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U. S., Britain Join In Effort To Woo Jugoslavia

~ WITH FANS FOR STATE FINALS

Winners of Afternoon’s Games Meet at 8 Tonight For Title. KE.

By 1 O'BRIEN

VOLUME

The Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Increasing cloudiness tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy with occasional light rains in the afternoon or night; not much change in temperature; lowest tonight ahout 30.

53—NUMBER

ail;

Indiana didn’t give a whoop

about anything but the hoop ®

{ hese

| OY dho a elanouse

today—and two the Butler the targets of four title-seek-ing

teams.

atl

were

high school basketball

tions There was Washington from fertile Daviess County, Froebel from among the smokestacks of industrial Gary, Kokomo from the town made famous in swing song and vaudeville patter and Madison from the hills overlooking the Ohio River. There was ne telling 14883 fans holding came from—probably where in the country Angola. Aurora, Mount Vernon and East Chicago. although naturally the biggest blocks of tickets went to the competing towns Already last night the earliest of and they be mismonogram sweaters At the concession stands mushButler's The biggest however, was Iv before noon, and thev were a cinch to snarl downtown traffic and worry the life ont head waiters and restaurant keepers The four teams represented the choicest of the crop after the original 7T77-team field had been culled in sectional. regional and semi-final tournaments the three week(Continued on Page Ten)

BOY KILLED, BROTHER HURT IN CINDER SLIDE

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From the

aS mad

four contenders

where the numbers from everybounded

seat

the an't taken began

came time

¢ i ans coud

in thei

0 al

rive in town roomed all

hasketball

around hig

temple of

nfiux

expected

of spectators

short

last

ERIE, Pa. March (U. P Trapped for eight hours ‘under a cinder pile, one boy was suffocated to death while his brother. although critically injured, saved his life by being able to breathe through a hole made in the cinders by his arm Joseph Dumanski. 14, was dead when reached th bovs early brother Chester Hospital for coke on | when a cinders began to

with about

rescuers e and his in Hamot The bovs were looking cinder

today, 12. is

bay (ront

a small mountain of

slide covering them a

ton of debris

A arm protrue

LIKE THIS WEATHER? THERE'S MORE AHEAD

TEMPERATURES 29 10 a. m, 15 11 a. m, 7 12 (noon) 50 1pm 52

searching party saw Chester's

Iino

LOCAL a.m, a.m. a.m a. m

this

kind

If vou like of weather, you're in luck The Weather Bureau savs will not be much change in temperature over the week-end but that there mayv be little rains occasionally tomorrow afternoon or

night

EVERYTHING GONE EXCEPT HIS SHIRT

March

there

PLYMOUTH. England 1 (QU P.) At the heighi nf last night's Nazi air raid the wall of a home in a workers’ district eollapsed suddenly and firemen ang air-raid precautions men workers nearby paused to cheer and point a man who standing hig walless clad onis his shirt Cursing Hitler man shouted I can’t find my bloody trousers!”

WAS Seen

bearoom

at in mn and

Goering. the

ROY HURT CRITICALLY Five-vear-old Elton Chamberlain. 1533 W. Vermont St. was miured critically today near his heme when struck by a car driven bv Mrs. Grace Hamilton, 2016 W. Vermont St. The child was rushed to City Hospital by a passing motorist. His condition is reported as “critical.”

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Churches .... Clapper Comics «co Crossword .,.. Editovials +... Fashions .... Financial Flynn Forum In Indpls. Inside Indpls Johnson ..... Movies

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CHIEF MORRISSEY—"We can make this a deathless week-end— “If pedestrians will look twice before crossing roadways, cross only at intersections, and keep on the alert, and “If motorists their eves on within the

all traffic

will keep

cars under control, their stay well

and

road. limits

the speed obey

rules”

4-POINT SAFETY PLAN DRAFTED

Harmony Session Decides On Cafeteria Courts, Law ‘Codification.’

Harmony, long sought as a prin-

cipal ingredient the city's fight

raffic

night

mn was the goal of

aeain

against

last at a meeting police, judges and citizens The Mavor Sullivan at Athletic Club ferences between officials

four

by difenforcement decided on

group. called together the olis to iron out law and the courts main att 1. A cafeteria

lished ordinances

ACKS

will be estab-

§ cowl

to handle violations of cits

and relieve congestion in the courts 9

sheriff's

be assigned

Policemen and depiiwill court 3. Municipal court meet with Criminal Court Judge Dewey E. Mvers to reach a “codified” interpretation of the fines and nmdgments specific traffic violations 4. The legality patrols” of plain-clothed drivers was determined The meeting was held behind closed doors. It was called after the Mavor's Traffic Advisory Committee had pointed out that traffic enforcement was hampered by friction among enforcement branches and after Sheriff Al Feenev had criti. cized officials, including himself, \Continued on Page Two)

ties in

certain aayvs

ages will

of so-called “ghost police

RALPH DAY UDELL DIES IN CALIFORNIA

Postal Veteran Lived on Coast Since Retirement. Dax Udell

father

whose and Udell Works in Indianapolis, died vesterday at his Long Beach, Cal. home, Ah the West Coast since his retirement in January, 1939, from the Indianapolis Postoffice. where he served for 41 vears He was born in Chicago Jan. 1. 1869. the son of Calvin G. and Edna M. Udell. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jessie Bovd Udell. who is ill in a West Coast hospital: a son, Gardner Udell, Oakland. Cal, and five grandchildren, Mrs, Lorna Stahlhut, Mrs. Myla Lohss, Miss Marjorie Udell, E. Gardner Udell Jr. and Louis Udell, and one greatgranddaughter, Karen Lohss, all of Indianapolis He was a member of the Taber'nacle Presbyterian Church, the Oriental Lodge of Master Masons and the Scottish Rite in Indianapolis. Services are to be in the Wee

Udell, after

Ralph

family was named

whose established the

Kirk o' the Heather Church in For- |

estlawn Cal.

EXTEND COAL ACT

WASHINGTON. March P.).—The House Wavs and Means Committee, hy divided vote which cut across party lines, agreed today to a two-vear extension of the National Bituminous Coal Act which

NW retaining

| | |

Udell had made his home on |

(U. shook

State Deaths. 11 was scheduled to expire on April 26.4 inch height.

SATURDAY, MARCH

THIRTY-SIX MEN, women and children have died of traffic injuries already this year, victims of a needless slaughter. Rach of the 36 might be alive today if the victim or a just a little more alert cautious, The difference between life and death may be just an extra glance

someone —either motorist—had been or

before stepping off a curb, or a

mile or two an hour less on an

auto speedometer,

” ” »

and Marion startlingly traffic nearly

INDIANAPOLIS toll large percentage of our 23 out 36, two of every three—has occurred

County's shows a

deaths or or week-ends, Jan, 1. only one week-end--March 1 and least

Six have died in each of the last

over

Since there has been

2—without at one victim,

two week-ends.

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TODAY BEGINS another week« end, a week-end complicated by heavy {traffic resulting from the State basketball finals and fine spring weather,

In the hope of saving a life, or lives, Chief Michael F. Morrissey and Sheriff Al Feeney joined today in pleas for careful week-end driving and walking,

Sends a Nickel For Postal Pen

CINCINNATI O., March 22 (U, PO) Mr. Postmaster; page the fellow who is always complaining about the Postoffice furnisheg its customers He should see the ‘conscience’ letter which Charles Heltman, Assistant Cincinnati Postmaster, received today The letter enclosed & nickel which the writer explained was in payment for a pen which he had taken from a Postoffice lobby.

4 ESCAPE AS CAR HITS WALL, BURNS

Auto Bursts Into Flames After Overturning.

the poor pen points

Four persons escaped serious in-

jury today when their car struck a

wall, overturned and was destroved by fire, They are Bdgar Thompson, 30935 Harvest St.; James Lacey, 307 Barton St; Edward Benther. R. R. T. Box 18, and Ivan Hobbs, 501 Vine St. Mr. Thompson, who was driving, said the car struck the retaining wall at the W. Morris St. underpass of the Pennsvivania Railroad. The men leaped from the car and as they righted the car, it burst into flames. At City ifospital, Norman Jacks son, 627 N. Alabama St. was reported in a serious condition from (injuries received in an accident yesterday. Mr. Jackson's truck collided with {a parked car in the 2000 block N. Delaware St. and glanced into a {ree Also hurt in traffic overnight was Powell Keller, 1068 W, McCarty St., who received a broken leg when he was struck by a car driven by James Crawford, 23¢ W. Wyoming St, at Washington and West Sts.

HOLLYWOOD, March 22 (U, P),

Lanky James Stewart rolled out

CITY CROWDED | Another Week-End Starts—How Many Will

1941

Entered as Second-Clas at Postoffice,

Die In Traffic?

SHERIFF FEENEY-—"If you want to be represented by a button on a traffic fatality map, just ignore all safety rules this week-end and vou will have no difficulty in achieving that ambition,

“However, death is mighty permanent, and those presence to that of a memory. Let's make this and every other week-end a happy instead of a tragic one.” |

F. A. CLARK; ILL 2 YEARS, DEAD

Longtime Columbia Club Member Served on World War Draft Board.

Frederick A. Clark, of the Columbia Club for 40 years and a charter member of the Lambs Club, died yesterday at the home

member

of his sister, Mrs, Ross H. Wallace,

{1840 N. Pennsylvania St Mr. Clark was 71 and had ill for two years. He was born Mattoon, Ill., and had lived in Indianapolis for 61 years. For many years he was engaged in the gical furniture manufacturing business with the firm of Clark & Roberts, Indianapolis. Several years ago he retired from that business and more recently was in the real estate business Mr. Clark attended DePauw University where he was a member of Phi Gamma Fraternity. He was a member of the local draft board during the World War,

sur-

A sister, Mrs. Minnie B. Mick, In-

dianapolis, died in December last year and a brother, John W, Clark, died several years ago. Funeral services will be at the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary at 11 a. m. with Dr. Logan Hall, pastor of the Meridian Street Methodist Church, in charge. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Mr. Clark is survived by his sister, Mrs. Wallace, one niece and four nephows.

NIPPON OFFENSIVE IN KIANGS! IS REPORTED

SHANGHAI, March 22 (U. P) — Reports of a Japanese offensive in North Kiangsi Province, along the road west from Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi, to Changsha, capital of Hunan, were published today both by Japanese and Chinese newspapers here

of bed this morning at an hour

when many of his movie colleagues were just rolling in, and went off to join the Army.

He assembled with i8 other young men at a street corner in West Los Angeles and boarded a trolley car for draft headquarters. He is going as a volunteer, trading his $1500-a-week movie paycheck for a vear as a buck private at $21 a month. A crowd of about 100 persons, mostly women, waited at the corner when Stewart drove up with a fellow actor, Burgess Meredith, and Bill Grady, a talent scout for M-G-M Studio. The tall, drawling actor carried a

Memorial Park, Glendale, gyjtcase. For his last day in “civies” 1

the wore a brown suit, brown slouch hat, blue shirt, and brown shoes. He stepped from the auto and hands with P. H. Brown.| chief clerk of the local draft board! “Hullo.” Stewart said which tried to Keep him in the then broke into a slow grin deferred class a few months ago be- a little early in the morning.” cause he lacked 10 pounds of the! His draft 157-pound minimum for his 6 foot

James Stewart

been

| $1.000.000,000

Jimmy Stewart, Who Just Won an 'Oscar,’ Gives Up $1500-a-Week for $21 Army Job

§ | sleepily. | Stinson two-seater plane, and stored | “It's his new Buick

board physician had Stewart hoped that his fling expronounced him fit for service, but perience would lead to an Air Corps (he still must underge the Army's assignment.

whe survive you undoubtedly would prefer your

Hearing Is Set On Daylight Time

CITIZENS WILL have a chance Wednesday about

10,700 PLANES * DUE FOR BRITISH

night te get “vocal”

Saving

Time for !

Daylight Indianapolis. G. Wood. City Council president, said today that a public meeting would be held 30 p. m. Wednesday the Council chambers “There has been much interest in the proposal,” he said, “that we will have not only one, but probably two public hearings.” Mr. Wood said the Council was particularly anxious to get the reaction from organized groups. but it wished also to learn the public reaction

U, S. TAX RECEIPTS SHOW BIG INCREASE

Indiana Figures Nearly Double Last Year's.

Senate Committee Gives Its Unanimous 0. K. to 7 Billion Aid Bill.

WASHINGTON, March 22 (U, P), The Senate Appropriations Committee today unanimously approved the $7,000,000,000 war-aid appropriations bill, includes funds to yield

10,700 more American warplanes for Great Britain in the next two years. “The appropriation of such a | stupendous sum as $7,000,000,000 in a single bill would in normal times be unjustifiable, but conditions are such in the world that it behooves us to make every possible effort to guarantee the safety of this country whether it be by defenses at home or aid to any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States,” the Appropriations Committee said in approving the bill. “Congress has adopted a policy of aid to those countries whose defense is vital to the defense of the United States, and this bill provides the means to carry out the purposes of that act.” Senate debate begin Monday. Leaders hoped pass it on the same day by overwhelming majority. If no amendments by the Senate—and that

Joseph

which

Income tax peyments in Indiana for the first 20 davs in March almost doubled the amount collected last year with a total of $18,502,281, as compared to $10,284 532.30, the amount collected for the same | period last year, According to the United Press. income tax payments over the nation during the first 20 days in March | totaled $1,139,384,637—more than $500.000000 above the $621.448616 deposited during the corresponding period last vear. The United Press|

figures are based upon =a report |

will Lo an

on the bill

are adopted it appeared

(Conlinued on Page Two)

made by the U. S. Treasury De- J \ partment released today. RTSMEN S SHOW The Treasury reported that $81.910713 of the $1,139,384,637 represented excess profits tax payments under the excess profits levy enacted last year, This year's figure, representing first payments on income taxes, was termed “amazingly high" by Treaswry officials, and far exceeded pre-! vious estimates of $900,000,000 to

Daily Performances Given At Fair Grounds.

The Indiana Sportsmen's which Bill Pfau, the press man, says is “bigger and better than ever,” opened its doors at 1 p. m. today for a nine-day stand at the State Fair Grounds. The show will be open weekdays from 1 p. m. to 10:30 p. m. On Sundays the doors will open at noon. Performances will be given daily at 3 p. m. and 8:30 p. m. and with

Show,

last-minute checkup at the induction center. He went to bed early last night, having been ordered to report at Draft Board No. 245 early today with 18 other draftees from his district. After roll call, the 19 boarded a streetcar for a downtown

induction center. His studio, Metro-

days. In addition to the State servation Department's 'marine life, there are a typical Goldwyn-Mayer, gave him a send- African village with animals to off party night before last. match; six bears chaperoned by Stewart starts his Army training | Spike Horn Meyers of Michigan; at the height of his career. He another cage of Alaskan bears under recently received a golden “Oscar.” the sponsorship of Dave Irwin, most prized trophy in Hollywood, | Which has esquimos to garnish; for his performance in “The Phil- | springer spaniels who retrieve live adelphia Story.” diving ducks, and Buddy, the seal.

He had top roles in two pictures| not yet released, “Ziegfeld Girl,”| . City Extends Help to Greece

and “Pot O' Gold.” Another. “Come! Live With Me,” was released _ecently. Stewart quickly wound up his Hollywood affairs, when the draft board notified him that he was in INDIANAPOLIS was adorned Class 1A. He rented his Brentwood ! today by girls decked out in bungalow to Mr. Meredith, sold his| head-bands urging a donation for the cause of war-ridden Greece, The “tag day” is the annual philanthropic venture of the Variety Club and all donations will be sent to the Greek War Relief Fund. ©

Conexhibit,

roadster,

Unmarried and 32 years old,

Indianapolis,

today |

STARTS 9-DAY RUN

FINAL HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

s Matter Ind.

From Axis

y NAZI BATTLESHIPS PIERCE BLOCKADE

SINK 22 SHIPS IN N. ATLANTIC: SAVE 800 MEN

Formation of German Naval Vessels Fights

On Ocean for First Time in History; British Search in Vain.

By HARRISON SALISBURY

United Press Staff Correspondent Germany reported heavy blows at Great Britain in the Battle of the Atlantic today. Two of the Reich's and best-gunned dread naughts, the Scharnhorst and the Gneiseau, 26,500 tons of fighting metal apiece, appeared to be at large in the North Atlantic, The German High Command

battleship squadron has been] noi. Drlboile <tb. ___|effort {o track down the raiders and ranging Britain's vital S€A | plast them to the bottom routes from North America| One report from Canada indie for some time sending oo | cated the ships might be on the

. ! |U. S. side of the Atlantic, possibly ships of 116,000 tons to the!

about 300 miles southeast of New= bottom. A total of 800 sur-| |

foundland . The Scharnhorst and Gneisenall vivors were rescued bv the are warships with a rated speed of | + ; |27 Knots ¢ a probable spe German raiders, { Xnoly ard 8 pro Peet lu

close to 30 knots, That makes them The official DNB new agency add- ster than any of the big battle ed the detail that these operations wagons of the British fleet. except; | were carried out in the face of a those built within the past, year, | British concentration of almost her though the guns of the German | entire battleship strength plus a|warships are less heavy and of screen of lighter naval craft shorter range than most of the DNB said that for the first time British ships of the line. in history a German battle squad-| The Nazi warships are so powers ron had entered the North At- ful that they probably would be [lantic in formation and had carried able to knock out any British crue jout attacks on Britain's main line sier which attempted to engage of communications. them whereas most of the British The picture painted by the Ger-| battleships will have difficulty in man reports and given some cor-/closing with the Nazi ships because [roboration in British accounts was of their great speed. {of the two fast German battle A repercussion of the intensifica« cruisers slicing through the gray tion of the battle of the Atlantic waters of the North Atlantic, at- was felt in the United States when tacking shipping wherever found the British freighter Narragansett and enabled by speed and probably went into a Chester, Pa., drydock luck to evade a searching force for repair of torpedo damage. If concentrated by the British in an|

uth Blitzed Again

By M. GG. ENDLE United Press Staff Correspondent PLYMOUTH, England, March Time bombs, exploding with deadly regularity. added to the toll of life and property damage togay in the scarred, charred streets of this ancient city which had been subjected to its second straight night attack by hundreds of German airplanes. Many men, women made homeless in the raid were bombed from refuges in the second one. For many hours during the raid, children wandered the streets, halting wayfarers and begging them fo tend their wounded parents. Hospitals and air-raid shelters were demolished, In one big hospital many were Killed or wounded when the maternity and children's wards were damaged. There were many casualties in the wrecked raid shelters. How many lives were lost was still impossible to compute but the toll was large.

fastest

reported that a Nazi

——————

Plymo

and children first night's their new

Historic Plymouth, whose history goes back to the times when Phoenicians came to trade for its tin, from which the Pilgrims sailed in 1620, which held out during the entire civil war against the Roye alists, was an ugly sight when dawn came today, Before the war it was a bustling seaport with a population of more than 200,000. Street after street showed scars, Whole rows of homes lay in ruins. Many more were uninhabitable, Business premises, shops, offices in the town's main streets were ruined (Continued on Page Twa)

none would be--the measure

Jugoslav Crisis Grows

BELGRADE, March 22 (U. P.).—Great Britain and the United States were reported tonight to have intervened in the tense .Jugoslav situation in an 11th hour effort to encourage Jugoslavia to stand firm against the Axis. However, well-informed sources intervention had come too late to prevent the Axis sphere as soon as the current Cabinet crisis can be solved. It was reported that the United States had outlined to Jugoslavia the many possible effects which the Lend-Lease law may have upon the war while Britain was said to have given Jugoslavia an indication of what British aid she could ex-

believed that the Anglo-American Jugoslavia from moving into of German troops massed in southe ern Bulgaria, The Government's difficulties were caused by the resignation of all Serb Nationalist ministers from the cabe inet and the refusal of any other Serbian old-line parties—the Agrarians and Independent Democrats——.

pect if she stands up to Germany. Opposition to Jugoslav alignment with Germany appeared to he grow-| ing. Signature of the treaty was expected to be the signal for a blitz-

to serve in a cabinet which signed up with Hitler. Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch had intended to fly to Vienna today with Foreign Minister Alexander CincarMarkovitech to sign the pact, with

an extra 5 p. m. performance Sun-

Krieg attack on Greece by thousands (Continued on Page Two)

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

Reports from Ankara today that Russia has given assurances to Turkey that she will not attack in event of war indicate the highly disturbed reaction in Moscow to German pressure in the Balkans, Such an agreement would be tantamount to granting Turkey a free hand for full co-operation with Great Britain. Under the Anglo-Turkish alliance, the Turks are absolved from actively supporting the British if | relations between Turkey and Russia were thereby menaced. Russia holds veto power over Turkish war policy because the Kremlin would be able to strike at Turkey's northeastern frontier any time the Turks became entangled in a Balkan con- » rT flict, at the other end of the Turkish boundary. An agreement, however, would] It 1s certain that the Russians mean Russia would not engage in would not consider any such agree any such offensive operation. Tur-jment with the Turks except undes key thus would be released from fear conditions requiring the protection of Russian encroachment ifyAnkara of Slav interests. The present were to take active sides with Greece (Continued on Pgge Two)

Mr. Mason

and Great Britain in Southeastern Europe.

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