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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 29

SCRIPPS = HOWARD

3000 Buried In Belgrade Bom

MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1941

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FINAL HOME

b Ruins, U.S. Vice Consul Says

NAZI TANK TROOPS RACE INTO EGYPT

‘Haunted, but Brave’

E-APPRAISAL UNDER STUDY

BY TAX BOARD

Owners and C. of C. Present

At Court House.

| Both Sides in Hearing {

. | County

A Salonika mother and daughter huddle together during a German raid . . Nalonikans, searching the face of each well-dressed person or braided officer for the answer to the unspoken question: When are they com-

ing, and from where?"

First Eye-Witness Story of Salonika Fall Reaches U.S.

By GEORGE WELLER igh bv The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. ATHENS, April 14 -—-The only truthful and complete eye-witness account cf the fall of Salonika could be written by Greek officers, who were forced retreat to abandon the second city of Greece, and by the population, which has now become merely a pawn in Hitler's plans for empire. But since their voices cannot speak and their stories can only be pieced together historians, vour correspondent offers herewith the single, authentic, first-hand story of the passing of Salonika and the Greek retreat by sea from Macedonia and Thrace, one of the leastknown but most extraordinary strategic feats of the war. That retreat now is coming to a successful close. As fortune would have it, the Chicago Daily News was the only foreign newspaper or agency with its own correspondent in Salonika

the Serbian

“the growingly haunted look appeared in the eyes of |

property and decided to |

|take the matter under advisement |

| for the present. At a hearing in the Court House {on petitions filed by property ownlers, the board listened to several |property owners plead that “unrea|sonably high [stroying our properties.” Most of | the petitioners own land and im[provements in the near downtown | section. Chief opponent to the proposal was the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce which, through its representative, William H. Book, execu[tive vice president, general re-assessment be “haphazard.”

now would

Says Machinery Inadequate

Mr. Book said the Chamber would not be opposed to a re-appraisal if lit were carried out “scientifically

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assessments are de-|

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declared any

and with fairness.” but that this is |

because of He explained

[impossible now adequate machinery.

in- |

Stricker, National Council

OTHERS HIDING BELOW GROUND INCITY OF DEAD

‘Water, Gas and Electrical Systems Gone; Streets Full of Debris.

By HAROLD PETERS

United Press Staff Correspondent

Urges Engineer

BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 14.— | °

German bombers have blasted alll {signs of life out of Belgrade, Kkill|ing an estimated 3000 persons, de- | |stroying water, gas and electrical | |systems, filling the streets with {debris until it is impossible to remove the dead and driving the whole

” ” | population underground, according | to Outerbridge Horsey,

United | States vice consul here.

Paul Stricker

| Caught just inside the Jugoslav| FOR SAFETY AlD [frontier en route to Belgrade when | ; {the blitzkrieg started April 6, Mr. | £8

Horsey arrived here Saturday evendesolation in the ancient Jugoslav capital, city of 266,000. | The railway station was nothing | Expert, Says $3600 but a shell; the opera house was | : gone, the downtown palace was Is Fair Wage. scarred with hits from dive bombers; “ ANS | bodies had laid exposed in the street By RICHARD LEWIS {for days and there were no signs of A National Safety Council traffic life anywhere, he said. All Amer-|

that the Chamber tried unsuccess- expert said today that Indianapolis icans escaped uninjured, however,

fully to put a bill through the Legislature which would have created necessary machinery. Chester McKaney. Taxpayers’ Association

Indianapolis

{inequalities and inequities existing [in the assessment of land and im-

[provements in Marion County.

he said |

should have no difficulty finding a. ! | competent

traffic engineer on a! Public Services Disabled

| competitive basis at the $3600 a| The first bombs that hit the city

president { year salary offered by the City.

| Submitted evidence designed to Show | 200 ™ National Safety Council jgas—and pitted the streets with

| field representative.

lon Palm Sunday morning disabled The expert was Paul Stricker of [all public services—light, water and |

He was here craters so ambulances could not

|to address a luncheon meeting of move, Mr. Horsey said.

A majority of both sides agreed |

| there are inequalities and that they ‘exist because there hag been no re- | assessment in Marion County since 1932 and that the uniformity of as- | sessment has broken down because of individual readjustments since | that time. | Mr. McKaney declared the excessively high assessments in | downtown residential propérties had

{driven property owners outside the |

[cities into the rural areas. He said, too, that owners of ren-

near |

{ veloped for making the Safety Divi- | | sion | Safety Council.

| |

the Chamber of Commerce Safety | Division at the Columbia Club,

Streetcars were overturned by | : {bomb concussions, spewing their | At the meeting plans were de- passengers into the street, Thousands fled the Sunday and the following day, but | by Tuesday they were filtering back. | They kept to the deepest cellars,

a chapter of the National]

Mr. Stricker said the Council

recommended the selection of an jeaving the streets deserted, while States, but they didn't say how or why. |engineer on a competitive basis, as |, | Cincinnati examinations are available, he said, | and would be furnished the City if! requested.

the bombing continued four days. Between bombings the city was | stupefied and silent. Members of the United States legation learned of several authenticated cases in {which as many as 50 persons were |

has done. Standard

The salary figure proposed by the

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SEA ESCAPE ATTEMPTED); NEW GREEK LINE HOLDS

Two Britons Surrender

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‘Hitler’ Division Is

Repulsed by ‘Solid

y ) Wall’ of Men. On War Front The Truth About Italy..Page 9 Today's War Moves. ,, Congress Fata Ries Text of Soviet-Japan Pact By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Jalkan resistance against Hitler's blitzkrieg stiffened today, but in Africa Nazi

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{ Panzer divisions crossed the

Egyptian frontier, well past ‘the half-way mark in their ‘drive against Suez in British control of the middle passage

‘to the East.

Two British prisoners (bare-headed) are brought te Agedabia in Libya following a clash southeast of the town between German and British motorized units. Germany's armored forces have swept across

New Pact Is Riddle

By UNITED PRESS Statesmen in all parts of the world tried

to evaluate the

city that |trality” treaty of Russia and Japan today and seemed unable to form |

any definite conclusion. Spokesmen for Japan's Axis partners, Germany and Italy, hailed i as a great triumph for Axis diplomacy, and as a blow to the United Britich and American commentators thought it might repre- = - - - sent a defeat for Axis diplomacy, to devote all her aitention “elsebut they didn't say how or why where" (elsewhere being the Baleither. kans where Germany and Italy, Neutral statesmen pointed out Japan's Axis allies, are now heavily that Japan had wanted a non-|engaged). ;

The German spring offen sive thundered ahead as the world hastily sought to assess the implications of a Russian« Japanese neutrality accord which may affect radically the course of events from the

south Pacific to the Balkans.

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BULLETINS | LONDON, April 14 (U. P.) = The War Office admitted tonight | that British forces in Greece had been forced to “withdraw to new positions,” but said that a Ger- | man tank attack on Tobruk had been repulsed with severe losses.

| ZURICH, April 14 (U. P.).— Radio Rome reported tonight that

during the two days preceding the German capture. I {fled the Macedonian capital with the last boat-load of refugees aboard a tiny fishing boat, where I had to sleep on deck and exist for three days and a half on a diet of chiefly black bread and Army oranges. Salonika, Macedonia and Thrace were abandoned tc an orderly plan whereby they were recognized as a liability in a long campaign. Since Germany entered Bulgaria, a vast hegira has been under way. Such a policy of willfully recognizing that a superior line of defense existed south of Salonika and that the city itself was a military liability, like most metropolises today. could only be taken in secrecy, without warning, despite the heartaches involved. lhe fact that it was taken cannot rub from the writer's mind the growingly haunted look that appeared in the eves of Salonikans walking the streets last Tuesday afternoon, searching the face of each well-

|Cliy, he said, is about the Average yijleq in single air raid shelters by [aggression treaty with Russia, like| Semi-official reaction in Tokyo | paid engineers by cities with 800d | girect hits. (the one Russia gave Germany in indicated that the Japanese ex(Continued on Page Five) August, 1939, a month before the . ines reaty who ge slo Delivers Water in Jugs BUS) Dov ” (pected great things of the treaty war started. Instead she got a They thought it would aid them in | | The residence of United States | “neutrality” treaty in which the bringing a quick end to their war | Minister Arthur Bliss Lane was nations promised to remain neutral with China, give pause to the United | badly damaged on two sides by if the other was the “object” of States in its efforts to aid Great bomb concussions, but the legation, military attack. Neither nation was Britain against Germany and Italy| at the rear of the same building, | pledged in event the other is an and to oppose Japanese ambitions | was undamaged. The legation Was attacker rather than the attacked. in Oceania. Japan was now free threatened with a water shortage They also pointed out.that if it to devote its attention “elsewhere,” until James Bonbright, second sec- “puaranteed” Japan's northern was the general tenor of Japanese (retary, who had a well at his home | borders, permitting her to devote comment. and had taken the precaution to

Italian troops of the Ninth Army Corps have reoccupied Toritza, key road center well west of the main Greeco-British defense line in Greece,

| tal property were unable to keep | their property in adequate repair | {because of the high tax burden in | those sections. Others who spoke in favor of the | reassessment included Joseph | Schmid of the Indianapolis Tax-| pavers Association, and George | Welden, member of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board.

FOR TOSSES 1ST BALL

9000 Children At Eqg Rolling

WASHINGTON, April 14 (U.P). —Thousands of children romped on the White House grounds to the tune of patriotic band music

— a —————— A——————

benind the speeding the British troops to get away by attacks by Nazi

Trapped German tanks at Tobruk sought sea, despite heavy dive-bombers

formal

all her attention “elsewhere” (else-| Moscow said that the treaty was| Tobruk Is Encircled

dressed person or braided officer for the answer to the unspoken ques{tion

When are they coming, and from where?

Smoke Broke the News

THE DEFINITE MILITARY decision that the moment had come for withdrawal was taken petween dawn and Tuesday morning, when the general stafl's telegram announcing the change was filed at Salonika. But the man in the street knew something was happening only at 4:10 o'clock of the same afternoon, when a huge black pillar cloud, tall and terrible, rolled in from the broad. beautiful bav directly over the city. Only a few minutes before, all had been heartened by the sight of four German prisoners marching under guard toward the raiiroad station bound for Athens Their quick, businesslike march through the downtown section, temporarily restored the hope that rumors that the Teutons were nearing the city, after having broken the Serbian lines, were false and, (Continued on Page Five)

President, Aid BREAK AT SING SING Heal Two Hearts

WASHINGTON, April 14 (U, P.) President Roosevelt and Col. E WwW. White House Secret healed broken and made a weeping mother smile on this Easter Monday Mrs. Anna Kulikowski native of Lithuania, and her eight-year-old son, Teddy, went to the White House to present some of the lit=tle boy's wood carvings to Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, secretary

Two Convicts Captured After Crossing River.

OSSINING, N. M, April 14 (U, P.).—Two Manhattan convicts who

shot their way out of Sing Sing prison were captured on a Rockland County mountainside and re[turned here today after seven {hours of liberty purchased at the cost of four lives.

Starling

chief

Service

eight-vear-old heart

IN YANK-NATS GAME

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35,000 Expected to Watch | Curtain Raiser.

(Another Story, Page 6)

| WASHINGTON, April 14 (U.P). —President Roosevelt breaks another record today when, for the ‘eighth time, he tosses out the first ball of the major league baseball | season. No other President has ever come close to such a record since the tradition was started in 1912 by President Taft.

The Presidential pitch, expected |

to be witnessed by some 35,000 fans, (will be made from the buntingdraped White House box in Griffith Stadium and will top off the ceremonies before the “curtain raiser” game between the New York Yankees and the Washington Senators. The other go into action until tomorrow.

Charles Piel Picnesr Starch ~~ Manufacturer, Dies at 85

14 clubs do not!

at the annual Easter Monday eggrolling festivities today It was a major event of a bright holiday week-end that brought an estimated 250,000 to 300,000 visitors to the capital. Early attendance at the eggrolling—the children’s one chance

a year to play on the White House |

lawns—was considerably below last

year's, however. By 11 a. m. 9300 |

youngsters had been counted

through the gates.

Mrs. Wallace, wife of the Vice | President, acted as official hostess |

since Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is away to attend the wedding of her eldest son, James, fornia. Mrs. Wallace was dressed in a blue suit with a matching blouse and wore a blue hat

| trimmed with a red ribbon.

After welcoming the children, Mrs. Wallace was escorted through the grounds by a troop of Girl Scout Reserves, dressed in white uniforms, with blue ties. President Roosevelt planned to

afternoon, just before he leaves the White House for the opening baseball game.

in Cali- |

say “hello” to the children this |

buy several water jugs, was able to | start deliveries in his car. | Mr. Horsey said the German lega[tion was damaged by a bomb and [that the German charge d'affaires 'and several other Germans remained {in their consulate. The consulate {is a sturdy stone building, formerly ithe Czech legation, and it reported{ly had machine gun emplacements fon the roof from where the post[office and Parliament across the street could be dominated. Mr. Horsey had reached the Jugoslav border just two hours before [the blitzkrieg started. He carried {diplomatic dispatches from Budapest for the United States legation ‘at Belgrade. He was unable to ful{fill his mission, since Mr. Lane had [taken refuge in the home of one of (Continued on Page Five)

OY STRUCK BY CAR ON WAY TO CLASS

Police Finally Find Mother; Condition Is Serious.

i Recess orange in hand, a 6-year-{old boy bound for his first posi- | vacation class, dashed into Meri{dian St. at Michigan St, | against four lanes of traffic.

building |

|under American protection and re- velop quickly.

(Moscow when the Japanese Foreign

today. |

where being the Dutch East Indies, “a very important step in the cause British Mala erally), it “guaranteed” |Far Eastern borders, permitting her!’

U.S. Is Twice Jolted

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, April 14 —Two major diplomatic blows were handed | Uncle Sam over the week-end—the first still further threatening to em|broil this country in war in the Atlantic, the second in a clash in the | Pacific. The first complication came when the Copenhagen Foreign Office (voided the pact between the United States and the Danish Minister at | Washington placing Greenland ,— — . o-

(Continued on Page Five)

The South Pacific situation probably will take longer to incubate. Pact or no pact, Japan

lled the Minister. The second followed yesterday in

lca

Minister, Yosuke Matsuoka signed |a treaty of neutrality with the So- behind her until developments in viet Union, thus obtaining for Japan Europe, Africa and the Atlantic

la free hand to carry out her plans make it comparatively safe for her lin the South Pacific. | Whether so intended or not, these |

to intervene. The Greenland development is to unprecedented in American history,

portentous happenings dovetail

place the United States at a grow- Danish Minister Henrik de Kaufl-|

ing disadvantage. By involving us/man, who made the “co-operative

in additional difficulties in Europe hemispheric defense” pact with the | in the Atlantic, Berlin makes President, will, of course, continue |

and it likelier that Tokyo may provoke to have the backing of this Gov‘trouble in the vicinity of the Dutch | ernment, East Indies and Singapore—some- return to Copenhagen, as demanded [thing Berlin has long been egging | by his superiors and it is considered [Tokyo on to do. [unthinkable that the United States

| A crisis over Greenland may de-' (Continued on Page Five)

and Oceania gen- of peace” and the official newspaper | Russia's! Pravda predicted that it cleared the

lis not expected to burn any bridges |

Tobruk seemed to have become a new British Dunkirk. The British | had planned to make a stand there, [but the German and Italian mech« | anized units thrust boldly across the desert to capture the Libyan | frontier stronghold, Ft. Capuzzo, land Sollum, the first oasis inside Egypt. Today 14 British tanks were re ported by Berlin to have attempted to crash through the Nazi circle around Tobruk. When they failed and eight were destroyed, the Brit« ish bezan their efforts to evacuate the city by sea, according to Berlin, which claimed that one British transport was struck on the stern by a bomb and that a British auxil« iary cruiser was sunk by a divee bomber. Cairo reported that fighting still was in progress near Sollum, but it was expected that the next real stand by the British would be made lat Mersa Matruh, the railhead east [of Sidi Barrani. This would be the same tactics employed at the time otf Marshal Rudolfo Graziani’s ade vance into Egypt.

‘Hitler’ Division Thrown Back

In both Greece and Jugoslavia—e despite Axis claims—there was evie

He will likely refuse t0|g4ence that the swift pace of the

| Nazi attack had been slowed, pose I sibly only temporarily. | The London war office reported that Britain's Expeditionary Corps

Charles F. Piel, pioneer starch|Mr. Piel was chairman of the com-

manufacturer and well known In- Ppany’s board of directors, was dianapolis business man, died out | QroSident of the William F Pig} Sr,

. | Estate, Inc, was a director of the night in his home, 3266 N. Meridian } : St, following a Indiana Trust Co. and was vice

| president of Kipp Bros. Co. The long illness. He gopon company was sold to the

was 85. National Starch Products Co. Inc. A lifelong resi- | i * 00D.

dent of Indian- 3 apolis, Mr. Piel| He was a lifelong member of the

5 | Lutheran Church and was a charva gn bust. | ter member and founder of the ness of starch English Lutheran Church of Our processing | Redeemer. He was deeply interHe was associ-| Sted in all Lutheran activities. ated with his| Mr. Piel married Miss Helene father William | Straub, July 1, 1880. They celeF. Piel Sr. and brated their 60th wedding anni-| . : versary last year. |

to the President. The littie boy also brought his violin. In her excitement, Mrs. Kulikowski sat on the violin bow and broke it. She burst into tears. Col. Starling found a string and patiently spliced the bow. Teddy, presented to the President, dropped on one knee and kissed the President's hand. He then stood up and sang and played “God Bless America.”

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Something in the nature of a] miracle protected him from injury as brakes of cars in three lanes screeched, and cars dodged out of |

| Joseph Riordan, 26, and Charles [ McGale, 42, broke from the Sing | Sing hospital shortly after 1.a. m. | (Indianapolis time), and fled to the | wooded, rocky west side of the Hud- | son River in a fisherman's boat aft er killing a guard and a patrolman. [ The guard was John Hartye and the patrolman, James Fagan. | A third convict, John Waters, 30, believed to be the leader, was killed [by the patrolman friend of the slain policeman, and a fourth, Mc- | Govern Miller, 35, a patient in the | hospital, died of a heart attack | which Warden Lewis E. Lawes said | was brought on by excitement. Riordan and McGale forced | Charles Rohr to row them across » the river. Armed with .38-caliber revolvers, they scaled the rocky shore and sought sanctuary in the

War Moves Today

“Adolf Hitler” division of crack SS troops on the northern Greek front. his way. But when he entered the| < The four A last lane he was struck By J. W. T. MASON was by a car. : g United Press War Expert Ry ni NS he WES 7 ried to The new Russo-Japanaese neutrality treaty = y Hospital, where as aiscov- represents the first break in the Triple Alliance ered that he had no mark of inden-| Hitler doubtless knew in advance that Japan in THUNDERSHOWERS IN tification on him. Sergt. Albert | tended to take this way of escape from the full SIGHT FOR TONIGHT Magenheimer of the Poiice Depart-| commitments of the Triplice, but he could do noth- ! ment reasoned that he was a pupil ing to change the determination of the Tokyo Gov- LOCAL TEMPERATURES at the Benjamin Harrison School, | : ernment. 55. 10am. 700 N. Delaware St., and while the] Mr. Mason Stalin now can point his gun at the Fuehrer o am. physicians worked over the boy, without fearing a stab in the back. Hitler does not m 12 (noon) the officer set out to identify him. know when or whether the gun will go off but he must hold 1000000 ¢ . mn 1p. m. 81 : Not until after 10 a. m. tW0| men in readiness and he may be expected to become more cautious a— his brothers in| "g. .vivore besides his wife are two hours after the accident, did the| about further exciting the bear. Under the terms of the Triple Alliance,| Thundershowers, the voice of the first company | snc carl W, and Herbert C. Piel; |boy rouse himself from unconscious- japan was pledged to help Ger-|~— ~~ warm weather, are scheduled for | SStablished bh Jet. dr. J55, twin daughters, Mrs. Walter Sug- (ness Ro elt hits je, Lege El | many if attacked % Rusia Du agreement with Japan was being Inanapolis onignt 2d Jomorsol woods of Palisades 'S | : was 'brock and Mrs. Harry Brinkmeyer; lott. e school was checked, and Germany was exempted from simi- |. ali ie las the pleasant, : 5eason = 8 near Rockland Se winlate Park | National Starch Co. He was affili-| 5 sister, Mrs. Frank H. Sudbrock. | his address obtained. But police |lar helping Japan because of a|loFlated, Rahn Wade public hig able, weather continues. They will, State and municipal police mobil | FPS with that company until 1902. two grandchildren, Carl W. Piel Jr. found that he no longer lived there. existing German-Russian non-ag- Criti€ism o ungary's invasion of however, bring a drop in tempera= ized quickly after the break. most Mr. Piel and his two brothers, and Mrs. Frank Hegeman, and a He and his mother had moved. gression pact. Japanese public Jugoslavia. In telling Hungary she ture Radio s sensational since Mr. Lawe ™ Henry W. and William F. Piel Jr, | great-grandchild, Frank Hegeman| Eventually police found Mrs. opinion has so resented this lack of might be “torn to bits,” Stalin was Yesterday (he average lemperas Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Hite warden of Si si awes €= both now dead, organized an inde- jr Vivian Elliott, at 511 N. Illinois St., reciprocity as to weaken the Konoye inferentially warni Germany. be ture was 74, which was 23 degrees Serial Story.. 15 ~ hed to ti FL Sing ong in 1920, pendent starch company known as | Funeral services conducted by the and she hurried to the hospital. | Government. Matsuoka now has nvly arning 4 7 PF" above the normal for the day. The Side Glances. 10]|TUsaed to ihe west side of the rived the piel Bros. Starch Co. He was | Rev, William H. Eifert of the Eng-| There she found her son once more redressed the balance by leaving ing strengthened in this position by highest temperature was 86 at Society ....11,12 0 pursus, |active in this company until five| ish Lutheran Church of Our Re- roused from coma, and physicians, Germany without an ally in Rus- the removal of Japan as Germany's|2 p. m. Throngs of persons took 9 Sports «sass 6.7) Two bloodhounds from the Haw- years ago when he retired because deemer, will be held at 2 p. m. told her he had received a head | sia’s rear if Stalin decides to enter confederate. advantage of the almost pertect ‘State Deaths. 15 thorne State Police barracks picked of illness. | Wednesday in the home. Burial injury and that his condition isthe European war. Russia still has a restraining in-| day to join Easter parades and to Stokes sessess 10} (Continued on Page Five) At the time Mt his retirement, 'will be in Crown Hill, A regarded as serious. | It is significant hat as the (Continued on Page Five) motor into the country. & ! k .

battle occurred Friday, it revealed, apparently in the (Continued on Page Five)

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