Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1941 — Page 1

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SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1941

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HOOSE BATTLEFIELD, HITLER TOLD |

SPIRIT OF 1917

AGAIN EVIDENT INU. S. CAPITAL

Hotel Rooms at Premium as Defense Industry Chiefs Flock to Capital.

By JOHN W. LOVE

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. March who returns Washington a month's absence finds the pressure higher and going up. | If he arrives from a branch-line city, his sleeper may be on the end of the train and two cars beyond the station platform. With the rise in traffic and motive power the terminal is growing obsolete, My favorite hotel is booked a week ahead. Demand for rooms rose sharply a week ago. <Corpora- | tions with Government contracts | are taking suites off the market so their officers will be sure to have| rooms. More visitors are putting up in Baltimore, commuting in. Statler’s project, ready in 1942, would signal] a trend of some sort For it will be one of few new hotels north of | Miami. But such a boom can hardly | spread, what with financial restric- | “tions coming on Running a good boarding house may scon be a patriotic service

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to after

“Here for the Duration”

The spirit of '17 is back again.| One hears more often than last fall the expression “here for the duration” He sees more girls wearing military emblems. All the news in| the papers is war news, except the | traffic accidents, and these grow) with the traffic. | More telephones are busy. The Government's Information Service| is a week behind on changes of | address. | Office and apartment rents in-| cline to rise when leases expire, for Washington is a leasing city. Talk of regulation probably helps keep rents within bounds. Just as Canadian experience is becoming a guide on national finance, so it probably will be with | rent regulation. |

Fear Material Shortage

Washington is about half again| as large as in 1918, but war is mech-| anized today and the overhead is| correspondingly higher. The hous- | ing shortage increases, especially in Anacostia, now one of the fastest-| growing neighborhoods in America. One of the incentives for the! heavy mail inte Washington, and the visits of a few of the strangers, is the new worry among manufacturers that they will be short of things if they don't have defense orders. The C. I. Os home office] here is similarly apprehensive over | dislocations in industry arising from too-drastic priorities. The draft, on the one side, and the plan to register workers of critical skills, on the other, may reduce the labor supply in civilian industries | and raise the costs of recruiting and | training. | Electric power may have te rationed in certain sections.

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Inflation Is Suspected

Merchants are much less .dis-| turbed. The agencies which hold the mercantile pulse find it even complacent, except in those specialty | stores in lines which appear to be! ticketed for excise taxes on manufactured goods. Merchants with wider lines believe that if a woman can't buy an aluminum pan she will spend the money some other way, possibly on a hair-! do, and decide she didn't want the! pan anyway. | Evidences are suspected by close followers of price tables. The trouble with the price averages is that they are masking erratic movements. So long as the inflation creeps and does not run, it should be stimulating to busi- | ness. | The latest shortage, by the wav.| is in British flags. i | 1

RADIO LISTENERS JAILED FERRARA, Italy, March 15 (U.| P.) —Fascist radio squads today arrested 12 persons and charged them with listening to London] radio news reports. Those arrested face prison terms.

CUT MARMALADE RATION LONDON, March 15 (U. p)-— The marmalade, jam and syrup ration will be cut Monday to half!

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Last Call

Midnight’s Deadline for U. S. Tax; Returns Far Above '40.

LINES FORMED outside Federal Income Tax Collector's office in the Federal Building as early as 7:30 a. m. today as In. dianapolis citizens raced the mid-

night deadline for filing 1940 in- |

come tax returns All over the country, the scene was the same, with millions of Americans digging deep into their

pockets to contribute their share of the anticipated three billion dollars in collections.

j world on his { |spending the money to help Bri-

Returns in the nation were reported running far ahead of last year. By March 12, $143,397.337 had been collected as compared to $81475,743 on the correspondIng date last year. The lowered exemptions and the additional defense tax accounted for most of the increase

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WILL H. SMITH, collector of

| revenue, dismissed his staff in the

Federal Building here early last night so they would be able to He said the expected number of people to file returns this year in the | State would “outnumber last vear's total almost three to one.” He said 30.000 letters containing | tax returns already had been re- | ceived today. All letters post=marked before midnight tonight will be accepted without penalty, which is 50 per cent of the total tax and 6 per cent interest until the total tax is paid.

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Mr. Smith said he believed his staff could handle any last minute jam. Last year, 178,000 returns were filed in the state by persons, corporations, companies and others, he said. Some 16 million Americans— more than at any time in history —are expected to file returns this year. And for one final word from the tax collector before that midnight deadline: “If you think you're paving a lot this year, wait until you get your next year's blanks.”

SLAYS 2 NEI

GHBORS

AND THEN HIMSELF

Stockwell Man Enraged at

Deliquency Charge.

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, March 15—A Stockwell, Ind., man, enraged at having been charged with contribto the delinquency of a

husband and the wife's father at nome last night and then killed himself early today to avoid capture.

notice in connection with the delin-

quency charge, State Police Super-! (U. P.).—The Quartermaster Corps intendent Don F. Stiver said. Last | today turned over this $20,500,000 G: M night he appeared at the home of | training center, 1

Floyd Rayburn, the husband, and engaged In an argument with Rayburn and Rayburn’s father-in-law, Charles Ormsby, Mr. Stiver reported. Two men, as yet unidentified, were with Jordan.

Ormsby through the head and he

report stated. The shooting took place at about 7 p. m. but it was not until a passnoticed the bodies lying in the yard about 9 p. m. that a report was made to State Police. After an investigation, they went

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NATION TO GET EXPLANATION ASSISTANCE

'Yugoslavs May Receive U. S. Help; Pay-as-Go Tax Hinted. i

WASHINGTON, March 15 (U. P n —A House appropriations subcom- | [mittee approved President Roose|velt’s $7,000.000,000 war-aid request today. Only a matter of hours be-| | fore he talks to the nation and the!

general plans for |

tain and other nations fight the AXis. The $7.000,000,000 cash outlay was! approved after only two and a half {days of secret hearings. The full] [appropriations committee will give [its approval of the measure on { Tuesday, with House debate beginning the same day. Passage is ex-| pected on Wednesday.

Works on Speech

TO ADOLF... FROM THE POLES

In this remarkable picture, symbolizing the thirst for vengeance, the camera catches a torpedo leaving the O. R. P. Grom, destroyer fighting for the Polish government in exile.

NAZIS AND RAF GIVE PREVIEW OF SPRING WAR

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Each Side Uses 300 Planes at Strategie Centers;

The White House meantime disclosed that Mr. Roosevelt's radio address—at 8:30 p. m. (Indianapolis (Time) —will go into “unity, the increased tempo in defense produc-

| (tion, the reasons for it, the assist-| lance to be given under the Lend. |Lease Bill and the pending $7,000,-

|000,000 appropriation.” | The President planned to spend!

STOUT LIQUOR NOW Law

[unprecedented background —the an-|

most of his day on the speech, which will be delivered against an nual] banquet given in his honor by | the White House Correspondents

Association. It will be broadcast on all networks Members of the subcommittee said

[that the full amount of $7.000,000,000 State officials and the industry as

Lacks Governor's Approval; ‘Fee Grab’ Measure

Is Signed.

A liquor control act hailed by |

[the largest single cash outlay ever out Governor Schricker’s signature.

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of creeping inflation |, He, Was Carl F. Jordan, 52, who SOLDIERS TAKE OVER

Monday was served with a court!

At the climax of the quarrel, Jordan shot Rayburn and]

(and his two companions fled, the|

was unanimously approved. a long step toward taking liquor out The $7.000,000,000 appropriation is of politics became a law today with-

sought in the nation’s peacetime| Objecting to sharing appointive history. Following House passage, |power, the Governor said, however, the Senate Deficiency Appropria-|that several features of the measure tions Committee will take it up and were “in accord with the views I report it for debate starting March have expressed.” 4. He acted just a few hours before |the deadline. All measures passed by the recent Legislature but not approved by the Governor today are discarded automatically. Another act to receive last-minute approval was the one to end “fee grabbing” {by Marion County officials, which

Urges Close Examination

| Several Senators have served no[tice that they may seek to reduce [the bill. Others have said they might attempt to attach a provision | for special taxation to place the program on a “pay-as-you-go basis.” | | Senator George W. Norris (Ind.|the Governor signed. Neb.), who voted for the Lend-| Only two of the 267 bills passed | Lease Bill, said nevertheless that by the Legislature still await action | $7,000,000,000 is a tremendous lot of | Highlights of the new liquor law | money. jare: | "I don't see how we can spend| 1. A that much money intelligently in| State such a short space of time. Con|eress should, and probably will,| examine this proposal very care-| fully.” The $7,000,000.000 outlay would (Continued on Page Two)

bi-partisan can

four-member, board. whose members be removed only for cause 2. A special tax on the industry which will raise about $530,000 annually for enforcement of the law 3. Bi-partisan county boards, the four members to be named by the County Council, County Commissioners, Mavor of the largest city and the State Board. 4. A merit plan for selection of] the excise police officers on a bipartisan basis. | 5. Provisions barring liquor per[mit holders and members and emplovees of the State and County

Bomb 'Annoying’ To Scot's Wife

LONDON, March 15 (U. P).—A Scotsman who was standing at a

13 Pupils Given Auto Stickers

USING HORNS FOR doorbells improper parking and overloading automobiles probably will cost 13 Shortridge High School pupils $2 each. After receiving "numerous complaints” about school traffic in the Shortridge area police yesterday arrested 13 pupils and warned 20 others about their driving. Chief among the complaints were improper parking and overloading. According to the four motorcycle men who patrolled the district many pupils who received stickers were double parked and one was triple parked. Capt. Leo Troutman said the area also will be patrolled next week

16 TEAMS CLASH IN SEMI-FINALS

Anderson Is Favorite Games to Be Played at Tech Gym Here.

By J. E. O'BRIEN

a mere 23,200 of them—were to congregate in four of the state's largest gymnasiums today for semi-final tournament games that will cull a dozen high school teams from the Surviving Sixteen.

The semi-final tournaments—a

Boards from political activity. In approving the Stout law, Mr. Schricker said: “This bill stream- | (lines the excise department with) [strict bi-partisan. control from top (Continued on Page Two)

RED CROSS OFFICERS T0 SAIL TOMORROW

Local Man in Group Leaving For Europe.

Times Special

WASHINGTON, March 15.—Gus

window of his Clydeside home watching last night's air raid when a high explosive bomb struck 150 yards away, said today. “The anti-craft guns were making so much noise I never heard it coming. The vivid sheet of flame nearly blinded me. Ths explosion shook the place, bringing down debris all around, then another bomb fell further away. “My wife is most annoyed. We had just spent two hours cleaning up the house.”

CAMP SHELBY DONE:

CAMP SHELBY, Miss, March 15

scheme of things for selecting a champion—were to be played here at the Tech gym and at Muncie, Vincennes and Hammond. Two games in each of the centers this afternoon—at 1:30 and 2:30—were to eliminate eight contenders, and four more will fall after the 8 o'clock contests this evening. The remaining four from a starting field of 777 will decide who is to be the Indiana High School Athletic Association's champion next Saturday at Butler Fieldhouse. At Tech's Bast Side gym a sellout crowd of 4740 was to witness the three-game fight among four of the strongest teams from central and southeastern Indiana.

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ever, Indianapolis, is one of five American Red Cross staff ro bd embers who will sail for Europe] to National Guardsmen from | ™ Ih 9 pe

[tion | > AR , Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia | (OOH OW ne Headquariers (and Ohio and draftees. . : Mr. Mever and the four others | Capt. C. L. Bucknum, Columbia, |) eave from Jersey City aboard Mo., of the Quartermaster COIps,iihe Excalibur. He has been as(said 22,500 workmen had been em-| signed to Spain, which is the counployed to provide facilities for|tyy President Roosevelt reported as training 67.946 men on the site of (peing in most dire need of food. the old World War training group. william C. Lucey, Normal, Ill, will Projects included a 2000-bed hos-|go to Frauce. Both men have had pital, a $250.000 sewage plant, 625 long experience in direction of Red miles of power and electric lines|Cross disaster relief work, officials

and flooring for 14,000 tents. said.

74 M.P.H. Gait Sends Naval

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a pound per person per month, |0 Jordan's home and searched it

about half the average consump- but found no one. As they were searching the grouads, they heard a dog bark in a lumber yard and as they proceeded toward it, two shots were fired at them. As they closed in on the shed from which the shots came, they heard two more shots, and when they reached Jordan found he was

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{mortally wounded. He died at 5 the 5000 block College Ave.

a. m. in a hospital at Lafayette,

BREATH-TAKING INDEED

OAKLAND, Cal, March 15 (U. P.) —George Harrison, 11, won the breath-holding championship Garfield School yesterday, time cf more than a minute. He was congratulated upon his! here he was |

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Aid to Jail Instead of Ship

A U. S. Navy ensign reserve, or-

ately for duty, was in the Marion County Jail today under sentence for speeding 74 miles an hour in| He is Robert T. Reed, 24, of alem, Ind., who was convicted in Municipal Court of speeding and driving reckless last night and fail-| ure to have a driver's license.

The arresting officer, Charles Haine, testified that he had to go 80 miles an hour to overtake Ree and that Reed passed three cars at] intersections, “Where were you going?” Prosecutor Sam Blum asked.

“Downtown to make a long-dis-

dered yesterday to report immedi-| tance phone call,” Reed replied.

Judge George Rinier interrupted: | “You could have made a longdistance phone call almost any place on College Ave.” The prisoner did not comment. Then Judge Rinier found him guilty on all counts and started reciting the punishment: “For no driver's license, $1 and costs: for reckless driving, $25 and costs and 10 days in jail; for speeding, $50 and costs and 10 days in| Jail.” The days, however, later were reduced to 10 through a legal technicality, which left the punishment at a fine of $106 and 10 daysgyin jail,

| death of Col aviation ace who participated in the

Since Indianapolis had no representative in the meet, most of the fans came from out-of-town. And the vanguard began to move in before noon—in their be-ribboned and decorated automobiles, in chartered busses, trucks and school hacks, Here was the schedule of play: 1:30—Anderson vs. Rushville, 2:30—Madison vs. Crawfordsville. 8:00—Winner at 1:30 vs. Winner at 2:30. Unbiased observers favored Coach Archie Chadd’ s well-schooled In(Continued on Page 11)

‘LIVING COST BONUS’ URGED FOR WORKERS

CHICAGO, March 15 (U. P.).— The Chicago Association of Commerce today appealed to businessmen to give employees “a cost of living bonus” instead of wage in-

creases to offset increasing living |

costs. The statement said rigid economy and other safeguards should be practiced to stop “the rising trend toward inflation.” Increased wages it said was one of the factors causing this trend.

ITALIAN ACE DEAD

ROME, March 15 (U. P.).—The Guido Bonini, Italian

trans-Atlantic flight led by the late Marshal Italo Balbo, was announced today. No details were given.

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| The possibility of action in Syria has been emphasized in reports from several quarters. Both Cairo and Vichy reported yesterday that disorders in the French Levant are increasing. Vichy attributed them | to food but mentioned “nationalist” students groups. Cairo attributed Syrian tension to rising Free French sympathies.

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CITY GETS SHARE OF MIDWEST SNOW

Storm Covering Wide Area Moves Eastward. LOCAL

- . Syria and Dodecanese oY ry Tq , Isles May Be Nile Army Goal. By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent A significant dispatch from British Middle Eastern ‘headquarters at Cairo said today that Great Britain now is ready to meet Hitler's Reichswehr “on whatever field of bate tle the Fuehrer chooses” in the Mediterranean-Balkan area. The dispatch, filed by United Press staff correspondent ‘Richard McMillan, hinted strongly at confirmation of private advices received by the United Press three days ago that ‘a British expeditionary force has been landed in Greece [from Egypt. . — a 5 Non. tH the Dodecanese Islands and Syria LEGION MAY ASK From two other Near East- | yay be impending ern sources in the last 24] Mr. McMillan's dispatch revealed . Youd | that the Imperial Army of the Nile ours . ) h ur, the United Press has | aq been “strengthened bevond come obtained independent infor- parison” and said that the Royal ts : | Air Force and Royal Navy now ” ) ) - —- mation tending to bear out| assure its routes of troops, supplies Labor Reso Al RP the report. One of these and material abor Resolution SO Be sources estimated that the . fore Executive Committee British had moved possibly | ; 150,000 2 . For Action. i \ 0 to 200,000 troops up ‘to the Greek front, The Americ L tod / . re Shican RSTn Witay ey This estimate appeared to be too publicly advocate the use of U. S hi wr : : igh unless the British have sim(naval units to convoy ships carry-|yjtaneously moved forces into ing war supplies to Britain. | Turkey. Such a move would be in A resolution to that effect based line with hints that action against (Continued on Page Two) jon a recommendation by National | \ ’ {Commander Milo J. Warner, is up| ? eS na o8CTel Wes pon’ executive Committee, mouthpiece of more than a million men who were By WALLACE CARROLL {in the U. S. armed forces during United Press Staff Correspondent the last war LONDON, March 15—Th : i y eel h 15.—~The Germans are puzzled by the new British Mr. Warner, who headed a Legion defense te hi ” : . : 8 chnique whic 3 — A mission to Britain to study defense i» five HI ich has wos tier 37 bomb. pianee-any A1EHS nethoas, alvesely is on record for | Their activities last night showed great caution. The hundreds of EE Committes. alsd planes which raided scores of coastal points around the island last night will vote on a resolution "regretting ey PRIS, or in Ymy groups end at great heights to minimize interruptions to defense production | POS . Bary the form of strikes.” and “deplor-| The bright moonlight which has barrage balloons and of fake fires in in , I started in country areas with th {ing the practice of requiring ems- caused the present aerial fight to intention of bead Wolk ployees on temporary construction be called “The Battle of the Full plane crews were taken Be an le ay Wit), in iasuon I ors Moon” was dimmed last night by cation that the Nazis were still | may he CTYIOR members in their | haze which somewhat hindered puzzled by the new devices which own home localities.” . the Royal Air Force fighter fleet, Britain was using. It was again rte ot Boia wh . put at least’ five German planes| recalled that a “lethal” wire at These two resolutichs are based v o . on the report of the Legion Na were brought down, compared to tached to barrage balloons had tional Defense Committee which 13 shot down the night before. A|been mentioned publicly here. The mate 5 nation-wide studv of the otal of 17 Nazi raiders have been official London explanation of the domestic defense effort while the downed over London alone since the increased toll of Nazi planes is “the Warner Commission was in Eng- | Vai began |accuracy and weight of fire from land German references to high-flying our anti-aircraft guns, Action on these and several . other resolutions will end the busi- ( ? ness of the committee, assembled an Duce Leave Albania’ here two days ago in the fourth special session ever called in the | By GEORGE WELLER history of the Legion. | Copyright, 1841, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. They followed and are predicated | ATHENS, March 15.—Premier Benito Mussolini's experiment as ime partially on the National Defense mediate generalissimo of Italian forces on the Albanian front is sched« | Committee's report that: {uled, according to reports from the fighting lines, to come to a close | “In spite of the remarkable contri-| today when the Duce is supposed to return to the Palazzo Venezia, butions to preparedness being made Whether Mussolini actually can leave Albania, with the Italian drive by our Army and Navy Departments, rocked back upon its heels, is the talk of Greek cafes. by industry anc labor and those men| If Greek communiques are to be | who are Frere Pete lives in hot | Pelieved—and a good-sized backlog | Greeks are tough and well emplaced, service of our nation, we are not a a3 . (and, in the words of the Fascist prepared to wage an effective war Of Substantiation supports them— |, der. Gen. Aldo Pellegrino, (today. There is no substitute for|The Duce’s efforts as commander wounded and ‘a prisoner of the time, and the neglect of 20 years are praiseworthy in the sense that| Greeks, “things are not going well (cannot be wiped out with the wave he is now taking upon himself the for Italy.” of a magic wand. (responsibility for a campaign which| Because the drive has not beem In spite of all that a united peo- was opposed by his officers, and successful, no word of Il Duce’s role (Continued on Page Two) which has already cost him |as strategist has appeared—as far hundreds of men and scores of air-|as is revealed here—in the Italian planes, gained him not a foot of press. Now the question is whether ground from Lake Ochrid to the the Duce will continue struggling Ionian Sea, and left him with a after a key to the bloody Via Via military enigma unsolved and an | Ignatia across to Salonika which the ugly political problem rising fore-| Roman legions once gained with bodingly behind it somewhat less effort, or whether the The mountains drive will simply be given up. By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert

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Announcement today in Cairo that the Imperial Army of the Nile has been “strengthened beyond comparison,” adds to the cumulative evidence of : a bal .-|the last week that Great Britain is intensively preJUire of TO i a justine to hold fast to the initiative in the Middle bounded by ‘western Indiana and | East: Both belligerents now are accumulating Nebraska and by Central Illinois | Strensth and seeking strategic positions before ac- , : Tew Aza tion starts and at the same time are engaging in and the Canadian border.

(diplomatic offensives, The snow was brought by a low p pressure atmospheric arca which

Indianapolis today came in for a|

Mr. Mason

There is no indication that Hitler has yet abandoned hope that

moved in from the southern Rockies.

Greece may be persuaded to sign a peace treaty with Italy, eliminating

The U. S. Weather Bureau said | De necessity of a German attack f the disturbance would continue east- | By ; undoubtedly ae diplo- | {ward tomorrow, causing more snow | matically engaged in Athens at |

lin the Middle Western states and|the moment over this issue. rain in the Ohio Valley. It is difficult, however, for terms Colder temperatures were forecast. | © be made that will save Italy's | The mercury already has fallen in face while granting conditions to | Arizona and Florida but warmer Greece commensurate with her weather was reported in the Rocky Successful war efforts. This stumMountains. |bling block makes it essential for Continued fair weather was re-|Hitler to continue to prepare for ported in the Pacific Northwest and | eventual attack. the Middle Atlantic states. It is certain that the British are eter making military preparations in STATE SESSION APRIL 6 Greece for use if Athens finally | The Indiana Townsend Clubs will rejects all peace overtures and de‘hold a state-wide conference Sun- | cides to fight on two fronts. But, |day, April 6, here to study new until that fateful decision is made, |state laws affecting old-age pen-|Britain can scarcely move against {sions and formulate plans to take the Germans massing in Bulgaria. advantage of their provisions. Indeed, it is strategically desigphie

rom the east. Germany and Great

from the Anglo-Greek standpoint to force the Germans to start an offensive. Hitler must then face the difficult task of trying to drive across the Bulgarian mountains inte Greece or endeavoring to move through the smoother but narrow terrain of Jugoslavia. In either case, his troops would be handicapped by the natural dife ficulties of eastern Greece. The dise tance from the Bulgarian mountains to the Aegean Sea varies about 75 to 25 miles. The area for maneuvers by mechanized units is much cure tailed. A blitzkrieg, such as the Germans: used in their thrust last spring (Continued on Pagy. Twn)