Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1941 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
FORECAST: Fair
today; partly cloudy, show
ers and thunderstorms tomorrow.
FINAL HOME
PRICE THREE CENTS
VOLUME
Morgenthau Calls For $3,444,000,000
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100.000 BOMBS RAIN ON LON
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1941
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HAS SCHRICKER !t Was o Fine Spring Day NEW SOURGES
EYE ON SENATE SEAT IN 19447
Question Way Be Decided As Governor and VanNuys Chat This Week-End.
By VERN BOXELL Schri getting
United States Sen-
Is rea at
Governor to run for
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Future Plans Uncertain Pavi ng his first more than a veal ator VanNuys probably will be asked about his future plans in conferences with the Governor and other party leaders in connection with the Democratic Edrial Association spring pow-wow the Claypool Saturday Duri ng his' 1938 campaign, Mr Ve anNuys said he would not seek the office again and recent Washmgton reports say ill health will It in his retirement. By virtue of separate victories over the McHale-McNutt-Townsend machine, Governor Schricker and Senator VanNuvs have moved to op in of the Hoosier are bound
to Indiana in
rest
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ingeti
control They Against a common foe iecisions they reach will import bearing nn the 1944 campaigns Watleh Editors’ Attitude tude of the editors also watched closely “We're Governor” has been their slogan for the sesthey are reported to be resolution giving the a strong indorse-
organization. 1° aha hax
1942
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The atti
ail with adopted sion and drafting a chief executive ment. The 1942 campaign ball will start rolling with this session, with emphasis on regaining some of the congressional seats and staie offices lost in the 1940 Republican triumph. Of most immediate interest is the program to be drafted by the ediin support of Governor chricker’s court fight against RePublican legislation {0 take over tate House patronage
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Record Crowd Expected A record crowd party workers expected 10 Mr. Schricker attack the program of the G. O. P.controlled assembly at a dinner Saturdas One of his chief targets. it reported, will be the “economy” of which the Republicanz have boasted. Democratic legislators insisted that the estimated S53000000 savings were in paper cuts, not actual” and Mr Schricker is expected to cite figures in proof of these claims. He also is expected to outline his efforts to reach a compromise with G. O. P. legislators on the “‘decentralization” program and their re(Continued on Page Five)
NAVY GIVING BRITISH MATERIAL, KNOX SAYS
TON, April 17 (U. P) of the Navy Frank told a Senate investigating today that the Navy “almost daily” is giving Great Britain war material from supplies now on hand. He did not reveal the nature of the equipment. Testifying before the Committee investigating tional defense program, aid that acs of April 14, the Navy had received £128963.000 as its initial share In the 327.000.000.000 lendlease appropriation bill, and had renuested additional £272.422 000 allocation This monev presumahl used to replace equipment the Rritish
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will sent
Everyone in In-
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safely today, at mid-
dianapolis drives
night this city will have completed
34 DAYS
Without a Fatal Accident
LOSE A MINUTE— SAVE A LIFE!
Butch and Buddy
« Wet and Scratched
Butch & Buddy Expedition Blazes a Trail to Lick Creek
The Butch & Buddy University Heights iazer of the party, 1 aorti. after 1 m Serogham. toddled awav
ment in vest
p pe world on a dav Accompanying iamithful dog. Buddy. It 3:15 pedition was found in orchard back of the Rosedale Dairy, 1941 E. Hahna Ave. safe and sound except for wear, Little Butch was watching some cows drinking from Lick Creek and Buddy was investigating the possibilities of an old bone. In the meantime. Sheriff's deputies and State Police were combing the whole southeastern end county and Mrs. Robert Scrogham, Philip's mother, was nearly frantic
him was his
was n. m. when
the
of the
Unprepared For Rain The two explorers had set off interior Mrs. Scrogham back turned for a moment
to put
into the when had her She went into the house preparatory
ne to getiing
the ex-
clothes away, Little Butch his lunch, and pedition suddenly departed Evidently nobody had much confidence in Little Butch's trail-blaz-ing ability, possibly because he's only 2 vears old and never been bevond the backvard before. There was quite a search and all the schoolchildren in the township were ready to join when the expedition was sighted. The two-mile trek between Little Butch’'s home at R. R. 8, Box 416 and Lick Creek was eventful enough But just as the party penetrated the orchard, a thunderstorm broke and the leader of the expedition began to cry.
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Glass of Milk Helps
His wails were heard by Mrs. F M. Beghtel, of the Rosedais Dairy, who sent William A. Downey a driver, to investigate, Outside of being a little wet and scratched, the expedition was intact and Little Butch received a glass of sweet milk He was still drinking milk when Mus. Scrogham came for him at Fred Koehrn's Grocery, where he was identified. And thus ended the When last heard from, explorer had set sail for land of Winken, Blinken Rut Mrs. Serogham isn't this time
U.S. FARMERS TO GET 630 MILLION IN AID
Parity Payments Will Be Same as Last Year.
WASHINGTON, April 17 (U, P) -—~The Ariculture Department todav announced that and parity payments to farmers this year will be almost exactly the same as last year. The payments are wheat, corn, rice and tobacco—the five basic agricultural commodities —and will total approximately $650,000,000 in Government aid. The conservation payments
owner
expedition the young the strange and Nod worried
conservation
soil
on
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wheat will be reduced from 8.1 cents
to 8 cents a bushel, with the parity payments remaining at 10 cents Corn conservation pavments 2 cents a bushel and parity pavments of 5 cent:
changed,
of
forgoi when Little Ruteh, from trek of exploration and adventure
cotton, |
a bushel will remain un- |
Expedition to Lick Creek caused some exciteeraay,
Little Butch,
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- 5 YOUNG PEOPLE KILLED IN CRASH
Multiple Tragedy Occurs as Auto Hits Truck Near New Castle.
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Times Special NEW CASTLE, Ind. Four young persons were killed instantly and a fifth died early today in the Henry County Hospital here after the car in which they were riding crashed into the rear of a ruck on State Road 38, six miles east of here late last night. The dead were Marjorie Allen, 19: Mary Brown, 23; Robert Johnson, 20; Irene Troth, 23, all of Hagerstown, and Wilbur Williams, 23. Tipton Miss Troth died at 2 nearly four nours after occurred According to William Pickering, the truck, which was driven by J. C. LaRue of Springfield, Mo., had stopped on the road and then started up when the crash occurred. The five victims, en route home from here, apparently did not see the truck, he said. Miss Allen was driving the automobile, State Police said. The truck driver was cut on the chin and received chest bruises.
Girl. 9. Injured On Westbrook Ave.
lunning
April 17, -
a. m. today, the accident
State Policeman
into the path of an
automobile her home day, 9-) 1003 S
mjuries
near ear-old Auburn and
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Bernice Branam,
St., received head
was reported in a
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OUGHT, OLD
Secretary Suggests Raising Two-Thirds of 19 Billion U. S. Costs in 1942.
WASHINGTON, April 17 (U.P).| —Secretary of Treasury Henry | Morgenthau today submitted to Congressional majority and minor-| ity leaders a program providing for the levying of $3.444,000,000 in new taxes. This largest fax program in American history was recommended by Mr. Morgenthau at a Treasury conference with the Congressional fiscal leaders. | He said afterward that the lead-| ers’ reaction was unanimously fa- | vorable. The conference was a prelude to drafting of new legislation, which will increase taxes tremendously to help pay for armaments. {
Many Now Exempt to Pay
The new taxes are certain to increase substantially the levies on everyone who now pays taxes, and affect many who now are exempt. While Treasury recommendations * means of raising the huge new revenue were not disclosed, these proposals have been most frequentlv discussed among Congressmen: Increasing the normal individual income tax rate from 4 to 6 or 8 per cent, Lowering the present exemptions of $2000 for married persons and £800 for single persons Imposing a direct levy on salaries and wages in excess of a given sum as $40 a week Raising the corporation income tax from the present maximum of 24 per cent to 30 per cent,
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such
Expenditures to Grow
Imposing a manufacturers’ excise * sales tax on many types of goods. Mr. Morgenthau estimated that Federal expenditures during the 1942 fiscal year, beginning this July, would amount to $19.000,000,000, He proposed that two-thirds of this be raised by taxation—new and and a third by borrowing. He estimated revenue from pres-| ent taxes for the coming fiscal year $9,223,000.000, leaving a balance of $3.444.000,000 to be raised in new taxation I'his program, Mr. Morgenthau told newspaper men after the conference, has the approval of President Roosevelt, who will have “something to say about it to the American people at a time and place of his own choosing.’ ”
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HINT LEWIS’ OUSTER AS HOGKEY MANAGER
Goodfellow to Get Post, Detroit News Says. |
Herbie Lewis, who has served for two years as manager of the Indianapolis hockey team, may be replaced next year by Ebbie Goodfellow of the Detroit Red Wings, according to the Detroit News. “The move is not official yet,” the News said, "and .ome future de-! velopment may prevent it from becoming reality, but it is no secret that the Wings’ general staff is not satisfieq with the development of players at Indianapolis.” The Detroit management operates the Indianapélis Capitals as a farm team and during the two years of hockey here has depended on the Indianapolis club chiefly for its re-
critical condition in the City Hos- placements and rookies
pital today The accident happened 1000 hlock Westbhronk Ave the ear which struck the girl driven hy Betty Patterson, 190. 2301 Camplin St
in the
was
20th Indianapolis Home Show, Dedicated To Better Living, Opens Tomorrow Evening
1941 20th
The Show,
Indianapolis in a
Home series dedicated
of winners
|
to better Hoosier living, will open |
tomorrow at 6 p. m. with all the festivities of a Hollywood premier. This year, as last, three homes so complete you could move right in, form the centerpiece around which 10 local garden clubs have built their gardens. The trio of homes represent what can be built in Indianapolis in three price ranges—$10,000 or $7000 or If the show is accepted by Indianapolis as it has been for two decades, some 100,000 persons from all over the state will have filed through the home models and paused to look at the exhibits by the time the demolition crew moves. in April 28 Managing Director J. Frank Cantwell, alwavs the optimist, predicts that the show will open promptly tomorrow at 6 o'clock all finished, |
$4000, |
| Show | from
There is the feeling, according to the News, that Lewis. who was a
Police said Wing for 11 years and a teammate
of Goodfellow on the Stanley Cup of 1936 and 1937, regards (Continued on Page 14-A)
A special section of The Indianapolis Times today devoted to Home Show news. Pages |-A to |2-A.
even though some booths haven't | even been begun yet and workmen still are banging away on the model homes. ; For the formal ceremonies, the | officers and directors of the Home with their wives will march the Manufacturers’ Building entrance to the east end of the pit where Mrs. Harold Hayes, president of the Garden Clubs of Indianapolis, wili cut a ribbon. Then the group will move to the pit’s center where Mavor Reginald H. Sullivan is to welcome them After an official inspection of the
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| Gullie,
jon
| looking around for
fapolis, a charter member of the big
| gardens by this group,
| Show
Entered as Second-Class
In New
Rivals in Opener
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BRITISH CHECK GERMAN TANKS NEAR OLYMPUS
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Greek Center in Danger; Nazi Drive in Egypt Stalemated.
By JOE
United Press
ALEX MORRIS Foreign News Editor Imperial {roops back heavy German tank assaults near Mt. Olympus, Athens reported today, but in the center of the Greek defense lines the Nazis pressed a furious-—and still undecided-—battle for control of key lines, While Britons were digging out of the ruins left by of the war on for revenge bombing of Berlin, the British forces in Greece and North Africa were locked ,in battles that may . decide control of Mediterranean area. | In Greece, Germans reported that {they had captured the town of Servia and this apparently was confirmed by British sources in Athens where it was said that troops fighting at the entrance to the Sarandaporon Pass, west of Mt. Olympus, had thrown back repeated German attacks and that the entire | British line was intact after heavy battling, Heavy casualties were said to have been inflicted on the Germans at Sarandaporon and also near Katerine, 15 miles north of Mt. Olympus, where the British said they The Royal Luftwafle aerial
Bill Killefer
TRIBE, BREWERS TO PLAY AT 2:30
Killefer Brothers, Wade and Bill, Confident of Victory.
INDIANS RBlackbhurn, of Zientara, 2b Galatzer, 1b Brack, If Scott, rf Aleno, 3h Ambler, ss
British
BREWERS Lary, ss Peck, rf Walls, 2b 1h Moser, of Galle, 3b Stencel, If Garbark, c¢ Pasek, ¢ Blaeholder, p Starr, p Umpires—Johnson and Curtis. Time—2:30.
(Another story, Pictures, Page 14-A)
By EDDIE ASH With both clubs in fine fettle and geared to go all-out in that old determination and fight, the Indianapolis Indians and Milwaukee heavy Brewers are keyed to the traditional fields, : high pitch for the American As- But on the central front — about sociation baseball opener at spacious 70 miles deep in Greece—the Greeks Perry Stadium this afternoon admitted that a great battle was After more than a month spent in raging in the vicinity of Grevena building up for the momentous oc- and Kalabaka, which is at the end casion, both teams said they were of a railroad leading south. razor edge for the ordeal and, Indications that the Greeks had unlike football coaches, both mana- suffered reverses were given by {gers predicted victory instead of Athens newspaper Ethnos an alibi in the said that | event, of a defeat. cided but that it's the league's 40th campaign ail hope for and down through the years the situation’ Hoosier Redkins have won four That, indirect admission of set- | pennants and the Brewers three. backs seemed to indicate that there But in baseball it's customary to was danger that the Germans would throw out the past and begin anew break through or had broken with brand new hopes. through the center of the line, 2:30 Is Game Time which might open the road to the And so it's “play ball” in Indian- | (Continded « on Page Five)
MORE SHOWERS FOR CITY ARE FORECAST
Incendiarism Is Hinted State Forest Fires.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6 a. m. 10 a, m. a. m. 11 a. m. a. m, 12 (Noon) a. m, 1 p. m.
Air were blows over
trading battle-
reported the
“one cannot,
amelioriation of the
minor league and the winner of the circuit's first championship in 1902. Game time today was set at 2:30 and two veteran righthanders are to toe the rubber, Ray Starr for In- | (Continued on Page Five)
WILLKIE TO VISIT RUSHVILLE FARMS
NEW YORK, April 17 (U, P). Wendell LL, Willkie leaves fol Rush- | ville, Ind., next week to rest and] 3 inspect his farms before taking up ‘ private law practice here May 1. 8 The 1940 Republican Presidential 9 nominee announced yesterday that he would succeed Nathan IL. Miller, former Governor of New York, as senior member of the firm of Miller, Owens, Otis and Bailly. The firm will become Willkie, Owen Otis and Bailly,
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April was as “well as could be expected today, running a normal temperature and preparing to get a little hysterical tomorrow with showers and thunderstorms. Today, the Weather Bureau said, will be fair and there will not he |much change in temperature tonight |or tomorrow, The showers of yesterday and the day before helped lawns land newly-planted gardens helped farms a little. But more rain is needed. Meanwhile, the State Conservation Department said that dence of incendiarism had been dis(covered in the ashes of several for-
much
the model hemes will be officially opened.
Mrs. Robert Mason, wife of the est fires and that police are investi- | watch from the
knock gating. A 24-hour fire towers still is maintained.
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
Home Show president, will at the door of “The 1941 Home" | which will be opened by Architect | Leslie Ayres and S. E. Arvin, the builder. Mrs. Thomas Black, wife of one lof the Show's vice presidents, will be admitted to “The Homcinakers | Home” by Charles D. Ward, 1s architect, and the builders, William Clapper ..... 13 L. Bridges and A. H. M. Graves. Comics .... 19-A At the “All-American Four-Star Crossword.. 17-A Home” Edward Pierre, architect, Editorials 14 and Mrs. Thelma D. Schaffner, Financial 18 the builder, will welcome Mrs. Dan Flynn 14 C. Hess, wife of another Home Forum ..... 14 vice president. WIBC will Home Show Sec. 3 broadcast the ceremonies from In Indpls..... 3 6 to 6:15 p. m. Inside Indpls. 13 Society ....16.17 The 20th annval home complete | Jane Jordan... 17 Sports 14-A, 15-A | | exposition then will be on. ‘Johnson sees 141 State Deaths, 12
Movies Mrs. Ferguson 14 Obituaries ... 12 Pyle ‘ievveve’ld Questions .... 13 Radio ...... 16-A Mrs. Roosevelt, 13 Serial Story 19-A Side Glances. 14
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WORST RAID IN HISTORY: BOMB BERLIN — RDER T00!" IS CRY
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tis Parts of City Resemble Coventry? Lord and Lady Stamp Among Dead: ‘Repeat’ Tonight Expected.
By NED RUSSELL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April 17.—Londoners came up fighting mad today after the heaviest Nazi air attack of the war and ‘chalked on the walls of their shattered buildings furious des mands to “Bomb Berlin tonight , { . Show them We can murs \der, too.” Never had London been pounded as hard as in the ate tack which opened at mid-evening last night and continued |its crashing course until the early hours before dawn today,
(The German official news agency in Berlin announced that 100,000 bombs had been dropped on London, Berlin newspapers said that the attack was the biggest air raid of all time.) Revenge Demands Are Everywhere | The toll of lives and property was great, and it was reflected in anger today as fires were dampened down and exhausted emergency crews searched in the mounds of debris for the trapped, wounded and dead. Everywhere in the great British metropolis today could be seen crude scrawls chalked on the sidewalks and on the walls of buildings that had been made hollow shells by Nazi bombs, The legends repeated with endless variations a single theme: “Bomb Berlin, ,. Bomb Berlin , ¢ » Bomb Berlin,® Tens of thousands wandered homeless in search of food and shelter, thousands mourned dead or wounded relatives or dug in ruins in search of them,
| Nothing Like It Before
|
Parts of London looked like the ruined parts of cities whose names have become synonymous with German blitz« ‘krieg fury, Plymouth, Manchester, Birmingham, Coventry. It was a raid entirely unlike any London had seen he« fore. Great buildings rocked on their foundations from the concussion of gigantic German bombs and the Germans used every type of plane they had to spread death, destruction, or terror, Big as some bombs were, well-informed (Continued on Page Five)
sources said
Thirsty Nazis Drain Tanks
By ROBERT J. CASEY Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News. Ine. CAIRO, April 17.—Officials here have been greatly cheered in the last few days by reports coming in from the African front. Tt appears from this vantage point that Germany's mechanized troops are no longer moving so rapidly in their desert blitz and that the harrying British patrols along the seacoast are causing their thirsty opponents no end of annoyance, If the eternal optimists of the British Army ‘needed any particular heartening they would! m— have it in the appearance, condi-|days in the artificial four of a tank, tion and morale of German prison- | without a drink. ers who are dribbling back through | If these shocked, exhausted Nazis the lines., These fellows seem to are any sample of the troops still demonstrate that mo matter how | maneuvering through the roaring {long you train a superman to sit in|dust, out there, Der Fuehrer's grand |a Turkish bath, so that one day he hegira is nearer its finish than any[will be able to drive a hot tank for one believed. They had not beer the glory of Hitler, in the over- fed for days. They had drunk thick, heated desert, he will still have a rusty water out of their radiators; sort of effeminate tendency to drink their motors had quit, and the walter, | British patrols had come along and Whether or not reports of the taken them without a shot. mechanical acclimatization of Hit-| “It's the dust,” said one who was ler’'s African expedition are true, more or less echoed hv all the rest; they have been widely circulated| “and heat and dryness, bui mostly hereabouts. So it comes as some-|the dust—you can't ser anything.” thing of a shock to see how a desi-| It was probably dust rather than cated superman looks after two) (Continued on Page Five)
War Moves Today
By J. T. MASON United Press War Expert
te eee well)
The British Mediterranean Fleet has now Ie= sumed successful operations to lock the entrance door into North Africa against German reinforcement of troops and supplies. In sinking a full enemy convoy of five loaded merchantmen and thres destroyers, the British undoubtedly have given Ber= lin cause for uneasiness regarding the eventual fate Mr. of the Axis forces in Libya. Hitler's propaganda office is claiming that the British Expeditionary Force in Greece is trapped, But strengthening of British naval action off Tripoli gives more reason for believing that the Germans, themselves, are in danger of a trap in North Africa. Should the German offensive in ge Greece become successful because of British command of the Mediterranean will allow an open road of overseas retirement to Egypt. If, however, the Germans and their Fascist allies in Libya are compelled to fall back, a real trap awaits them because their homeward route by sea crosses the resiimed patrol area of the British Fleet, Full resumption of the
Mason
Fleei's action in the Middle Medi= terranean, however, probably is not yet feasible. As long as un- | certainty exists regarding the outs |come of the fighting in Greece and the eventual movements of the Anglo-Greek forces there, it would seem essential for a considerable part, of the British Fleet to remain in readiness for any eventuality im the Fastern Mediterranean, Once the Greek issue is dscided (Continued on Page Five)
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