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FORECAST: Fair

and cool tonight with light frost probable; tomorrow fair and warmer,

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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 35

MONDAY, APRIL

21, 1941

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Soviet Troops Mass Near Rumania As Dictator Totters

NAZIS SEEK QUICK GREEK DEFEAT

DETAILS GIVEN

HOUSE BODY ON

TAX INCREASES

Doughton Says Committee Will Write Own Bill on 31/, Billion Program.

WASHINGTON, April 21 (U. P). —Treasurv officials today outlined details of the $3.444 000000 tax program to the House Ways and Means Committee. Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C.) said afterward that the group would write its own bill, possibly rejecting some Administration proposals. Referring directly to the Treasury suggestions, Mr. Doughton said the committee would accept only those that “we believe are wise.” He added that “it’s not their job to write a tax bill; it is ours.” Mr. Doughton said thai the Committee wili meet again wOMOTTOW to hear suggesiions from the experts of the joint Congressional Tax Committee, and then will give them “two or *hree days” to work with Treasury officials "to get together.” Silent on Proposals He decimed to make public any of the Treasury recommencations. he Treasury suggestions, Mr. Doughton said. should raise the desired $3.444000000 “and perhaps a little more.” pushing the over-all revenue for the next vear te the alltime record total of $12.667.000.000. Asked if there were a division of opmmion on the Treasury proposals, between the Administration sid the Committee, Mr. Doughton said: “I guess thers would be on some points Mr. Doughton said that the principal witnass at today’s closed sesS101), Assistant Treasury Secretary John L. Sullivan, estimated expenditures of 815.000000006 next vear. of which the Administration would like 0 raise two-thirds bv taxes and borrow the remainder— approximately $6.333.000.000

Believes Taxpavers Willing

Mr. Doughton said he thought the open hearings would start not fater than next week and “possibly this week.” he Treasury recommendations, he said, will be made public when explained in an open session by Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. Asked if reciprocal taxation ef state and Federal bonds were part of the program, Mr. Doughton said that “all of those things, I sunpose, will come in for consideration.” He added that he believed taxpavers were more able and willing than ever before to bear ithe increased burden. The program outlined hy Morgenthau last week envisioned 25 10 50 per cent higher taxes on this vear's income—particularly in the low and middle - classes—increased taxes on gasoline, cigarets, amusements and other taxable tiems, and reduced credits and exemptions in the income tax schedule

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PRO- NAZI PARISIAN RUMORED KILLED

VICHY. France. Apri! 21 (WL P.). Reports circulated todav that Jean Fontenoy, publicity director of the Nazi-approved Popular Assembly Party in Paris, had been missing for eight days and was believed to have been assassinated The Popular Assembly Party was formed In Paris by French leaders calling for closer collaboration between the Vichy Government and Germany snd return of Pierre Laval, deposed Vice Premier, to the Cabinet. The party was organized as a rival {5 that of Marshal Henri Petain, French Chief of State.

PROBATION BOARD'S SECRETARY TO QUIT

Mrs. Imez Scholl of Connersville said today she will resign as State Probation Board secvetarv when the Board meets Thursday. Mrs. Scholl, who recently had an appendectomy gave illness as the reason. " She has been Board secretary the last four years and was vice chairman of the Democratic Central Committee two terms.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

I Mrs. Ferguson Music 8 Obituaries | Photography Pvle Question . . . | Radio .. | Mrs. Roosevelt Schools ...... Serial Story . Side Glances Society 12, Sports 14, State Deaths

Clapper Comics Crossword Editorials .... I Fashions

Financial 9,

Homemaking. Gallup Poll .. In Indpls. Inside Indpls. Jane Jordan. . Johnson .....

Mayor Proclaims Cleanup Week

“Let us unite to put our communily house in order.”

Thus, today,

WLUW SEES NEW ATHENS PREMIER ASKN VICTORY FIGHT SPAIN FEELS PRESSURE

PEACE PACTIN | SHIP INDUSTRY

‘No Strike—No Lockout’ Agreement Predicted;

Disputes Dwindle.

WASHINGTON, April 21 (U. P.).

| —Sidney Hillman, co-director of the

did Maver Reginald H. Sullivan

call upon all citizens to participate in the spring town cleaning, otherwise known as Clean Up, Paint Up

and Fire Prevention Week, which began today and will run through next Monday. by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. from City Hall steps were George Gable (with paint brush),

broom) and Assistant Fire Chief Roscoe McKinney.

EAST BATTLING FOREST FLAMES

Atlantic Coast ved Hopes For Rain; Seven Die in Midwest Storms.

By UNITED PRESS Midwesterners welcomed weather today. Eastern states wanted rain and didn’t get it. The U. S. Weather Bureau at Chicago said rain which might have aided the battle against forest fires raging in overdry woodlands of. Pennsylvania and New Jersey, fell on the western slope of the Apnalachians instead of carrving over their peaks. Fresh fires broke out today in a New Jersey area described as the “tinder box,” comprising 1,200,000 acres of Pineland and 5000 acres of combustible marsh and grasslands which extends from Sandv Hook to Cape May. They were fanned bv a 22-mile-an-hour wind.

Naval Air Station Safe

The most serious fire extended from Hanover Furnace to High Bridge, in the Lakehurst area. The naval air station was not in danger. Another fire swept an additional

1500 acres near Williamstown, in Camden County, where 750 acres were burned last night. A wing of the fire which hit Lakewooc last night was being blown eastward. menacing Laurelton, a community of approximately 1000 persons. Fire fighters were rushed there in trucks.

fair

Seven Die in Texas Storm storm which started and left seven dead in as it cut across the nation, blew itself out over the lower Great Lakes. Winds of 35 to 40 miles pel hour were reported around Buffalo, N. Y. Three persons were drowned in Missouri and two in Arkansas as streams swelled by torrential rains left their banks. A tornado Killed two persons at Reeds Springs, Mo. Several towns in Oklahoma were recovering from tornadoes of late Saturday, and seven persons were injured in Illinois wingsiorins,

PREDICT PROBABLE

A in Texas

its wake

LIGHT FROST TONIGHT

Warmer Weather on Tap For Tomorrow.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 48 10a m. 5 11am 54 12 (neon) 58 1pm

59 . 60 60 59

Today and tonight it wll remain cool, with the probability of a light frost tonight, but tomorrow the temperatures will go back up the Weather Bureau predicted today. The minimum temperature at the

.'m, m. m.

9 a m.

Federal Building over the week-end

was 45 and the mimimum recording at the Airport branch was 39, both 3! 5 a. m. vesterdayv. The lowest in the State was 35 at Wheatfield. Both today and tomorrow will be fair, the Bureau forecast,

British Fired o on

Ship, Yank Says

o TERSEY CITY, April 21 (U, —Capt.- Wendel Habel of the RO Export liner Siboney reported today that British gunboats fired upon his ship while it was speeding westward with 350

, passengers across the Atlantic 320 | miles out of Lisbon, Portugal.

Two three-inch shells were fired directly over the vessel, while a third fell into the ocean 50 feet in front of the bow, he said. After inquiring the nature of the cargo and the Siboney's destination, the gunboats permitted the ship to Bure.

JAMESON BALKED ON BREAK FROM JAIL

Daughter of Greenfield Sheriff Is Nemesis.

Times Special GREENFIELD. Ind, April Bespectacled John Paul Jameson. 33-year-old alleged slaver of an Indianapolis taxi driver, the Pendleton Reformatory todav after writing another eventful chapter Sunday into his career. Jameson was blocked in his latest escapade vesterday bv the coolheaded 25-year-old daughter of Hancock County Sheriff John Dent. Miss Carrie Dell Dent appea.-ed in a room in the jail where Jameson was struggling with her father and mother and calmly leveled a revolver at the prisoner. Jameson ran into the quarters adjoining the jail. The sheriff. bleeding profusely from head wounds received when Jameson struck him over the head with an improvised blackjack. grabbed the revolver from his daughters hand and gave chase. Running back into the cell block. Jameson was cornered by the sheriff (Continued on Page Five)

REPORT KING IS SAFE

LONDON, April 21 (U.P.).—Radio Ankara reported tonight that King Peter of Jugesiavia, Gen. Dusan T. Simovich and other members of the Jugoslav Government have arrived at Jerusalem by airplane. Radio Ankara said that the Jugosiav plane was attacked en route and that one Jugoslav minister Was killed.

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was held in.

The week is sponsored

Left to right with the Mayor as he read the proclamation the Mayor, Fire Chief Fred Kennedy

(with huge

3 ARE KILLED IN COUNTY TRAFFIC

Record of Two Deathless Week-Ends Ended: Year's Toll Now 47.

Marion County's 1941 two consecutive g¢geathless traffic week-ends was ended early Sundav when two cars collided on Road 67 and two persons died. And Indianapolis’ record vesterday of 39 davs of no traffic fatalities was ended with the death this morning of a pedestrian struck vesterday by a car at 16th and Sts. The dead: DON E. Birch Ave. MISS IRENE LEE, Warren Ave. ROBERT SWEAT, 48. W. 16th St, who died in City Hospital of injuries received when he was struck by a car driven, police said, by Marvin Tresler, 59. of 305 N. Senate Ave. Two other persons ar. in City Hospital in a critical condition. The deaths of Mr. Jones, Miss Lee and Mr. Sweat brought the County traffic deaths this year. to 27 and the City - County total 49. City Hdspital physicians reported that so many persons were brought there vith trafic inJuries that shortly fter midnight Saturday they overflowed from the emergency room to the wards. Dr Kenneth Kohlstéadt, assistant superintendent, said he could not remember anv other time when so many traffic victims were brought to the hospital. In addition to the three local deaths, one Hoosier, Lester Kerr, 28, Valparaiso. was xilled in an accident in Chicago. Stanley Minni® 34. Roachdale. was killed when his car overturned at Roads 43 and 36, near Greencastle, and Charles Gage. 28. Kokomo, was killed near West Middleton. The crash that fatally injured Miss Lee and Mr. Jones occurred (Continued on Page Fiv e)

record of

JONES, 22, of 510

28. of 813

of - 417

Mr. Jones

'‘Mike' Mitchell Dies at 48;

Gained Fame in Prize Ring

“Mike” Mitchell Cohen, who was Known in the ring, and as a trainer and boxing promoter: simply as “Mike,” Mitchell, died early today in St. Vincent's Hospital after a short illness. He was 48, lived at 1607 College Ave. and was admitted to the hospital Saturday. Mr. Cohen, who owned and operated a tavern at 1601 College Ave. had lived in Mr. Cohen Indianapolis 42

vears.

He staricd a boxing career

class and fought through the lightweight class, meeting the best of his day. After his active ring career ended. he became a trainer and operat-

and, later on, one on Illinois St. downtown. Later he also became a promoter and was known nationally in boxing circles. Mr. Cohen is survived by his wife, Mrs. Hannah Cohen; a daughter, Miss Clara Cohen; his mother, Mrs. Sara Cohen, and a brother, Cohen. Funeral services will be at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the AaronRuben Funeral Home. Mr. Cohen was a member of the United Hebrew Temple. Burial will be in Hebrew Cemetery.

_ defense program,

Mili,

Louis |

Office of Production Management,

told a Senate committee today that within six weeks or “no strike—mo lockout” would be in effect in the entire American shipbuilding industry. He also said that defense strikes are dwindiing and that, exclusive of the current soft coal shut down, only 15,000 workers are idie in the, “whole range of national defense.” | He said he would favor Government operation of strike-bound defense plants “as a last resort,” but that such a move is not called for at the present time, Mr. Hillman, testifying before the Senate committee investigating national defense, cited a “stabilization” agreement between labor and management in the Pacific coast shipbuilding industry as an ‘“accomplishment worthy of special consideration.” Covers Basic Hours

The agreement covers basic hours!

and wages and assures adjustments disputes without work stoppages. “Before six weeks are over—or at least before six months are over— the shipbuilding agreement will cover the whole counti®.,” Mr, Hillman said. “We are trying to work it out in shipbuilding before talking about it in other industries.” Mr. Hillman told the committee that labor is coming to an “increas-

ing qealization” of its stake in the’

defense program and the need for co-operation. He predicted there would be fewer strikes in defense industries in the future.

Stake of Labor Cited

“Labor has so much stake in the that it will suffer more if anything goes wrong, if that is possible, than anvbody else in the country,” Mr. Hillman declared. He opposed proposed legislation for compulsory “cooling-off” periods before strikes may be instituted in defense industries. “What we are suffering from in the labor movement as well as throughout the country is that most people do not appreciate the urgency of the situation,” Mr. Hiliman said. Mr. Hillman appeared before the committee as Senator Ralph O. Brewster (R. Me.), a member the group, said he would advocate legislation to create a “singleheaded” defense setup under OPM Director William S. Knudsen. He said Mr. Knudsen would be made the “goat” if the rearmament program fails, and therefore he should have full authority. Mr. Hillman agreed with Chairman S. Truman «(D. Mo.) that if Congress passed a law for a 30-day “cooling off” period before strikes could be called, labor would accept it wholeheartedly.

Windsors' Whirl

Ends Tomorrow

PALM BEACH, Fla, April 21 (U. P).—The Duke and Duchess of Windsor today began the fourth day of a business visit here during which the social colony of this resort town had feted them with a round of dinners and luncheons. The Royal couple announced they would return to the Bahamas tomorrow, probably sailing in the vacht Viator, owned by Mrs. Maitland Alexander, of Pittsburgh Accompanied by the Duchess, the Duke yesterdav attended a cocktail party given in their honor by a friend, Capt. Alistair Mackintosh, at the Ocean Front estate of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dillman of Detroit.

SACRIFICES AHEAD. JESS JONES WARNS

| sacrifice.” ed a gymnasium on S. Meridian St. |

Addressing the annual luncheon

of the Associated Press, Mr. Jones Treasury Morgenthau and Harry L. Egypt. For that purpose, a short-

added:

“If we are to get ready to defend 000,000000 lend-lease program, at weight of defense would have to ourselves, let's beesure that we do Mr. Roosevelts' home at Hyde Park. fall on the Greeks. |Mr. Roosevelt returned to Washing- |

a good job of it. That means we! must give up some of the things we! have been used to. . . “We must guard against inflation | and run-away prices. We may have| to submit to price controls .

of the defense cost currently.”

six months a ageement

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Vast Ruin

Tour of Blitzed Cities Reveals Homes Suffer Most.

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

LONDON, April 21.—President Roosevelt has just teld the American people that they do not realize the seriousness of the situation on this side of the Atlantic. If this is so, the tour I have just made through nine of Great Britain’s most heavily blitzed cities may serve to correct their impression, London’s damage is so scattered and this metropolis has endured so many raids that the destruction does not appear startling to Cities such as Birmingham, Coventry and South-' ampton are somewhat shaken, but the sights disclosed by visits to these towns are nothing compared to those I have just seen during a five-day 1070-mile tour of nine other cities whose combined populations include nearly 3,000,000 in an area of 151 square miles.

Mayors Given Money

We visited Plymouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Swansea, Birkenhead, Wallasey, Liverpool, Manchester and Hull. In eight of these, Bertram Cruger, London director of the American-British War Relief Society presented checks totaling $150,000 to their respective mayors for air raid distress. The money will be used for helping the homeless find new homes and start new business. Each of these mayors in his speech of thanks expressed the hope that American cities might be spared the ordeal through which British cities were passing. Grim determination and unyielding insistence that the Germans be given the most terrific pounding that Britain is capable of delivering dominates the minds of the people in these nine cities. The damage that I saw — added up — would equal roughly the total destruction of Manhattan.

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It's Hard to Believe

Incredible little of all the damage has been wrecked on strictly military objectives. At least 80 per cent has been suffered by private residences and a large part of the rest sustained by commercial enterprises, such as stores ana shopping centers. When you see street after street \Continued on Page For Four)

U. S., CANADA UNIFY WAR PRODUCTION

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Border ‘Obliterated New Agreement.

WASHINGTON, April 21 (U. P). —President Roosevelt sought today to unify the full industrial and economical resources of the United States and Canada to support the struggle of democracies against the Axis powers. In an agreement with W. L. MacKenzie King, Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. policy which economically border :

in effect obliterates the international

“It was agreed as a general principal that in mobilizing the resources of this continent, each country Should provide the other

ey the defense articles which it is |}

best able to produce, and, above all, ! | produce quickly,

nated to this end,” nouncement stated. The agreement was disclosed last night by Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. King at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., as Mr. King boarded his private railroad | car to return to Ottawa. He had conferred for more than five hours’ with Mr. Roosevelt, Secretary of

Hopkins, co-ordinator of the $7-

ton this morning.

CHARGE SPINACH TRUST WASHINGTON, April 21 (U. P).

. . we|—The Federal Trade Commission effective rearguard action until the ‘should support that effort, and we today issued a complaint charging main army can reach the Pelopon- self lead to defeat. should adopt a program of taxa-| [ten firms with a conspiracy to #ix | nesus the ‘tion which will pay a large part of prices on the sale of broadleaf virtually an island, separated from have decided not to imitate France's

Roosevelt enunciatéd a |

and that produc- | Secretary of Com- | tion programs should be co-ordi-| an official an-|

Hove fighting on Greek soil, by mov-

‘Foreign Observers’ in London Hint Retreat From Balkans May Soon Be Necessary; New Line 110 Miles From Capital.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor Hitler's armies and airplanes pounded unceasingly at a | third—but still unbroken—Allied defense line in Greece toe

day while Great Britain intently watched increasing signs

of new Axis moves in Rumania, the Near East and through ‘Spain toward Gibraltar. Brilliant rear-guard action by Australian and New Zeaand troops in Greece inflicted tremendous casualties on the Germans, who appeared to be trying for a quick- knock-out blow against Greece, according to dispatches fre om Athens. The R. A. F. reported a record bag of 16 Nazi airplanes in fighting Luftwaffe attacks lon rear line communications and ships in Greek ports. The ‘Germans claimed to have! brought down 11 British planes and sunk 33,000 tons of ships. But while the British and Greeks (clung to their new defense lines in

|e mountains some 110 miles north

(of Athens, not far from { Thermopylae, there were stronger indciations of early ‘action on other | fronts. Spain May

was in danger of support because of Iron Guard pressure to regain territory taken last vear from Rumania by Hungary.

losing German

Report Rumania Balked

Hitler was said to have refused to permit’ Rumania to occupy part of defeated Jugoslavia and rumors circulated that Russian forces were ready to move into Rumanian Moldavia if the Antonescu regime fell apart, There was no news permitted past Rumanian censorship, and. historic Budapest said that traffic between Rumania and Hungary had been fhaelted and that Runmanian guards shot at persons attempting to cross the border. It was said that if the Germans could find a satisfactory | successor, they would oust Gen. Antonescu. Hungarians claimed that German forces in Belgrads found documents showing that Ane tonescu had promised that Rue mania would aid King Peter of Jugoslavia and counseled Peter to “bide his time.” On the actual war fronts. the British and Greeks were under ine creasing pressure as the Germans surged down across the plains of Thessaly 'and, according to Athens newspapers, brought up huge reine forcements in a drive to “obtain definite results.” Despite heroic resistance by the Allies and heavy losses inflicted upon the ‘German attackers, the Nazi steamroller pushed forward, London censors permitted cabling of stories that “foreign observers” wers (Continued on Page Five)

Join Axis

| London heard that Germany was bringing new pressure on Spain to enter formally into the Axis lineup, presumably as a prelude to an attack on Gibraltar or an effort to close the Straits of Gibraltar even if the “rock” could not be captured. German guns on Spanish territory on both sides of the straits might be as effective as if Gibraltar were in Nazi hands. Whether the Germans ately would undertake the admittedly difficult job of moving and feeding any large number of troops fin hungry Spain was not indi(cated, but a more feasible plan i might involve only artillery forces [near Gibraltar. In Rumania, there were indica{tions that unrest was increasing. { Hungarian sources—obviously hostile to Bucharest—reported that the {government of Gen. Ion Antonescu!

Too Hot for Helmets

By J. H. YINDRICH (Copyright, 1941, by United Press). WITH THE BRITISH EMPIRE GARRISON BESIEGED AT TOBRUK, April 18—(Via Cairo and London: Delayed) —Evidence is accumulating that differences are growing between the German and Italian forces besieging Tobruk. Two days ago German tanks [ired on about 1000 Italian infantrymen who after forming for an attack on the barbed wire entanglements of the outer defenses, retreated before 1a blast of British artillery fire.

A patrol of 2( Australian infantrymen, accompanied by three Bren gun carviers, then went out on what thev called an encircling movement. They brought back 846 Italians, including a colonel, 23

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several days ago but received no specific directions and as the ree sult, they started the atiack but got lost,

There are indications also that the system by which German liaison officers are attached to the cther Italian officers and one Ger-| rialian forces is not working well, man officer, | It is noteworthy that the German Italians among the prisoners said | infantrymen do not wear steel that in one attack they were to helmets. They tell questioners, have received German tank sup- when captured, that the desert is port, but the tanks failed to appear. too hot for them. An Italian officer said the Ger- The abortive Italian infantry ate mans kept the Italians in ignor-| tack which perversely drew the fire ance, not only of plans for opera- of German tanks, was the . first tions, but of objectives. phase of the seventh big attack on A German soldier who is prisoner Tobruk, said Axis troops were (old to The attack resulted in the dee storm Tobruk in a great attack (Continued on Page Five)

War Moves Today

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

King George of Greece and his new Prime Mine ister, Manuel Tsouderos, are being forced by the increasing pressure of the German offensive to reach a quick decision whether to ask for an arms istice, abandon Athens and make a military retreat to Peloponnesus or move the Government to Crete or North Africa to continue the war against the Axis. Whatever the decision, the most immediate necessity for the Allies is to make the battlefront as short as possible, If the King and Tsouderos conclude that capitulation is essential in the best interests of Greece, they are honor-bound

Mr. Mason

| to delay such action until they have Riven the British Army an oppors=

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tunity to transport as much of its force and equipment as possible to Patras, the Gulf of Corinth and a canal, which would slow down any retirement to its protective shores. A large force in Peloponnesus ‘normally would have a chance of holding back any attacking army for a considerable time. The intervening waterways form a natural bulwark, but the problem of sup= plying defensive Greek divisions would be serious and might in {te

tened front is essential, since the

Similarly, if they intend to conling southward into Peloponnesus, {the shorter the front north of) |Athens, the better chance for an

positions. Peloponnesus is| It would seem that if the Greeks

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