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53—NUMBER 23 MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1941

VOLUME

NAZI DRIVE IN BALKANS SLOWED

Brit

PEACE PARLEY DELAYS STRIKE IN BIG STEEL

Agreement Extends Talk to April 15; Weir Firm Grants Increase.

Today's labor developments:

1. Big steel conference agrees to continue negotiations until April 15; Weir firm grants increases.

This Is No Blitz Battleground

LONDON, April 7 (U. P.).—Great 5 Britain moved today to boost in- 3 3 | come taxes to 50 cents on the dol- 3 lar but assured the people that all difficulties had been eliminated in financing purchases from the United States in order to reach “full development of our fighting strength.” “We now have assurances by reason of the great contribution Amerlica is making under the Lend-Lease {Act that no difficulty in financing 3 purchases from the United States g 5 a 3 |

{will hamper the full development { | Yo: as rl cD " cialerehi 1 lof our fighting strength.” Chancel- | Nazi sources claimed a 20 to »-mile advance on tha {lor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley i |Greek and Jugoslav fronts but from Athens came word ‘that hardy Greek mountain fighters, aided by the Royal Air

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2. Southern operators balk

at new agreement to settle soft coal strike.

3. First joint conference between Ford officials and strikers expected tonight with prospects good for settlement.

4. Allis-Chalmers strikers vote acceptance of Mediation Board’s settlement plan.

5. Phelps-Dodge Copper Corp. plant at Elizabeth, N. JI. closed by strike of 1700 C. I. 0. workers.

6. Indiana S. W. 0. C. officers tell State officials they hope agreement will be reached in steel dispute.

> ish and Jugoslav Planes Carry War To German Bases 0 TAX OF 507% ON D AT RUPE] PASS: ‘41-42 INCOME : ‘et, Hears U. S. Aid Trouble LONDON, HUNGARY BREAK 77 Three ‘Neutral’ Nations Incensed at Bombing Of Their Territory by Allied Fliers a usBURY ; by air against Hitler's blitzkrieg Army of the Southeast i land rained bombs upon key objectives in Hungary, Rumania

Parliament Gets New Budg- | Has Been Ended. tram | English Retreat in Libya. Great Britain and her Balkans allies today struck back and Bulgaria.

Wood told the House of Commong | : in introducing the 1941-42 budget. | i 3 RR | . Expenditures, he said, would far Force, were standing firm at Rupel Pass, the key to Salonika. exceed $20,000,000,000, including aid from America, although this would | | leave a deficit of about $9,388,000,000 3 ; | under expected revenues.

Some to Pay 97'¢ Per Cent

This, he added, will mean that | the standard rate of income tax

There were no authentic accounts of the fighting in Jugoslavia but the German High Command claimed that ‘stern resistance at strongly fortified positions had been overe come. Nazi spokesmen warned the German public, however, His Sanuard Taie of income as | not to expect the tempo of the attack to equal speed of the the present 42': per cent rate. ‘march into Poland and the offensive on the Western Front. | Wood said that as a result of in- |... Se | The Royal Air Force, powerfully reinforced and possibly

| creases the income tax surtax will kd . . ~ i reach 97%: per cent on the high- ‘operating from bases in both Greece and Jugoslavia, roared into action.

| est slice of income.

The Jugoslav Army, unequipped to meet Germa n tank attacks, is expected to fall back to mountain fastnesses like this section around Clissa, Dalmatia, rather than attempt to defend the rolling Croatian plains. The town's ancient fortress is atop the cliff at the right: in he background is hig Mt. Mosor.

MOUNTED COPS Axis ‘Blacks Out’ News

By UNITED PRESS An agreement to extend contract negotiations until April 15 today averted immediate threat of a work stoppage In the steel in-

wage

dusry. Negotiators for U. S. Steel Corp., and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee decided, apparently after Federal intervention, to continue conferences and to

the

T0 RIDE AGAIN NEW YORK, April 7 (U.P.).—For 26': hours ending at 11:30 p. m,

(Indianapolis Time) last night the German High Command blocked 15 Will Be Used to Patrol

Downtown Traffic After

efforts of all foreign newspaper correspondents in Germany to transmit stories of Germany's thrust into Jugoslavia and Greece. Then today it was announced officially in Rome that beginning tonight and until further notice Italy and Germany will suspend all communication with the outside | _— - — world between noon and 11 p. m.|

: J Representatives* of two of the (Indianapolis Time) “as a mili-!

“In order to enjoy tax free income of $20,000 a year.” he said, { “it will be necessary to have a (gross income of $264,000.”

The vast war expense—estimated | at about $52,000,000 a day—requires |

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Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, British Balkan commander.

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Rail Lines Bombed

Budapest reported air attacks upon at least six Hungarian points, largely centered close to the German line of

communication east from Gratz, an important military center in southeast Austria, and around Pegs, close to the

that the 100 per cent excess profits | — tax be retained, Wood added, but | he announced that 20 per cent will

American broadcasting chains wete | permitted to broadcast to the! United States Sunday afternoon.

tary measure.” (This is 8 p. m. to 7 a. m. Central European Time). The announcement did not say

make retroactive to April 1 any concessions on the union demand for a 10 cents an hour wage boost. |

10-Year Absence.

The S. W. O. C. had threatened to halt work in corporation plants at midnight tomorrow, halting production of vast stores of war materials Shortly before the extension of time was announced, National Steel Corp., often a pace setter for wage scales in the industry. disclosed through its chairman, Ernest T. Weir, it will increase wages of its 21,000 employees 10 cents an hour, the increase effective as of April 1 Coal Parley Continues Meanwhile, negotiations went on in New York to settle the work stoppage of 400.000 soft coal miners. There were prospects of partial settlement of the coal miners’ dispute but Southern operators, who produce half the output of the Anpalachian ranges refused to consicer a proposed wage-hour contract that would end the week-old WOrk stoppage. Dr. John R. Steelman, director of the Federal Conciliation Service, announced that an agreement pro-

viding wage increases for 338,000 recommended by Mayor Sullivan's

miners in eight states was to be presented to 2 commiitee of union officials and operators’ representatives for final approval

Basic Settlement Reached

Mr. Steelman had announced Saturday that a basic settlement had been reached. Yesterday Ebersole Gains, president of the Wes: Virginia Coal Operators’ Association, said operators in the 13 Southern districts would not accept it because it eliminates a wage differential between Northern and Southern fields. The agreement provide for a flat wage rate of $7 a day througnout the Appalachian area.

would

This would be an increase of $1.00

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SHOWERS TO ARRIVE HERE LATE TONIGHT

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 43 10a. mm: .. 11 a. m. 12 (noon)

i p- m.

April showers will dampen Indian-

apolis streets again late tonight and |

tomorrow, the Weatherman predicted today. Showers are falling from the Rockies to the Atlantic Coast, the United Press reported. They are caused chiefly by a disturbance that has moved eastward from Colorado during the week-end. A slight climb in the temperatures also is scheduled here tcnight.

The mounted policeman will re-

whether or not Italo-German prop-

aganda broadcasts and wireless transmissions of the Italian and German official news agencies would continue during this blackout period. During that period the only news from Germany which reached newspapers outside Germany was picked up in Switzerland, London and New York from the wireless transmissions of DNB, the German official news agency, Transocean and the broadcasts of the German Propaganda Ministry, all of which continued as usual.

turn to Indianapolis after an abscence of nearly 10 vears, the Safety Board's newest plan to regulate downtown traffic. Approximately 15 policemen will be mounted on horseback to patrol the mile square. according to Safety Board President LeRoy J. Keach.

The mounted police squad will be used for traffic duties only, My. Keach said. The new approach to enforcement has been made possible by additional gas tax appropriations received by the City this year. A total of $16,400 has been allocated for the creation of the mounted patrol. This was part of a $21,000 gas tax allocation made to the Safety Department under the first quarterly distribution of $232,000 in gas tax funds. Included in the safety appropriation was approximately $5000 for the erection of stop-go signals and preferential street signs. No sum was set aside for increasing the motcrevele division as

against superior

handicap, with cautious tactics

Mr. Mason Traffic Advisory Committee, Mr. Keach explained, however, that provision for operation of 50 motorcycles was made in the 1941 budget and that all these machines will be in use as soon as men can be trained to ride them. At present, there are 41 available.

Germans on all Jugos'av and Greek

slavs 600,000 men in those in Albania, 300,000; and che British possibly 100,000 either in Greece or en route, making a total riders of 1.000.000. |

The Germans have large reserves | but they are fighting on the offensive. Normally, that should | require a superiority of two or three to one but it is apparent that the Germans are counting on their large excess of instruments and munitions to counteract their deficit in men. If their calculation | fails, they may taste some of the bitterness that has fallen to the Italians in Albania.

The German plan of campaign,’

RINIER TESTIFIES IN GRAND JURY PROBE

Judge Pro Tem Called to Explain Procedure.

The Marion County Grand Jury today called George C. Rinier, Judge pro tem of Municipal Court 4 to testify regarding record procedures of the Municipal Courts criminal division. | His testimony was taken in connection with the alleged $45,000 shortage in the accounts of former deputy county clerks in the Municipal Courts. B. Nelson Deranian, deputy prosefcutor in charge of Grand Jury work, said Mr. Rinier's testimony | | Will be used by the jury to determine | record procedures and “the general | set-up of court cases at Headquarters.” More than a week ago Prosecutor Sherwood Blue said he would ask the Grand Jury to investigate “other phases” of record procedure in connection with the alleged

SANTA MONICA, Cal.,

secrecy. A wall of the hangar in which t the plane was pulled out yesterday

HOG PRICES HERE ADVANCE 50 CENTS

(Details, Page 15) Police Hog prices spurted 50 cents high- | er than Saturday's levels at the! {Indianapolis stockyards today |

chiefly because of the Govern- |

|day, when telegraph authorities ad-

War Moves Today

By J. W. T. MASON

Hitler's war of aggression against Jugoslavia and Greece is a conflict, in its present opening phase, of superior Jugoslav, Greeks and British manpower Each side thus has its won advantage and its own |

mountain terrain. The largest estimate of the striking force of the

Rush ‘Biggest Bomber’

finishing touches on the world's largest airplane—a bomber able to fly and later to Berlin. | across the Atlantic Ocean and back—in sudden and unexplained came the chief correspondent for circles, died today in Ft. Lauder- |

| be refunded after the war to aid | industry in the task of reconstruction.

American newspaper correspondents in Berlin were unable to telephone, telegraph or wireless mes- | : sages abroad from 9 p. m. (Indian- | Asks Compulsory Savings apolis Time) Saturday until the! He introduced a compulsory savban was lifted this morning. They |INgS plan to boost war funds along were not advised of the complete- the lines proposed by John Maynard ness of the ban, however, until to- | Keynes, noted economist, who pro{posed that a percentage of each |person’s income or salary be taken in proportion to the total income. Wood said there would be | duced income tax allowances ior | earned incomes and for personal allowances, which will make 2,000,000 small wage earners previously ex- | empt now subject to income tax. Single men earning $320 a year or more and barried men earning $560 or more annually will pay taxes next year.

mitted that the many thousands of words they filed yesterday,” mostly by wireless direct to New York, had not been transmitted Italy imposed a similtr transmission ban which was lifted shortly | after midnight today.

FREDERIC W, WILE DEAD IN CAPITAL

Hoosier Won Fame in Radio And Journalism.

Times Special

‘nited Press War Expert

German equipment and material. | the Germans being forced to use| because of the specially difficult!

fronts is approximately 600,000 men.

A conservative estima‘e of the opposing Armies should give the Jugoimmediate battle array;

the Greeks, excluding |,

as indicated by their initial move- William Wile, noted foreign corments, is to terrorize the popula- respondent, radio commentator and tion by bombing civilians, such as|newspaper columnist, died at the attack on the open city of Bel-|home today of heart disease. grade. Hitler apparently has or- was 68. dered that the Germany Army de-| Mr. Wile was velop its heaviest opening offensive |of native Hoos in areas where the British presum- ton newspaper corps who throughably are assembled. out years of world reporting reThe more natural initial phase tained his Indiana ties. of the German campaign might| In his autobiography published in have been expected to open in the |1939 and entitled “News Is Where plains of northeast Jugoslavia, where | You Find It,” Mr. Wile paid high field operations are less difficult |tribute to his home town of La than in the mountains. Such a|Porte, Ind, and related with nostal(Continued on Page Two) {gia his school days at the University of Notre Dame. Mr. Wile was born in La Porte Nov. 30, 1873, and began his long {newspaper career as a reporter on the old Chicago Record. He was

iers in the Washing-

April 7 (U. P.).—The Armory today put the sent to London during the Boer War |

There he be-

(Continued on Page Two) he Douglas Aircraft Co. constructed PTET and the bomber was towed out. It u. S. ISSUES CALL measures 212 feet from wing tip to Wing tip i TO NATIONAL BANKS For months descriptive matter and full view pictures had been authorized for publication. Elaborate lissued a call for the condition of preparations had been made for) yesterday's tests. A nation-wide ra- | dio hookup was arranged. Then the | — Army, on “orders from air head-| Ross H. Wallace, director of the, quarters in Washington,” permitted | Department of Financial Institu-| no one but aviation and Army of-| tions, today said there would be no| ficials to witness the test. |state bank call issued in conjunc-| Test flights are expected to be tion with the April 4 Federal call, |

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re-

| As the first

| defense program, Miss Perkins said [the im — | WASHINGTON, April 7.—Frederic | that "labor has status today, and | |that status carries with it responsi(bility for co-operation with all re-|

his |

one of a large corps |

VITAL TO NATION

That

Biggers Says U. S Is Near to Mass Production | Of War Needs |

WASHINGTON, April 7 (U.P.).— John D. Biggers, director of the OPM Production Division, said to- | day that the United States is with- | in 100 days of “real mass production of some of its most vital war materials” and that the nation’s fu- | |ture “may depend on what we all | do in those 100 days.” Mr. Biggers appeared before the | House Military Affairs Committee | after Secretary @ Labor Frances | Perkins told the committee that la- | bor must carry out its responsibility | to the nation during the current | emergency. She also said she felt | that present mediation machinery | can prevent major disruption of the | defense program. witness in the com- | mittee's investigation of the entire |

sponsible groups and with employers to avoid delays and interruptions in defense production.” She cited settlement of the Allis-Chalmers strike in Milwaukee | | (Continued on Page Two)

ORLANDO B. ILES, 73,

IS DEAD IN FLORIDA

Served as C. of C. President | Here in 1922.

Orlando B. Iles, for many years | prominent in Indianapolis business

| He was formerly vice president of

He | resigned from the firm in 1936. | Mr. Iles formerly was general | manager and treasurer of the International Machine Tool Co. He was a member of the Columbia Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Indianapolis Athletic .Club and the Machingy Club of Chicago. He also belonged |

y , ‘NEXT 100 D AYS Hungarian-Jugoslav border, where German forces presume

ably have been concentrated for their southward thrust. Both British and Jugoslav bombers attacked the Hune garian objectives which included Szeged, Kormend, Szente gottard, Pecs, Valleny and Siklos. It was claimed that six Jugoslav bombers were shot down over Szeged. Budapest had a daylight air raid alarm but no planes were reported. The Hungarians protested to Jugoslavia that they were not at war but indicated they probably soon would be. London ordered its minister at Budapest to sever diplomatic relations with Hungary because that nation had bee come a base of operations for Germany.

Fierce Dogfight Reported

Other air attacks were reported upon Sofia, capital of ostensibly neutral Bulgaria, and upon Rumanian points, ine cluding the important German military headquarters at Timisoara. The British reported that five German planes were shot down in a firece dogfight over Rupel Pass. In Africa the British put on every possible ounce of pressure to speed the cleanup of Italian East Africa. Operae tions.for capture of the Red Sea port of Massawa were dee veloping and Ethiopian patriot forces occupied Debra Marcos, portant northern Ethiopian point, while British troops estimated themselves in Addis Ababa, the capital, which was captured Saturday.

Matsuoka at Moscow

The importance of a quick cleanup was emphasized by the Middle East Command’s admission that their forces iw Libya again had been forced to fall back under the advance of more powerful Italo-German columns pushing ahead from Benghazi. Japan's Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka made a possibly significant statement in Moscow. He said that he was prepared to prolong his visit there if “such prolongation should be useful.” Matsuoka’s statement indicated he was prepared to stay (Continued on Page Two)

How Nazis Struck in Balkans

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ment’s plan to buy hogs at $9 per |

ade between April 20 and May 1. |to the Mystic Tie Lodge, F. & A. M.,

| shortages. Four examiners

TIMES FEATURES of the State

| Board of Accounts, who audited the |

hundred pounds to send to Eng-| land under the Lend-Lease Bill.

the Scottish Rite and the Shrine, and was past commander of the In-

THE TRUTH

dianapolis Lodge 56, Knights of Pythias.

ABOUT ITALY— ORDERS BARGAINING POLL ’ ’ . WASHINGTON, April 7 (U. P.). Fascism ruined the Italian | —The National Labor Relations |

Navy, says John T. Whitaker, | Board today ordered a collective | | bargaining election within 30 days | Mr. Whitaker's fourth un-

[among production and mainte- . | nance employees and truck drivers | censored dispatch appears today on

| at the Muncie, Indianapolis and | PAGE 9

‘The Worst Kept Secret of War—'

LONDON, April 7 (U. P.).—The landing of British troops in Greece, admitted for the frst time last night, was called today the worst-kept secret of the war. Diplomats said that the German military attache at Athens had been spending his days at the ports of British disembarkation, dangling his legs over the side of docks and counting the British troops as they descenged gangplanks. 4

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Clapper Comics Crossword Denny Editorials Fashions Financial Flynn Forum 10 Homemaking. .11

| Ft. Wayne plants of the Kuhner | | Packing Co. Workers will decide | whether they wish to be represented by the C. I. O's Packing House Workers Organizing Committee.

Acme Telephoto, This map shows the disposition of belligerent troops as the Gere man blitzkrieg machine struck in the Balkans. It shows that the defending troops outnumbergd the atlackers.

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