Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1941 — Page 1

The Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Fair and continued cold tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight about 12; slowly rising temperature by tomorrow night.

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VOLUME 53 — NUMBER 5

MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1941

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Rising Temperature On Way After 53 Die In Midwest Gales

ITALIANS CRUSHED IN EAST AFRICA

FBI Hunts Saboteurs in Pennsylvania Train Wreck

cw Wa Rd

Wreckage of the Cleveland-to-Pitisburgh train in which four died and 108 were injured.

W. A. UMPHREY

IS DEAD AT 63 Jump From Rails to River

Loan Company Founder Ill Two Weeks: Funeral on Wednesday.

William A. Umphrey, founder of

the American Loan Co., died today | at his home, 6130 Crows Nest Drive, | hospitals today.

weeks. | (of the train, traveling at 65 miles

of two He was 63. Funeral services will” be held at 2 p. m. Wednes-

after an illness

day at the Flan-|

ner anan Mortuary. The Rev. George A. Frantz, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Umphrey was a member, will officiate. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Long prominent in Indianapolis industrial and business life, Mr. Umphrey was born here Dec. 28, 1877. He at-

Mr. Umphrey

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4 Killed, 114 Injured as Cars

Track Loosened Deliberately, Officials Charge in Tragedy | Near Pittsburgh.

BADEN, Pa, March 17 (U. P.). —The Federal Bureau of Investigation | today investigated the hurtling of a Cleveland-to-Pittsburgh train over 'a 40-foot embankment into the Ohio River as Pennsylvania Railroad

| officials blamed “sabotage” tor the wreck. Four persons were Killed and 114 were injured, 73 still being in

6 MORE DEAD IN TRAFFIC HERE

11 Others Killed in State; City-County Toll for Year Now 36.

For the second consecutive weekend, six persons were Killed in within the boundaries of

The locomotive and all five cars

an hour, shot from the track last inight when the train hit rail | which. ‘had - been “deliberately” ‘loosened, railroad officials said.

Just 18 minutes previously, the] ‘crowded. 13-car Manhattan Limited | thad passed the scene of the wreck 'a mile east of Baden. There was a | possibility that the alleged sabo- | teurs had the Manhattan Limited | as their target. Officials conjectured |that the track spikes may have] 'been loosened at the time the] Limited passed over the rails.

Signal Circuit Unbroken

| After officials charged that someone familiar with the block signal system had loosened the ra.is with-!

traffic Marion County, raising the year's death toll to 36. more than twice

tended primary schools and grad- out breaking the electric signal ciruated from Manual Training High cuit. the FBI announced it would School make a preliminary investigation During the era in which Indian- '0 determine whether sabotage

‘date it was only 5.

as many as last year at this time. The county toll this vear, clusiveé of those killed within the city limits, is 19; last year at this The city total

ex-|

apolis was an auto manufacturing Caused the wreck. center, Mr. Umphrey manufactured auto parts and accessories. He founded the American Loan Co. 40 vears ago and remained an active executive in the firm up to his recent illness. He was a member of the Scottish Rite, Pentalpha Lodge, Raper Commandery, Murat Shrine, the Highland Country Club. Ceclumbia Club and Indianapolis Athletic Club. He is survived bv his wife, Mrs. Nelle Jordan Umphrey; three sonw Lawrence L., Thomas J., and William A. Umphrey Jr.; one grandson. Thomas J. Umphrey Jr.; three sisters, Mrs. R. C. Shaneberger, Mrs. Floyd R. McCord and Mrs. Alma Robinson, all of Indianapolis and a brother. R. C. Umphrey of Crawfordsville

GUARD HELPS RECALL ROOSEVELT WEDDING

WASHINGTON. March 17 (U. P))

Four Interstate Commerce Com- | mission inspectors assigned to 10. conduct the ICC's inquiry are H.E.| Eleven others were killed in trafNason, E. C. Horning, W. R. Preese |fic outside Marion County, and two ‘and Gordon Morris, Director of men died of injuries received earlier. | Safety Shirley N. Mills announced. | There were 59 auto accidents re- | The wreck occurred a mile east of Ported over the week-end to City ‘here where the roadbed parallels Police who, at the same time, made ‘the Ohio River and is built up 40|62 arrests on traffic violation feet above the water's edge. Three charges. of the five cars were hurled into the The dead. river. CAROLYN MYERS, 14-year-old Howe High School girl, 1408 Chester St., killed Saturday when her car plunged down an embankment on Road 52 near Traders Point. EDWARD KOEHL, 58, of 6045 W. Morris St. killed last night when he was struck by a car on Road 40 near his home.

MRS. ELIZABETH SWEATT, 31, of 954 N. Pershing Ave., and her three children, DOROTHY, 12, JANET, 8 and DIANNA, 2, (Continued on Page Three)

| Engine Turns Over

The baggage car, immediately be- | hind the tender, slipped into the | water and stood upright; a smoker fell on its side in the water; a coach | was caught between a clump of} [trees and the roadbed and partially | (submerged. Another coach and a pullman were derailed but remained standing. I The engine and tender, which tore up 200 yards of main line] trackage, turned on their sides but | did not go into the river. The dead were:

DEFENSE LABOR GAINS

now is 17, compared to last year's!

—President Roosevelt obserted his 36th wedding anniversary and St. Patrick's Day simultaneously today, | calling in for a handshake a Secret Service agent who in 1905 was pres- | ent at the ceremony at which the President married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.

James Sloan of the Secret Service, who on St. Patrick's Day, 1903, | was in charge of the White House | Secret, Service, attended the cere. | mony as a bodyguard for President Theodore Roosevelt.

A. R. WEIGEL, 57, engineer, Al- | liance, O. HARRY C. KENNEDY, 47. ac(Continued on Page Three)

MORGAN LOSES FIGHT

Supreme Court Refuses Re-

| P.).—Director General

WASHINGTON, March 17 (U. William S. Knudsen of the Office of Production Management said today that

there soon will be more than a| 70-ton submarine Snapper, is over- | minute velocity of 41 miles an hour | 60 per cent increase in the number | ue and “must be presumed to beat

of man-hours of labor devoted to detense production.

CONTRACTS LET

Austin Co. to Build Ordnance Unit Here; Breaks Ground Soon.

The contract for construction of | the new Naval Ordnance plant here ( has been awarded to the Austin Co. Cleveland, O., the Navy Department announced in Washington today. The plant, it is said, will manufacture the secret Norden airplane bomb sight and other precision ordnance instruments for the Navy and will cost an estimated $4,200,000. It will be constructed on Arling{ton Ave. between 16th and 21st Sts. {A branch office of the Austin Co. (has been established here under | Gregory D. Deabler, and it is esti- | mated construction will be completed within four or five months after ground is broken. Groundbreaking is expected to take place | Within a few weeks.

2 Firms Here Fail

Two unidentified Indianapolis firms also submitted bids for the construction of the plant. It was| reported that Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Indianapolis) was told by the Navy Department that one Indianapolis bidder said it would require two vears to construct such a plant and |

that the other had had no experi- |

ence in factory construction. The Austin Co. has sufficient stock on hand to begin construc- | tion at once,: it was said. The | engineering and architectural serv- | ices are to be on a cost-plus basis | with a fixed fee of $165,000, accord- | ing to the Navy Department. | « The plant is to be operated by | {the Lukas Harold Corp. of New| {York to whom the construciion | | bids were made. The Navy Depart- | | ment approved the awarding of the | | building contract.

Report Marine Guard

The Navy Department is not ex- | pected to announce the exact na- | ture of the “precision instruments” | to be made at the plant, but the | importance of the product is indi{cated by reports that a detachment of Marines is expected to be stationed there. | The bombsight mentioned in re-| (ports is one of the closely guarded | American Naval secrets. Fire con- | (trol apparatus for Navy coast and | ship guns also is expected to be! made here. | | ——————— | { BRITISH SUB OVERDUE | LONDON, March 17 (U. P.).—The |

ost,” an said today.

Admiralty communique

10 REGAIN TVA 08 Civilization Seems to Bring Vitamin Shortage With 'Refined' Foods, Doctor Declares Here

FOR NAVY UNIT

MANY MISSING;

RESCUE CREWS

BATTLE DRIFTS

21 Fishermen Trapped on Lake Floes; 13 Others Swept Ashore.

By UNITED PRESS Warm air moving eastward from | the Rocky Mountain slopes is ex- | | pected by the U. S. Weather Bureau | {to bring relief by tomorrow from {the paralyzing cold that brought | death, suffering and damage to the

| Middle West over the week-end. At | least 53 were dead and many still | missing. ' The Chicago Weather Bureau | | said ‘some relief would be felt today {in western sections of the Dakotas |and Nebraska. Today was the | coldest St. Patrick's Day since [ 1900, according to Chicago weather | records. | A sudden snow storm descended | late Saturday. Temperatures dropped to zero or lower in a few {hours and high winds from the | Canadian northwest thrust the cold | wave into the Great Lakes states | and as far south as the Ohio River | valley.

21 Fishermen Trapped

Coast Guardsmen said 21 fisher- | men were trapped on ice floes in| Lake Superior near Skanee and Munising, Mich. Thirteen were saved when ice cakes were blown ashore They were fishing through holes in the ice when the storm broke off large segments of ice. Those still missing were without food, fuel or shelter. Chicago firemen were cailed out in the early morning cold to fight (a $500,000 fire at a trucking freight terminal, believed to have been started by an oil stove explosion. Rescue crews working in sub-zero cold dug four more bodies from a snow-drifted northern Minnesota highway today. Some Suffocated

Hundreds of workers in eastern | North Dakota and northwestern] {Minnesota pushed through drifts | higher than a man’s head in search | of missing persons. Most of those who perished in the! |gale, which struck without warning | |Saturday night, were frozen to] | death while seeking shelter. Au-| thorities said, however, that some] | appeared to have been suffocated by! the 85-mile-an-hour wind which | (Continued on Page Three)

Naval Aid to Britain Regarded as Certain

Diplomatic Observers in Capital Likewise Believe Hitler May Break Relations With U. S.

(Text of Roosevelt's address,

Page Two) By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS

Times Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, March 17.—Armed aid for Britain, particularly naval aid, is foreseen by diplomatic observers here as a virtual certainty following President Roosevelt's fighting speech of Saturday night.

A second reaction is a feeling that Adolf Hitler may soon con-

| sider it necessary to break off diplomatic relations with the United

States, out of his well-known regard for his personal prestige.

In the past, even when criticized by minor American officials, the y 2 Fuehrer or his spokesmen have beaten their breasts “and screamed dire threats at this country. This time it was the President himself who told the dictators off. While not mentioning them by name, he left no one in doubt whom he had in mind. And without mincing words he solemnly pledged that America would not stop until these “tyrants” had been thoroughly and everlastingly beaten. To offset the moral effect not only of the President's utterances but of the acts of the American Congress on his not alway willing followers in Europe and the Far East, it is felt that Hitler may consider it necessary to do something to emphasize his often expressed contempt for the United States and the democracies in general. Reports reaching here are that Hitler is now definitely alarmed over the prospect of America’s all-out aid to Britain More than ever, therefore, he is said to be determined to bar the way to this aid. He is expected to make a supreme effort, with all means.

at his command, to sink or deNAZI BOMBERS stroy every ship that approaches

the British Isles in the hope of smashing Britain before AmerMany Killed, Six Churches Damaged in Worst

ican aid fully materializes. That being the case, it is doubtAttack -on Port. By A. L. C. EYRES

ed here that Britain, alone. can United Press Special Correspondent

successfully cope with the menBRISTOL, England, March 17.—

| ace. Her hands are too full—in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, Hundreds of German bombers, subjecting Bristol to its heaviest raid

the Indian Ocean, on the long sea lanes to South America and of the war, battered this city for hours in two separate raids and

around South Africa, at Singapore and elsewhere—to parry the caused many casualties among persons who returned to bed between

concentrated thrusts of the Nazis raids.

in the north Atlantic. Raiders droned over head almost |

A new kind of help from the United States, therefore, may well continuously for hours and spread death and destruction over a wide

become vital in the near future. And, it is felt, a comparative few swath of this shipping and industrial area.

over-age cruisers, destroyers and other such craft will not meet the High explosives crashed down on the crypt of a church, in which

Mr. Simms

need. If the most deadly peril yet faced by Britain and the whole cause now so openly and frankly espoused by Congress and the President is to be warded off, many qualified observers here are saying privately the United States (Continued on Page Three)

COUNCIL TO GET PLE

many had taken refuge, and on a | public shelter, causing many deaths. Rescue squads toiled unceasingly to remove the dead and injured

NEAR-ZERO WAVE

FOR DAYLIGHT TIME

T0 STAY TOMORROW. | — |

12 Above Tonight, Says

Jr. C. of C. Wants Clocks Advanced April 2.

despite a steady shower of high explosives and incendiaries. The lull between the raids fooled many people, who left shelters to

| old wave

go to bed. Numerous fires were started. But they broke out mostly in residential districts and quickly were brought under control. An ambulance driver, racing to a hospital with wounded, was pursued by a raider dropping bombx. The last bomb crashed only a few | yards behind the speeding vehicle. A large college for girls was (Continued on Page Three)

Officer Fowley! Call Dispatcher!

PATROLMAN Joseph T. Fowley was cruising in his police radio car this morning when the speaker blared: “Fowley call the dispatcher—

Joe Fowley call police headquarters, that is all.” Patrolman Fowley

Weather Bureau.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 3S 0a.m...,. 11 a. m. 12 (noon) 1pm.

8 8

m. m. . m. ‘ . 10

a. a. a. a.

6 7 8 9

m. ,

No relief from the 8 above zero which gripped Indianapolis today is in sight before tomorrow night, the Weather Bureau reported. J. H. Armington, U. S. meteorlogist, forecast the mercury would touch a low of about 12 degrees tonight. Tomorrow night, he said, will be warmer, but not "“oppressively so.” Incidentally, today’s 8 degrees was the third coldest St. Patrick's day in the history of the local Weather Bureau. The only two colder were in 1900—2 above—and in 1906—6 above. In contrast, St. Patrick's day last year recorded a -temperature| of 73. The wind which brought in the cold wave reached a peak five- |

eased the a drugstore and in a flash had dispatcher on phone, “Dispatcher Frank Owens said: Your wife had a 6-pound 6-ounce baby girl, Joe, your wife and the baby are doing fine.” “Mark me out of service, Frank,” the patrolman said. Patrolman Fowley ran out to his idling cruiser and pointed it toward the St. Vincent's Hospital.

7:30 last night at Municipal | Airport. Gusts at times reached | 50 miles an hour.

A proposal to put Indianapolis on Daylight Saving Time this spring and summer will be introduced at the City Council meeting tonight at the request of the Junior Chamber

of Commerce. ’ The Chamber's proposal followed enabling legislation which was approved by the Indiana General Assembly shortly before adjournment. The proposed ordinance climaxes a five-year fight to institute Daylight Time here. Under the plan, all clocks in the city would be moved one hour ahead, beginning at 2 a. m. the first

last Sunday in September. Junior Chamber spokesmen said that the purpose of the time change, now in effect in most prin- | cipal cities in the country, is to pro- | vide additional daylight hours for recreation during the defense emergency. William Stout of the Chamber,

|the Daylight Saving Time move(ment, said he understood that a | proposal has been made in Congress to institute the extra-hour of daylight time in all cities throughout the nation.

Sunday in April until 2 a. m. the|

MORE BRITISH ARE FREED FOR BALKAN FRONT

Fascists Must Yield Soon Or Fight Against Nearly Hopeless Odds. By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent Smashing new successes in Italian East Africa today, freed Gen. Sir Archibald Wa= vell’s hands for concentration on the big new Balkan war front where a German-British clash may develop at any time. The new British blows vire tually sealed the fate of Pree imier Benito Mussolini's entire ‘East African Empire and the | British appeared to be within striking distance of forcing ‘the remaining Fascist garrie sons to surrender or continue fighting against nearly hope less odds.

It appeared doubtful that any | possible maneuver by Italy could prevent her entire East African pose [sessions — land covering 1,725,300 |square miles and with a population (of 12,100,000—irom falling. | British troops, landed under the lguns of the Royal Navy and with [Royal Air Force planes drumming overhead, recaptured Berbera, tie | Gulf of Eden port and capital of | British Somaliland lost to the Itale ians last Aug. 10. ]

Capture Strategic Heights

[for several weeks held Keren, gates (way to Asmara in Italian Eritera under siege, captured strategie [heights commanding the approach [to the city These two developments undere lined the hopeless odds against (Which the Fascist East African gare (risons are fighting. Berbera gives the British a geod (port only 160 miles from Djibouti, | French Somaliland, the only pose sible means of egress for the Ital-e ians in Ethiopia. It is less than | 250 miles from Diredawa and Harar, |the southeastern Ethiopian stronge ‘holds toward which a British cole umn which captured Italian Somae« liland already is advancing.

Nibble Away at Ethiopia

From Berbera the British can launch and easily supply another column to cut northwest along the road used by the Italians to occupy British Somaliland. This road leads to Diredawa and Harar and if the British can take those positions they can cut the Addis Ababa= Djibouti railroad, making the final (collapse of Italian resistance ine | evitable. The British already are nibbling away at Ethiopia from no less than 12 directions with the most impore tant drive coming down from the northwest and, with native Ethiopian aid, rapidly moving toward the high escarpment on which Addis Ababa lies. The success at Keren is of equal (Continued on Page Three)

BREADLESS DAYS NOT

IN SIGHT FOR NATION WASHINGTON, March 17 (U.P.), | —Americans need have no fear of | breadless. meatless or sugarless | days—at least, not at any time in {the near future—Miss Harriet Ele | liott of

the Defense Commission | told Mrs

Franklin D. Roosevelt's

cruiser over to curb, slipped into | who has been active in sponsoring press conference today.

| Miss Elliott. head of the Defense | Commission's Consumer Division, | said that she and her colleagues are working with all branches of production and distribution to ine crease output of consumer goods.

War Moves Today

By J. W. T. MASON

the same time the hard «a British and Indian troops who hava

Today, 36 years later, Mr. Sloan|

United Press War Expert is still on the White House detail. |

PICK UP WRECKAGE OF AMERICAN FREIGHTER

: teoiis : view of Circuit Ruling. | Mr. Roosevelt called him into his| | Civilization apparently destroys office, where - Mrs. Roosevelt also| WASHINGTON, March 17 (U.P.). man’s natural instinct to get his was waiting. —Arthur E. Morgan, deposed chair- | fy); share of vitamins, and that's

tive men, who never heard of a vita- at certain seasons of the year catch | min, instinctively got them, while and roast large ants which they peoples even partly addicted to the term a delicacy. They don't know

In his memorial address yesterday, Hitler declared Italy bore the whole brunt of the British attack

during the wint i xplai niceties of civilizatons, don't. 8 e Winter but he did not explain why

“I'm very happy that you still are

man of the Tennessee Valley Au- lithe reason for

thority, today lost in the Supreme Court his legal fight for reinstate- | ‘ment and back pay.

with us,” the President said.

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the recent hue and cry about

The Court refused to review a food deficiencies,

Dr. Wilson G. Smillie of Cornell University said here today.

Dr. Smillie has studied diets in most parts of the world and draws from his own experiences to prove his Dr. Smillie thesis. He is here to address physicians, dentists, dietitians and others at the I. U. Medical School tomorrow night under the auspices of the Dairy Council of Indianapolis. Dr. Smillie said there are plenty of illustrations to show that primi- ”

® they need, even though no green

| |

Eskimo savages. for instance, | eat their game raw and they eat all but the bones of birds. From that diet, they get all the vitamins

vegetables are available. The birds find the green stuff and bring it to them. White people who live in Labrador have serious vitamin deficiencies, because they eat only part of the birds, and cook them to boot. They won't eat whole wheat flour because it gets rancid during the winter, and consequently they have the worst teeth in the world. They | are more civilized than the Eskimos. Natives working on coffee plantations in Brazil have a basic diet of black beans, coffee, rice and sugar. But they instinctively hunt herbs and roots in the jungles and ¢

it, but they get necessary vitamins

WASHINGTON, March 17 (U. P.).

from them. In East Africa, Dr. Smillie ran across two tribes living not far from each other. One tribe had a diet of corn, yams and fruit. The men of the tribe considered it sissy to eat leaves and roots and as a result, the tribe was afflicted with dental and bone deformities. The other tribe, which the foregoing considered of a much lower order in the scale of civilization had a basic diet of meat, animal blood and milk. The men of this tribe averaged five inches taller, 23 pounds heavier and 50 per cent stronger physically. Dr. Smillie said that public health education in the use of vitamins in the diet eventually will counteract the tendency of civilized people to blunder into diet deficiencies through “refinements” in the menu.

—The Coast Guard cutter Bibb reported today that it had picked up wreckage of the Matson Navigation Co.'s freighter Mahukona off Bermuda, just east of Jacksonville.

and a life preserver which bore the name of Mahukona, a 2512-ton freighter which normally carries a crew of 26. Other wreckage, including part of a mast, was sighted in the vicinity. The Mahukona is registered out of San Francisco. The U. S. Weather Bureau said that the ship “probably had gone down in a pretty severe storm” that was reported in the Bermuda area Saturday.

the Nazis have coming to Italy

Mr. Mason

Germany allowed that tragedy to the Axis to occur. The Fuehrer asserted Germany resume Its share of the load. without saying why

henceforth will

permitted the winter to pass before 's help.

As a matter of military fact, Hitler permitted

Great Britain and Greece to gain a

with two enemies, it is of primary importance that the enemies fight together and try to prevent their war efforts being separated. Germany, however, failed in this essential teaching of strategy. The Axis permitted itself to be divided and allowed Great Britain and her small Greek ally to retain the offensive both in southern Europe and northern Africa.

Hitler yesterday boasted that the German Army now is the strongest

~reat strategic advantage in the last

Included in the wreckage were three months which does not speak well for the Fuehrer's conceptions parts of a buff-colored deck house [Of Policy. In a war such as the present, where the British are faced

history. It was equally as strong throughout the winter, but it did not offer battle while Italy was bee ing defeated week after week. The more the Fuehrer emphasizes the invincibility of his war machine, the more must the Italian people ask themselves why they were left tn fight without winter help from their invincible ally. The Fuehrer said yesterday that Italy's objectives are the same as Germany's. They

military instrument in Germany's

(Continued on Page Three),