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SCRIPPS ~ HOWARD VOLUME 533—NUMBER 30

‘Army May Have To Defend U.S. Outside America’

TUESDAY, APRIL

15, 1941

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«20 HOPKINS TO DIRECT LEND-LEASE WORK

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WASHINGTON. April 15 President Roosevelt orally j his ri na an, Harry L. Hopkins. in command of the progra aid fio

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lend-lease m of democracies In a letter t Secretary of the Treasury’ Henry Morgenthau Jr Mr. Roosevelt terminated the liason ommittee established Dec. 6. 193°, 1 pul

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JERSEY CITY. N. J., April 15 (U P.).—Capt William WwW master of the American Export Liner Excambion, said todav that a Financial ship he believed to be a German Fly armed raider stopped the ExcamForum i M 0n it13 kion 600 wiles out of Lishon ] Serial St 21 April 7

nn 1 Homemaking ri In Indp! The Excambicn docked here toInside Indpl day with 189 passengers. including Jane Jodan ] ort ¢ 75 American citizens. from Lisbon Johnson De and Bermuda The ship left Lisbon April 5 days later, Capt. Kuhne said

Two was

“w we it “Love Power,” The Times new

daily serial. hegins today on Page 21.

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and then ordered to The Excambion was not

minutes proceed.

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STOPPED U. S. VESSEL |

stopped by an armed vessel. delaved |

OUTPUTINUS. TOPS 17 SPEED,

'PROBERS TOLD

War Secretary 1st Witness In National Defense Investigation.

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WASHINGTON, Am 15 War Secretary Henry L today that the United Army and Navy must be prepared to fight any part North, South Centa America, ‘or possibly other regions” where it be necessary to use them in defense cf this country and it Mr. Stimson's statement was made at the opening meeting of the Spe cial Senate Committee in tigat ing National Defense He did not elaborate 161 regions reference the training American

for the possibilitie

Sala 1 States \ of

th n he i {it

on al even

may S possessions.

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to Necessity

varied terrai {nat

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during W

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and warning faces an than it did However, encouraging situation, gent advance planning’ Department collaboration American inaustry.

orld War da there .

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in in

Wants 3-Year Preparation

Mr, Germany tensively serted a

preparations

pointed had been war “to plan 1d

Stimson

for sInee that nation shou at years in e Today [acing a there is

advan ne

dangerous

said

emerge evidence

strong

menti which

Congress

11( i demands

action

in against work He emphasized defense nd

stoppage 11 | defense industries the complexity of since the World Wa his pleasure with the way } coped with them

nrobhle expressed the arm)

as Lil

Production Above 1917

He told the committee that i dustry has raised production of wx materials to a point where it is running eight to 12 months ahead wartime levels of 1917-18. Ini phases of tl War Departm rod n responsibility have ompleted and

1IClio this summer forces be “well fully equi

Will on thelr

pped.” he soldier will lack weapons sufficient to carry i ing well ahead and equipment will be coming steadily and in substantial quantites,” he said. “From this point ward, the chief responsibility {or speedy completion of the will rest upon American “With the magnitude and the speed and which it was performed. 1t ahle that some mistakes made. But, when work cf tl committee is completed. I am con(Continued On Page 12)

BUDGET COMMITTEE REJECTS PAY RAISES

The State Budget Committee ha rejected a proposed salary schedule which would have added pay increases for most of the State |Health Board employees, it learned today The salary schedule was drawn up by the State Bureau of Personnel in accordance with the Merit which went into effect Health Board last fall. C. Anderson Ketchum get director, said the proposed schedule was rejected because the salaries suggested were “out of line” with the pay received bv State employees in similar positions in othe: departments

he basi trainheaviel forward

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forthe cquipment Inaustry

of the task under mevit-

Pressure 1s Nay neen

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SENATE O. K.’s NAVY BOOST WASHINGTON. April 15 (U P) The Senate todav unanimousls passed legislation authorizing an increase of approximately 100.000 men in the enlisted strength of Navy and sent the measure White House

7000 A

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to the

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Indiana's growing crops rious damage unless soon and In large break the usually weather, farmers said today Already the drought has left mark on the State forests. More than 7000 acres of some of the State's best forest land have been devastated this week bv fires which were made possible bv the unbroken dry weather A new peak day when 25

face se-| rains come | quantities to] dary spring

vot

reached erboth large and

n as fires.

small, broke out

All of them had

been brought

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6. 0. P. STARTS DIVIDING JOBS

Marion County May Get

800 if Ripper Bills Are Upheld.

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upon

Supreme Whe 1 e Henry F

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the dis-

placed each precinct ioh reportedly

the ward chair-

> One to hand apof recent meeting the jobs probably brackets

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lower

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will be salary which organization leader: Sala important appoint - number out,

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to preiex

positions ment: the aller jobs pointed

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COMPLETE BIDS ON 4 MILES OF ROAD 40

of sm 1S

W. D. Vogel of Indianapolis Is Apparently Low.

D. Vogel. Indianapolis submitted

$272,912

William

contractor, today the ap-

bid of for

parent low con-

struction of nearly four miles of

dual-lane highway on Road 40 from Plainfield Paving of when completed, will make Road 40 multiple Iiane highway between here and Terre Haute The Grace Construction Wayne, submitted a low for paving a half hichwav from Madison

to Bridgeport

this stretch of road

Co bid of of

Pt 263. - dualAve Inbring

pave-

mile Southern Ave, at th dianapolis outskirts. This will the nine miles dual ment Road 31 from Greenwood north to the Indianapolis city limits

285 ane e

south on

new of on

Forest La By Fire as Drought Perils State Crops

TODAY'S TEMPERATURES 62 10 a. m, 63 11 a. m. 65 12 (noon) 68 1p. m.

a. .

a. a. a

bv early todav, but were reported near Morgantown and the conditions "are just right for more. Consetvation Department officials said More fires are likely farmers quit burning off their pas-

under control two new ones

unless

tures and motorists stop throwing rainfall, or much less than half of |

cigarettes on the roadsides |

crowds the photo, passed by a German censor

| ters

| sight,

salute German motorevele capital of the “Free Croat State” . was radioed from Berlin today,

Premier Insists

Egypt Is Safe CAIRO, Egypt, April 15 Premier ussein Siri

satisfied

U.P) Pasha

state-

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ment joint ses-

ret EgVvpt rman-Italian desert

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aie ne arive frontier vesterday and 311 - the Middle

Government

Javell ommande conferred am Athen addressed n an confidence aftel foreign

situation

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military

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It war

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SEEK FULL SAFETY E

Fund Drive Started Today By C. of C. Traffic Division. I'he

ner oO

Safety Division of the Cham-

f Commerce today launched a

fund-raising campaign tp support

a vear-round safety

National

program

J J

Sal:

un-

der a ty Council

charte: to }

Division money

The enough

hope aise fullPlans Co-

to finance expert and staff drive were laid at a lumbia Club luncheon vesterday The expert would City official on trafTic serve

time safety

for the confer with problems and safety matand business he would di-

consultant industrial addition continuous cut down accidents of Chicago. field representative, told the group that a similar or1Zation in Portland, Ore., had traffic fatalities 58 per cent this

as for firms In rect a campaign t and industrial Paul Stricker Safety Council

household

Natinal

gan t

) n veal Portland last traffic death

vear had the highest rate among cities of 250,000 to 500.000, with Indianapolis second highest. Indianapolis. he predicted, duplicate Portland's (Continued On Page 12)

WORKMAN INJURED IN SCAFFOLD FALL

can

scafunder Ave.

feet when new building 3019 Roosevelt 'homas Apple, 49. Ind.. received a posible fractured spine. He was taken to the Methodist Hospital Mr. Apple, a carpenter employed by the A. V. Stackhouse Co. 635 N. Pennsvlvania St had stepped from one scaffold to another when

eight a at

Falling folding on construction broke today, McCordsville

relief Bureau

IS In

re-

immediate Weather

But no the ported The forecast for Indianapolis was “partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and tomorrow and cooler tonight. A low pressure area, which it had been hoped would bring rain to the Ohio River Valley. is going over the Great Lakes region instead. and it is probable that Indiana will only cet light showers tonight Jan. 1, the Indianapolis only had 407 inches of

Since area has

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ALLIES MOVING TO NEW FRONT, ‘DUNKIRK

Axis Reports Jugoslavia Ready to Surrender,

the Hitler,

northern This

Zagreb, today by

entering recognized

4 SLAIN, 8 HURT IN MINE BATTLE

2 Company Officers Among Dead; State Police Rushed to Scene.

MIDDLESBORO

Four men were

wounded earl toda of officials 1G Miners

Rid

ight

group comoany mine

non-union nt ( &

with

guards

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the Fork

MASSE force of picket: Mine Workers (( I. O) in 8&8 mountain pass near the Kentucky-Tennessee state line Fifteen 20 minor injuries requiring treatment Two of those were company officers and third was a Clavborne County, Tenn deputy sheriff. The fourth man was a union picket Governor Keen Johnson in Frankfort, Ky., order>d state police from Harlan and London the vicinit: to prevent recurrence of violence The gun occurred about 2 a m Nn narrow mountain road leading to the company mine near Fork Ridge in Tennessee, a few miles of here.

fought a gun battle a

of the United

suffered firct-aid killed

other men

10 a g fight 0 a soutl Mine Hadn't Closed

when 250 route to the

battle started W. pickets en from Middleshoro intercepted a group of company men as they were returning from the mine after completing arrangements to continue operations today. The Fork Ridge workings has been In continuous operation since the bituminous work stoppage was ordered for union-organized mines by the UMW The dead were identified W. Rhodes. 45. Middleshoro, president and general manager of the company; BE. W. Silvers, 48, Fork Ridge, vice president and treasurer of the concern; Bob Robinson, 35, Caliwell, Tenn., Clayborne County Deputy Sheriff and former sergeant in the Tennessee State Police, and Sam Evans, 40, Middlesboro, a member of the United Mire WorkGC. 1. 0O.).

GEORGE TOMLINSON DIES IN PITTSBURGH

State Insurance Auditor Victim of Heart Attack.

Tomlinson, auditor State Insurance partment, died last night a heart attack in Pittsburgh, Pa. while riding in a car with his wife, He was 62 Mr. Tomlinson had been | friends in Pittsburgh and his way to McKeesport, Pa. ! A lifelong resident of Indian- | apolis, he was employed for a time by the State WPA offices. He lived at 330 N. Drexel Ave Survivors besides his wife are three sons, George E. Tomlinson, operator of the Photocraft Studios here; Harry G. Tomlinson of Terre Haute, and Richard H. Tomlinson of New York

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HAITI ELECTS PRESIDENT PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti. April (U. P.).—Congress, sitting as a legislative assembly, todav elected Senator Elie Lescot, Haitian Minister to Washington, President of Haiti for a five-year term The vote was 56 to 2. Lescot will suecceed President Stenio Vincent, who has been in office since 1930.

’

Claims Premier Fleeing to Russia: [talian General Captured.

TODAY'S WAR

[tals

FRONT

The Truth Ahout

Today War Move:

Eve-Witnes Story of Greek Retreat

Knox Supports Right to Strike

William Phitip Simm

Jugoslav War Aims JOE

Press

ALEX MORRIS Editor

{United Foreign News

Germany's armed f

Allied de-

n Greece today, blasted British and Greek troops

‘orces crumpled the first fense line i back toward the foot of fabled Mt. Olympus and sent squadthe Athens area to

Piraeus.

after squadron of airplanes ove

ron bomb transports in the port of veteran end

Two of Hitler's mechanized columns, paced hy | :

SS troops stabbed with lightning speed into each of

the first defense line running across northern Greece, sliced through British north of Mt. Olympus and cut (G0)

motorized columns south of Florina and city the

were In a extended

that coastal threaten lines troops AX 00

tanks,

1 . I'oops al a huge wedge extending rr osttion: to

German British ualties

miles from the Jugoslav bor-

heavy

Tobruk, de~

inflicted

der to the Aliakmon River m!., on Hirces. at

and eported.

took ibout prisoners;

(s1eece, Ac

consolidate

trovecd 15 was 1 ian

(Gireecks s( x mc line columns

sh on

the Brita 1nd then German utting up d and reported the Kozane fan im-

to 50( Axis Propaganda Pushed

of TWi

defense tl

1e the

In Cirn

Ethiopia British captured Ruggero Santini, one of Italy's commanders and colonial adwhich the British Mministrators. It was announced advance base). and ‘hat the 71-year-old general, forme: Governor of Italian Somaliland, had irrendered because he and his men were without food or ammunition. German and Italian propaganda was going full swing to supplement the Mediterranean operations. Rome reported that Gen, Dusan T Simovitch, Jugosiav Premier, was at Athens preparing to go to Moscow. The Berlin press charged that the British were attempting a “treach- " and shameful” withdrawal Greece, although the charges denied formally in London as fantastic” in view of the arrival yf more British troops in the Greek fighting lines.

hegan « the area had capture of both portant, junction had used as an Ptolemais Both British and Greek admitted the retirement of thei forces but said that heavy casualties had been inflicted on the Germans Athens radio repeatedly reported that the situation was favorable and that—contrary to Nazi charges that the British were seeking flee Greece by sea—more and more 3ritish troops were moving into position, There were reports in Berlin asking f an ight end thei fichting against

they encircle

hest

SOUrces

that Jugoslavs or re armistice and soon scattered mountain the Germans On the other side of the Mediterranean the British viewed calmly the advance of Axis forces into Egypt. The Royal Air Force reported that German planes had heen shot in fighting Tobruk Axis mechanized forces their ldrive into Egypt, that the British

Battle of Solum Continues

CASEY I'he Indianapolis and The Chlcagn Daily News Ine Fighting is poing on ahout Solum on the [talo-German attack on Tobruk apparently has

the were

Two Nazi Columns Used

Neither British nor German made clear the extent fighting in connection with the break-through in Greece but Rritish and Greeks apparently ittemptin stabilize their (Continued On Page 12)

reof Nazi the were

de-

NOte 22 down near which the circled in and said

£10

ROBERT J Copyright, 1941, by Times CAIRO, April still Egyptian border heen broken up What, with the quick

I'he

units, it is impossible to even on the fringe of the trouble, how big this fight in Africa actually is—whether or not it will stabilize. From the length of time that it has heen going on—more than 48 hours—and from the apparent immobility of its center, it seems a safe that this is not just a mere skirmish between outriders and patrols. Considerable forces seem involved British reports state that the attackers been made to take heavy losses. which might be taken to indicate a serious intent to do hattle. This 1s substantiated in part by Royal Air Force reports of activity in the same sector. Baldly the communique of the smashup of the tanks and motor vehicles preparing an attack on I'obruk and repeated road hombings But from these bald announcement not difficult to picture the part the air defense 1s taking in British strategy From German and Italian broad-

War Moves Today

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

With the Anglo-Greek line being pushed back toward central Greece, realistic strategy now requires that the Athens Government consider whether to surrender, if the last extremity is reached, oi to retire to North Africa and continue the struggle there, German reports that empty transports are in Greek harbors may mean that the Greeks already have planned a retirement across the Mediterranean, should the worse happen at home. The present position of the Anglo-Greek forces mav be likened somewhat to a minia=ture reproduction of the conditions facing the British and French dure ing the German offensive in the West last spring. The Greek mouns= tains represent the French Maginot Line, while the German penetration of the Jugoslav passes is not dissimilar from the German thrust across the Meuse, west of Sedan which gave Hitler his initial control of the military situation, The campaign in northern France|

shifting of mechanized

say.

guess

cathers that Hitler's Libyan air force has not been doing so well. You are beginning to hear more of the Australian squadron which shot down 22 visiting planes in one day's performance. Casualty reports seem to indicate the continuing superiority of the British air forces. It is estimated that per cent the South African air force, operating in Ethiopia, may be safedetached for service elsewhere— to wit, Libya, And that is all very encouraging.

eoyits ’ have casts, one

tells

of 75 of it 18

lv l

Mr. Mason

was based on powerful pressure against the east and west wings of the Allies, while the Allied center held fast. The German purpose was to develop a semi-encirclement, threatening to squeeze the enemy (Continued On Page 12)