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ME 53 — NUMBER 2

THURSDAY, MARC

H 13, 1941

Fair tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy; not much change in temperature; lowest tonight about 80,

Entered as at Postoffice,

BOARD CALLED |

BY SCHRICKER

Printing Group to Meet

Tuesday; Democrats Plan Legal Test. Acting under the firs, G. O. P.

“decentralization” laws fo take effect, Governor Henry F. Schricker

today reappointed his State Police

Board and called a session of the

newly-created State Printing Board

for next Tuesday. But in Democratic act was interpreted as a withdrawal from the party's vowed intention of testing the legality of acts designed to strip the chief executive of his appointing or administrative powers. The State Printing

enacted into law by the Republican Legislature despite the Governor's veto, abolishes the present board effective March 15, and creates one composed of the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, and Reporter for

the Supreme and Appellate Courts. |

Director To Be Chosen

It provides that the Governor Won't Be in Position to

shall call an organization meeting at which a director and deputy are to be named. The director is to receive $3600 a year, his assistant $2400 and both must have “at least i0 vears of practical experience.” The present board is composed of the Governor, Secretary of State and Aw itor, with the Governor appointing three other members including the director

Board Bill, | -

circles, neither

Betty Bowers of Peublo, Colo., illustrates the ‘mew wrinkle” among coe-fds who wear minia-

ture license plates naming their admirers away in the Army.

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SAYS AMERICA IS NOT READY

Fight Before 1942, Atherton Tells Legion.

“Despite the tremendous and efficient effort of national preparedness, America would not be in a position to fight until the beginning {of next year,” Warren H. Atherton, |chairman of the American Legion

Although the 1941 acts takes the | National Defense Committee, reappointive power from the Gover-|ported to committee members today. nor, State House officials point out| Mr. Atherton, who lives in Stockthat the office of State Printer was | ton, Cal, has just completed a in effect before the 1851 Constitu- | months’ tour of inspection of detioh and therefore not covered by | fense plants, Army training camps the constitutional provision under [and Navy bases to report. which the Democrats intend to test| Before coming to Indianapolis to-

Allison Speeds

Going Too Fast to Turn, | Police Believe; 6 Die | In State.

Two firemen were injured and | two escaped injury today when the | |Pire Department rescue truck turned | over at Northwestern Ave. and 30th lst. on its way to a fire. Paul Carr. 40, of 3901 Boulevard and Vollie Reiss, 437 Alton Ave,, were injured, Mr. Carr the more seriously, when they were { thrown from the open back of the (truck. They were taken to City [ Hospital. Ralph Billeter, 47, of 3416 North- | western Ave, truck driver, and | Lieut, Thomas Lambert, 1726 Sharon | Ave., riding the driver's cab, es|caped injury. | They were on their way to a fire in the 1100 block W. 31st St., three blocks from the accident, Police [said the truck apparently was going too fast to make the turn onto | Northwestern Ave. Six Killed in State State traffic outside Marion | County over night accounted for | (the death of six persons, two of them from Indianapolis. Six other persons were injured seriously, | Mrs. Ada Page, 44, of 6202 Haverford Ave. and her father, Alonzo | Payne, 70, were killed when their car and another collided near | [Jamestown Road 34 shortly; lafter 4 p. m. yesterday. | Four persons were killed when a | lear and a truck crashed head-on on Road 41 seven miles south of Prince- | ton. They are Mrs. Etta Morris, 42; | { Mrs. Verda Green, 45; Joseph Green, | 19, her son, all of Princeton, and |

pilot.

| Place,

Lockheed P-38 can climb a mile a

fuselage.

the other “ripper” measures. Court Test Possible

With three of the four members |

Republicans, the new director of printing will be a Republican, replacing Park Beadle, a Democrat.

day to report to the Defense Committee and the Legion Executive

Committee, both of which are in|

special session, Mr. Atherton reported his findings to high Army {and Navy officials, including Gen. | George C. Marshall, chief of the

| William Knight, 40, Patoka. Had Been at Party

Mrs. Page and her father had at-,

tended a birthday party for Mrs. Crawfordsville and

Page's aunt at

Among the leading candidates for [Army General Staff. Be the new post are Rep. J. Otto Lee He said here today that while it of Indianapolis, who introduced the | Would be January of 1942 “before we printing board bill, and Cooper C.|are in a position to fight,” America’s Clifton of Covington, who was House defense accomplishments thus far engrossing clerk during the last two Dave been three times what any

| 34, Jamestown, apparently skidded

Assembly sessions.

Selection of Rep. Lee, a union

printer, might bring the first court |

test of the new G. ©. P. measures. Under the Constitution, no legislator is eligible to hold an office of profit which shall have been created by the Assembly during his term

McNutt Record Cited

Democratic officials have tended that the State Printing Board, as well as several other State departments, have been abolished and then recreated, thereby making present legislators ineligible for appointment to them. G. O. P. members, in turn, have pointed to the record of former Governor Paul V. McNutt, who named many of his legislative leaders to State offices after the Reorganization Act had gone into effect in 1933. The Democrats contend, however, that the boards and com-

con-|

[other country might accomplish in [the same period of time. “TI found that the construction of Army training camp cantonments is virtually completed,” Mr. Atherton said.

“The facilities at training camps|

fare better now than camp facilities | six months after America entered | the last war.” Plane factories have tripled their floor space, Mr. Atherton said Asked if he found any faults in the defense program, Mr. Atherton said he had heard complaints from (employers and employees against {local draft board decisions on de[ferments. They complained, Mr. | Atherton said, that the present system was taking away valuable worklers from machines in plants with defense contracts. The Defense Committee held a Iclosed meeting. made to the Executive Committee

Its report will be]

'were on their way home at the time | of the accident. State police said |

a car driven by Charles Si hter, : US er mounted in the wing nacelles.

| broadside in front of the car driven {by Mrs. Page. | Mrs. Page was killed instantly and {Mr. Payne died shortly later in a Crawfordsville hospital. Mr. Slaugh[ter, seriosly injured, is in tho Craw- | fordsville hospital. Mrs. Page is survived by her husband. Cecil Page, a postal clerk, an by her mother, who lives in Danville.

BRITISH TO GET 99 NAVAL SHIPS

: Army and RFC Negotiate | The other accident occurred, .ac- is ‘cording to State Police, on a bridge.| To Take Qver 300 Million

{Seriously injured were Betty Morris, | [Martha and Margaret Cummins, all) In War Contracts. WASHINGTON, March 13 (U. P.).

Crash on Bridge

{of Princeton, and Clarence Kolb, 30, {Patoka, driver of the truck. | | Mrs. Kolb and Mr. Knight Were! in the truck, and Mr. Green and all the women were in the other car. said that the army and the ReconMethodist Hospital physicians at| Princeton said the injured all are likely to recove.. : Enforcement of the new parking | regulations on N. Capitol Ave. and]

ish war contracts in this country. This move was contemplated as

Another Allison powered craft of the Thus mounted, the three-bladed propellers “push” this fighter. The photos | of the Airacobra P-38 and Airacuda are the first official General Motors photos of newest models,

—A high Government official today |

struction Finance Corporation are | negotiating to take over between | $300,000,000 and $350,000,000 of Brit- |

The latest model of Airacobra (P. 39), Bell Aircraft's pursuit which mounts its Allison back of the Several modifications in design have heen incorporated in the new model. 37 mm cannon through its sleek nose and can do ar ound 385 miles per hour,

Considered one of the fastest fighting planes in the world, this new model of the twin-Allison engined Its top speed, although never officially revealed, is said to be close to 500 m. p. h. Minor design changes have been made in the new model to further streamline the

minute,

Bell family. This is th

| Axis, American Navies Compared

|—The Navy submitted tables to [Congress today showing the comparative strengths of the United States fleet and those of the Axis | powers The following table gives {the comparative strength in types of warships: Jah, 1 Jan, 1 1942 1943 7.8. Axis U.S. Axis 5 2 17 28 18 3 6 8 7 7 81 45 292 219 400

| Battleships | Afrc'ft Carriers Cruisers | Destroyers | Submarines .

325 500

e-¥5H 108

108 133

Total ...... 302 342 803 422 962

{of France, which has these imme-

| diately effective units: One battle-|

ship, one aircraft carrier, 14

p! 3500 New Jobs Ahead

WASHINGTON, March 13 (U. P.).| av

The above does not include those |

The Airacobra fires a

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HAMBURG AND BREMEN HIT IN WORST ATTACK

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Aerial Offensive With Long-Range Planes Includes Norway, Holland, Belgium And French Invasion Coast.

LONDON, March 13 (U. P.).—Great Britain launched a great air offensive against Germany and German-held terri tory today, striking heavily at Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg and sweeping across the French invasion coast twice during daylight hours. The attack was described as the greatest British raid of the war. Long-range British bombers, including powerful new types with double and triple the bomb-carrying capacity of their predecessors, were sent against Nazi targets. They rained bombs upon Berlin for the first time since last December and directed punishing raids against targets in Bremen, Hamburg, southern Norway, Holland, Belgium and France. None of the bombers which the Air Ministry revealed went into action in the raids were understood to have been lost over Germany. Five other planes failed to return.

Believe Crack Planes Used There was no announcement but it was assumed that

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e Airacuda. The two Allisons are

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1000 MOTORS A MONTH 1S GOAL

Additional Workers to Be Used on Operations in Plant 3.

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| By SAM TYNDALL 101 |

Within 30 days, the Allison Di-

vision of General Motors will bagin |

hiring an additional 3500 workers to speed production of its liquidcooled motors to the 1000-a-month goal this Tall, it was learned today. At present, approximately 2000

‘the Royal Air Force employed its crack new Halifax, Stirling land Manchester bombers, all of them having far greates range and bomb-capacity than their Ybredecessors, the White lleys, Hampdens and Wellingtons. There was no indication that new United States longe range bombers participated in the attack. The Halifax and the Stirling bombers are four-engined types and the Manchester is a twin-engine plane. In addition a British beaufort torpedo-bomber torpedoed a German destroyer in bright moonlight in the Skagerrak at the entrance to the Baltic Sea and smashed a German mass raid on Liverpool. Pilots reported large and numerous fires in Berlin, espe« [cially in the neighborhood of railroad yards, and explosions land fires in the Hamburg and Bremen areas.

Norwegian Airdrome Bombed

In Berlin it was admitted that 16 persons were killed and 37 wounded in the British raid on the German capital, | The Nazis claimed that 10 British planes were shot down ‘during the raids on Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen. While long range planes of the bomber command were | making these attacks, planes of the coastal command bombed an airdrome in southern Norway and shipping and (Continued on Page Seven)

Balkan Showdown Near

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent Events in the Balkans appeared today to be moving rapidly toward a showdown While the Greeks fought on relentlessly and claimed successes against determined Ttalian counter-attacks in Albania, private advices | received by the United Press yesterday said that a British expeditione ary force had been landed in Salonika and Piraeus, the port of Athens,

employees are believed to be tWNING 1 “wag hinted that the force might | out “over 400” motors per month, umber 175.000 men. reliable informants stated. | ‘Official confirmation of these priv- | | The new army of workers to be ate advices revealing the sensational |

missions to which they were named were not created by the Legislature but merely moved from one depart-

which tomorrow .is to hear the re- N. Meridian St. during the traffic'a means of integrating the Ameriport of National Commander Milo rush hours was started today. can defense program with the BritJ. Warner on his findings during| Motorcycle police placed illegal ish aid program under the Lend-

|eruisers, 52 destroyers and 60 submarines.

500 miles from Piraeus and 750 miles from Salonika. The forces were drawn from Gen,

ment to another. A majority of the State’s boards and agencies, under the 1941 acts. were abolished and recreated under

an inspection of the home defense program in England.

different titles but with the same powers and duties as the present

boards. These laws take effect Mav NEW AUTOGIROS 1, and several G. O. P. legislators] who want appointive jobs would like | MBAT SUB to sem the issue settled before that! date | mim——— 1 Another legal difficulty created by the Legislature still was unsettled Craft Takes Off, Lands on today and meanwhile, sighing of] . leases for various State-rented Merchant Ship. buildings was being delayed and the salary ehecks of hundreds of em- | WILLOW GROVE, Pa., March 13 ployee EE delayed | (U. P.).—Completion of a new-type PR Page Soren de-| autogiro which could take off and ee return to the deck of any merchant GREEK DESTROYER ship and which would be “a great aid” in combating the submarine SINKS ITALIAN SU menace, was announced today by | General Manager Agnew E. Larsen ATHENS, Mrch 13 (U. P.) —An Of the Pitcairn Autogiro Co. Ttalia mari we _| The plane, which ascends and delian 'wub pric attempting to ‘at scence vertically and could carry tack a convoy in the Aegean Sea has| heavy loads of depth charges, has

been sunk by the Greek destroyer been offered to the Navy Depart-|

Psara, it was announced officially | ment, Mr. Larsen said. i ROT Sma He do ing wi e “self-ca The Fars, built in 1932, is one of | plane since 1937 and only recently Greece's most modern destroyers. It| has completed it, he explained. has a displacement of 1350 tons and| «ye first were successful ‘With a was built at Senge. Italy. Tt is smaller ship,” he said, “but we did armed with six 21-inch torpedo|not feel that it was large enough. tubes and carries four 4.7-inch gUNS | Our new 'giro weighs 4200 pounds

and three anti-aircraft guns. (and is capable of long-range cruis-

| ing, possibly for five or six hours.”

parking stickers on 22 cars on Capi- Lease Act. (tol Ave. and 19 on Meridian St. be-| It would enable the Army, for intween 7 a. m. and 9 a. m. |stance, to obtain quicker replace{ment of its own supplies that are [being released to the British. The first list of Army material released to the British includes a large number of rifles, 75 mm. guns, ammuni[tion and bombs. | Authoritative sources meantime said that 99 U. S. naval ships are | tentatively scheduled for transfer) [to Britain during the year. Trans[fer of 18 mosquito torpedo boats The weather outlook for Indian- already has been approved. Tenapolis is more ®f the same and not | tatively slated for later delivery are ‘much change in temperature to go|17 oOver-age destroyers, 55 sub{with it. The Bureau predicted the {marine-chasing patrol boats and lowest tonight ‘will be about 30.

WEATHER TO STAY ABOUT AS IT IS NOW

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

m.... 31 | | 31 32

3 . 38 35 35

10 a. m. 11 a. m. 12 (noon) .. 19...

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French Children Thank U. S. On the Arrival of Food Ship

{ MARSEILLES, France, March 13| The American on the pier, was | (U. P).—Two little girls in white| Richard Allen, director of the muslin frocks stepped in front of a American Red Cross in France. striding American on a crowded The skipper was Capt. Albert M. | pier here today and stopped him. |noore, of the 5010-ton freighter | One handed him a bouquet of gold Harbor, safe in Marseilles after | lowers. The other pressed into his|y jong-delayed voyage through the ‘hand a note which read: British blockade with 1500 tons of “From the children of France Who | mijlk vitamins, and clothing for the (are profoundly touched by this children of unoccupied France.

generosity of America toward] M : : ro r. Allen, accompanied by AmeriFrance and her ‘children. | oan and French officials and the

“The children of France salute : . ’ the friendship between our t% | Bishop of Marseilles, was obviously

two

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Eclipse Outside Scope of "Scope

ST. LOUIS, March 13 (U.P) .— | There was a partial eclipse of the moon here early today, but the telescope at Washington University wasn’t trained on it. University officials explained use of the telescope was banned because the Women's Building on be campus is next to the observary.

countries and offer you these simple flowers as a token of their emotion

| affected by the scene with the two |

little girls.

and gratitude.” Turning to Charles Barreau, first | While this was happening more Magistrate of Marseilles, Mr. Allen | than 700 other French children, in-| expressed gratitude for “this glowing | cluding 50 Boy Scouts and 50 Girl manifestation.” Guides, were waving little American! “It exceeds anything I had imagand French flags and shouting: « ined,” he said. “Vive L'Amerique, vive President, The group then boarded the ship | Roosevelt.” jand Mr. Barreau thanked Capt. | | In the harbor, aboard a little, un- Moore. | | distinguished-looking ship, a griz-| “I hope,” Capt. Moore “replied, zled sea captain shucked his skip- “that the Cold Harbor is only one per’s ‘cap and said: {of what will be an ever-increasing “Il am more touched than I can series of ships which will bring say.” a food to France.”

[| ing will

SUPER BOARD URGED FOR LABOR STRIKES

Miss Perkins, Hillman and being expanded by the addition of| that new large reinforcements of

Knudsen Urge FDR Action.

WASHINGTON, March 13 P.).—Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and Directors Sidney Hillman and William S. Knudsen of the Office of Production Management today submitted to President Roosevelt a joint recommendation for | establishing a super-mediation | board to handle defense labor disputes. Although Miss Perkins said that {the plan for the new board “shaping up in a definite way,” she | said Mr. Roosevelt has made no | final decision. None would predict | when a final decision would be made. | Mr. Hillman said after the one{hour conference in Mr. Roosevelt's {study that several plans have been

{under consideration—including 11(man, 7-man and 5-man boards. | Miss Perkins said, however, that she, Mr. Knudsen and Mr. Hillman | had come to an agreement on one |specific plan and identified it only | as having “an odd number” of | members.

Tax Reminder

Today's gentle reminder: The Federal Internal Revenue offices in the Federal Buildb2 open until 4:30 p. m. today and tomorrow. On Saturday, the deadline for payment of Federal income tax, the office expects to remain open until midnight. Business is expected to be brisk.

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|taken on in April will be used to British military move could not be Sir Archibald Wavell’s huge British

[man new machinery being installed | in the recently completed addition | to Plant No. 3.

At the same time it was reported [that operations in Plant No. 3—the largest Allison workshop-—are now |

‘between five and 20 new workers a |day. | Total Roll of 12,500

| The new gradual hiring at Plant] No. 3 plus the addition of 3500 for the new unit next month will bring | to around 12,500 the total strength of workers at Indianapolis’ biggest | defense industry. | Because of the critical shortage of skilled labor, Allison will be | forced again to recruit much of its | needed help from semi-skilled and

unskilled classes, principally the

5 | latter.

| “Refresher” courses for semi- | skilled workers have been in opera(tion for some time, but company | officials said they plan to establish a new school to train the unskilled workers, who will be hired because of their “mechanical inclination.” | Company officials also hint that {even further .enlargement of the sprawling Speedway City plants | may be necessary in the future.

Backlog Ts Heavy

Even with existing and immediately projected expansion of man- | power 2nd machines at the Allison | plants, all of the backlog of British | and American Government orders | cannot be filled until the summer of 1942, Should the Government increase (quotas for pursuit and interceptor |planes—a majority of which are {Allison equipped — the Speedway | City plant would have to undergo [further enlargement this year. One company official said “if they ‘need more motors—we won't hesi-

[tate to expand.” The next expan- |

obtained in London, the United Press Bureau there being “unable to reply” to direct inquiries con-

{Army of the Nile, now with men to [spare after shattering Marshal Ro« |dolfo Graziani's Italian Army of

{the British Isles against invasion,

[North Africa. The landings would indicate that the British have obtained assurs ances from Turkev to protect their rear and flank and presumably [Turkey must have obtained a goe ahead signal from Russia befors [giving such assurances A British landing in Greece would [mean that this front would flare to great activity shortly since Germany has some 200,000 men massed just north of Greece in Bulgaria. In connection with the report the presence of a convoy. presumably (Continued on Page Seven)

War Moves Today

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

cerning the expeditionary force. However, it was announced by the | British Dominions Office yesterday

British troops, including Australian and New Zealand contingents formerly ear-marked for defense of

had heen moved to the war zone in | the “Middle East.” Information to the United Press from abroad disclosed that the Britisn expeditionary force departed from Egypt last week, presumably from the great Egvptian naval base of Alexandria which is more than’

Reports of Mussolini’s presence in Albania SuRe gest that the Italians are taking preliminary action for a new major offensive against the Greeks to try to force peace on Athens by their own arms inte stead of having to call for active German intere vention, It would improve II Duce's position at home if he could gain a success in Albania without German help, and at the same time would relieve the Gere mans of their present embarrassing situation in southeastern Europe, There have been several recent indications that Hitler wants to give Mussolini an opportunity to recover some of his lost domestic pres tige by his own efforts. The repu-

Mr. Mason

tation of the Axis would suffer if Germany were compelled to help Italy try to conquer a country as small as Greece,

The Fuehrer cannot wish this development to occur, nor can Il Duce desire to have the world wit-

| ness his appealing for German as-

[sistance because his army is

blocked in Albania. Every consid-

|sion, if it comes soon, is expected eration of home morale and every

[to be to the west from Plant No. 3. Allison's backlog of orders reached (Continued on Page Seven),

wish to influence foreign public opinion must cause both the dietators to hope a ; W cal

against little Greece will not bee come necessary. Reports from Athens the last days have shown increasing pre [sure by the Ttalian forces in Alba | nia. All these movements, howevely have been held back by Greek ree sistance or there would have been claims in Rome of important vite tories. i The Italians apparently have been engaged in a series of

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