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MONDAY, MARCH 17,

1941

Nazis Try to Shut Off

All Britain's Shipping

Hitler Pounds Ports and Sends Out U-Boats in|

Hope of Nullifying American Aid.

By WILLIAM

H. STONEMAN

Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. LONDON, March 17—There is no longer need for any guesswor

regarding Adolf Hitler's immediate intentions.

He already is well advanced on his gargantuan attempt to blast most of Britain's shipping from the Atlantic and to pound her ports

until they can no longer accommodate those cargoes which penetrate i

the U-boat blockade.

He hopes by these means to nul- months why the Germans have not lify the Lend-Lease Act and there-|hit this area.

riter British For many’s

Isles to their knees. three weeks, now,

full steam. Total sinkings

greatest U-boat effort since important ports of entry the spring of 1917 has been going! west coast. since jts importance as a naval construc-

ITALY CRUSHED IN EAST AFRICA

Britain's Army of Nile Released for Service On Balkan Front.

(Continued from Page One)

importance. The Italians have been {under siege there for several weeks. If Keren falls into British hands,

the beginning of the war have risen| tion center.

and naturally are expected to con-|

tinue rising. During hight

reinforce it at land's end.

These raids have followed a well-| mans talculated pattern and have been neighborhood properly. Flivered in tremendous force, some-|it mes with hundreds of machines, when they came back and gave it

Some people guessed that

[Germans did not have enough good | the past week Germaninpavigators to attack such a distant! forced their raids on British towns and/spot, others wishfully opined that coming campaign. cities have been added to this dev-!the defenses were too strong. Now, have been landing astating attack and have served to|whatever

the for (inaction, it is clear

really are going

reasons for

to everybody's

previous | that the Ger-|

They proved dissatisfaction

[British will burst through to the

| coast, completing

terior of Ethiopia. British Landing in Greece

| The coastal waters of Eritrea are

(are already mined by

reek allies for the British in Greece {for

some days.

disembarked at Piraeus, Athens. They

| Salonika and the Macedonian bor-

| Asmara probably will follow and the

the actual en‘her : It is the first port on |¢jrclement of the Italians in the inIn short order to bring the the way in from the northwest ap- | proaches and it is no secret to the| Ger- Germans that it is one of the most the

The whole world knows | the British

{so that the Italians are completely the boxed in. The British have powerfully rein-

troops |

Some estimates place the number that! "150000 to 200,000. Most of them Port of were moved up to

A Boston bull terrier, Biffie, was | inconsolable today over the death (of his mistress, 14-year-old Carolyn Myers. Carolyn was killed in a traffic accident Saturday on Road 52 near Traders Point. Biffie actually belonged to the Myers family, but was specially attached to Carolyn, her family revealed. Two weeks ago, Biffie and Carolyn were on their way home, 1409 Chester St, from the grocery When a car struck Biffie. Miss Myers dropped the groceries, picked up the unconscious dog, and rushed home. In an hour the deg was all right again, Yesterday and today Biffie went from person to person sniffing, apparently seeking an explanation for Carolyn’s absence. Then he would {sit for a ‘while on a chair and look {out the window for her. He has | scarcely eaten or slept, members {of the family said.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Pet Grieves Over Absence

Of Girl Killed in Accident

nd they show every sign of con- another pounding Friday night.

dnuing through the spring and sum- | The British insist that neither the mer. : | U-boat campaign nor heavy air raids

!der facing Bulgaria by rail and truck.

Interesting and significant.

tically every big attack has been diThe raids of last week came to a climax Jdhursday night when the Clydeside area suffered the first really great without the latter. it is only fair]

rected toward a port city.

pttack since the war began

i Everybody has been guessing for

The pattern of this new blitz is are going to cripple them but they |

an. | V€alize that they are in for the most rr Je : thes Prac-| : Thev | vails both in Greece and in Britain.

desperate type of struggle.

‘bank for success on the extraor-| But from other 1 detail \dinary measures which they them-| British officials in Istanbul, details

selves are taking and upon unstinted ©

A strict censorship regarding the British expeditionary force still pre-

sources, including

f the surprise operation have been

assistance from the United States. | gathered.

It is indicated that

|to say that the battle might actually | will operate chiefly on the Mace-

be lost.

Delay Diplomats’ Reports

! By HELEN K } Copyright,

LONDON, March

1941, by The Indianapolis 1

17.—Diplomatic Furopean powers under German influence will be delayed three weeks |

IRKPATRICK

The Chicago Daily Calro

‘imes and

News, Ine.

messages from

envoys

by the British in order to outmode any military information that may fall into Nazi hands, it is announced.

Diplomatic privileges thus Iodification under the new type Mstituted and which blasted the foundations from under so many Rrocepted canons of international law, In the earlier stages of the war, the German Army marched into various countries and British dipfomats walked out. In the later stages, Germany filtered into such pountries as Hungary, and Bulgaria and British diplomats still remained—for a time anyway pntil the presence of the Germans as So obvious that there wags no excuse for the British to jonger, British diplomats probably found it possible to acquire useful information Now Germany is getting an ad-

has

vantage from the fact that coun- Italy still have diplomats in Cairo. | three

bec

Rumania, |

linger |

ome the latest traditions to suffer of warfare which Adolf Hitler has

tries like Bulgaria, Hungary and | Rumania still keep their diplomatic | representatives in places where they

can pick up useful information. And |

information reaching Sofia, or Bucharest, is doubtailable to their “protectors,” the Germans, o Thus, the announcement just made, that all diplomatic telegrams {and dispatches from Cairo will henceforth be subject tc a three weeks' delay, may have come as a slight shock to the protectors Most military information of any value is usually outdate in three | weeks Hungary,

that Budapest,

less avail:

Bulgaria, Rumania and

War Moves Today

(Continued from Page One)

tanhot have been dissimilar during the winter, when the German Army did no more than watch the Italians retreat and surrender.

| Britain's scarcely be called convincing.

thave The paramount fact of the winter |Britain will arrive too late, they do |little warfare, which ends this week with |not

fall, his argument can

commentators that aid to

German repeatedly

Though said

explain why German aid to

of |

{ have ! ments in Bulgaria.

donian front with advanced base. If German pressure from Bulgaria is too great to hold this line, it is believed that the British plan to withdraw Salonika and then to the main body of Greece, fighting a stiff

rearguard action. Greeks Fix Defense Lines

The main Greek defense line may 'run from the Jugoslav frontier | southeast to the Gulf of Salonika, a short 7T5-mile strip of territory

the narrow finger of Macedonia where Salonika is located. | There was no sign from Germany’ of any reaction to the presence of the British force in Greece. Snow and rain was reported to slowed up German movemilitary journal,

The Russian

Red Star, suggested that the Bal- { kan | British {tions in Africa since Gen. Wavell

would force the offensive opera-

campaign to cease

to lack sufficient reserves two active war fronts

was said to maintain

{in the Middle East. |

Red Star said that Wavell had divisions (possibly 45.000 troops) in Crete and Cyprus. and another three in Palestine and that he was reshuffling his troops in view of the imminent start of major hostilities in the Balkans.

Report Duce Goes Home

| The Italians retain their foothald {in Tripoli but their bases here are so far distant from the British po- | sitions west of Benghazi as to offer apparent threat to Wavell,

the British

Salonika as an

to}

drowned early today when their car plunged into the Canal at Illinois St. MISS BARBARA SMITH, 17, of Campbelltown; WILLIAM BEMENT, 17, of Winslow, and CLIFFORD HAZELTON, 26, Winslow, | killed when their car struck a | bus head-on on Road 61 at the | edge of Petersburg. i CHARLES R. DOWDEN, 29, Indianapolis, and GEORGE UC. | RUST, 28, Cincinnati, killed vesterday when their car was struck by a New York Central passenger train at a county road crossing | near Greensburg. Pedestrian Is Victim

WILLIAM CHASTEEN, 49, An-

{ : . erson, a pedestrian, killed when which British strategists believe can | d p

| be held indefinitely at considerably | less cost in men and material than|

struck by a car at a Huntsville intersection. LEONA RAYAN CHARLSON, 11, Porter, killed when struck by a car near her home, { SHERMAN CHOWNING, 177. | Alquina, killed when two cars collided on Road 44 three miles | east of Connersville. MRS. MINNIE SCHLABACH, |! 46. Conneautville., Pa., killed when | a car driven by her husband collided with a truck four miles west of Lagrange. R. BEN BEER, 37, McCordsville, killed when he lost control of his car near Shelbyville and it crashed into a tree.

MRS. MINNIE POWELL, 60, Marion, killed in an auto-truck collision on Road 18, five miles west of Marion.

Injured Last Week

CHARLES SLAUGHTER, 30, Jamestown restaurant proprietor, died today in a Crawfordsville hospital of injuries received in an automobile crash last Wednesday. Two other persons died in that crash. JOHN B. LINDER, 21, soldier

‘even if he has moved the bulk of his

the coming of spring, is that Hitler | Italy has been so long delaved, even | Army to Greece.

allowed the Axis to be split, militarily. He committed the blunder of permitting Italy to receive one of torv without making even a gesture of help. Military science is have been developed more intensively and than in any other country. It is elementary in every school of strategy that allies in warfare maintain unified plans of campaign. They never should allow a condition to develop where one ally is

supposed to in Germany persistently

attacked separately while the other

lds back its efforts. They should ry to distract the enemy and Ij 1is task more difficult by never®orgetting to combine their striking power. Hitler's Memorial this was not done, as, of course, all the world has seen in actual fact. It is incredible that the head of the German military have to confess that Italy alone has carried on the land fighting for more than three tragic months and that only now is Germany preparing to take over her share of the battle. When. after this acknowledgment of a grave strategic blunder, Fuehrer immediately declares, as he did yesterday, that no power anywhere in the world can prevent

the worst defeats in Italian his-|

address admits

state should]

the

though Italy reeling under blows that all | forces could not parry.

was

{ The plain realistic fact is that the [Axis has had a divided military | policy throughout the winter. There (has been no unity of command, for when two dictators ally themselves,

neither can accept direction from|

the other, without losing prestige fat home. Htler has allowed Mussolini to [fight his own war, as if it were a {private Italian adventure. Fuehrer says his and II Duce’s objectives are the same. It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that confusion existed throughout the winter as between Rome and Berlin.

istence seems apparent from

CONDITION IS CRITICAL

The condition of Basil Reiss, 23-jyear-old City fireman week when an overturned

emergency

Yet, the

Its continued ex-| the present hesitancies of German plans.

injured last] wagon | at 30th St and North-

| According to Greek accounts a hig

|about a week ago has been smashed

‘up and Premier Benito Mussolini, |

who personally directed it, has gone | back to Rome. { The Greeks claim that some | 120.000 Italian troops participated in | the drive but failed to gain any important objectives and suffered | losses ranging as high as 40 per cent in some units. In New York the | Greek radio was heard broadcasting {that Italian casualties since March {9 had been 50,000. There has been [10 confirmation from Rome that any | such offensive ever was started. i However, Rome did report that a British torpedo plane sank an Italian hospital ship in Valona Saturday night. Countess Edda Ciano, daughter of Mussolini and wife of the Italian Foreign Minister, was said to have been aboard the vessel and to have behaved with great bravery, The Germans claimed that their | torpedo-planes hit two British bat- | tleships in the Mediterranean. They

| from Rantoul

Field, Ill, died of injuries received Feb. 21 near Terre Haute when the motorcycle he was

Signor Mussolini's Italian offensive started in Albania riding crashed into a culvert. His

{home was Pittsburgh, Pa. | Miss Meyers and her sister, Betty | Lee Myers, 17, left the Myers home fat 2 p. m. Saturday with James

| Lewallen, 19. of 1320 Ewing St., who

| was going to drive them to Lebanon.

Both of the survivors told State Police that on Road 52 near Traders Point a station wagon was being driven from one side of the road {to another. They said that they sounded their thorn as a signal to pass and that (the driver of the station wagon {pulled far to the right side of the road.

Started to Pass

Thinking the driver meant to stay | there, Lewallen started to pass, but lat that moment the station wagon {cut sharply to the left and Lewallen turned his car sharply also, missing the wagon but plunging end {over end down a steep embankment. | Miss Betty Lee Myers and Lewallen {were not injured seriously, but Miss

western Ave. has shown no change|said that the damage was done in Carolyn Myers was killed instantly. since he entered the City Hospital an attack on a British fleet com-

four days ago, it was reported today. |Prising the battleships, six cruisers|gtation wagon did not stop.

cal.”

His condition still is termed “criti-|and a number of destroyers 25 miles Injured with Mr. Reiss was Off Crete.

The attack presumably

Paull Carr, who still remains in the| was on the British Eastern Mediter-

hospital in a “fair condition.”

ranean fleet.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Heve Is the Traffic Record County City 10

15 36

19 —March 15 and 16— injured 19 Accidents Dead 6 SATURDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines tried tions paid 3 3 S78 5 4 35

1240 1941

Arrests ives

Violations peeding vivhs teckless driving failure to stop at through street )isobeying traffic signals yrunken driving \ll others

Totals 22 170

sa secee

MEETINGS TODAY Scientech

Club. luncheon, Board Yade. noon

Service Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel oon Indianapolis Alumni Association, elta Rho, meeting, Riley Hotel, 7:3 Irvington Republican Ciub, meeting Washington St.. 8 p. m. North Side Realtors, luncheon, Canary bitage., noon. : ' Notre Dame Club, luncheon, Board of Yade, noon Indiana University Club, Club, noon. : International Association of Retired ailway and Railway Postal Clerks, meet12. Big Four Bldg. 2. p. m American Society for Metals, feeting, Hotel Washington, 6:30 p Indianapolis Athletic Club, stag A. C., night. Sigma Delta Kappa BRnarv Cottage, noon. University of Chicage, School of Medi12. luncheon and dinner, 15 and 6 p. m, ‘Eli Lilly & Co. btel Severin, 6 p. m. ‘Mallory Camera Club, meeting fverin, 8 » m, ° big Unemployment Compensation Division, feeting, Hotel! Severin, 1 p.m Salesmen's Club, luncheon, Hotel Washfgton, 12:15 m Indiana Casualty ncheon, Hote] Washington Paint and Wall Paper eeting and dinner, Hotel $45 and 6 2 m ‘American Society for Metals, dinner and jeeting, 8:30 and 8 p. m. Amalgamated Division 1211, meeting, fotel Washington, 7:30 Printing Craftsmen, Hotel fashington, 7:30 p. m. 3

luncheon, Co-

mba

dinner

alumni,

of Buffalo, Hotel

University

Insurance Adjusters, 12:15 p.m Credit Group, Washington

Bm... meeting,

Total |

0 { dinner, | luncheon, |

Hotel Severin, |*

MEETINGS TOMORROW Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,

Y* Men's Club, luncheon, Y, M. C. A, noon Alpha Tau Trade. noon. Gyro Club, Mercator Club, noon Universal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, oon

Omega, luncheon, Board of luncheon, Spink Arms, noon. luncheon, Hotel Lincoln,

University of Michigan Club, luncheon, oard of Trade, noon Knights of Columbus, luncheon, K, of C. ubhouse, noon Lutheran Service Club, luncheon, Canary Cottage, noon Fine Paper Credit Group, luncheon, Wm. Block Co., noon. Indiana Motor Truck AsSociation, ieon, Hotel Antlers, noon, | Club of Mathematics Teachers of Indianapoelis, dinner meeting, George Washington High School, 6 p. m, Actuarial Club, dinner, Hotel Washingon, 6 p. m 1211, m,

{Cl

H lunch-

Division meeting

7:30 p.

Amalgamated Hotel Washington,

MARRIAGE LICENSES

| (These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times therefore, is not responsible for errors in | names and addresses.)

Earl Dailey, 34, Columbus, Ind.; Ruby Goodpasture, 33. City Earl Phillips, 20, of 330 N. Minkner; Mona Brown, 18, of 1745 W. New York Russell K, Williams, 22, of 5144 Patterson; Mary K. Parker, 16, of 543 N. Dor-

man Jaul E. Kottlowski Jr., 27, of 1230 Villa; Janice Dempsey. 24, of 230 E. Ninth, R ell L. Smith, 18, Noblesville, Ind.; J. Humbles, 20, Fishers, Ind Richards, 28 Russellviile, Ind.; E. Smith, 34, 6 Reid Place. L. Lee, ge, 21

Romilda 1. B E. Roberta Charles {Anna Ben Carl H right, 2¢ I. ruzella K Claude Cade, iIngram, 29. of 323 S. Noble. Glen E Petty, 19, of 130 S. Neal; Eskel M. Francher, 19, of 822 Bates. 30, of 102¢ WwW, Stark, 32, of 1024 W. 20th, ; Maher, 21, of 2338 N. Pennisylvania; Alberta R. Miller, 22, of 47 Johnson.

| Robert F. Anderson, 32. of 3105 N. Illi{nois: Evelyn M. Bricount, 22, of 3335 N.

i Illinois. 1 Ja 24, of 15332 30 Clay W. Kansas; 1881 8. Shelby. of 28 N. Belmore; Marietta Wilcox, of 3645 Stanton | Herbert I. Seyfried, 42, of 1011 Tabor: {Ivah Gramling Bennett, 42, of 1011 Tabor.

BIRTHS Girls Haroid, Bertha Baird, at St. Franeis. Roy, Alice Hubbs, at St. Francis,

N. Sherman 3, of 823 N. East. 323 S. Nobles; Mona 23 8

or J. Groenert, Julia L Richard J.

Nelson; enneth Dilk ose M. Herron, Burl Clayton

19 43, 39,

19, of 1709 N Somerset; |

Ellis, Irene Horn. at St. Vincent's. Kenneth, Mary Rose, at St. Vincent's. Carl, Edna Trueman, at Methodist Leon. Betty Moffatt, at Methodist William, Dorothy Shrout, at Methodist. Walter, Viola Nash, at Methodist. Herman, Mary Weeks, at Methodist, Bonnie, Elsie Browning, at City, Boys William, Helen Byrum, Wilbur, Jane Streeval at City, Cornie, Ruth Robinson. at City, Clarence, Gertrude Edwards, at Cit Robert. Louise Rose, at Methodist, Emil, Marian Schneider, at Methodist. Jack, Helene Sheard, at Methodist, Elmer. Pauline Griffin, at Methodist Charles. Ellen Austin, at Methodist Ross, Gertrude VarfAntwerp, at Methodist J.. Virginia Van Sickie, at Francis. Merl, Wilma Eaton, at St, Francis John, Margaret Watts, at St. Vincent's

at City.

cent’s.

DEATHS

Donald Rav Schaub, 26, at diana, pulmonary tuberculosis d Thomas Stull. 52, at Veterans, itis Thomas Timberlake, 71, at 317 N. Riley, chronic myocarditis. Althea Hopkins, 59, at 2231 acute myocarditis. Charles P. Putnick, 60, broncho-pneumonia. Eimer Leweilen, 38, at {monary tuberculosis. Mildred Overbeck, 32, at peritonitis. Alexander G. Cavins, 67, coronary occlusion. Oscar Heacock, 60, Long, Recklinghausen’s Disease Jacob Barker, 77, 1828 N. cerebral hemorrhage. James Farmer, 80, at City, cerebral hem-

orrhage. rles Wickliff, 69, at 1218 S. State, n broncho-pneumonia. berculosis meningitis. 24 days, Riley, at tumor diabetes, cinoma. carcinoma. Michigan, coronary occl

Char learcinoma 30, at 334 W, cardiac dilatation, i 55, St. Preston Spoornemore, broncho-pneumonia. . Methodist, Charles Hartsock. 83. at 50 N. Hawthorne Lane, arteriosclerosis, Jesse Miller, 64, teriosclerosis Eldora Fowler 25, at Flower Mission, pulmonary tuberculosis Woodson Mavhew, 84, at 641 8. Missouri, coronary occlusion, usion. Charles A. Reichert, 78. at 6880 Northwestern, coronary ecclusign,

Central In-

myocar-

Pleasant, at Veterans’, Methodist, pul1919 Mansfield, at 4775 Park, at

at Tilinois,

40th, acute at Vincent's, at

brain

Central Indiana,

Lucey Burton, Francis Young, Charles Pierce, 8 months, at Riley, tuLoretta Poor, Louise Volderauer, 68, at 3555 Michigan, at Frances Burnham, 74, at 3231 Park, carMary Nell, 67, at 1030 N. Tremont, William Henry Harrison, 55, at 1816 W.

ar-!

The survivors told police that the

Miss Myers was born in Indian{apolis, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Myers. She was a freshrnan at Howe High School and a member of the Howe Glee Club and a member of the Englewood Christian Church. She was graduated last January from School 62. She is survived by her parents, her sister, Betty Lee, and another sister, Mrs, William Woods, Jasonville.

stopped in a short distance,

LONDON, March 17 rime Minister vas host in the country during the week end to W. ; gos Averill Harriman, President Roose- | SESE 8: velt’s new special { -_ envoy to Britain 5 on American aid, i. % it was made $%% id {| known today. fw Er It was understood that Churchill and Mr. Harriman discussed in broad outline all : problems connected with American aid to be provided under the Lease-Lend Law. The importance of the conference was emphasized by the act that Mr. Harriman had arrived here only Saturday afternoon by airplane from Lisbon. Returning to London, Mr. Harri/man at once conferred today with {Lord Woolton, Food Minister, on |the British food problem in view of (the German starvation raids. | Awaiting increased American aid, | Britain continued to gird itself for the decisive test against Germany. Nearly all newspapers of the

(U. PD. ==

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GALES KILL 53; RELIEF ON WAY

Rescue Crews Battle Drifts Above Heads; 21 Trapped On Lake Floes.

(Continued from Page One)

Carolyn Myers, 14 . . . killed when car plunged over embankment.

Six More Dead in County Traffic as Toll Soars to 36

(Continued from Page One)

Mr. Koehl was a sheet metal worker at the Hall-Neal Furnace Co. for nearly 20 years. Mrs. Sweatt and her three children had heen to a theater earlier in the evening. At Illinois St. Mrs. |Sweatt apparently became confused jand plunged the car into the Canal, | which is about 10 feet deep at this point. Two youths who had been following the car immediately notified firemen at Station 17, at 5555 N. Illinois St.

Headlamps Guide Rescuers

Firemen and police went to the scene with a boat and wreckers. The lighted headlamps of the car guided rescuers to the spot. All four were dead when the car

was pulled out. Meantime, Delbert Sweatt, hus-

band and father, had called police | Bemidji, Minn, reported 12 below/

to report his family long overdue. He was told of the accident and arrived there soon after the bodies

had been taken from the auto.

He told police that his family had driven him to the home of a relative early in the evening and then had gone on to a movie,

U, S. NAVAL AID FOR

BRITAIN EXPECTED

(Continued from Page One)

will almost certainly have to intervene with its Navy. Of what good, it is asked, will the seven billion dollars’ worth of ships, planes, tanks, guns and other war equipment be to the British, or even seven times seven biliion dollars’ worth, if it is to be sent to the bottom of the Atlantic instead of reaching the fir ing line? Congress admits the President has the power to use the Navy for convoy purposes if he wishes. Opponents of the Lend-Lease Bill tried to tie his hands, but failed. The Constitution, it was pointed out, makes him commander-in-chief of all the armed forces, and while only Congress can declare war he can make pretty much any use of the Navy that he sees fit

The aid-to-Britain measure, therefore, merely says that “nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize or to permit the authorization of convoying vessels by naval vessels of the United States.” The President's forthright pledging of Saturday night, therefore—he promised, in effect, to let nothing whatever stand in the way of total victory over the Axis dictators—is regarded as a last milestone on the road toward all-out participation in the war, Hitler, at any rate, is known to believe the United States intends to use its Navy when the pinch comes. He also believes the United States is prepared to transfer to the Atlantic some of its newer and better units now in the Pacific. It was largely to frustrate this that he invited the Japanese Foreign Minister, Yosuke Matsuoka, to Berlin. When the conference takes place he is expected to ask Japan to start a war scare. if not a war, in the western Pacific in order to hold American warships where they are,

E MAY END DAYTON, O., March 17 (U. P..

Winston Churchill |

—All authoratative spokesman for Dayton Building Trades Council (A. F. of L.) predicted that peace terms originating in Washington would terminate the Wright Field construction strike “within a few days.”

Harriman Sees Churchill

And British Food Minister

to four pages on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and 10 pages n Sunday, effective tomorrow, in rder to conserve news print. Labor Minister Ernest Bevin ane nounced yesterday that women,

‘married and single, of the ages of

1 and 22 years, and men between 1 and 45 inclusive must register or national war service. The women will be registered starting April 19: he registration of the men will start early in April. It means the con-

i/scription of women for the first time

in British history. The Times called the President's speech Saturday night “more than a speech—rather a political event of first order. ‘ “When the history of this war is written it will adjudge that the most important event from the downfall of France last summer was the great speech which President Roosevelt delivered Saturday,” it said. “In effect it is a total declaration of war against Hitler.” “America is all out to win,” said the News Chronicle. “In the technical sense she is still not in the war but in every real semse she is is it up to the hilt.” “Here is the final pledge that America is in this war with us,”

country agreed to reduce their size

said the Daily Mail,

[swirled dust and blinding snow |across the rich Red River valley between North Dakota and Minnesota. | The high winds caused great |property damage, blowing in plate {glass store fronts, toppling chim- | neys, and tearing roofs from houses (in some sections. Many northern Minnesota and | Dakota schools remained closed | today, and communication still was uncertain in some areas. Thousands were forced to spend most of Saturday night in theaters and other amusement places because police forbade them to go out in the storm. Two thousand spectators attending a basketball tournament at Moorehead stayed in the junior high school gymnasium and competing teams played throughout the night. At Skanee, Mich., seven men and one woman, suffering from exposure land frostbite after nearly 24 hours on ice floe that carried an estimated 22 per sons into storm-tossed Lake Superior, were swept ashore today. At least nine others, including one woman, were reported. still missing aboard the huge floe which broke from near S8kanee before noon yesterday and coast guards said eight other men were unreported near Munising. Hopes for the remainder missing from Skanee arose when it was reported that a cake of ice carrying at least seven persons had been sighted still adrift. Rescue workers rushed blankets tao the spot they expected the floe to reach shore, Five men who were swept out on the Skanee floe drifted ashore

which broke off the main floe. The coldest point in Minnesota j Yas Roseau—in the storm area— { where it was 17 degrees below zero. |At Fargo it was 7 below and at [Grand Forks, N. D. 14 below.

{ and Minneapolis 7 below.

| OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8S. Weather Burean

| INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair and | continued cold tonight and tomorrow: lowest temperature tonight about 12; slowly rising temperature by tomorrow night. Sunrise 5:53 | Sunset..... 5:34 TEMPERATURE —March 3, 1940— seve 38 1 De Mesecnine

| | fam...

BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. .m...30.2%

a, Jan,

Mey oT 1.044288 rn ———— «vases 4.64 Indiana—Fair and continued cold tonight | and tomorrow

Precipitation 24 hrs, ending 7 | otal precipitation since | Deficiency since Jan

| WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Ww her | Amarillo, Bismarck, Boston | Chicago . Cincinnati Cleveland { Denver “iy . | Dodge City, Kas.. Jacksonville, Fla. Kansas City, | Little Rock, Los Angeles (Miami, Fla. ... ..P Minneapolis-St, Paul..C (Moblle, Aa. ees E | New Orleans | New York . +e: S [Oklahoma City, Okla (Omaha, Neb. ........ | Pittsburgh .... | Portland, Ore. .. San Antonio, Tex. San Francisco ... | St. Louis | Tampa, Fla. | Washington,

Tex.

MO... GC Ark.....

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—you might find a STRAUSS CHARGE ACCOUNT a nice bit of bridge-work (financial, not dental).

It places the store's spring stocks at your selection and by choosing now you get the fullest period of enjoyment from your purchase.

(a) The customary 30-day accounts in accord with general practice.

(b) JUNIOR CHARGE ACCOUNTS that permit moderate weekly payments.

(¢) Accounts tailored to special needs.

No Carrying Charges.

New Accounts Desk, Balcony.

L. STRAUSS & COMPANY, INC. THE MAN'S STORE

last night on a separate ice cake!

Team in Congress

The help which Mrs. Garner gave her husband during his many years in Congress is now legendary, but the tradition is carried on by Congressman Clyde T. Ellis and Mrs. Ellis of Bentonville, Ark. Though not

on the Congressman’s payroll as a paid secretary, Mrs. Ellis spends much of her time in his office as his assistant.

NAZI BOMBERS BATTER BRISTOL

Many Killed, Six Churches Damaged in Worst Attack on Port.

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straddled with bombs and severely damaged. A policeman and three soldiers, who were fighting a fire, were believed to have been blown to bits when a high explosive crashed down nearby. Six churches were damaged heavily. A large hospital suffered a direct hit. but.there were no casuaities. Incendiaries and high explosives rained down on a bus depot. One bus was blown through the side of a house. The conductress remained at the scene bandaging the wounded despite a hail of explosives and fires raging all around her. The whole western horizon was lit up by a red glare which spread southward. The glare spread into flame and after two minutes died down. An eyewitness said: “It was the most awesome spec tacle T ever have seen. It looked as though the earth had opened up and released a sea of flame.” In London four bombs dropped together on a suburban area caused nearly all of the Capital's week-end casualties. The bombs blew out a wall of a second-story dance hall, wrecked a bus in the street outside and damaged a nearby banks, Youths and girls

into the street, were Killed.

Most casualties were among passengers and crew of the bus.

in the dance] hall were buried in debris or thrown

FBI AGENTS HUNT RAIL SABOTEURS

4 Dead and 114 Injured as

Train Dives Into River Near Pittsburgh.

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countant for the Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburgh. DONALD McDONALD, 9 months old, son of Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, Altoona, Pa. MRS. ROSE JAGIESKI, 27, Pittsburgh. (Tentative identifica~tion.) The train, Cleveland at apolis Time) Pittsburgh at

had left (Indianand was due at 8:30. The wreck was at 8:15. The coach passengers were stirring around in the aisles, collecting their luggage as

No. 515 p.

316, m.

John N. | they neared the end of their jour-

| ney, and many of the Pullman pas-

| sengers had settled down for the { night, sinee their car was to have | heen attached to a New York train lat Pittsburgh, when the engine hit | the loose rail, plowed up the tracks fand rumbled down the embank- | ment, | An official statement by E. W, | Smith, vice president of the rail- | road, said that “definite evidences | of sabotage were discovered.” “That the train was wrecked de=liberately was established upon inspection of the track,” Mr. Smith's statement said. “All spikes on both sides had been pulled from the outer rail, next to the river. One end of the rail, the end facing the | oncoming locomotive, was moved in | 22 inches. The bolts had been re{itioved from the splice-bars which spliced this section of rail to the adjoining rails. “That the derailment was the result of deliberate action was further indicated by the fact that the end of the section of rail involved had been moved only 22 inches from its normal position, or the length of the bond wire, which connects { the rail sections and carries the j electric track current operating the signals. Signals Unaffected “The bond wire itself was not | disturbed, and the railroad signal | system was unaffected. The fact that the bond wire was undisturbed | definitely indicates that it was intended that the train should get a | clear signal and run into the removed rail. If the bond wire had been broken, the train would have been stopped by signal before running over the damaged section.” Fortunately, the lights in every car, with the exception of a few {in the Pullman. which had been turned out for the night, remained on, serving both as a guide to | rescuers and in aiding the trapped passengers to leave the coaches { The dead all were found in the coach nearest the locomotive, the | railroad reported. | Most of No. 316's passengers were (hurt, some seriously. They escaped | from the half-flooded cars by breaking the windows, climbed back up | the embankment and huddled under blankets and overcoats in a Ylind- | Ing snowstorm, awaiting rescue | A train from Erie, following a few minutes oehind No. 316, was | switched to the undamaged side of

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saloon and two the double tracks and sent to Pitts

{burgh with most of the injured. Rescue and salvage operations (were hampered by the weather and

Clothes of some the steepness of the embankment. A were blown off. Many were wound- | relief train, a wrecker, severa! ambued but it was believed only three lances and a crowd of more than

|a thousand quickly congregated at {the scene. All state policemen in |the vicinity were summoned.

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