movements are limited by the speed of the slowest vassel. If convoyed ships all had high speed there is no doubt the German attacks on these collective ships would decline. In addition, however, to such counter-actions against the German U-boats, Great Britain requires a larger number of armed speedboats, destroyers and small cruisers to protect convoys. Too, there is need for more rapid construction of new freighters. American help is essential here and there is no reason to doubt that the German toll can be held within reason until American production gets into its stride. \There is significance in the fact that today when the British have announced the sudden increase in intensified German submarine action, is the day when the lend-lease bill is scheduled for final Congressional

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NAZIS STEP UP

Stress Air-Sea Offensive;

of a Thailand-French Indo-China

great territorial concessions to the Siamese.

makes the Mekong River the new

and that French and Indo-Chinese shall enjoy equal treatment with

“cornerstone for establishment of the greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere.”

TEMPO OF WAR

French Indo-China and Thailand Sign Peace.

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peace in which Indo-China makes

The peace agreement takes great slices from northwest and southwest Indo-China and, in effect,

frontier. It provides that all ceded territories are to be demilitarized

Thai citizens in them, This peace was signed today in Tokyo and brought from Matsuoka a statement that it would prove the

Italians, particularly, were quick to link the visit as an Axis reply to the prospects of increasing U, S. aid to Britain. A’ favorite thesis in Axis quarters is to hint that the United States will suffer dire consequences in the Far East through entry of Japan into the war if America persists in its aid-to-Bri-tain program. German quarters said that “military questions” will be discussed with Matsuoka against the “significant” background of the U. 8S. lease-lend bill to aid Britain. The Royal Air Force replied to the Nazi attacks on Britain by smashing heavily at the invasion coast of France and striking inland to the Ruhr Valley, where Cologne was attacked. The Germans admitted that some persons were killed and wounded in British air attacks. The British Air Ministry reported large numbers of fires were started in western Germany. At Cologne bombs were seen to burst on approaches to the Hohenzollern Bridge, it was claimed. In Africa two wedges were being driven into Ethiopia from the northwest and the southeast. The

from Debra Marcos, chief Italian garrison in northwest Ethiopia, was announced. The southeastern column was

progressing with equal speed and a heavy air attack on Harar, southeastern Italian headquarters, was reported. : An Athens war communique said that Greeks ’battling for mountaintop positions have repulsed “violent Italian offensive operations” along a widened front in the central section of Albania. A Government spokesman said that the Greeks had repulsed all counter-attacks, taking 259 Italian prisoners and capturing many new, well fortified positions and large supplies of food and materials. Greek land forces supported by al#d aviation raided enemy columns moving up to the front as well as military objectives in the rear, he said. In Istanbul it was learned that the National Assembly will take up plans for evacuation of 300,000 civilians from Istanbul in view of increasing Nazi Army concentrations within a half-hour’s bomber flight from the strategic Dardanelles. These precautions are expected to be considered following an. important address on Turkey's foreign policy to be delivered tomorrow by Premier Dr. Reflk Saydam. A secret sketch of the critical de-

was presented to members of the People’s Party today. Both Turkish and Britis quarters were worried by reports from Bulgaria that German forces are being distributed so strategically that

they might strike with equal ease against either Greece or Turkey.

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