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Jugoslavia To Join Axis Tomorrow Despite Growing Revolt

MONDAY, MARCH

24, 1941

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| 10,000 FIRE BOMBS FALL ON BERLIN

2 NORE DEAD: TRAFFIC TOLL CLIMBS TO 38

Fireman Dies: 6 Hoosiers Killed in Michigan, | Three in State.

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killed in a single two-car crash near | reveal many details of the story leading up to the crash. |

Niles, Mich., and three persons died | in Indiana accidents, | Sixty-five accidents in which 27 persons were injured were reported | to City police, who made 52 arrests. | Bad weather kept many cars off the county roads. Injured March 13 The dead are BASIL REISS, 23, of 437 Alton Ave, a City fireman who was injured March 13 when an emergency truck overturned at 30th St. and Northwestern Ave. on the way to a fire, died at City Hospital last night. ALBERT HENSCHEN, 34, R. R. 8, Box 661, died in Methodist Hospital of injuries received when his car was struck by a train Saturday at 34th St. and the Big Four Railroad. GEORGE VANDOR, 23, Findlay O., was killed when his truck ran into an embankment and burned on Road 6 near Valparaiso yesterday. ALVIN PEGG, 35, Huntsville was killed Saturday in an autotruck crash on Road 25 near Richmond. RAYMOND EWEY, 6, was killed by a hit-and-run driver vesterday near his home in Terre Haute. The dead in vesterday’'s Niles, Mich., crash were: MRS. EDITH MAY BEECHER, b4. MRS. BERNICE RYAN, her daughter. EDGAR KLAVERENGA, 34. DR. ULYSSES J. ROTHBALLER, 33. JOHN ROTHBALLER, 21, brother. ROBERT JEFFRIES, a student at Tri-State College, Angola. The two cars carrying the victims crashed head-on in a traffic line, according to State Police. Mrs. Maude Shaffer, 64, Kirkland, Ind., was in a critical condition in Long Hospital with injuries received in a two-car crash on Road 29 and the County Line Road yesterday. Five others were injured, less seriously, as a car driven by William Shaffer, 69, her husband, collided with one piloted by Harold Pflum, 88, of 1473 Shannon Ave. as the Shaffer car was being driven across the highway from one filling station te another. Mr. and Mrs. Pflum, Mr. Shaffer and John and Harold Shaffer also were injured. Services Tomorrow Funeral services for Mr. Henschen will be at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the J. C. Wilson Funeral Home and burial will be in New Crown Cemetery. Mr. Henschen had lived in Indianapolis all his life. He was] married June 20, 1927, to Miss Sallie Oaks. Survivors are his wife; two sons, Joseph Henschen and John Henschen; a daughter, Miss Lucy Cath=erine Henschen; a brother, Logan Henschen; a sister, Mrs. Edna Nation; an aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. John Logan, who reared him and another aunt, Mrs. Nellie Hill- | man, all of Indianapolis. |

MINISTERS ELECT | W. SIDE CLERGYMAN

The Rev. R. R. Cross, pastor of the | West Michigan Street Methodist Church, today was elected president of the Indianapolis Ministerial Association. At the biennial election at the Roverts Park Methodist Church, the Rev. W. E. Watkins, pastor of Blaine Avenue Methodist Church, was elected vice president and the Rev. E. N. Rosier, pastor of the Morris Street Methodist Church, was elected secretary-treasurer,.

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Mackey's Own Story

Insulin Finder Died Dictating Formula

Canadian Pilot Tells of Banting's Last Hours in Wilderness After Plane Crash.

A few weeks ago, Sir Frederick Banting, discoverer of insulin and one of the most famous of contemporary scientists, died in the crash of a Canadian Royal Air Force plane in the wilds of Newfoundland. The Times today presents the first of a series of dramatic stories by Captain Joseph C. Mackey, pilot of the plane, describing Sir Frederick's dying efforts to record his priceless insulin formula. Sir Frederick conducted mature phases of his insulin research in the Eli Lilly laboratories in Indianapolis.

U.S. T0 DOUBLE NAZIS’ OUTPUT, KNUDSEN SAYS

Senate Committee Reveals Belief, Sends 7 Billion Aid Bill to Floor.

WASHINGTON, March 24 (U.P). —The Senate Appropriations Committee placed the $7,000,000,000 war-

aid appropriations bill before the Senate today, and disclosed testi-

By CAPT. JOSEPH C. MACKEY

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MILITARY CONTROL makes it impossible for me to

It is sufficient to say that I was flying an airplane to Britain; that my navigator was Flying Officer William Bird of the Royal Air Force, with whom I had no previous experience;

Capt. Joseph C. Mackey in his Montreal hospital bed, recovering from wounds suffered in the plane crash.

my radio cperator was William Snailham, with whom I was well acquainted; and that I was instructed to take aboard as passenger Sir Frederick Banting, whom I knew of as a famous Canadian scientist and discoverer of insulin. I had no opportunity to make the acquaintance of Sir Frederick.

In the preparation of my ship for the trans-Atlantic flight, I was in-

troduced to him and he boarded the plane. Within a very little while, he and I were alone in a desperate situation in which he was to die and I was to survive, . I shall set down the story in simple detail, but it should be said at the outset that while Sir Frederick lived for about 16 to 20 hours after the crash, he did not consciously suffer from his injuries. When I found him he was unconscious. He regained consciousness and ‘ost it from time to time. But at no time during his apparently conscious moments was he really aware of his plight. I think he was rendered delirious by his head injuries. I cannot figure out where he thought he was. But such was his force and energy that he spoke and acted throughout these periods of apparent consciousness as though he were a military officer on duty, or perhaps a professor in a clinic. He commanded me to take down his dictation. Throughout the first night of our crash and all through the first morning, Sir Frederick roused himself time after time and in what seemed a perfectly lucid condition dictated rapidly letters, memoranda and statements, every one of which was to me merely streams of wholly

— unintelligible technical medical ARGENTINE BEEF phraseology which I, due to my

own condition, could not possibly | take down. Senate Error Corrected And Wallace Is Pleased.

WASHINGTON, March 24 (U. P)). —Resorting to an unusual parliamentary maneuver, the Senate today struck from the $3,446000,000 naval appropriation bill a prohibition against proposed Navy purchases of Argentine beef. The Senate corrected its journal to show that the amendment lifting the restriction had been adopted last Thursday by a vote of 33 to 32, instead of defeated on a tie vote of 32 to 32. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, champion of the good neighbor policy, was absent Thursday and muffed his first big chance to cast a vote for the Administration on the issue. He was host at a luncheon at the time so he couldn't break the

The late Sir Frederick Banting.

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Great Mind Struggles

It may well be that scientific and medical information of the most priceless character was lost in these hours. It may have been the struggle of a great mind to fight against death in a race to record his last thoughts. But at no time did Sir Frederick show

the slightest recognition of the (Continued on Page Two)

O'Brien Named The Winner

On Feb. 20, J. E. O'Brien, conductor of The Times’ bas« ketball column, “Off The Backboard,” announced that he was picking Washington to win the

imony by Defense Production Director William S. Knudsen that the United States will be able to produce war materials twice as fast as | Germany. Debate on the appropriation began at noon. Leaders expected passage without any major change before nightfall. Senator Alva B. Adams, iD, Colo.), opened debate with a declaration that Congress must provide adequate funds to carry out a program “which I thought and still think is unsound in principle and apt to bring not only danger but catastrophe and disaster to my country.

Bound by Final Vote

“But Congress adopted that policy and I regard myself as bound by it as those who voted for the bill. Having laid down the policy| Congress should — and I think it must—implement the bill by pro-| viding adequate funds.” | In bringing out the House-ap-| proved bill, the Senate Committee made public part of the testimony before the subcommittee which conducted two days of secret hearings. Navy Secretary Frank Knox was revealed to have told the subcommittee that no definite decision on the number of planes, tanks, ships or other weapons purchased with the $7,000.,000,000 to be released to England, Greece and China will be made until the materials come off the production line.

New Committee Set Up

Mr. Knox also disclosed that Mr. Roosevelt had created an interdepartmental committee of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Mr. Knox to handle the release of all war materials to foreign governments under the Lend-Lease Bill. Mr. Knudsen's optimism regarding this nation’s productive capacity was shown in his replies to questions about the ability of industry] {to absorb orders for $7,000,000.000 [worth of equipment in the next two [years. Mr. Knudsen estimated that the expansion of the defense program would place another 3,000,000 un[employed men in jobs “before the end of the summer.”

“Realistic” Tax Bill Urged

Release of the secret testimony came amidst renewed opposition demands for a “realistic” tax bill to meet the spending program. Secretary of War Stimson mentioned the tax program briefly during his testimony, saying that if Congress made the full $7,000, 000,000 available in cash,” a tax plan can he more definitely based upon such an appropriation. Mr. Stimson said that 95 per cent of the materials to be purchased under the war-aid program “are for weapons and munitions which could be used in our own Army and which would thus be vitally useful to this nation in case we were ever left alone to defend the Western Hemisphere.” He said the other 5 per cent would be weapons of purely British (Continued on Page Two)

LONDON NEWSPAPER URGES U.S. CONVOYS

‘Can’t Wait for Opinion to Mature,” Sketch Says.

LONDON, March 24 (U, P.).—For the first time a London newspaper today. urged the United States to convoy war supplies to Britain in view of the menace of the German spring sea offensive, backed up by her powerful battleship raiders, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The newspaper was the Daily Sketch. Other papers have proposed that the United States take measures to assure that American sup-| plies reach Britain but none here-| tofore had asked for convoys. “We need every enemy neutral ship that lies idle in an American harbor,” said the Sketch. “We need every American ship that America does not need for herself. We need every. American captain, every American ship, every engineer, every American seaman who can be spared

state high school basketball championship. That was before the draw was even made for the start of the tournament that included 777 teams. One out of 777— that was O'Brien's chance. Saturday night, Washington won the championship,

deadlock. Later it was learned that Senator Richard B. Russell (D. Ga.) had voted with the Administration, although the reading clerk did not hear him, Today the error was corrected and the Navy may buy its two million cans of beef in the interest of Argentina's good neighboriness. ¢

from America’s own war effort. | “We cannot afford to wait nor can America afford to wait for public opinion in the United States to ‘mature while Germany acts with | such concentrated force on our maritime resources. “What we need most urgently is American convoys for American supplies.” by,

contractors—the Tri-State Construc-

charged that the street was not im-

Among Ernie's Souvenirs

Ernie Pyle declares an incendiary bomb case for the U. S. Cus-

toms guard at La Guardia Field

American Dixie Clipper after three months in England.

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Hoosier, Home

On Way to Mother's Grave

. MILLER

Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, March 24. —There used to be a sort of fixed formula

By LEE G

for stories about the homecoming of thing like this—

“Ernie Pyle came home from the wars today; he is a little older, a little grayer, a little more tired, but— As for the “but—"

Well, Ernie did, and he is,

PROTEST $6000

STREET CHARGE

Oxford St. Residents Claim Work Faulty, Plan to Appeal Assessment,

The Works Board today approved a $6000 assessment for the improvement of Oxford St. from 36th to 38th Sts. over the protest of residents who charged the improvement was faulty. The residents immediately announced their intention of appealing the assessment to court and said they would seek an injunction to prevent the city from paying the

tion Co.—for the work. F. M. Cooley, 3719 Oxford St., and H. E. Westmeier, 3752 Oxford St.

proved to specifications. Two large holes already have appeared since the job was completed last summer, they said. The average assessment levied against each property owner was $131.25. Mr. Cooley said that although specifications called for a six-inch gravel street, the depth of the gravel measured three inches on the average. Cites Guarantee A catch-basin to insure drainage at the south-east commer of 37th and Oxford was not installed as ordered by the City, according to Mr. Westmeier, with the result that two washouts developed. Private automobiles and city ash collection trucks have been stuck repeatedly in the holes, he said. Works Board President Louis C. Brandt denied the allegations of faulty construction. He said that he and City Engineer M. G. Johnson inspected the street last week on complaint of the residents and found it satisfactory. Pointing out that a three-year guarantee binds’ both the City and the contractor to adjust any difficulties in the construction, Mr. Johnson declared that the improvement was one of the best of its kind in the City. He said the gravel ranged from six to nine inches in depth and that the ifprovement has “held up better than we expected through the winter.” In addition to the graveling, the

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contract called for curbing and grading.

SUNNY DAYS ON WEATHER CALENDAR

LOCAL TEMPERATURES Ca.m .... 33 10am .... 3 a.m... 89 dla.m.... Sam. .... 37 12 (noon)... 4 9am. .... 40 1pm, .... 4

The Weather Man is scheduling weather, these days, in the best interests of the public. It will be sunny today, cloudy toaight and sunny tomorrow. Moreover, there will be no decided change in temperature, with the lowest tonight about 30. In contrast, it was raining in the southeast and snowing in the Rocky

following his return on the Pan

POLISH PILOTS JOIN IN SAVAGE R.A.F. ATTACK

Fliers Spray Nazi Troops on Invasion Coas§ With Machine Gun Bullets; Belgrade

Army On Alert as Nation Seethes. By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent British bombers dropped more than 10,000 incendiary, bombs last night on the heart of Berlin, the London Air Ministry reported today. These were in addition to high explosives showered on the Capital by a Royal Air Force squadron which included several Polish pilots. Other smashing assaults) were reported at the German, ‘cported digging

> | Greek frontier, naval base of Kiel and at Han-| , train waited in the Belgrade over, Today

light bombers | station to carry Premier Dragisha pounded the invasion coast of | Cvetkovitch and Foreign Ministep

. France and sprayed Nazi | Alexander Cincar-Markovitch 16 Vi troops with machine gun fire “"®

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And so on.

He was still—after three months in England, and a four-day Clipper flight that took him to four contis nents plus a couple of Caribbean

the dawn at New York—as on-the-| go as ever, A few hours in New York, full of phone calls and wires and hurried visits. A quick flight to Washington for a week-end crowded with the eager greetings and questions of his friends. Back to New York this morning by plane. Off by plane this afternoon for Indiana, to visit his father and the fresh grave of his mother, Then on to Aubuquerque, to the new house he has never seen, and to “that girl who rides with me” —Jerry Pyle, or Mrs. Ernie Pyle, who perforce sat out this latest and most eventful of Ernie's many trips.

Keeps Faith With Censors

And after that, back to the open road in his open car, to see what he can see, and write about it. Ernie left a few columns in London to be wirelessed from day to day. He brought with him a handful of others—one or two of them tattered from the censor’s scissors— which will go out to his readers in the next few days while he is catching his breath and adjusting himself to such outlandish things as streetlights and three lumps of sugar. He said, by the way, that even though he was out of the realm of (Continued on Page Eight)

WILLIS SUPPORTS 7 BILLION AID BIL

‘Now My Duty,” He Explains; Bobbitt Approves.

Times Special WASHINGTON, March 24 -—Senator Raymond BE. Willis (R., Ind.), issued an official statement today declaring his support for the seven billion dollar aid-to-democracies appropriation which is expected to pass the Senate shortly. When the measure passed the House last week the eight G. O. P. Congressmen from Indiana divided 50-50 for and against it. Arch N. Bobbitt, Republican State Chairman, who is here with the Indiana National Committee officers attended the National Republican Committee meeting, said he approved the Senator's stand. While there is no sentiment for war in Indiana, Mr. Bobbitt declared there is a marked shift in favor of all-out aid to Britain Senator Willis said: “Aid to Britain, and to all countries whose victory in war is essential to the defense of the United States, is now the adopted program of our nation. “Despite the fact that I was opposed to the method of giving aid to foreign countries as exemplified in the Lease-Lend Bill, I devoutly hope that our adopted policy will prove successful and that it will in the end keep the horrors of war from our shores, To that end I now consider it my duty to provide for the national Administration every possible implement it deems

. : Tomorrow § from a 100-foot elevation, | r Yin 3, Bhiveders

»| Palace, Vienna in the hall wheres ati 3 ‘ : the Bi itish claimed. | Adolf Hitler has received other ade The British attack on the invasion | herences to the Axis, Jugoslavia was coast was carried out by Blenheim to sign a so-called “compromise” bombers, which hammered the docks | pact. at Cherbourg and then swooped! Jugosiavia was tense with excites down over a group of German ment as opposition to the deal troops at Barfluer nearby and at- mounted among Serb patriots. The tacked with machine guns. Government made a patchwork soe The air war coincided with an ex- lution of the Cabinet crisis which plosive situation in Jugoslavia where | had delayed signature of the pact the Belgrade Government gave over the week-end and moved emergency orders to the police and | doggedly ahead with its plats, Army as it took steps to sign a pact| The police were ordered to Pree with Germany tomorrow despite a vent any demonstrations of anti« swelling chorus of popular resent- | Axis or anti-Government sentiment ment. : (and deal severely with any sabotage, At the same time British troops! (Continued on Page Two)

Jugoslavia Finally Yields

~~ BELGRADE, March 24 (U. P.). ~The Government today issued drage tic police orders to maintain order throughout Jugoslavia ag an electrie tension gripped the country with news that Jugosiav statesmen will leave Waa for Vienna to sign a ‘special agreement” with Germany and the X18 Police were ordered to stamp out] by most ‘energetic means’ any ernment, followin public manifestations of indignation Cabinet ministers against the Government, and to| There was a curious undertone in preserve peace and order the atmasphere of Jugoslavia today, Special orders were issued to deall.a feeling that despite the CGGoverns with any sabotage. foreign propa=-' ment's determination to sign an ganda or resistance to the authori-| agreement with Germany something ties. | might arise to block this plan. Whether these orders would be! The attitude of the oppositionists sufficient to curb the swelling oppo-| was that they did not need to state sition chorus was uncertain. The any program of action because “if intensely patriotic Serbian Agrarian action comes it will come from the Party, aided by the powerful sup-|country en masse without the nee port of the Serbian Orthodox|cessity of leadership.” church, moved into the forefront of| The opposition of the Serb Orthoe the oppostion, dox Church was regarded as most All Senators affiliated with the significant. The church is one of Serb Agrarian Party and the in-| the most powerful elements of the dependent Democratic Party ten-|country. Since the days of the rule dered their resignations to the Gov- (Continued on Page Two)

War Moves Today

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

g the lead of theie

No Russo-Japanese non-aggression pact, of utte limited validity, can possibly result from the presences today in Moscow of Yosuke Matsuoka, Japan's Fore eign Minister, who is en route to Berlin. The Triple Alliance effectively bars Japan from a pledge of durable peace with Russia, apart from whatever inherited mutual suspicions exist between the two countries. Under the terms of the Triple Alliance, Japan is pledged to give all possible military aid to Germany, if the Germans are attacked by any nation that was neutral in the present war when the alliance was signed last September, This means that if Russia moves against Germany, the Japanese must become hostile to the Russians. A non-aggression pact, however, would pledge Russia and Japan not to attack each other. Such an agreement, if unlimited in scope, would mean Japan's repudiation of her responsibilities under the triplice. Matsuoka has been frank in stating publicly that his country will abide by the terms of the Triple Alliance. He has made this assertion several times and Moscow reports quote him today as saying that the triplice “is the pivot of Japanese foreign policy.”

Russia Must Be on Guard

That declaration, marking Matsuoka's arrival in the Russian capital, cannot give any pleasure to the Soviet Government. It is difficult, indeed, to interpret the Japanese Foreign Minister's open statement as being other than a warning to Russia not to become embroiled against the Axis. When Japan signed the Triple Alliance, there could be no question about Tokyo's expectation that German influences would persuade Russia to adopt a policy of amity toward Japan. Had that followed Japan would have had a valuable gain and a tangible asset to balance somewhat her promise of aid to Germany in the event of the spread of the European war. Events have turned out other-

Mr. Mason

EXCLUSIVE IN TODAY'S TIMES

PAGE ONE=The drameie story of the plane crash in the Newfoundland wile derness in which Dr, Banting, famed founder of insulin, died, is told by the American pilot of the ship. PAGE NINE~Both sides of the war. Joe Alex Morris writes his uncensored story about "Inside Britain" and Lyle Wilson describes "Inside Germany."

PAGE 10—~We call to your attention the editorial, "Mow About It Again, Mr. Green?" and to Sens ator George W. Norris' letter te Mr. Green om Page 12.

Mountains,

necessary for the successful prosecution of its programy of defense.”

wise. But the Russians, like the (Continued on Page Two) »