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INDIANA STATE TAR

‘INAL LIBRARY O M E INDIARAFOLE |

By "PRICE THREE CENTS

VOLUME 53 — NUMBER 8

TOLL HEAVY IN LONDON BLITZ

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1941

Entered as Second-Class

at Postoffice, Indianapolis,

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FEENEY'S CURE FOR AUTO TOLL: GET TOGETHER!

Calls for Unity at Traffic, Session; ‘Cafeteria’ Plan Pushed.

By RICHARD LEWIS

Thumbs Up!

‘Rick’ Knows No Reason for Crash of Airliner.

Tt happened toward the end of a,

stormy session of Mayor Sullivan’s

Traffic Advisory Committee yester-|:

day. It wasn't unexpected, because punches were being pulled less and less as the meeting grew warm un- | der the collar. i Why are there so many traffic deaths in Indianapolis? In Marion County? Who is to blame? What's

the matter with the Police Department, the Sheriff's office, the Safety Board, the Mayor, the judges? That's when Sheriff Al

Feeney | - §&

got up from his chair. They stopped |

talking when they saw a red flush] mount over his face to the roots of his iron gray hair.

“There’s No Unity”

“I'll tell you what's the matter.” said the Sheriff in a strong woice that commanded attention. “And I'm as much to blame as anvbody. | “Our greatest difficulty in enforcing the traffic laws is that the enforcement officials of this city] and county have never been able to get together. “There isn't any unity in traffic] enforcement. The police pull one way, the courts pull the other. “We're never going to get any-| where until we iron out all these| childish attitudes that are in the| way, until we co-operate with one another as a unit Those of us who are charged with law enforce-| ment have got to step down off our dignity every time some minor dis-| agreement comes up.

‘And Don’t Ask Favors’

“And T'll tell yo something more. Let every man ir this room promise to refrain from asking favors| . . « for himself, his friends, his | business associates, his customers. | Then maybe we'll get somewhere.” | here were comments of proval in the crowded City Hall] chamber when the Sheriff finished.! Police Chief Michael F. Morrissey | looked at Municipal Judge John L.| McNelis. The judge looked at the sheriff. It was as though an un-| derstanding flashed thfough ‘the minds of all three, { There are disagreements, they] admitted. Judge McNelis believes it is illegal to bring speeders down to the Police Station in the patrol | wagon. The Sheriff and the Chief are known to have clashed ard | (Continued on Page Five) i |

COY NOMINATED FOR

$10,000 FEDERAL JOB gines will be built in Anderson, Ind.,|

according to O. V. Badgley, general

Times Special WASHINGTON, March 20 (U. P.). Wayne Coy, Delphi, Ind. today | was recommended by President Roosevelt to study the entire trans-| portation problem of the United) States at a salary of $10,000 a year and expenses. The name of Federal Security Ad- | ministrator Paul V. MeNutt’s admin- | istrative assistant was sent to the! Senate for approval today. together with that of Charles West of Ohio and Nelson Lee Smith of New Hampshire. This trio will constitute the board of investigation and research pro- | vided for under the 1940 transportation act.

| P.).—Capt.

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Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker “This is the first time you b ever got a picture of me like this.’ This is the first photo since Capt. Rickenbacker was injured in an air crash near Atlanta.

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ATLANTA, Ga., March 20 (U, Eddie Rickenbacker, World War flying ace, knows no reason for the crash of a big Airlines sleeper plane three weeks ago in which he was critically injured and eight persons were killed. Mr. Rickenbacker, president of the airline and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, told reporters his version of the accident yesterday “I thought

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about it all that

| beastly long night as I lay in the |

wreckage. I have talked about it with officials of the Civil Aeronautics Board and with executives in the company, but I have no explanation, I am sorry to say. We were just flying 1000 feet too low.”

ALLISON PLAN

ANDERSON UNIT :

New Factory to Make Parts For Plane Engines; Work Starts at Once.

Another new plant to manufacture parts for Allison aircraft en-

manager of General Motors’ DelcoRemy Division. The building, to be started immediately, will occupy about 200,000 square feet. Officials hope to have it ready for production sometime in September. The plant will be of brick and

| steel and will be completely air-con-|

ditioned to insure constant temperatures necessary in the manufacture of airplane engine parts. It will be located just south of two recently completed plants, 3

{and 7. The Allison engines are used |

HINT SURPRISE BRITISH DRIVE INTO BULGARIA

Base in Turkey Indicated; ' Jugoslavia May Permit Nazi Supply Trains.

By HARRISON SALISBURY

United Press Staff Correspondent British and German diplomatic |offensives collided in the Balkans | |today and brought reports that

| Jugoslavia shortly would align her- | | self with a “compromise” adherence | {to the Axis and that Britain might | | spring a surprise attack upon| | German forces in Bulgaria. From both Belgrade and Berlin! § | reports issued indicating that a | compromise under which Jugoslavia | | would move . closer to the Nazi | | sphere under terms that would bar | | German troops frem Jugoslavia but | | would allow German supplies and { hospital trains to pass through. Istanbul countered this with advices that Britain may be contem- |

four wheels off the ground!

plating a “preventive” offensive to | stall the German military machine in Bulgaria before it can get under way.

U. S. TO REPAIR BRITISH CRAFT

Hope Centers on Jugoslavia

Istanbul said that this was one of the subjects discussed by foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and ForMinister Sukru Saracoglu, According to these sources, Eden advanced proposals for joint action by Britain, Greece and Turkey and jeven suggested that Jugoslavia (might still be drawn into a com- Bill Speeded. {mon Balkan front. Turkey's part in such an action,| WASHINGTON. March 20 (U. It was suggested, would be the pro-/p) _ynited State Navy yards today [Vision of facilities on Turkish soil (ere expected to begin repair work

| some purely defensive arrangement | {IV to repair some naval vessels, ‘with the Anglo-Turkish-Grecian | there were unconfirmed reports that bloc. a British cruiser would enter drydock at Norfolk, Va., next week for Turks Dim Nazi Hopes “routine overhauling.” Mr. Knox Berlin thought that Jugoslavia | said yesterday the British request might send statesmen to Berlin in still was under consideration. two or three days to sign an agree-| The Lend-Lease Law specifically ment of some sort although Bel- [provides that the President may grade reports had indicated the sig- | nature might be made a great cere- Navy yards or procure such services {mony at the time of Japanese for-|for any Government by private coneign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka's tract. trip to the German capital March | : slat ‘the $7,000,000,000 British-aid apThere were indications, however, | propriation bill which the House that the Eden-Saracogiu conference passed late yesterday by a 336 to 55 had dimmed whatever hopes Ger- yore. many had entertained for results| ggnate leaders predicted that the

from the exchange of messages be- | i y withtween Adolf Hitler and Turkey's | U8 a A eT

; {in a week and allow the AdminisPe hL ln ia Turkce. | tration to proceed full speed with has agreed to allow British troops | US program of all-out aid to the de-

: to move up from Iraq, where ; | nocracies. Ca is reported the British have con-| A Senate Appropriations sub(Continued on Page Five) committee began hearings on the a ————— | House-approved bill this afternoon Secretary of War Henry L.

ony Gen. George C. Marshall,

Way to Norfolk; Cash

| with . Stims

BRITISH CLAIM SUBS SINK 4 TALIAN SHIPS

2 Transports Loaded With | Troops Go Down. Woman Tumbles

| LONDON, March 20 (U. P).— Into Skylight

|The Admiralty reported today that British submarines have sunk four] MRS. HELEN COOPER, 25, fell today from a window in her

| Director Harold D. Smith as the | first witnesses. Mr. Knox gave out the first official information yesterday about (Continued on Page Three)

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Cruiser Already Reported on

A few hours after Secretary of |

authorize such work in Government |

| The Senate began work today on

Modern Rough Riders Bounce on Way

Rough and tough are the boys of the Sixth Cavalry, U. S. Army, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. it—on horseback, in bantam and scout cars or on mo torcycles, afoot if need be. merrily over the rough terrain in a bantam car, dragging their 37 mm. gun behind them,

They can take Here troopers bounce Oops! All

Cold Gold

415 Tons of It Stump Lake County Assessor.

TAXING OFFICIALS of North Township, Lake County, have asked the State Tax Board what to do about a premature ‘“Baster egg’ discovered by Township Assessor Leon J. Grainger. When Mr. Grainger walked into a reclaimed gold smelting plant, he found 460 bars oi gold, each weighing 22 pounds. That made something over four and a half tons. At $35 an ounce that would be better than $5,500,000. In doubt as to what to do, Mr. Grainger sat down and wrote the State Board, explaining the situation and adding: “Please advise how assessment should follow.” Board officials conferred with local bankers who said the gold probably contained some alloys which might bring the value down to $20 or $25 an ounce. Peter A. Beczkiewicz, State Board member, today advised the | assessor to have the gold assaved, | and suggested valuing it at $25 | an ounce. | That would make the assess- | ment about $4,000.000, and, at the | prevailing tax rate, would bring in about $120.000 in taxes.

FOR PLEASED WITH NAVAL PROGRESS

Army Chief of Staff, and Budget Inspects Jacksonville Site, attending services at the church,

Heads for Sea Holiday.

ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL SPE: CIAL, March 20 (U, P.).—President Roosevelt today expressed gratification al the rapid progress in de- | velopment of the $40,000,000 Jack- | sonville, ¥1a., naval base which soon | will be turning out 200 pilots {monthly for the Navy's air arm. The President headed south for Port Everglades, Fla., where he hegins a seagoing vacation tonight.

| transports

° ; and probably five Italian ships in by the U. 8. Air Corps in all new | pe Mediterranean eine two| apartment, 233'> Massachusetts

: He made a detailed inspection of fighter planes. heavily loaded with

Ave, to the one-story skylight of |the 3260-acre naval air base on the

FARMER TO FACE ‘BLAST CHARGES

Denies Dynamiting Lyons Church During Revival; 13 Are Injured.

Times Special BLOOMFIELD. Ind. March 20.— | Greene County officials today pre|pared to file charges against a | prominent, 55-year-old farmer in | connection with the dynamiting of the Free Methodist Church at Lyons last night. Thirteen persons were injured, none seriously, and the congregation thrown inte confusion when the blast interrupted the revival sermon being preached by the Rev. Leroy McDowell, Vincennes, district superintendent. The blast, set off at the rear entrance, tore the door to pieces, ripped concrete blocks from the rear wall and hurled debris on the 75 in | the congregation,

Protests Innocence

The suspect, according to Prose|cutor Robert 1. Stevenson, was arrested about 10 p. m. at his nearby farm home. Questioned throughout the night, he protested his innocence, insisted he had been home since 5 p. m. Sheriff Charles Blanton said, however, that the motor of the susIpect’'s auto was warm when the officers arrived. | Officials said they were informed | the suspect had objected to his wife | The injured included Mrs. R. C. | Bastham, wife of the pastor; Mrs. | sam Jones, Patty Haferkamp, 17, land Mrs. Frank Tibbett,

| Windows Smashed

Officials estimated that at least five sticks of dynamite were used | {in the blast. The explosion smashed several | windows in a restaurant 100 feet away, shook houses in the town | and was heard in communities 10 | miles away. Two men told officials they saw {a man back of the church shortly

Other construction work also is to start immeditaely on a small addi-| (tion to the aluninum foundry in AnThis will provide plaster)

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A REAL ‘MINT WASHINGTON, March 20 (U. p.),| Gerson. | Tt may be an even longer time be- Molds in conjunction with aluminum tween drinks this summer, | products developed in Delco Remy’s The Commerce Department re-| Yellow Springs, O., development ported that mint has become so|foundry. valuable farmers are storing it “in!

merciatiy on onis 1765 arms 1 ne SPRING OFFICIALLY CLAIMS U. S. ARMS SUNK ARRIVES AT b:21 ROME, March 20 (U. P.).—The!

United States, principally in Michigan and Indiana. Giornale D'Ttalia reported from Warm Weather Greets New Algeciras today that it had been| “learned from Gibraltar” that the first shipment of American arms sent to Britain after passage of the Lease-Lend Bill had been sunk by|

a Nazi submarine. | ILONA MASSEY TO WED HOLLYWOOD, March 20 YU. P). —Tlona Massey, blond Hungarian-| AB " born film actress, and Alan Curtis, BY Drearrangement, Spring will leading man, will be married early come to Indianapolis at exactly] next week. She said she fell in 6:21 post meridian today. That is] love with Mr. Curtis when she saw when the sun is exactly over the

an injured woman. ! him helping J equator. From then on it moves north and the days will become |longer and the nights shorter.

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troops. Two sinkings and a probable third were credited to the submarines Utmost and Unique, new underseas craft constructed and placed in commission since the outbreak of the war. The Utmost was first mentioned, by the Admiralty in a communique Feb. 23 when she was credited with sinking an 8000 ton Italian supply ship in the Mediterranean. Naval sources said that the latest Ttalian losses boosted Italy's shipping losses since the start of the war to more than 700.000 tons Through British action.

the Leon Tailoring Co., 235 Massachusetts Ave., where her fall was broken.

St. John's, River near Jacksonville |before and after the¥explosion but and found development of the their descriptions were vague. | sprawling base from two weeks to| Footprints found behind the church

Matter Ind.

DUSK-TO-DAWN

ATTACK BURIES MANY IN RUINS

Huge Fires Started in Worst Raid of 19413 At Least Five Shelters and Four Hospitals Are Bombed.

LONDON, March 20 (U. P.).—Rescue squads, aided by, volunteers, dug today for the broken bodies of men, women and children buried in the ruins of homes, apartment houses, tenements, hotels and in at least five air raid shelters during the night, in the worst German air raid of the year and one of the worst of the war, Flying over the city in waves—scores in eac wave—the German planes dropped many thousands of bombs, incens diary and high explosives, from soon after dusk last night until early this morning. Bombs crashed into the homes of sleeping people in the fashionable West End and in the crowded, teeming East End, into hospitals, police stations, schools, public houses. In Berlin well informed Nazi quarters said the attack marked the ‘real beginning of the spring offensive” with the goal the “complete starvation of the British Isles.”

Fires Light Up Huge Area

For hours of continuous attack, the crash of the bombs and the thunderous roar of one of the greatest anti-aircraft barrages ever fired made the city a bedlam.

In the brief intervals the roar of British fighter planes seeking out the German raiders could be heard. Thousands upon thousands of incendiary bombs fell on one area which suffered its worst raid of the war. As they fell, fires shot up to light an area of between 30 and 40 square miles. Men standing on the roofs of buildings or their own homes began a grim fight to save the entire area from dee struction, They kicked burning bombs into the streets as explosive bombs started to fall, and persons in the streets doused them. Fight Finally Won

The fire situation was worse than it had been since the blitz raid of last Dec. 29, according to some newspapers, but by daybreak the fight had been won. The Air and Home Security Ministers admitted tha some public services were temporarily affected. A heavy toll was taken in lives among the civilian popus lation. One great bomb crashed on to a big public shelter in which many persons had sought safety from the rain of bombs and shell fragments. : Rescuers were still bringing out shattered bodies of vice tims in mid-morning and others remained deep in the debris, The German raiders scored hits on at least four hose pitals. In one a bomb wrecked the maternity ward which was being used as an emergency first aid shelter.

A burst of fire from anit-aireraft guns heralded the raid (Continued on Page Three)

Capture Plane in Mid-Air

By GEORGE WELLER Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. ATHENS, March 20.—Well, even the growing control of the air oveg Albania by the Allied forces had its mental hazards, as proved by the nasty five minutes through which the ground staff of a Greek airfield is reported to have passed not long ago. On a reconnaissance flight over an Italian position, 12 Greek mae chines were sent out. About an hour later the planes were seen, like black specks coming over the mountain, at the end of the valley.

The aircraftsman took a long

three months ahead of schedule. Port Everglades will be closed and no boats will be permitted to enter or leave the turning basin and port channel when the President arrives to board the yacht Potomac. A double guard was placed aboard TN ET UT EY PRY (the German freighter Arauca, NAMES MARION POSTMASTER | which has been held at the port by WASHINGTON, March 20 (U.|ljbels since a British cruiser chased P.). — President Roosevelt todav| her into port in December, 1939. nominated William Wert to be post-| Crew members were ordered conmaster at Marion, Ind, | fined to their quarters for the day.

She was rescued from there by employees and sent to City Hospital where her condition was described as fair. Her right arm’ and left foot were cut. Police said that Mrs. Cooper was washing a window of her apartment and lost her balance.

Season; Rain Forecast. Lynne Wainwright, 22, Local Musician,

Named Harpist of Philadelphia Symphony

Miss Lynne Wainwright, 22-vear-old musician, will leave the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra at the close of the season to accept ‘the first harpist's chair with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, it was learned today. Musical circles here considered it the most important distinction a member of the Indianapolis Orchestra has been given since the organization's start. Miss Wainwright was signed here hy Director Fabien Sevitzky following her graduation last June from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Upon graduation, she was cited by the institute as the outstanding graduate of the year. While studying there, she had been substitute harpist with the Philadelphia Orchestra for two winter seasons. She was a pupil of Carlos Salzedo. Miss Wainwright was born in Cleveland, O., but went to school ral years, 43. She

attended high school in Ft. Wayne, Ind., where her father, Jack, is musical director of South Side High School. Later she graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton

Rouge, La.

Last summer Miss Wainwright

played harp with the Leopold Sto-|

kowski All-American Youth Orchestra in its tour of South America. The organization is to four North America this summer and Miss Wainwright again will be with it. In addition to her work with the orchestra here, Miss Wainwright is a master teacher of harp at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music. Announcement of her new position was made by the manager. of the Philadelphia Orchestra which is now under the direction of Eu.gene Ormandy. To replace Miss Wainwright, Director Sevitzky is expected to hold auditions here this spring, in addi- ~ tion to the regular ones later in New York and Chicago.

| were measured by the Sheriff as a | | possible clue.

SOVIET ‘DIPLOMATS’

USED WRECK ROUTE

Aboard Train Ahead of One Which Derailed.

PITTSBURGH, March 20 (U. P.). —The Manhattan Limited which passed the spot near Baden, Pa. just before another Pennsylvania railroad train which was wrecked by

many do you get, 12 or 13?”

War Moves Today

“Are they all there?” asked the Greek commanding officer. “Yes,” replied the spotter, binoculars at his eye. The commander was just writing down the usual “all our planes returned safely” when the spotter yelled : “Wait a minute—wait!” His lips were seen moving. He scratched his head. Suddenly he threw the glasses abruptly at an aircraftsman, standing nearby. “Here, quick, have a look! Count them and count them fast! How

his

stare and shouted his answer, “It’s not our boys! Take cover} {It's the Italians!” | There was a general dive for shele ter and ackack guns, amid curses of Italian duplicity. By this time, however, the come mander had broken out his own binoculars and was on his third count, There were 13 planes all right, 12 whose wings bore Greek markings, and an Italian plane in their midst, which had been cape tured with its crew in mid-air-<the first recorded air surrender of the

saboteurs, carried a group of Rus[sian “diplomats or engineers,” it| |was testified today at an I. C. C. | hearing. Bb | The witness was W. M. Scheiber, (conductor on the Manhattan Lim- | |ited, which passed the scene of the | wreck 18 minutes before the Buckeve Limited, which left the rails | {and plunged into the Ohio Raver! last Sunday night, killing five and injuring more than 100. Railroad men have expressed belief that the Manhattan Limited was the real target of the saboteurs. Mr. Scheiber said that in two of three special sleeping cars attached to the 13-car train were 44 passen= gers he had understood “were Russian diplomats or engineers.” Vincent B. Kroen, the railroads movements director at Pittsburgh, said he had been informed by his superiors on March 14—two days before the wreck-—that “Russian engineers” would be aboard two “over= flow” sleepers on the Manhattan. Mr. Kroen's testimony was corroborated by W. H. Phillips, assistant

seneral passenger agent, Pittsburgh. this week, of the destructive fire

Albania front.

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

A new move toward some degree of frankness in acknowledging casualties and damage inflicted by British bombings of German cities is becoming evident in Berlin reports, coincident with the prese

% ent resumption > bid allowed foreign Mr. Mason describing the

of intensive air offensives.

The British policy from the start of the war has

correspondents much freedom in destructive results of German air

attacks and it now is apparent that Hitler is bee

ginning tentatively to follow the enemy’s example.

the official German news agency de

Berlin likewise has been abnor-

This week has see scribe great and small fires at Kied

following Royal Air Force raids, with an inference that some damage was caused to military objectives. It also was admitted that 57 per sons had been killed.

aboard the liner Bremen though hep port was not revealed. While the origin of the fire was not describedy

mally frank in permitting some in. no denial was made of the na

dications to be sent abroad con- inference that the conflagration cerning casualties and damage in might have been the result of & the capital, itself, as well as in| British bomb. , other German centers. The men-, No such frankness in admi tion, even, of cities subjected to at- | losses in the past has found its wi tack, has previously been largely info German news reports. : concealed. | It would not be realistic to colle

The world was allowed to know clude that the change in the chare . {Continued on Page Thron)