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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 24

The Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 8 1941

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NAZI SURPRISE’ FLANKS GREEKS |

6. 0.P. BLOCKS MOVE T0 SPEED RIPPER RULING

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Lawyers Unable to Agree; So Hearing Starts on Plea for Writ.

By VERN BOXELL A Supreme Court effort to speed | up final decision on the constitu-| tionality of the G. O. P. “decen-| tralization” laws was blocked today Republican attorneys Chief Justice H. Nathan Swaim suggested the speed-up action at the opening of the hearing today on the Republicans’ petition for a of prohibition against an injunction restraining appointments by the Legislature-created boards. “We understand from the large briefs filed and from other sources that both sides are anxious to have the merits of these new laws decided hurriedly,” Judge Swaim said. | This court will give right-of-way to the question of constitutionality if the counsel can agree on the way of raising the issue.”

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Fights Original Action Democratic attorneys agreed, but Arthur Gilliom, G. O. P. counsel. said: It is desirable to have an early decision, but we fail to see how, under the Constitution, an original action could be brought in this court. “This is simply a case where an} injunction was sought until another | action was brought.” “We do not suggest an original | action,” Judge Swaim said, “but we | believe that you can get this action | up here by a gentlemen’s agreement ! of some kind.” During a brief recess, the oppos- | ing counsel attempted to reach an agreement and a further attempt | was made in a conference between | the attorneys and the Supreme | Court judges. Both sessions failed | and a hearing was begun on the | G. O. P. petition for a writ of pro- | hibition. Democrats Waive Attorney General George Beamer | said that the Democratic counsel had offered to waive all questions of procedure and jurisdiction to get the questions involved before the court immediately, but that the Republican attorneys had refused to agree to such a procdure. At the noon recess, both sides had completed their opening arguments and the session was to be resumed at 2 p. m. for rebuttals. Fred Gause, representing the four elected Republican State officials, | charged that Circuit Judge Earl R.| Cox, who granted the temporary in- | junction against the G. O. P. ap-| pointing boards acted without juris-| diction in the case. |

Doubts Court's Right

He said that the injunction “is an invasion by the judicial branch | into the rights of the executive branch of government” and that! courts of equity should not inter- | fere in political matters, such as appointments to office. “No cases can be found in which legality of an act was determined (Continued on Page Seven)

C. D. MALLORY, 59. DEAD IN FLORIDA

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, April 8 (U. P.) —Funeral arrangements were made today for Clifford D. Mallory, 59, president of the C. D. Mallory Shipping Co. of New York, who died here yesterday of a heart ailment. Director of several shipping firms, Mr. Mallory was spending the winter here with his wife aboard their vacht. He is survived by the widow. a son and two daughters, and a brother, P. R. Mallory, of Indianap- |

DOWNTOWN STORES OPEN GOOD FRIDAY

Downtown stores will remain open Good Friday, but employees wish-

ing to attend Good Friday noonday |

services will be permitted to do so, MEN STOP 2 PLANTS

Murray H. Morris, manager of the | |

Merchants Association of Indian- |

[under a full-time expert has been |

MURRAY TALKS

WITH OFFICERS OF FORD FIRM

C. I. 0. Chief Pays Surprise Visit to Detroit for Strike Parley.

Report Bomber Wrecked

| Today's strike developments: . WASHINGTON—W. H, Davis, vice chairman of the new U. S. Mediation Board opposes laws curbing strikes in defense industries in testimony before House Military Affairs Committee. DETROIT—Phillip Murray flies here for surprise conference with company officials in week- ’ old Ford strike. NEW YORK-—Formal action on soft coal agreement expected despite opposition of Southern operators, BUFFALO, N. Y.—Great Lakes shipping tie-up averted when tug employees accept wage increase,

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‘No Survivors in Vicinity,’ Coast Guard Cutter Reports

Ension G. W. Marson, of Cambridge City, Ind., One of Ten Aboard Huge Craft.

WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P,)—The Navy Department said shortly | after noon today that the commander of the patrol wing of the At-| lantic Fleet reported that parts of the wreckage of the missing Navy | parol bomber PBY 1 had been sighted two miles east of Great Machi- | pomgo Inlet.

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DETROIT, April 8 (U. P.).—Negotiations between Ford Motor Co. Later the Philadelphia Navy Officials and Philip Murray, presiYard announced it had received an| dent of the Congress of Industrial unofficial report that the first Coast | Organizations, to settle the week-

, ; . I Guard cutter to reach the wreckage strike began today, a |

| old Ford of the bomber reported there were | ‘ : “no survivors in the vicinity.” | source close to the mediators said.

URGED BY MAYOR Great Machipomgo Inlet The first meeting was reported to| miles off the Virginia Capes. lasted approximately two |

| The giant plane took off from

Chambers Field, Norfolk, at 8:35 a. m, yesterday. No word has b New Department Suggested }.7 "55" one, I hon hove As Major Phase of Safety Program.

reached its destination, Quonset The creation of a department of

|Point, R. I., a naval operating base near Newport, at noon. : Sa Yeu | Its course would have taken it traffie engineering at City Hall gy0 the eastern shore of Maryland, : but after that its journey was all proposed by the City Administra-| ... ..ie. : Be Ee ue Of & three-| ne lost plane was fully equipped Financed by Increased gas tax with rubber boats, fares, emergency revenue, the program includes in food and other equipment. It is desaddition to the traffic engineer: ignated patrol bomber 4-J-N. It _ 1. The revival of the mounted po- hag both receiving and sending ralice squad of 15 men to handle downtown traffic. The mounted pa- call letters trol was discontinued 10 years ago. 2. The installation of more than| The search began last night when 100 new stop-go signals, reflectorithe Coast Guard and the Navy sent preferential street signs and flasher out general orders for all ships at Rouge plant last Tuesday night, | signals at unprotected intersections. sea to keep on the look-out for the throwing 85.000 men out of work. | right move to deal with the growing missing craft, which was piloted by Later in the week Ford closed all traffic problem, the proposal to hire Ensign G. N. Blackburn, a reserve its branches and assembly plants, a traffic engineer, was made known officer from Lenni Mills, Pa. Co- bringing the total men affected to in an ordinance submitted to City pilot on the missing craft was En-| 125.000. The union sought wage inCouncil last night by Mayor Regi- (sign G. W. Marson, Naval Reserve, | creases of 10 cents an hour, seniornald H. Sullivan. Cambridge City, Ind. |ity rights, grievance machinery and It followed recommendations of] | abolition of the Ford service depart(Continued on Page Seven) { ment, : | Mr. Murray § Admiral Ernest J. King, com-| f ay had Ion sereauled i . confer today with President Roosemander of the Atlantic Fleet, velt on the threatened steel strike promptly ordered the non-rigid air-| at the Governor's request Mr. ship TC14, from the naval air base gogsevelt cancelled his appointment

(here, to hunt for the patrol bomber wth Mr Murray. {and four more blimps to take off | :

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Ford representatives who parleyed with Mr. Dewey and the] | Governor's three-man mediation |

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Mr. Murray flew here at the request of Governor Murray Van | | Wagoner it was said, after Mr. Van | | Wagoner had solicited his assistance | when negotiations here struck a! snag. Earlier it had been reported that Secretary Perkins was preparing to submit the Ford strike to the new U. S. Mediation Board. The United Automobile Workers (C. I. O.) struck at Ford's River

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BY HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent 4 Hitler's southeastern blitzkrieg cut through the narrow finger of Macedonia today, severing communications be« tween Greece and Turkey, and threatened to smash the Var ‘dar Valley route between Greece and Jugoslavia. There still was no authentic account of how the fighting (is progressing along Jugoslavia's northern and central-east-

This map shows the major developments in the Balkan war today. Alexandroupolis is the Thracian port which German troops reached in cutting off Greece from communication with Turkey. Skoplje are points reported reached by the “surprise” German drive toward the Vardar River in South Jugoslavia. The Struma River is the direction | used by the Germans in their first attack on Greece Sunday.

FDR. Repeats Aid Pledge |

reported captured by the Nazis.

ern frontiers. But the reports from the south showed that a major Strumica and Nazi threat was building up fast in the mountains at the corner where Greece and Jugoslavia meet. | But unconfirmed German reports in Budapest said that ‘Nazi troops had smashed across Jugoslavia from Bulgaria to slash the main north-south Jugoslav railroad at Nish and Skoplje, 40 to 60 miles inside Jugoslavia.

Nish is the rail center

Attack Is Surprise Occupation of the two towns would almost cut Jugoslavia

WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt, in a message in two, except for secondary mountain roads to the west

Lease Act.

The President's message, made commission since last Wednesday, | expressed his “earnest hopes for successful resistance to this criminal | assault upon the independence and | integrity of vour country’—the Ger-| German bombers (man invasion which began early | series of devastating attacks on the

Sunday.

Mr. Roosevelt addressed

message to the boy monarch in the as far as was known. to ex-

midst of renewed activity tend all possible lend-lease aid Britain, Greece and Jugoslavia The State Department earlier had announced that in his first dispatch from Jugoslavia, U. S. Minister Arthur Bliss Lane has reported that all members of the U. S. legation there were safe up to 6 p. m. Sunday. That was

several = hours

How B.E.F. Arrived

By RICHARD D. McMILLAN

United Press Staff Correspondent

ABOARD A DESTROYER OF THE BRITISH MEDITERRANEAN | | FLEET, 10:30 P. M,, April 7 (Delayed) .——A line of British destroyers and other warships hes just edged into port after escorting a British Army | to the Balkans through a German-Italian aerial blitzkrieg. (The dispatch indicated that an enormous force of men, guns and |

‘hands of the five-man group of | to King Peter II of Jugoslavia, today pledged anew his determination to had give the embattled Balkan nation material war-aid under the Lend-

his | that all other Americans were safe |

after |

near the Albanian frontier. Skoplje is on the Vardar River, and all reports seemed to agree that the Germans had come within 15 miles of the - vital valley, el A German mechanized force in a surprise attack had pital. The message added | crogged 18 miles of wild terrain, apparently following a ‘railroad spur from the Struma River line, to reach Strumica, ‘north of the Greek border and within easy striking distance of the Vardar. Here the Royal Air Ferce went into action with a blaste ing attack designed to stem the Nazi advance, but there ‘was no indication that the German forward movement had ceased short of Skoplje. A Greek report admitted that the left flank of the army facing Bulgaria had been uncovered by ‘a Serb withdrawal in southern Jugoslavia. Vardar Is Vital fo British The main north-south Greek defense line along which the British Expeditionary Force is believed drawn up in battle array is hinged on the Vardar, running south to the Gulf of Salonika, If the Germans reach the valley they may be able to turn this line from the rear, an operation similar to that against the Maginot Line in France. The fall of Wish, if confirméd, is less damaging to the

public by the State Department,

had started

Jugoslav

The Department received the message by way of London where the embassy obtained it from the Air Ministry The news came after authoritative quarters had revealed that vitial shipments of war materials to Jugoslavia are on their way. The type and nature of equipment was Kept secret, (Continued on Page Three)

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CLEVELAND C. . 0.

DIES IN AUTO GRAS

Earl Grasser Had Held Title Role Eight Years.

[from here at dawn. Naval planes] were ready to take the air at New| York and other coastal stations with | the first light. | At 4 p. m. yesterday, the Norfolk | naval air station received a myste- : : rious message reporting an airplane FARMINGTON, Mich, April 8 gown at sea. But the message was (U. P).—Earl Grasser, 32, the unidentified, and there was no way | “Lone Ranger” of the nationally to tell where it came from, who sent broadcast was killeg | it or to what plane it referred. instantly today in an automobile LEIS Mas ah, The cont Guan il : ’ © headquarters at Philadelphia said accident near his home. its Shipbottom, N. J. lifeboat staMr. Grasser’s car struck the rear tion reported having seen an uniof a parked truck. Sheriff's officers dentified seaplane two miles offbelieved he may have fallen asleep Shore. The nearby Harvey Cedars while driving home. station heard motors earlier, but Officials of Radio Station WXYz Saw no plane. A thorough search in Detroit, where the Lone Ranger Was being made this morning.

series originates, said Brace Beemer, the phish “Ranger” and present AXIS PARTITION OF JUGOSLAVIA HINTED

narrator of the stories, would take ROME. April 8 (U. P.).—The|

Mr. Grasser’s place. | The “Lone Ranger” has been running for nine years, and Mr. | | Grasser held the title role for Fascist editor Virginio Gayda, writ-| eight. He was married and the ing in the authoritative Giornale father of a 1-vear-old girl. | d'Italia today, hinted at Axis plans [to partition Jugoslavia among [neighboring nations. | “Jugoslavia is a state, not a nation,” Gayda wrote. “Out of a total | of 16,000,000 inhabitants there are CLEVELAND, April 8 (U. P).— | many Albanians and large numbers |

radio series,

apolis, said today. (Congress of Industrial Organization | Of Germans, Bulgarians, Hungari- |

Public offices and banks will be closed all day. Governor Schricker has proclaimed the day a legal holiday, \

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Clapper ..... Comics Crossword ... Editorials ... Financial .... Flynn Forum Gallup Poll. . In Indpls.... 3| Society Inside Indpls. 11 | Sports ... Jane Jordan. 14! State Deaths.

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union members staged “wa ca 15, Rumanians alan, Monte | work stoppages in two major Cleve- | jugosiavia, which betrayed the Axis | Jala ndusial Llants pi which | Powers, today opened the road to nterrupted vital defense production. | reater liberation of EB Approximately 1650 workers in the | LE yes ean)

Ferro Machine Foundry Co. were Cn ‘MODERATE WEATHER |

idled by a tie-up in the plant’s vital core department and another work { stoppage was reported in progress in three subsidiary plants of the HERE WILL REMAIN Aluminum Corporation of America. TEMPERATURES | x | +43 10am ...63 ¢ «81 Bam ...

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AXIS PROTESTS REJECTED MEXICO CITY, April 8 (U. P.).—| Mexico has rejected two German | protests and a third from Italy |against the seizure of Axis ships, it | More of was disclosed today. Simultaneously temperatures

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the same—moderate and partly cloudy

14 the Foreign Office official press bul- skies—was in store for Indianapolis entered by riding a string of freight

\letin denounced the Axis invasion tonight and tomorrow, the Weather of Jugoslavia and Greece. Bureau orgeah

(the Defense Mediation Board w

land steel industries.

|down a stairway when he shot at them.

This activity lay behind the sud- | den departure of Mr. Dewey from the conference chamber last night and the air of mystery with which he and Governor Van Wagoner

‘clothed their statement promising | “further developments Tuesday.” |

Formal action on a (Continued on Page Seven)

PROWLERS ROUTED | IN PROPELLER PLANT

Guard Fires at Intruders at Curtiss-Wright.

Two men discovered by a guard on the third floor of the CurtissWright Corp. propeller plant at 1230 W. Morris St. early today fled when the guard fired a shot at them. Guards at the plant, which is getting ready for production under a hational defense order, told police they saw a prowler near the building at 2 a. m. and again at 3 a m While Ernest Rickenback, one of the guards, was making his rounds about 4:30 a. m., he discovered the two men inside the plant. They fled

Police were called and searched the plant without finding any intruders. The prowlers are believed to have

cars shunted into the grounds during the night. §

mechanized equipment had been moved into Greece in a motley feet | British than the capture of Skoplje, but it is more importang

of merchant ships gathered from | 'to the Jugoslavs, since it is the country’s chief railway cen all parts of the world—an emer- and every type of air torpedo and |

Stays 3 More Days, Hon-

gency transportation job rivaling bomb was thrown frantically into | ter; it is 125 miles from Belgrade, the capital. lhe main the evacuation of the British from the struggle, in vain. railroad runs from Belgrade to Nish to Skoplje and then Dunkirk.) | From the flag bridge of the de- |. Gr This destroyer, with cruisers and|stroyer I watched the last com- | Into reece. _ other dupe, fought for hours bined Italian-German sortie car- Greek diplomats in Istanbul reported that the Germans agains torpedo - carrying planes| ried out with timorous, cat-and- y » zn ’ nana and high angle bombers in one of mouse tactics. ‘have “reached the Aegean a series of attacks made in the past] Swooping low over the horizon | | at Alexandroupolis, a small week on ships steaming incessantly| against a waning sun, torpedo car-| v QS an 20 mi between the opposite Mediterranean riers and bombers skulked like | -| port less than Si miles from shores, loaded with men, guns, birds of prey, flying in wide circles] Turkey's frontier defenses in planes, oil, lorries and munitions out of range of the British guns. | eastern Thrace. to serve the British Expeditionary | Occasionally they dipped almost " Yost ie Site 1 Force in the Balkans. [to the sea to avoid being spotted. The Germans apparently The Axis forces strove desperately] It was 5:30 p. m. As daylight crossed the 40 to 50 miles from the to cut the sea lane supplying the waned, the planes flew in narrower Bulgarian border with little diffi B. E. F. in Greece and prevent circles, gradually approaching. ored by U. S. Minister | culty as Greece had withdrawn all another British Army orsunjng/ Suddenly one plane dived in over y U. 9. * |except a light covering force from where, in 1917, a previous one had!our stern and tried to sink the] | this region. A Greek communique

“admitted the strategic withdrawal

hastened Germany's downfall by largest of the convoy, slightly to our | MOSCOW, April 8 (U. P.. in the finger area.

: | rel Minister Yosuke creating an Eastern Front. Every starboard. As it passed us the Japanese Foreign : available German and Italian plane! Matsuoka has decided to extend his

(Continued on Page Three) | stay in Moscow three days until

| ; auth 13, 1 a lesined 1508) back However, at least one defeat was ’ x gt inflicted. upon Germans penetrate War Moves Today imei si sin ma bi ed mm. Some. es but he said yes-| tain force trapped a German cole By J. W. T. MASON terday he would extend ‘his stay|UD moving Jal EO IES United Press War Expert here “if such prolongation should a!most Wiped it o be useful.” ling cross-fire of mountain bate Amid the confused reports coming from many He was guest of honor at lunch- | teries hidden in a narrow gorge, Balkan points regarding the progress of the fight-| "ot" the official residence, of Later, however, Komotine was res ing, the most significant is today’s statement from | (ited States Ambassador Laurence | Ported captured. Athens that the Jugoslav Army in southern Serbia is falling back, exposing the Greek ieft flank. If this German thrust is not checked, it will be able to swing southward into Greece, threatening Salonika

: The Royal. Air Force reported A, Sigil, dh luncheon was | that it had bombed Strumica heavbe three hours long and was held in| ily, presumably in an attempt to y what was described as a “cordial smash the German drive. The R. Mr. Mason and semi-encirclement of the Greek Army in the|atmosphere.” The. luncheon pri-|A. F. also was active up and down Struma Valley, The Germans apparently have reinforced their drive in this area between Bulgaria and southeastern Jugoslavia, as their principal movement, following the stubborn Greek resistance in the Struma region.

marily was intended to repay|the Struma River Valley as far courtesies extended by Matsuoka | north as Sofia, repeatedly attacking This German attack is the most dangerous te the Allies for the immediate present.

when Mr. Steinhardt visited Tokyo!the single narrow-gauge railroad last summer, line and the one highway along Observers, however, saw 'political| which German {roops and supplies significance in the fact that it was|for the attack upon the Rupel Pass, The thrust may have come through the Juma Pass, over (he southern Bulgar-Jugoslav moun-|plains of the Vardar Valley near tains. It runs east and west and|Salonika, for use of their heavy

the only non-Axis, non-Soviet func-| key to Salonika, must be transe is more than 50 miles north of the mechanized . unit. They have not

tion arranged for Matsuoka. | ported. Rupel Pass, which enters the Greek | yet made sufficient headway, how-

Japanese observers expected Ma-| However, there were indications tsuoka to resume conversations that the whole Macedonian salient Struma Valley southward from |ever, to justify a full Greek retreat Bulgaria. west of Salonika.

with Soviet leaders, opened with a/may be given up to the Germans By moving through the Juma| That possibility, however, un-

three-hour talk yesterday, either after a hard rearguard action has Pass westward into Jugoslavia and (Continued on Jue Three)

Strumica Heavily Bombed

[then turning south into Greece, the Germans would gain access to the

late today or tomorrow. Yesterday's | inflicted as heavy losses as possible talk with Molotov, a Japanese|upon Nazi storm battalions. spokesman said, produced ‘“useful”] The British suggested that Sae= results, ¢ (Continued on Page Seven)