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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 27

FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1941

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| F.D.R. OPENS RED SEA TO U.S. SHIPS: BRITISH TROOPS BATTLE WITH NAZIS

These three pictures show the men who make up the British

Empire Army in Greece. troops with a Bren gun.

PRISON GUARD GET $10 RAIS

Move Designed to Forestall Resignations; Monthly Wage at $130 Top.

In an effort to halt the resignations of State Prison and State Reformatory guards for more highly paid defense jobs, the State Budget Committee today approved a $10-a-| month pav increase for 147 guards. The action was taken at the request of Warden Alfred Dowd of State Prison and Supt. A. F.! of the State Reformatory.! Both appeared before the Committee asking for the increases. This $10, I believe.” said Warden | Dowd, “will make (he guards think twice before quitting.” The pay increase will be effective | Tulv 1. Guards will start at $110 a month for the first three months Thev will receive $120 a month for the second three months and $130 thereafter. The present maximum < $126 and the guards now begin at $100 and receive a $5 a month increase for the first four months. Guards at both institutions work 1 7-day week averaging 10 hours a

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Warden Dowd said he lost 55 men to defense industries since last November and Supt. Miles said his personnel turnover was twice as great &S a year ago Referring to the at prison break «ut Warden Dowd seid were being foilowed how saws used In break were obtained. The personnel appropriation at both institutions is adequate to take care of the pay increases which will cost. the state about $30,000 more a vear. The Budget Committee yesterday eased a critical situation in the Department of Public Welfare by advancing $100.000 to the Department to carry on the duties of the Governor's Commission on ment. Relief. The Commission was added to the Public Welfare Department by an

recent attempt | Michigan City, | several clues ta determine the

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Here are a group of motorized Australian

Deanna Asks for Wedding License

HOLLYWOOD. April 11 (U, P.) —-Deanna Durbin, 19-vear-old movie star. and Vaughn Paul, young assoclaie producer who has been her beau since she was a youngster in flat-heeled shoes. applied for a marriage license to-

Miss Durbin said her marriage to the 25-year-old Paul, who first met her when he was a second assistant director for one of her pictures five vears ago, would take place at the Wilshire Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. Some 850 guests, including most of the big names in the film colony. will be invited. There was none of the “little girl” of Deanna’s earlv film davs left when she walked up to the License Bureau in the Hall of Justice. She was a poised, calm voung lady wearing a trim green gabardine tailored suit. red-white-and-blue sailor hat, and carrving black kid gloves “I am very happy about it all,” she said

DEVOUT OF CITY OBSERVING DAY

Church Services Arranged; Public Buildings and Banks Closed.

Christ's sacrifice upon the Cross for the redemption of the sins of mankind was commemorated todav as Indianapolis joine. the world in observance of Good Friday. Throughout the city churches were to hold noonday services from 12 to 3 p. m., and similar services were scheduled in several downtown locations. Banks and public buildings were closed. Stores remained open but arrangements were made to permit employees to attend the noonday services. The three-hour service at English’s Theater, sponsored by the Church Federation, was to be broadcast by WIBC. An interdenomin-

This is a British Tommy in Africa, before the B. E. F. crossed to Greece,

PERKINS ACTS |

6. M. THREAT

Assigns Dewey to Seek Settlement; Technicality

| Delays Ford Peace.

Today's labor developments:

WASHINGTON — Conciliator Dewey assigned to investigate threatened stoppage of work i General Motors plants,

DETROIT — Only “technicalities” block final settlement of Ford strike, NEW YORK-—Southern operators still block settlement in soft coal stoppage,

PITTSBURGH — Conferences continue seeking settlement stee] dispute.

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Secretary of Labor Frances Pers!

Kins today assigned James F. Dewey, | U, S. Conciliation Service Commissioner, to investigate and attempt to, settle a threatened stoppage of work in plants of the General Mo-| tors Corp She assigned Mr, Dewey to the job following receipt of a telegram from B. D, Kunkle, General Motors vice president, stating that the C.| I. O.'s United Automobile Workers Union had warned of a “general strike” on April 20 unless a new contract is signed. Mr. Dewev is now attémpting to help settle the U. A. W.-C. 1. O. strike at the Ford Motor Co.'s River Rouge plant. April 20 is the deadline for the 60-day negotiation period provided in the U. A. W.s present contract) with General Motors, but some C.! I. O. officials in Washington said they were puzzled by the threatened strike call since negotiations could | be carried on beyond that date if there is reasonable promise of an agreement in sight, In Detroit. U. A. W. officials would not com-| ment on the report that a general strike would be called against General Motors but said April 20 ends a 60-day negotiation period pro-, vided in the present contract. Conferences between union and com-

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Here is the Third Echelon of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force

marching through the streets of Aukland just before sailing An Even Match

the Mediterranean, NASHVILLE, Tenn. April 11 | { (U. P.).—The social calendar here | {

showed today: | The annual convention of the |

T ssee Educati Association with approximately 10.000 teach. Luftwaffe Learns Full Moon ers, inmost of them feminine, at- | Can Aid Defenders Too: Ships Bombed.

tending. Pay day at Camp Forrest with Ry UNITED PRESS This month's “Battle of the Moon"

approximately 10.000 soldiers expected around noon tomorrow on has demonstrated that the full moon 1s an advantage not onlv to

week-end leave. the attackers in an air war but the defenders as well.

British night fighters last night shot down nine German planes and

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British anti-aircraft gunners bagged |

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AID EXTENDED FAR INTO EAST

Frees Many British Craft;

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Hemispheric Defense Pushed in Greenland.

On War Front

The Truth About Italy . Today's War Moves War Map : Map of Greenland ,. William Philip Simms

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WASHINGTON, April 11 (U. P.). President Roosevelt reopened the Red Sea to American shipping today as defense officials rushed plans to set up outposts of hemispheric defense in Greenland--two farreaching moves designed to implement this nation’s policy of aiding the democracies. The President proclaimed the reopening of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in an order revoking a previous definition of that area as a combat zone under terms of the Neutrality Act. The action followed Britain's virtual mopping up of the last vestiges of Italian resistance In East Africa which borders on the Red Sea and Aden

mit American ships to carry sup-

plise to non-belligerent areas bor-| dering on the Red Sea and the Suez

Canal. He said there was some controversy whether it would be possible to ship supplies through the Canal to Port Said, Mediterranean entrance to the Canal,

| Monroe Doctrine Now Law

announced his action at a disclosed that he had signed a reso-

lution adopted by Congress, which

|ualties than on the two previous Writes into law the Monroe Doc-|Monastir Pass in the northwest where Greece.

trine policy of opposing any change

were | in the sovereignty of foreign posses-

The President's order would per- |

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another, bringing the total to 37 in four nights, The Nazi “bag” last AAA Asks Farmers to Add night was not announced, but Wednesday night 13 British planes To Acreage as Part of [were shot down over Germany. ; Tonight at 9:15 the moon reaches Defense Program. its full phase for ‘the first time (this spring—and the time set by The Government today urged some observers for a German atowners of the more fertile, pro- | tempt to invade Britain will have ductive farms in Indiana to grow | passed. Last night, instead of inmore corn this year, sacrificing their | tensifying their effort in the light Government payments by planting | of the waxing moon, the Germans more acreage in corn than the Gov-| caused less damage and fewer casernment has allotted. The plea was made by TL. M.|njghts. Vogler, chairman of Indiana's AAA| (Coventry and Birmingham committee, as part of the new pro-| gram to make this country the “larder as well as arsenal of democracies.” The Government plans to buy eggs, chickens and dairy products to ship to England and possibly some of her Allies under the lend-lease bill. important as feed for hogs, dairy cattle and poultry. As a grain crop and as feed, it is Indiana's most important farm product. Most planting begins about May 10, although southern Indiana farmers may start sooner, Mr, Vogler declined to predict how farmers would come out financially if they sacrifice corn parity payments in the hope of obtaining more money otherwise from the corn crop. He confined his request to owners of better farm land, saying: would not be reasonable to suppose that these farms not suited to more corn would be expected to

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| their main targets. It was the sec- sions in the Western Hemisphere. {ond concentrated attack this week! Mr. Roosevelt implied that the on both cities, though Coventry has legislation strengthened the pledges | been little more than a skeleton city of this country to safeguard and since the devastating raid last No- defend, if necessary, the integrity vember. Nottingham wag subjected of the New World, including Green“rolling” attack, Berlin re-|/land, from any aggression from ported. overseas. { British bombing planes again| The President dismissed as con- | straddled the German battleships troversial questions whether re-

[Scharnhorst and Gneisenau with opening of the Red Sea would per-|

{bombs in a raid on Brest and R. A./mit the trans-shipment of supplies F. squadrons also raided the Ger- in American vessels to a belligerent man Ruhr and Rhineland indus-|power. But, he said, it would allow (trial areas, centering on Dusseldorf. shipments to Egypt, for example. | The German radio complained in| Consensus of congressional opina broadcast in English against the jon is that the Neutrality Act pro(day night, saying (demonstrates with utmost clarity] the insincerity of British claims of | military objectives being targets in all British raids.”

that “the raid | (Continued on Page 15)

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CHICAGO, April 11 (U, P.).—

British attack on Berlin Wednes- hibits the shipment of war supplies |

ON TO BE DIVIDED

‘Reich Troops Threaten to Cut Behind Greek . Defense Line by Swift Move Through Pass: |

Berlin Claims Libyan Victory. Ry HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent Britain's expeditionary force opened the battle for Greece today south of the vital Monastir Pass where Nazi Panzer divisions threatened to knife through and smash Greco-British defense lines from the rear. Jugoslavia crumbled under knock-out blows from north and south. Belgrade’s fall appeared imminent and Hungary, Rumania, Italy and fifth column Croats raced in to divide lup the spoils, In Africa the German threat to Egypt and the Suez Canal was building up too fast for British comfort. German troops, claiming that British resistance had been broken in ‘the region of Derna, poured east toward Tobruk, | Good Friday Is Black On the home front in the British Isles the Nazi Luft« waffle kept the pressure on with night raids in which several hundred German warplanes blasted at the great Midlands ‘industrial region, centering on Birmingham, Coventrv and Nottingham. | Against the black news of this Good Friday the British had one big item on the credit side of their ledger. President Roosevelt opened the Red Sea shipping route to American vessels as far as the Suez Canal. That action means that United States ships now can take over from tha hard-pressed British a substantial share of the vital task of supplying the British forces who are fighting in Greece and North Africa for the security of the Suez Canal and the passage to India, Danger at Monastir Pass Coupled with America's incorporation of Greenland in the United States defense zone yesterday, it seemed evident ‘that Britain is on the eve of receiving powerful American assistance in the war at sea where ultimate strangulation ‘of the British war effort is threatened by the high level of German submarine, surface raider, and the airplane sinkings, The most critical threat of the day seemed clearly to ‘be the break-through effected by a Nazi armored column at | Albania and Jugoslavia meet. Racing through Bitolj, the Germans were helieved to be jin the vicinity of Florina, where it was thought they ran head on into the British Expeditionary Force. First accounts (Continued on Page 16)

Hungary Gets ‘Corn Fields’

By HAROLD PETERS | United Press Staff Correspondent BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 11.—Hungarian troops crossed inte (northern Jugoslavia today and began occupation of a vast area cone ‘taining “the richest corn fields in Europe.” Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy declared a state of emergency as his troops went on the march to take over the territory—8718 square miles—which the old Austro-Hungarian Empire had lost as a resulg of the World War, . Sl Officially, the occupation was un- Riiniamed that it, too, would go te ungary. dertaken because, The area under occupation is said, “the Jugoslav state ceased to purely agricultural with vast corn

About 1.042.000 inhabitants and wheat fields. Tt noted for

live in the area, which the Jugoslay €Xtensive livestock breeding. It has a variety of nationalities—e

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‘Government called Vojvodina. Hungarian, German, Serbs, Croats, The area has two parts, (1) the Slovaks, Czechs, Rumanians, Ru-[so-called Bacza triangle between thenians, French, descendants of (the present Hungarian frontier and 17th Century Spanish migrants and the Danube and Tisza Rivers other inter-mixtures impossible to fand (2) the so-called Baranya area, determine. ‘a triangle between the present Hun- According to the 1931 census of garian frontier and the confluence the 1,042,000 population about 368. lof the Danube and Drava Rivers. 000 are Hungarians, 307.000 Gere It was reported without, official mans, 585.000 Serbs and Croats. 70= confirmation that Rumania had 000 Rumanians and the remainder moved into the Banat region south other nationalities. The city of (and east of the territory given to Subotica containing the greatest Hungary, but some sources here] (Continued on Page 16)

War Moves Today |

act of the 1941 Legislature and a £100,000 appropriation for the April(Continued on Page 16)

FORD II MAY SERVE AS NAVAL ENSIGN

DETROIT, April 11 MU. P)— Henry Ford II, grandson of the motor magnate, today awaited a commission as ensign in the United States Naval Reserve which was expected to result in a 1C draft classification. Lieut. Comm, E. 8S Pettyiohn, State Selective Service officer,

Albina Catherine Trievers, 21-year-old night club dice girl, sat at the desk of her 13th floor room at a loop hotel and wrote three brief notes explaining she was “a hepcat no longer in the groove.” She hung a “do not disturb” sign on the outside of her door, carefully arranged the blinds on the window and stepped on the sill. She fell to her death on the sidewalk, her body narrowly missing passing pedestrians. Police found the three notes in her room late last night. One was addressed to Miss Eleanora Ullen, who, like Albina, worked in taverns and night clubs as an operator of a “26” game, a game of chance in which the player wagers a small sum that he can roll one number 26 times in 13 throws of 10 dice. Another note was addressed to her parents and the third was to the hotel management.

(Continued on Page 16) "exceed their allotments.’

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

German penetration of the Monastir Pass, ah= nounced today from Athens, and establishment of contact with British forces, can mean either the commencement of a major battle or an exploratory expedition in force, to test out the Anglo-Greek strength. If the Germans have decided to deliver

| wou one inch in height. widow of Charles Mueller who died hind the “week”! The grouping of boxes wherever |11 years ago. not only is to | possible, espe- | Survivors, in addition to Mr. make the Mar- | cially at or near Hook, are: Three daughters, Mrs. | ion County rural cross roads or Watson Brigham and Miss Gretchen ‘mail box a thing of beauty, but to/other spots Mueller, both of Indianapolis, and

ational service was to be held at Keith's Theater, while the Knights — ’ = - = : OF JOHN HOOK DIES ox Columbus sponsored outdoor A I [] ! “Way of the Cross” devotions from th Ww k S h d / d: — 2 to 3 p. m. on the World War | no er ee C e u e / | ee. L Memorial Plaza. sirius Was / # # Fi R / M . / B Had Been Active in Club and to appear over the downtown area | S Oo IX ura Qi oxes Church Affairs at noon. Arrangements were made | : | [for all city busses and streetcars | UNDAUNTED BY the fact that!the approach to the box not prop-| Mrs. Lena Mueller, sister of John | to halt for one minute at 2:59 p. m.! there already are more “weeks” to erly filled in and graded: box too | Hook, Hook. Drug Co. president, | be celebrated than can be ac- far from the road; too high or too |dieq today at St. Vincent's Hoscommodated by the calendar. 1°W: not conveniently located; does | pital after a short illness. She | HINTS EASTER FINERY eostmaster Adolph Seidensticker | D0! face the road; box in leaky was 67. | ‘today promulgated Aa new one. | Condition; not level; post not firmly | Mrs. Mueller, who lived at 2221 | § It's “Rural Mail Box Im- | Planted; box and its support not Talbott St. was born in Cincinnati, | : Ice cer, | 10 GET A BREAK prove mee n t | PRInted white, and your name not |O, She was a resident of Indian- | said he had received word from Week.” It wil) | inscribed on the side of the box apolis for 57 years i Commander Frank C. Huntoon, at — | be observed No which the carrier approaches as he | She was a member of Ideal Club. | the Great Lakes Naval Training | ; Seiden s ticker | STVes it” |St. Elizabeth's Guild, SS. Peter and | base, that young Ford's application Breau Guesses It Will Be hopes, the week! Names, Mr. Seidensticker said, [Paul Cathedral and the Altar So- | for a naval reserve commission had | startin May 5. Should be in neat, black letters ciety of the church. She was the | been approved by the Bureau of) Mild, but Cloudy : Ray, | Navigation and that the commis-| ’ y The idea besion was en route, TEMPERATURES 1 Mam... . 54 11 a.m. . 60 12 (noon)

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Movies ... 34, 35 Mrs. Ferguson 22 Obituaries |, , Pyle Questions Radio Real Estate.. Mrs. Roosevelt Serial Story.. 39 Side Glances. 31] Society ...... 26 Sports ... 32, 33 22 State Deaths.

Autos Clapper Comics Crossword . Editorials Financial Flynn FOruam ....«. Gallup Poll... In Indpls.... Inside Indpls. Jane Jordan. Johnson ....,

cloudy weather

22 | meteorologist, said there is a possi-|to correction,” as follows: 24 | bility “but not a probability” that

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‘keep the mail carriers happy. Where a large | No carrier can do his best work number of in‘when his disposition is ruffled by|dividual boxes boxes that are difficult to reach from |are located, was the window of his car, or when the urged. In such box is in such disrepair as to threat- cases, the boxes en injury to his hands. | should be placed jon a solid shelf 3 feet 9 inches high . #. rn [for small boxes and 3 feet high for predicted partly] IN ANNOUNCING the week, large boxes. If large and small are With mild tempera- | Postmaster Seidensticker listed some mixed, a 3':-foot compromise is all tures tomorrow “and probably Sun-|of the “features which are found | right. day. J. H. Armington, U. S.|most frequently to lend themselves Immediately following the “week,” the Postmaster said, postal superA Box not provided with signal; not visors will inspect the 20 rural ill cross up the Easter an approved box; signal has been | routes and “invite” patrons’ attenbroken off; lid has been broken; tion to any irregularities found.

Tricky little bonnets and other feminine finery will be fairly safe from disaster during the Raster! parade Sunday, if the Weather! Bureau's “best guess” turns out! well. | The

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(Mrs. Hillory Hartman of Cincin(nati. Three sons, Alfred OC.

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| ington, D. C. and two sisters, Mrs. { Katherine Crush, and Mrs. Henry | Langsenkamp Sr., both of Indianapolis; and a brother, Ferd Hook |of Miami, Fla. | KONOYE SEES CHINA PEACE | TOKYO, April 11 (U. P.).—Pre-

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today that Japan's southward expansion will be peaceful and without resort to force,

- REDS FOMENT STRIKE

IN ALUMINUM—DIES

WASHINGTON, April 11 (U, P.).| Chairman Martin Dies (D. Tex.) ! of the House Committee Investigating un-American activities, said today that within a few days the]

their main challenge to the British in this sector, they have chosen a front easier to defend than to attack but one where success would have more value than in any other sector of the Allied line. The Monastir Pass is near the Albanian frontier and should the Germans compel an enemy retirement to secondary lines farther south, the Greek rear and right flank in| - —— ——— Albania would be seriously threat-| Where the stem meets the crossbar ened. Greek retirement from Al-|is the Greek city of Florina, which

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| Communist Party will seek to cre- bania would have to be considered | Athens reports to be the immediate

ate a general strike in the alum-

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Representative Dies said that | Ohio Communist, leaders are “engineering” the attempt to “tie up an industry which is absolutely! vital to the national defense.” 3

unless the Greeks were prepared to objective of the Germans. risk being entrapped. At Florina good roads run easte The German movement through|ward and westward. The westward the Monastir Gap can be compared | highway is about 25 miles from the to an advance along the stem of| Albanian frontier, leading directly an inverted T, the crossbar being|to the rear of the Greek forces in at the bottom instead of the top. (Continued on Page 15)