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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 34
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SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1941
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‘LINE UNBROKEN.’ BRITISH CLAIM
Hitler Leads Blitz In Balkans, Claims Mt. Olympus Captured
White Flags Unfurled in Jugoslavia
-6.0.P. LIQUOR
BOARD OPENING
STIRS ANGUISH
Oversight in Stout Law Puts Choice Up to the : Democrats.
By NOBLE REED The question of what Democrat
will appoint a Republican to Mar-
jon County's powerful new liquor boarg is causing a lot of headaches these days And all because of a little oversight by the G. O. P.-controlled Legislature when it passed the Stout Liquor Law which goes into effect May 1. Two members of the board must be Republicans and two Democrats, the law specifies. It's assumed the State Board will name a Republican just to help straighten out the question. Mayor Sullivan is a Demoerat, however, and the County Council and County Commissioners are Democratic-controlled. There's one Republican Commissioner and it is believed the other G. O. P. appointment will be made by this body. But there is nothing binding upon them under the law—and they have the first choice. So the task may fall to the Council The Stout law gives county boards complete control over issuing liguor and beer permits with no appeal to the State Commission as under the old laws, Could Make County Dry By a majority vote, any county liquor board can refuse to issue a tavern permit, thus giving local
boards the power to make. a county
“bone dry” after a period of one year. The power te revoke permits re-
mains solely with the State Com-'
mission under the new law but local boards can refuse to renew permits at their expiration With less than two weeks to organize the board for operation on May 1. County Commissioners haven't decided whether they must appoint a Democrat or a Republican. The Commissioners, two Democrats and one Republican, said they were under the impression that they must name a Republican since Mavor Reginald Sullivan was presumed to be planning to re-apvoint william Sidlinger, Democrat, to the board The other two members of the old liquor board are Lawrence Miller, Democrat, named by the State Beverage Commission, and Raleigh Burke. Democrat, named by County Commissioners Commissioner William Brown, Democrat, said Mr. Burke, a con{Continued on Page Two) AUTO HITS BRIDGE: * TWO CHILDREN DIE VINCENNES, Ind. April 19 (U. Pp.) —Virginia Groves, 5, and Robert Groves, 3, weve killed last night when the car driven by their stepfather, James Raney, 21, Washington, crashed against the side of a bridge on U. S. 41 at Hazleton. The children were thrown from the rear seat of the car to the pavement. Mr. Raney, his wife and another child 1 vear:old. al riding in the front seat, escaped with miner injuries, Mr. Raney told police that a “big black sedan” which failed to stop forced him to swerve his car.
Moves Up
Paul Feltus . , . in line for the presidency of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association.
PARTY EDITORS BACK SCHRICKER
Start Ball Rolling for 1942 Campaign; VanNuys Unable to Attend.
By VERN BOXELL Hoosier Democratic leaders got the 1942 campaign ball rolling today, at the same time renewing their pledge of support to Governor Henry Schricker in his legal fight with the G. O. P. for State House administrative and patronage control. Officials, district leaders and editors from all over the state were on hand for the Democratic Editorial Association spring pow-pow, to be climaxed by a banquet attended by 1500 tonight First disappointment was the announcement that Senator Frederick VanNuys would be unable to attend. He had been expected to head a delegation coming from Washington, Only one resolution was to be presented to the editors at their business session this afternoon. It was to be brief and formal. commending Governor Schricker for kis work in protecting “the future and welfare of the State.” the National Administration and other Hoosiers holding high offices in Washington.
May Answer Criticsim
A busy schedule, beginning with a luncheon at noon and ending with the banquet has been arranged for the newspapermen and their wives. But the main interest centered on the hotel room conferences where
party leaders discusses organization, patronage and the 1942 campaigns. A program for winning back the Congressional seats and state offices (lost in the last two campaigns was started at this session. Governor Schricker is expected to outline some of the issues tonight in his first all-out political speecn since! the recent Legislature, He is expected to describe his efforts te reach an agreement with the G. O. P. legislators on a gov- | ernmental setup and his reasons for going to gpurt against their pro-| gram. He also may answer some
HINT SURTAXES WILL START AT 52000 INCOME
Treasury Suggests Drop From $4000: Discuss 50% Defense Tax.
WASHINGTON, April 19 (U. P).! —Treasury suggestions for the! forthcoming $3,444,000000 tax bill include a plan to begin imposing | surtaxes on individual incomes at $2000, it was learned today. At present, surtaxes begin only at | the $4000 level. Congressional sources acquainted | with the Treasury's proposals, which | will be submtited to the House Ways and Means Committee Monday. did | not know how much of the desired | revenues would be raised in this manner. Meanwhile, discussion of the new | program, largest in American his- | tory, revealed that one increase un- | der consideration might involve | raising the present 10 per cent spe- | cial defense tax to as high as 50 per cent. | Has Been Inadequate | Congress enacted the 10 per cent defense tax last vear in an attempt to raise enough revenue over a five'vear period to amortize a $4.000,000.- | 000 increase in the national debt limit. Since then, however, vastly enlarged defense spending has dwarfed the levy as a revenue | raiser. Advochtes of using the defense! tax as a vehicle for carrying part | of the burden of the new levies! pointed out that it would nearly! carry out Treasury Secretary Henry | Morgenthaus’ ideal of adding pro-| portionately alike to the taxes all | businesses and individuals now pay.! The general treasury plan is to add 25 to 50 per cent to virtually all existing levies. Discuss Excise Levies
Increase of the defense tax to 50 per cent would yield close to $2.-! 000,000,000 of the desired total. Objections to the increase, however, include the fact that it could not be applied to the highest income ! brackets. Experts pointed out that under present law wealthy men who! pay the Government more than 50 per cent of their income do not have to pay the full 10 per cent defense tax required of others. Despite President Roosevelt's opposition to a Federal sales tax— made plain at his press conference yesterday—the possibility of imposing a general manufacturers’ excise tax continued to figure in Congre sional discussion.
U.S. EXPERT URGES
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‘TANK DESTROYERS '"
Also Favors Mine Fields
For Panzer Defense.
WASHINGTON, April 19 (U. P).| --Maj. A. C. Wedemeyer, one of the | Army's foremost students on Ger-| man mechanized warfare, today ad-| vocated swift armored “tank destroyers” as the most effective! weapon against the crushing force! of Nazi Panzer divisions.
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United Press Fo Adolf Hitler's Balkan blit Greece past Mt. Olympus to tl
“As Germany announced capitulation of all Jugoslav armies, this picture was flashed by radio from
Berlin. render.
GERMANS FLEE |
GANADA PRISON
About 30 Dig Cut at Anglia, Ont.. in Largest Breaks Many Recaptured.
OTTAWA, Ontario, Aprit 10 (U.| P.) .—Nearly 30 German war prison- | ers tunneled out of an internment | camp in the wilds of northern On-| tario early today, but a hastily or-| ganized manhunt netted many of the fugitives a few hours later. Authorities, who reported they were on the track of the remainder, | said it was the largest mass escape since the start of the war. Hundreds of soldiers, provincial and mounted police, camp guards. railroad workers and volunteers participated in the search Which | was cent®ed in boulder-strewn bush | country on the shore of Lake Ontarfo near Anglia, Ontario, where) the camp is located. | Reports said five fugitives were recaptured in one batch. four another, and officials said it “only a matter of time” until all of them were rounded up. The fugitives were said to be German airmen captured in England.. They escaped through a 600-foot tunnel | No main roads traverse the re-|
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(companying annual list of names of | {in the United States the fugitives| holders of low
would have to steal boats and maneuver them through 150 miles of cold and often choppy water. | 2 SHIPS ORDERED FOR GREAT BRITAIN WASHINGTON, April 19 (U. P.). =—The United States mobilized its| vast shipbuilding facilities today to produce more vessels for the “bridge of ships” to Britain as the controversial convoy issue faded momentarily into the background. Moving swiftly to plug the growing gap in Britain's war-riddled | merchant marine, the Maritime| Commission awarded contracts for 112 emergency cargo vessels that will be turned over to the British
abandoning work
No New Models |OREEK PREMIER
In'43, G.M. Says
NEW YORK, April 19 (U. P) --General Motors Corp., producer of almost half the nation’s automobiles, will release all its engineering talent and tool capacity to the defense program in August, on new car models. Alfred P. Sloan Jr, of the board of G. M.,, made public a fetter he had sent to William S. Knudsen, former G. M. president and now director of the Office of Production Management, announcing that the company would make no changes in its 1943 cars. In Washington, defense officials predicted other major firms would follow suit.
LOW AUTO TAGS T0 BE NO MORE
Here's the 1941 Listing, The Last Likely for Several Years. By EARL RICHERT You probably won't see the acautomobile license
least a few years. . For Governor Schricker has decreed that hereafter there shall be
no license plate numbers so low that
| | people will want them as a mark of |
distinction. And if control of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles passes to Secretary of State James Tucker, as provided in the Républican decentraliration law, the policy will probably be retained. Mr. Tucker reportedly does
not favor the issuance of low license |
numbers and has never had any himself. Beginning next year, under Governor Schricker’'s order, license
plates will begin with the number
chairman |
The censor's captain says it shows Jugoslav troops waving white flags, crossing a stream to sur-
DIES SUDDENLY
King Takes Over National that Germany's ultimate vic-|
Victory Government In New Crisis.
| ATHENS, Greece, April 19 (U. P).| —A political crisis involved King |
| | | a
Nazi High Command reported
GREER DEFEAT POSSIBLE, SAY LONDON PAPERS
Hint Retirement of English Forces to Middle East if Allies Surrender; Troops Sent to Block Nazi Designs in Iraq.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
reign News Editor z army pushed southward into 1e rail junction of Larissa, the today, but Athens dispatches
said that a new Allied line of defense was holding solidly gainst powerful German assaults. Although London newspapers prepared Btitons for a
‘possible defeat in the battle of Greece, heavy fighting cons
‘tinued all along the front. British sources reported such tremendous casualties th |division had been knocked ou
that the Nazis had suffered at even the crack Adolf Hitle# t of the battle. The Fuehrer
‘was directing the fighting from Field Headquarters on the
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eve of his 52d birthday annive German Minister of Propa‘ganda Goebbels said tonight in a radio speech in Berlin
tory “already is as good as assured.” Tomorrow, the commanders in {chief of the German Air Force, Army and Navy will issue orders of
|the day in honor of Hitler's birth-
|George and the Greek home front | 98Y and all will contain the same
today while the Army and British Expeditionary Force fought off re|lentless German assaults. King George formed a “National Victory” Government with himself as Premier, succeeding Alexander Korizis, who died suddenly yesterday. The King named Costas Ko|dijias, former Athens Mayor and ardent defender of Greek independlence, as Vice Premier, and charged him with forming a Cabinet. Ko|dijias failed, and there were indi[cations that a military government would be established. Already, severe restrictions, cluding a prohibition | meetings, has been Athens,
in-
imposed
The King was in supreme com- |
mand of the Government and Army. | An official announcement said that “after all night talks, Kodijias becomes the King's right-hand man as Vice Premier, with His Majesty {holding the portfolio of Prime Min-
numbers in the paper again for at ister in the Government of Nation-
{al Victory. The King’s decision in{sures the most complete unity of the Greek nation during the grave crisis and is the most effective guarantee |of carrying out the war to the end.” There had been no explanation of Korizis’' death, or any indication |that he had been ill. An authori- | tative source, commenting on the tension at Athens, said that in ad- | dition to Korizis’ death, “rumors are being circulated by malevolent (Continued on Page Two)
PARLIAMENT HIT IN REGENT BOMB RAI
on public |jine in |
[slogan—The last enemy also will be beaten.”
Greece) nowhere has been |etrated,” the British Command said. “Our flanks nowhere have been turned.
parently in the center of the main \defense line, defending the railroad head at Kalabaka.)
given out officially in Athens and Berlin were not necessarily in conflict. The Nazi High Command did {not claim to have broken through [the British-Greek main defense stating only that German {forces had beaten the British at |Mt. Olympus, planting their flag on {the heights of that legendary home {of the Greek gods and pushed on to {the plains of Thessaly and Larisa.
“Despite all efforts, our front (in pen-
“Heroic Greek co-operation on our | left is playing a valuable part. (Ap-|
The meager details and positions
rsary. That apparently meant that the Germans had been unable to pursue their usual blitzkrieg tactics of piercing the enemy line and ene circling and cutting up the trapped foe. The British and Greeks, however, {were forced to fall back to a third defense line and their position was viewed as grave in London.
Some competent observers if London took the position that thé British and Greeks actually were fighting what amounted to a reare guard action, which was in agree ment with the view expressed by, Nazi military sources in Berlin. London emphasized that thers was no question of British withe drawal from Greece so long as the Greeks continue to fight, but the impression prevailed that the Greeks might be forced to sure render. In that event it was considered | doubtful that the present Athens | Government could negotiate with |Germany. | King George was doing his ute | most today to consolidate his new [National Victory Government {which he organized in the crisis (following the sudden death of Pre= (mier Alexander Korizis. The King appointed Costas Kodijias as vice (Continued on Page Two)
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Hitler: ‘Hard Year Ahead’
BERLIN, April 19 (U. P).—A birthday, told the German people quarters
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{at the front, must be prepared for
“somewhere in Southeastern a hard “battle year” and that those as home, equally with the men
dolf Hitler, on the eve of his 52d in a message from his field heade Europe” today that they face
sacrifices.
Hitler said his troops were “the best soldiers in the world” in calle
ing upon the people to make generous contributions to the care of the wounded. The disclosure that Hitler himself was with the Balkan armies, directing the attack cu the BritishGreek line as Supremv Commander, was made by Otto Dietrich, Nazi
| | night an unending stream of milie ‘tary, political, diplomatic and pubs licist reports pours in from the | whole world,” Dietrich wrote. “Ace | cording to their weight and ime
| portance Hitler fits them into the
(press chief, in a special article in | dynamics of his creative planning
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German papers today. In his message to the people, Hitler appealed for contributions to the
German Red Cross.
land in a comprehensive survey of |events as a whole forms opinions, | makes decisions and turns them {immediately into orders.”
(Continued on Page Two) | Writing in the May issue of the under the lend-lease program. authoritative Field Artillery Journal, | It also ordered 72 high-speed, 16,Maj. Wedemeyer said the suggested |000-ton tankers, thus leaving only \weapons—an anti-tank gun on ar-| 28 more ships to be contracted for mored, self - propelled mounts — | Under the second emergency prowould give the Army a swift strik- gram ee 212 Ships announced ing force comparable to the Navy's Beno weeks ago by President destroyer and light cruiser units. | ugave : ; a He also proposed that all Army | MAY ROBSON 77 OR 13 units be equipped with Special | HOLLYWOOD, April 19 (U. P).— | mines, capable of destroying any ar-| Actress May Robson. who is 77. |mored vehicle, which could be Sown celebrates her 73d birthday today. {in widespread fields in areas where day. |an attack is expected by mechanized | She has been subtracting a year | 4 enemy forces. tach birthday since she was 75.
Soft-Voiced, Radiant Deanna and Bridegroo Start Secret Honeymoon in a Shower of Rice
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
“A hard battle year stands before | «qn constant telephonic communie us,” ne said. “It wi enter Shlo | cation with the generals who lead , . history as a great and memorable the operations of their armies from Break Hundreds of Win- event in the greatest battle the Ger- | their own headquarters, he forms a order than the officials of the Motor | : man people have ever fought for picture of the battles and a view of Vehicle License Bureau. In the past | dows in Commons. their political freedom, and with the war as he wishes it to be.” {they have dreaded the coming of | . that for their economic future.” | Hundreds of presents began pours leach new license plate season be-| LONDON, April 19 (U. P).—The| Dietrich’s article gave some light | ing into the Chancellery here not cause of the great amount of pres-| Houses of Parliament were hit by |on Hitler's present mode of life. [only from Germany, according to SUE rout {on Hien oy people lhombs in a recent raid (presumably | “From early morning until late at Nazis, but from the United States, wanting low license numbers. v IY 4 usually lose some of their best| Wednesday), it was diselosed today. friends during this period. ‘The House of Commons suffered ar oves 0 ay By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert
10,000, and the only plates with stars | on them will be state-owned auto-| mobiles. No one is more delighted by this
SPRING IS FACING A SLIGHT RELAPS
But Bureau Promises Balmy Weather Next Week.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES a 66 10a om . ST Ll acm. .. 689 12 (moan) . | I pom
FDR TO SEE MACKENZIE KING HYDE PARK, N. Y., April 19 (U P.) —President Roosevelt today scheduled a Sunday afternoon conference with W. L. Mackenzie King, | Prime Minister of Canada, during which he presumably will review! the range of Canadian-United States defense of North America and possibly Canadian participation in America’s war aid program.
AKRON GETS NEW PLANT
WASHINGTON, April 19 (U. P). “The War Department announced! today that the Defense Plant Corp. | will finance a new aircraft parts plant costing $3.642.280, to be oper- | ated by the Goodyear Aircraft Corp. | near Akron, O.
PLEASE
Remember this week-end that a ton and a half of steel can kill | . . So drive carefully . . ,
The matter of deciding who shall the greatest damage. (Continued on Page Two) A bomb crashed on the Speakers
~ |House in the inner quadrangle, smashing a large water tank. 7) | Al the windows in the library at the House of Commons were shattered and some of the interior |was damaged. Hundreds of windows jon the terrace along the river side | were broken. The roof of the lobby of the House of Commons, hit in a previous raid, was damaged more but
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German reports that the Swastika has been planted on Mt. Olympus must be read in connection with today's Cairo communique that the Allied line has been shortened and has not been penetrated at any point. The German mass attacks against the Greek center apparently forced a Greek retirement wl threatening encirclement of the British flank resting Mr on Mt. Olympus and a general straightening of the : line to new positions southward presumably has re= sulted. The shortened Allied line will permit the Greeks and British to concentrate more power at crucial sectors. Nevertheless, as long as Hite ler continues to authorize relentless sacrifice of his troops in gaining ob jectives, the diminishing munitions of the Allies and paucity of reserves |
must cause the British and Greek | Germans
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| Spring will have a slight relapse | in Indianapolis tomorrow afternoon, owing to conditions over which the | Weather Bureau has no control. | | Temperatures will be around 60 and [the day will be mostly cloudy. United Press Hollywood Correspondent | The condition is a part of a gen-| HOLLYWOOD, April 19.—Deanna eral weather situation which ex- Durbin, who s
joined her before the white-hairedstudio. minister, Dr. Willsie Martin. vited were those she considered
Dr. Martin called Miss Durban : pent her childhood |“Bdna”—her real name—when ah close friends, and most of them had [jt was believed that the debating
[tends from the Rocky Mountains earning a million-dollar fortune as| asked her if she promised to love, | Vorked with her in one or another chamber had escaped damage. |over all the Great Plains and the a movie star, escaped from her wed- honor, et cetera. She promised, in| Of her pictures. | Great Lakes states. It is, as usual, ding reception in a shower of ricela voice so soft it would have called, They included Mischa Auer, Lee! TIMES FE ATURES
Only movie stars she inMason
power and especially tanks. The
have a considerable High Commands to prepare for an superiority in mechanical imple= increasingly difficult situation. ments which must place the Allies Hitler's arrival at the German at increasing disadvantage if they Army's Balkan headquarters on his are compelled to retire still further 62d birthday anniversary undoubt- into the southern plains. edly has been arranged to coincide | Yet as long as the Allied front re= with the maximum Nazi pressure mains unbroken, it always is : T/ along the Greek front. |possible that the heavy casualties vo TB) The Allied line now is about 150 being inflicted on the Germans may 8 miles north of Athens. The moun- | compel a moderation in the ine
|a mass of cold air moving in from early today and went on a honey- | for retakes had she been on a Bowman, Andy Devine, Judy Gar- | the Northwest. moon with Vaughn Paul, the only movie set. |1and, Billy Gilbert, Mickey Rooney, | Tonight will be a little cooler and boy friend she ever had. | It almost seemed as if she were [Rosalind Russell, Constance Moore, | there may be showers and thun-| The 19-year-old Deanna, whose The church, one of the biggest in| Walter Brennan and Robert Stack. | derstorms, the bureau said. But succession of hit pictures saved Uni-| Los Angeles, was banked with gar<| The double-ring ceremony was spring balm is apt to return early versal Studios from bankruptcy a denias, lilies and other white flowers, brief. Then the bride, with veil| Churches 6) Mrs. Ferguson 8 next week. few" years ago, was married last while the aisles were lined = with thrown back, and the bridegroom, | Clapper 7 | Music Southeastern states were enjoy- night to the 25-year-old Mr. Paul flaming candles and the pews were Still looking nervous, walked out the| Comics ....... 13 | Obituaries {ing fair and relatively warm weath- in the Wilshire Methodist Church. | filled with people in their Sunday front door. Two dozen photograph- | Crossword ...10 [Pyle ef Sin I ange In sight, while OS S3ne (ited Santis clothes. Mostly the men wore tux-|ers went wild. So did the crowds | Denny .. 3 Suestions |SRies were clear and temperatures within riends wis er well. |edoes; the women evening wns Straining at the ropes, which police | Editorials .... 8| Radio moderate in Cslifornia and other’ The blue-eyed bride was what the from the downtown oe nad put up in a vain effort to keep | Financial . 9! Mrs. Roosevelt 7|tain defenses are more sparse in | tensity of the Nazi offensive. That Pacifi¢ states. society reporters call “radiant” in stores. traffic moving. | Flynn . 8|Serial Story ..13|the intervening terrain than they would seem, at present, t& be the The second tornado within 24 an ivory satin gown and a veil] Hollywood swank was conspicu- | The newlyweds, behind a police Forum ‘ §) Side Glances 4. {nave been in the previous fighting only way the German Jorwans Jush hours late yesterday damaged build- which trailed to the floor. Mr. Paul, ously absent, because most of Miss! escort, led the whole church full of In Indpls. 3 ety = | areas. {can be held and the line sta ( Br jings in a farming section of the who was the second assistant direc- Durbin’s friends consisted of grips, |guests to the reception at the Bev- | Inside PD Sapis.. 7/8ports ....10, 11| That means the German advance |Any counter-offensivé by the Allies - [southwestern part of Iowa, near tor on Deanna's first picture, when gaffers, Juicers, and other oddly erly-Wilshire Hotel, about a mile Johnson ..... 8/States Deaths il|is approaching better conditions for to drive the Germans back appears - Glenwaod. ‘she was 14, lodked scared as he'monikered workmen fom her! {Continued on Page Two) Movies .....3<10 % the employment of mechanized (Continued on Page, Two)
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