Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1941 — Page 11

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"LEGION LEADERS

MEET TOMORROW

Commander Warner's Report on Survey of England May Shape Policy on Parts to Be Played in National Defense.

: The chosen leaders of more than a million men who bore arms for the United States during.the last World War will gather at national American Legion headquarters here

tomorrow to decide what they can do for their country during the present emergency. Guided by reports of Legion surveys of the defense effort in this country and Great Britain, the Legion National Defense Committee and the Legion National Executive Committee will formulate a defense policy and summary of how Legionnaires can best serve. Both committees were called into special session by National Commander Milo J. Warner, who headed a Legion mission which spent 18 days in the British Isles studying defense activities. It is the fourth special session of the Executive Committee of about 83 members in the 22-year history of the Legion. ‘ The 15-member National Defense Committee will meet tomorrow morning to receive a report on the progress of the entire national defense effort. Its chairman, Warren H. Atherton, Stockton, Cal. will report on a nation-wide inspection of training camps, war industrial plants, shipyards and other defense establishments which he personally has completed.

Map Legion’s Role

- Mr. Atherton comes. to Indianapolis from Washington where, with the aid of a sub-committee, he has just compiled the latest statistics of the nation’s armed forces and defense plants. His report will be the latest available picture of America’s progress toward total defense. Providing the other side of the picture will be Commander Warner and the other members of the Mission to Britain. Mr. Warner will . present the Mission report as a whole, and then each member, assigned to gather information on separate phases of overseas defense, will report on his specialty. This report will be made Friday morning before the Executive Committee. Upon the recommendation of the Mission, if accepted by the Executive Committee, will be built the future home defense functions of the 1,076,119 Legionnaires and the 11,715 posts. : The Mission left New York City by Pan-American Clipper Feb. 8 and returned by Atlantic Clipper March 6. It flew 16,000 miles and

LEWIS SUBMITS

And Wins Back Those Who Repudiated Him.

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, March 12 (U. P.). —John L. Lewis bounced back today as a leader in the labor wars.

The vehicle of his comeback was a speech to the Applachian wage conference of bituminous operators and the United Mine Workers, which has three weeks in which to frame a new contract and prevent a shutdown of this basic industry. Local leaders of Mr. Lewis’ own union, many of whom denounced him in November for opposing reelection of President Roosevelt, were won again to the bushybrowed labor chieftain by his argument for pay raises that union statisticians estimate at 15 to 17 per cent of the present scale. Mr. Lewis conceded that the time is not right for cutting an hour off the working day of coal miners, while trying to add a dollar to their daily pay. : Usually the biennial chore of presenting the mine worker proposals to the coal operators is performed by Philip Murray, vice president of the union. But this year Mr. Lewis has removed himself from the top position in the C. I. O. and been succeeded by his friend Mr. Murray. The coal wage conference provided the setting for Mr. Lewis to reassert his leadership of the most powerful union of the C. I. O. He did it, while Mr. Murray—suffering from a cold—sat attentively listening. The Lewis program included not

only the pay raise, but vacations with pay and a guarantee of 200 working days a year, plus a number of more technical demands. The conference of about 400 miners and managers took a recess to think them over. After the operators’ reply is heard, tomorrow morning, the working out

visited Coventry, Portsmouth and other cities in England. It studied civilian defense functions, armament plants, coastal fortifications, R. A. F. fields, aviation factories, Army camps and other defense establishments.

The Mission’ was received by the King and talked to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It was composed of the national commander; Past National Commander Franklin D’'Olier, Morristown, N. J.; Maj. Gen. Frank Parker, U. S. A. retired. . and Joseph S. Deutschle, aid to the national commandey, and former Indianapolis newspaperman. The National Executive Committee is composed of one member each of the 58 departments, the national chaplain, the five national _ vice commanders and the 19 past national commanders, who are life members. To act on the reports to be received, a resolutions committee has heen appointed by Commander Warner. Thomas J. Riordan, San Francisco, Cal., is chairman. In addition to gathering domestic and overseas defense data, the Legion has conducted a nationwide registration of its members and unaffiliated veterans to provide local, State and national leadership with information as to the potential services they can render in the emergency.

‘ALUMINUM PLANT TIED UP BY STRIKE

By UNITED PRESS Workers at the Edgewater (N.J.) plant of the Aluminum Company of America went on strike today, disrupting production of sheet aluminum essential to the manufacture of airplanes for the nation’s defense program. The walkout was called by the C. I. O. United Aluminum Workers after failure of negotiations between the union and the manage- - ment In a dispute over overtime payments. The union also demanded a 10 cents an hour wage increase. Most of the 700 to 800 workers on the early morning shift were the first to walk out. They were employed in the sheet mill in the heart of the plant, upon which the other departments depend. The plant employs approximately 3000 workers, of whom the union claims to represent 2014. Work had been proceeding on a 24-hours-a-day, seven-day-a-week basis on nation defense contracts. : The strike brought to 31 ‘the number of industrial plants and projects involved in the national defense program which were affected today by labor disputes.

LOUIS C. SCHMIDT, 52, DIES IN HOTEL

Louis €C. Schmidt, former American Express employee, died today as he sat in a chair at a downtown hotel. He was 56. Mr. Schmidt lived at 6258 College Ave. with his sister, Miss Nina E. Schmidt, but they had taken rooms at the hotel while their apartment was being redecorated. He had been ill with a heart ailment about a ear. id Surviving are two other sisters, Mrs. May Brouse and Mrs. Elizabeth Lehman, a brother, George G. Schmidt, and a son, James, in the U. 8. Navy. : Services will be at 10 a. m. Friat the Royster & Askin Mortuwith burial at Union :

of an agreement is to be consigned to a committee of negotiators, expected to go into session next Monday.

THE HUNT'S ON FOR U-BOATS

Hitler Launches ‘Battle of ‘The Atlantic’ and England Answers.

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. LONDON, March 12—“The hunt is on!” So naval experts declared here today, without further elucidation, as indications grew that Adolf Hitler, to fulfill his boast that American aid would be meaningless, has unleashed

against England probably the largest fleet of U-boats yet to roam the Atlantic. Huge Focker-Wolfe bombers, which can encircle British seaways from northern Norway to southern France, co-operate with the Nazi submarines, Hitler has launched his “Battle of the Atlantic,” as Der Fuehrer promised in his Jan. 30 speech in Berlin, on the eighth anniversary of the Nazi revolution. But Britain’s struggle with death on the high seas will not be made without heavy losses to the Germans. British determination to defeat the U-boat campaign, as the airblitzes have been stymied, is intensified by figures released by the Admiralty yesterday. These showed that in the first week of the renewed U-boat warfare, ended at midnignt March 2-3, 29 British, Allied and neutral ships, of 148,038 total tonnage, were sent fo the bottom by Nazi torpedoes. This was the fourth heavy week of ship losses since the German U-boat campaign began in real earnest last June. :

Too young to be concerned about the national draft but keenly . interested in military training, Shortridge High School R. O. T. C. pupils are learning how to shoot straight.

They're utilizing a new rifle range in the basement of he

school, the first to be comple

MINE DEMANDS

Reasserts Union Leadership |} :

action on the bill.

WASHINGTON, March 12 (U. P.).—The text of President Roosevelt's letter transmitting to the House his request for first appropriations under the lend-lease program follows:

My Dear Mr. Speaker: This nation has felt that it was imperative to the security of America that we encourage the democracies’ heroic resistance to aggressions, by" not only maintaining but also increasing the flow of material assistance from this country. Therefore, the Congress has enacted and I have signed HR 1776. Through this legislation, our country has determined to do its full part in creating an adequate arsenal of democracy. This great arsenal will be here in this country.

BULWARK OUR DEFENSE

“It will be a bulwark of our own defense. It will be the source of the tools of defense for all democracies who are fighting to preserve themselves against aggression. While the defense equipment produced under HR 1776 remains under the control of the United States until it is ready for disposition, it is the fixed policy of this Government to make for democracies every gun, plane and munition of war that we possibly can. To accomplish these objectives, I am transmitting an estimate in the amount of $7,000,000,000, the details of which are set forth in the accompanying letter from the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. I stronging urge the immediate enactment of this appropriation. Respectfully, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. Honorable Sam Rayburn, Speaker, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. ” n ”

The next of the defense budget estimate as transmitted to the President by Harold D. Smith, Director of the Bureau of the Budget: Sir: I have the honor to submit for your consideration an estimate of appropriation to carry cut the provisions of the act entitled “An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States,” approved March 11, 1941, Public No. 11, in the amount of $7,000,000,000 as follows:

SPECIAL. DEFENSE FUND

To enable the Presislent, through such departments or agencies of the Government as he may designate, to carry out the provisions of the act, entitled “An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States,” approved March 11, 1941, and for each and every purpose incident to or necessary therefor, there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: (a) For the procurement, by manufacture or otherwise, of defense articles for the Government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States, including services and expenses in connection therewith, as follows: Ordnance and ordnance stores, supplies, spare parts, and materials, including armor and ammunition and components thereof. . . . $1,343,000,000. . Aircraft and aeronautical material, including engines, spare parts,

and accessories. . . . $2,054,000,000.

Indianapolis high schools with R. O. T. C. corps are expected to have rifle ranges soon. The range was completed at " Shortridge just a few weeks ago and already, armed with 22-cali-ber rifles mounted in Army stocks, the boys have fired hundreds of rounds of ammunition at tiny tar-

With the speed that promises to characterize America’s aid to Britain, a determined visaged President inscribed the name Franklin D. Roosevelt at the bottom of H. R. 1776, making a law of the much debated lend-lease bill. The signature followed in less than two hours after Congress completed

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ned Lend-Lease Bill

U. 8.

Text of Roosevelt Letter Transmitting His Request to House for 7 Billion in Aid Funds

Tanks, armored cars, automobiles,ther: That any defense articles pro-

trucks and other automotive vehicles, spare parts, and accessories. . . . $362,000,000. Vessels, ships, boats, and other water craft, and equipage, supplies, materials, spare parts, and accessories. . . . $629,000,000. Miscellaneous military equipment, supplies and materials. . . . $260, 000,000.

MONEY FOR LAND

cured under the foregoing appropri-

ations may be allocated by the Presi-

dent to any department or agency of this Government for the use of such depatment or agency. (c) For necessary services and

{expenses for carrying out the pur-

poses of said act not specified or included in the foregoing . . . $40,000,000. (d) For administrative expenses . « « $10,000,000.

Facilities ‘and equipment for the manufacture or production of defense articles, including the construction, acquisition, maintenance and operation thereof, and the acquisition of land . . . $752,000,000. Agricultural, industrial and other commodities and articles . , . $1,350,000,000. (b) For testing, inspecting, prove ing, repairing, outfitting, reconditioning, or otherwise placing in good working order any defense articles for the Government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United Stats . . . $200,000,000. Provided: That not to exceed 20 per centum of any of the foregoing appropriations may be transferred by the President to any other such appropriation, but no appropriation shall be increased more than 30 per centum thereby; and provided fur-

‘SEVEN BILLION IN ALL

In all seven billion dollars, to remain avaliable until June 30, 1943; provided: That the President may transfer from the foregoing appropriations to appropriate current appropriations of any department or agency amounts equivalent to the value of defense articles disposed of by such department or agency to the Government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States, not exceeding in total $1,300,000,000. I recommend that the estimate be transmitted to Congress. Very respectfully, (Signed) HAROLD D. SMITH, Director of the Bureau

of the Budget. The President, The White House.

GOP HOOSIERS IGNORE WILLKIE

|Ludlow Also Votes Against

Senate Changes Despite Pleas for Unity.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 12—Hoosier Republicans remained unmoved by the unity pleas of Wendell L. Willkie and Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (R. Mass.), minority leader, the House roll-call on final dis-

posal of the Lend-Lease Bill disclosed today. Seven Indiana Republicans and Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) voted against accepting the Senate amendments, just as they had voted against the original bill when it was passed in the House. Rep. Noble J. Johnson (R. Ind.) was absent.on a Naval Affairs Committee inspection trip, so’ did not get to add his final “no” with the others. Hoosier Democrats voting for the amendments were Reps. William T. Schulte, William H. Larrabee and John W. Boehne, Jr. They had supported the original bill as passed by the House. Those who voted against both the bill and Senate amendments were Reps. Charles A. Halleck, Robert A. Grant, George W. Gillie, Forest A. Harness, Gerald W. landis, Earl Wilson and Raymond S. Springer. Afte the roll-call, Rep. Halleck stated his position, now that the Lend-Lease Bill is law. “Now it is the "law, and the thing for all Americans to do is to close ranks and devote every energy toward making adequate defense and all-out aid to England work.”

Straight Shooters at Shortridge

Cadet Sergt. Harry Brammer, Shortridge High School . . . one bulls-eye coming up.

Shortridge has had a range, Sergt. Albert Neff, R. O. T. C. instructor, was in for a surprise when he examined the targets. He said the boys were good shots. Later on, Sergt. Neff said boys’ and girls’ rifle teams will be orfesse and .the gkill that. has

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Beery 'Smitten’

Of N. Y. Widow

HOLLYWOOD, March 12 (U. P.).—Wallace Beery, who dodges romantic roles in pictures, admitted today that he was smitten of Mrs. Loreen Robinson, a wealthy and attractive New York widow.

She flew here to be with Mr. Beery during the trial of a $600,100 damage suit against him. Mrs. Robinson, daughter of E. E. Buffum, Long Beach, Cal, department store magnate, appeared in court with him for the first time yesterday. She immediately intimated that she was interested in the 52-year-old actor. “But we won't admit we're go« ing to be married,” she said, “and we won't deny it.” Mr. Beery has been married and divorced twice. His avocation has been helping worthy children, and it was a former candidate for adoption who brought him into court. Mr. Beery was sued by Allan B. Whitney on ga charge of false arrest: Whitney, 28, charged that Mr. Beery had him arrested two years ago. Mr. Beery denied this. He said he had taken Whitney into his home as a 13-year-old boy, but sent him away because he refused to write to his mother. The case was expected to go to the jury today.

LABOR MEDIATION PLAN HANGS FIR

WASHINGTON, March 12 (U. P.).—A conflict of opinion among high labor officials appeared likely today to delay appointment of a super-mediation board to handle defense labor disputes. ‘National Defense Commission and Labor Department officials have not reached an agreement: the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. also disagree, Labor officials in President Roosevelt’s confidence, said he has several proposals under consideration. But the President is expected to leave Washington next week for a southern vacation and a decision likely will be deferred until his return. The plan most frequently discussed would be similar to the World War Mediation Board. That had 11 members, appointed by President Wilson from among labor and industry leaders and with three representing the public. Sidney Hillman, associate director of the Office of “Production Management, favors an 1l-man board. Labor Department officials say. such a number would be un-

‘| wieldly. and suggest a five-man

board, . with two representatives each from labor and management and a Government official as chairman. ; President William Green of the A. F. of L. favors the World War Board pian; C. I. O. President Philip Murray is opposed to it.

BIBLE CLASS PLANS SESSION

The Ladies’ Bible Class of the Westminster) Presbyterian Church will meet at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the home of the church:

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i] Tech High School;

|SECOND SCHOOL

. LOAN SOUGHT

$600,000 to Be Borrowed in Anticipation of Collection Of 1940 Taxes.

By EARL HOFF

For the second time within a month the Indianapolis School Board prepared today to borrow operating funds in anticipation of tax levies. At the Board's semi-monthly meeting last night, Commissioners voted to advertise for a loan of $600,000 at an interest rate not to exceed 6 per cent and to mature June 30. A $650,000 loan was negotiated Feb. 28 to meet teachers’ salaries and expenses. The new loan would put the schools $1,250,000 in debt against the $4,850,000 expected to be raised this year on 1940 taxes. The Board also voted to spend

h| $615 for supplemental books for the!

school system and $240 for installa-

i| tion of library shelves at Washing-

ton High School.

Three Teachers Appointed

Three new teachers were appointed, Donald Ragsdale, printing, Howard Han-

music, Washington High

2] School, and Anna K. Suter, mathe- | matics, Howe High School.

Grace Schowengerdt was appointed a botany assistant at Tech. Leaves of absence were granted to Milo D. Burgess, Tech commercial teacher, and Elliott French, Tech printing teacher, both for governmental service. Resignations of Betty Lea Peoples, Tech teacher, and Vivian Claffey, social service worker, were accepted.

Summer School Set

On recommendation of Superintendent DeWitt S. Morgan, June 16 to Aug. 1 were set as the dates for summer school. Basic fees will be $3 a subject for elementary courses and $5 a subject for high school courses. Librarian L. L. Dickerson reported that January cash collections were $1231.13 and that circulation of books had declined 8.3 per cent in February from the same month a year ago. He said the decline could be attributed to the City’s gain in employment. Marcia Joann Binford was named a library attendant. Two probational janitors were suspended and

| three were hired.

CITY’S FIRE LOSS $490,000 DURING ’40

Indianapolis’ fire loss last year totaled approximately $490,000, Chief Fred Kennedy reported to the Safety Board yesterday. This figure, he said, is slightly below the average for the six years he has served as chief. During 1940, he reported, the department answered 3780 alarms. For the six years, 19,682 alarms were received, the gross fire loss being $3,078,160.

New WPA Head

Howard O. Hunter, acting commissioner of WPA since the death of Col. Harrington last fall, has been nominated by President Roosevelt to assume full directorship of that important Government agency.

LAUDS INDIANA MERIT SYSTEM

Civil Service League Chief Terms State a Leader In Talk Here.

Indiana today was praised as a leader in the national movement for the establishment of merit systems in governments by Samuel Ordway of New York in a talk before the Indiana Merit System Association at the Claypool Hotel. Public demand for merit systems is “spreading like wildfire,” the head of the National Civil Service Reform league said. By recent enactment of a merit system law, Indiana has taken the iead among states pledged to sound nonpartisan government administration, he said. “Once department heads and political leaders come to see that the merit system not only relieves them of untold pressure, but improves the public services for which they are responsible, they, too, will support extension of the merit system throughout the State's departments and agencies,” Mr. Ordway said. He pointed out that the public support for a merit system was expanding in Indiana and that it was important, under-the new Indiana law, to set up a strong Civil Service Commission. He said this could be done by the method of dual appointment provided by the Indiana Legislature.

ECLIPSE 0 iE

Takes a Long Time for the Moon, Sun, Earth to "Get in Line. |

You might at first think from the way a lunar eclipse occurs that we should see one every month. 2 But, according to Dr. B, 0. | Getchell of Butler University, the | eclipse of the moon scheduled for the early morning hours tomorrow is the first visible in the United States since October, 1939.

Let Dr. Getchell explain it: ; The moon goes around the earth and the earth goes around the sun. Eclipses occur when the three get in a straight line. If, at that time the moon is between the earth and the sun, there is an eclipse of the sun. If the moon is on the opposite side of the earth there is a lunar eclipse.

Happens on Full Moon

When the moon is on the gide of the earth. toward the sun, it is new moon. When it is on the opposite side, the moon is full. A solar eclipse, therefore, can only occur at new moon and a lunar eclipse only at full moon. # Now if the orbit of the moon lay in the same plane as the orbit of the earth, there would always be an eclipse of the sun at new moon and a lunar eclipse at full moon. But the orbit of the moon is inclined to the earth’s orbit about 5 degrees. sia The moon circles around its orbit once in approximately 27 days and ' 8 hours. Meanwhile, the earth is moving in its orbit around the sun and carrying the moon with it. Consequently from one full moon to the next the moon has moved a Ihe farther than once around its orbit. :

Above or Below Shadow

The result is that the moon never is in the same place in its orbit at two successive new moons or fall moons, so the full moon usually passes either above or below the earth’s shadow. ; ; When the moon does move into the shadow we get an eclipse like the one tomorrow morning. The moon will enter the umbra (or ine ner, darker portion) of the earth’s shadow at 4:55 a, m. An hour later it will be almost completely dipped into the shadow, which then will have taken a bite about one-third from the moon’s rim.

WILLKIE CHOICE WIN

NEW YORK, March 12 (U. P.) = Wendell L. Willkie said today that the victory of Joseph Clark Balde win, Republican, in yesterday's bye= election in the 17th Congressional district, indicated that isolationism was losing ground. Mr. Baldwin favors all possible aid to Great Britain. He succeeds the late Kene

neth F. Simpson.

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