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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 37

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1941

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NAZIS SMASH TOWARD ATHENS

King Flees: British Form New Line; 250,000 Greeks Surrender

U.S. Entry

EDITOR'S NOTE: How grave

As Conflict Reaches Most Critical Stage

Is Urged |

is Great Britain's position? These

articles represent the points of view of William Stoneman and Helen Kirkpatrick, outstanding correspondents of the Chicage Daily News

Foreign Service

End Possible In 2 Months

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

Indianapo us Tames v News 1

April 23.—With German occupati ion of Samothrace and possibly Lemnos, reports of creased German activity in French Morocco, and recurrentl strong indications that Spain and Portugal may be forced in. the war has reached the most critical point since it began. Reports from the United States continye to indicate that the American people do not understand the seriousness of the tuation. It is this serious: Miss Kirkpatrick The outcome of this war may be decided within the next two months, likely by September

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The German movement to encircle the Mediterranean has made tremendous progress, German domination of North Africa iS virtually an established fact. The next’ moves will undoubtediy be to ty | and reach the Sucz €anal, in thei Fast and Gibraltar in the West. With the occupation of French | Morocco, the position of French West Africa, with its highly important and strategic Port of Dakar, becomes precarious and carries a definite menace to all Atlantic shipping and control of the routes to Africa. German seizure the Aegean | fslands, following the hard-fought! Greek campaigns, is preliminary to an assault upon Turkey. It is assumed that Turkey will fight. though the Germans are active in rn ing rumors of imminent arkist capitulation With German dive | bombers active throughout ern Mediterranean, the British Fleet there is bou nd to! become more and more difficu The chances of the Germans breaking through to the Suez can not be lightly dismissed.

British Cities Battered is being sub-|

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the position of}

Meanwhile, Britain jected to unbroken and relentless] warfare from the air and on the sea. British cities are being battered and pounded as no other cities in the world have ever been. The British are more capable of standing up to these blows than probably any other people in the vvorid, but it would be madness to assume that these unceasing raids have not affected production It remains an incontrovertible; fact that American supplies become more essential every day.

the East-|

Both are now stationed in London.

Experts Fear

For America

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN right, 1941. by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, I LONDON, April 23.—Highly competent American experts, intimately | acquainted with the situation both at home and in Europe and fully qualified by their intelligence and long | experience to judge the broader asa pects of the present crisis, are now agreed that immediate participa- © tion of the United : States in the war is a matter of desperate urgency. | These experts cannot be quoted, i for obvious rea-| sons, but, in the opinion of this correspondent. Mr. Stoneman their conclusions | aré of such importance that they should be immediately available to the American public. These people are neither “proBritish” nor “interventionist” in the ordinary sense of these expressions. If they are interventionist now. it| lis Because they have examined the situation in the mahher of so many doctors and have just happened to make that diagnosis. Their conclu- | sions are:

1. They feel that the situation is extremely serious and is bound to become more serious unless a miracle | occurs. They regard an outright! German victory as a distinct pos-| sibility in the course of the next few months, unless Britain is reinforced in a very important way. 2. They are as certain as they are of their own names that Germany regards us as one of its principal enemies and is prepared to carry through its threat to deal with us! in due time. They also think that Germany might do a very good job! |of dealing with us if the United | States, alone faced the Reich. 3. They believe that an immediate declaration of war would still have a good possibility of turning the tide, first. in the Battle of the Atlantic, and very soon afterward in

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{other war theaters. Even the prom-

ise of all-out American assistance] would allow the British to employ their manpower in a freer manner.

4 All these experts, who know as much about American production, the American Army, and the American air force as practically anybody | in the world, say that only a decla- | {Continued on Page Five)

HOME SHOW HONORS

ELECTRIC LEAGUE

Committee,

Local Organization Feted at | Noon Luncheon.

Today has been designated at the! Home Show as Electric League Day ] and electrical appliances for the the 23-year-old adventuress from rome will receive first consideration Fixood, Ind, was back in jail [from 11 a. m. to 10:30 p. m. | today. { A luncheon at noon was to open The diminutive slayer was {the day's activities at the Manufac- | arrested yesterday by San Fran- ‘turers building with the Rlectrie cisco police. Texas authorities League of Indianapolis receiving the were en route to return her t© honors. Dan C. Hess league presiEctor County jail at Odessa, dent, will preside. where she was held for the The principal speaker will be death of Buford Armstrong. a Ashton B. Collins of Birmingham, ballplayer. She escaped for the Ala, originator of “Reddy Kilowatt” second time five months ago. the animated symbol Inspector George Engler of the service in the home. San Francisco homicide detail Home Show architects were honsaid the girl told him she in- ored at a luncheon yesterday with tended to kill officer Tom OCon- |congratulations going to Leslie F. nor when he arrested her Ayres, Charles D. Ward, Edward D.} “But he was so nice I didnt Pierre and George Calbe Wright, | do it,” she was quoted as saving. designers of this years houses.

205,05 SOUR SOU COUNTY UNITS VOTED | ADDITIONAL $182,000

peuglas Fairbanks Jr. left today on | The County Council today voted

She's in Again— We Mean Isabelle

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 23 (U. P).— Isabelle \lessmer,

a 12000-mile air tour of South] America tc foster inter-American

cal arts. | Of this fund, $23000 was voted |

{to increase wages of more than 100] TIMES FEATURES | County Highway Department em- | ON INSIDE PAGES

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Movies Mrs. Ferguson Obituaries Pyle Questions .... Radio Mrs. Roosevelt Serial Story.. Side Glances.

Clapper «esses COMICS «asses Cross Editorials «ue Financial («ee Flynn Forum Saban Gallup Poll... In Indpls.s.. Inside Indpls. Society Jane Jordan.. Sports wv... 2.9 man, as its oi on the «Johnson sees 13 (State Deaths. 2 County, Tax Adjustment Board.

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11}ing additional legal clerks. ! 11] Also included in the appropria- |

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12 ing program. The Council appoint14 ed George H. Herman, a council-|

of electric! it

Where German k Hordes Broke Through

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The historic pass of Thermopylae, 85 miles north of Athens, where the Spartan King Leonidas and 200 men fought to death against Persians in 480 B. C, failed to stop the Nari drive into Greece today.

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THERMOPYLAE PASSED;

NEW ‘DUNKIRK’ LOOMS; SHIPS ARE DIVE-BOMBED

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The pass only 50 feet wide in Leonidas’ day, has been widened to a width of three miles by centuries of

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ADDED LUXURY

TAXES SCANNED

Secrecy on Administration

Program to Be Lifted Tomorrow.

WASHINGTON, April 23 (U. —The House Wdys and Means, faced with Treasury proposals for drastic income taxes, on the little taxpayer, today studied | “alternative” suggestions for more luxury taxes. The committee still was bound to official secrecy about the plan that reportedly would increase income taxes in the lower brackets from 300 to 600 per cent through a grad-

uated surtax to start at 11 per cent |

on the first dollar of taxable income The secrecy will be lifted tomorrow, however, when Secretary of the! Treasury Mogenthau will testify at the first public hearing on the new tax program. Several members of the Wavs and Means Committee indicated that they thought the Treasury's program was too drastic. They said that C. E. Stam, head of the staff of the j) sional committee on internal revenue taxation, also opposed a number of the Treasury's proposals and was suggesting easing the proposed rates for the lower brackets—under [825000 — in favor of much higher rates on such taxes as estates and gifts, and hy reviving old World War taxes on boats and betting tickets They described Mr. Stam’s proposals for estate and gift taxes as

“higher” than the British war-time’

taxes. Meanwhile. several Senators, including D. Worth Clark (D. Idaho), and Robert M. La Follette (Prog. Wis), were considering plans to offer amendments drastically

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SUN TRIES ITS BEST TO PENETRATE PALL

TODAY'S TEMPERATURES fT 1am 58 «58 Mam ...60 5¢ 12 (noon) . 62

Sam .. 5 ip m 63

~The sun tried its best to shine

through a smoke pall and | today. The Weather Bureau didn't give much encouragement because an armada of clouds was expected. Dusk may bring light showers.

fog

Measles Threat Worries Chief |

aD POLICE CHIEF Michael Morrissev's headaches: Police Inspector Jesse MeMurtry has the measies. They think ILdeut. Lawrence Me« Carty has them, too. All policemen are réported looking at other policemen for signs of the 6 measles.

HORROR REIGNS IN PLYMOUTH

| Stunned Refugees Flee

. Bomb Ruins in Pajamas | And Bathrobes.

PN Oy Ta. England, April «U. | less RO in night dresses | or pajamas, bathrobes and slippers | —wandered In stunned horror out of the bomb-wrecked city of Plym-|

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GOP JOLTED BY COURT DECISION

Battle Back When Where It Started; Appeal Filed 2 Hours After Opinion.

By VERN BOXELL

The Battle for the State House |

is back about where it started a month ago. In a six<paragraph opinion late] vesterday, the Indiana Supreme!

Court unanimously upheld Circuit |

{Judge Earl R. Cox’ power to issue]

an injunction blocking appointments |

urder the G. O. P. “decentraliza- |

tion” acts.

|Kpox announced

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8 TORPEDO SHIPS

T0 AID BRITAIN

‘Navy Discusses Plan to

Have Small Vessels Built in Canada.

WASHINGTON, April 23 (U. P). Secretary of : the Navy Frank] today that the | Navy is delivering about 20 small fast torpedo boats to Britain. The Navy is discussing a mutual

craft | with Canada to hasten allotment of ga Youis v the British,

a press confer-

1 ence hat the ri craft assigned

to Britain either are at docks ready!

construction program!

English Keep Offensive in North Africa, Claim 1000 U. Planes in Service; Athens Rulers Move to Crete.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

Allied armed forces—sparked by weary Anzacs—fought a bitter-end battle before Athens today after the Greek western army capitulated, King George fled to Crete and the Nazis reported they had smashed through the ancient battles field at Thermopylae Pass.

breaking of Great Britain's next-to-last foothold on the Continent was implied in dispatches from London as well

‘as from Berlin and Rome.

But the British said that a new line had been formed somewhere between Athens and the advancing German blitz armies and that the fight continued under aerial bombarde

ment of roads, harbors and ships. There was no definite indication whether the British,

to be shipped in cargo vessels or if forced back through Athens, would attempt to fight on

already have been placed in British . hands. He said that as the result of diss cussing between President Roose.

|velt and Canadian Prime Minister |

in the Peloponnesus, but the flight of the Greek Government

lto Crete to carry on the fight from that island stronghold

‘indicated that another “Dunkirk” was in progress in the

'W. L. MacKenzie King, Canadian Eastern Mediterranean.

shipyards may take over construc-| tion of a number of small boats.

This would relieve our facilities and would facilitate that type of aid to

Britain, he explained. ‘Entirely Feasible’

“This would enable Canada to

Miracle Needed, Not Expected

There was general agreement that only a miracle could save the situation in Greece. . There was no hope either in London or Athens that such

{increase her volume of dollars for|a miracle would occur.

exchange purposes,” Mr. Knox said. | Secretary Knox said it would be “entirely feasible” |States to purchase small craft from |

(Canada and then turn them over Republican-dominated boards i, grijtain under the terms of the had been breeched.

Lend-Lease Act.

“Canada has to buy =a

lot of

The war bulletins indicated that Thermopylae Pass—the

for the United mountain gap 85 miles north of Athens where Leonidas and

1300 men fought to the death against the Persian Xerxes—

The Greek Army in the west, trapped between German

The decision, however, did not things in the United States” he ex-|and Italian forces as it retreated out of Albania, had capitu=

touch on the issue of chief impor]

—Many thousands of home- | tance and interest—constitutionality of exchange.

of the “ripper” laws. It didn’t even decide whether the injunction. granted March 31, was | justified by the evidence upon which | This |

int Congres- |

| outh today after a second consecu- | Judge Cox issued the order. tive night of Nazi bombardment. | question now will be ruled on by the | Hundreds of German bombers | Supreme Court in another case, an | pounded this port for hours, dump- | appeal from Judge Cox’ decision. It ing 1000 fire-bombs and about 500 was filed less than two hours after | high explosive bombs in an effort to the high court had handed down its | destroy a point of entry for war sup- (opinion yesterday, plies from the United States. The refugees streaming from the Agent Charges Epror blasted and burned city had turned] Although both of these Supreme | away from a huge cloud of smoke Court cases involve the injunction | that hung over Plymouth follow-/and include practically the same ing blazes that created a lurid wall arguments, there is a difference of flame during the night. Yesterday's decision was on aw Refugees picked their way over original action brought by the G chunks of bricks and concrete O. P. attacking Judge Cox' power blasted from big buildings and past|to grant the injunctidh and ask-

in-| creasing any levies that eventually

| firemen who stil] fought the flames. They had only one object in mind) —to get out of town. The first groups of homeless from the city were taken to rest centers but even some of these centers had been wrecked by bombs. At dawn, a convoy of food trucks reached the center of the town and began fighters and the homeless. Many casualties, including a large number of killed, resulted from last night's raid.

$60.000 IN GEMS SEIZED

CINCINNATI, ©. April 23 (U.P) —A New York jewelry salesman and his private detective guard were robbed of $60,000 worth of diamonds and jewelry today in a daring hold. up in the elevator of a downtown

building.

He Might Have Mailed This

Story in to

Hugh A Barnhart, Democratic! chairman of the Alcoholic Bever-

porters into his office and smilingly asked: “Do you want a good story?” Assured that a good story was

| The appropriation also includes! welcome, Mr.. Barnhart explained | | $44,000 for completion of the build- that soon after he became chair-| Auditor, {ing program at Julietta Infirmary man of the commission several Mr. (and $1200 to increase the salary of | years ago his efficiency was criti- which had been sent through the Tl County Attorney John Linder from cized in the newspapers because mail since Mr. James became aud 12| $3800 to $3000. This increase, Coun- | he sent letters to other Statehouse tor. He said that letters were usu20 'cilmen asid, was necessary for hir- departments through the mail, us- ally

ling two-cent stamps.

Make It Better

serving meals to the fire- file Republicans

| lant

|ing that he be prohibited from | | enforcing it. The appeal charges Judge Cox was in error in grant

ling the order and asks that it be

dissolved. While the legal results were hardly noticeable, the reaction in the rival camps to yesterday's decision was very apparent. Rank and were jolted by! verdict and saw! jobs sometime in dashed. It was a

the unanimous their hopes for May practically

(hard blow to their optimism.

Democratic jobholders were jubiand their confidence bol! stered. The word spread rapidly | through the State House and re-|@ (Continued on Page Five)

LIFT PAY OF 33,000 IN PACKING HOUSES

| CHICAGO. April 23 (U. P) =| Eight per cent wage increases today | were givén more than 33,000 em-|

| plovees of meat packing houses.

Cudahy Packing Co., Wilson & |

| Go. and Swift & Co. were the first |

a ftwo-cent postal meter stamp

floor as Mr. Barnhart'’s. “It looks like some of the other | offices under the other party aren't | 'so efficient, either.” he commented. |

said that the letter to | Barnhart was one of five!

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delivered by messenger but that the letter to Mr. Barnhart was

from State Auditor Richard T.|; understanding through the theatri- additional appropriations of $182.000.! ‘ages Commission, today called re- James, whose office is on the

| Armour & Co.,

Ross Teckemeyer, Deputy State |

to make the announcement. The]

firms are members of the

e same | 0 cated ‘Big Four” of the pack-

The other member, said it was giving | the matter “serious consideration.” The increases are effective Monday. i i |

ing industry.

WILLKIE TO ARRIVE IN RUSHVILLE TODAY |

| Wendell Willkie was to arrive at)

He said that he did not know written last night and he wanted | Rushville this morning to spend a)

by messengers. “Now, he said, hate received.”

He helt. up 4p euteinge bearing

contain: ed a notice that the Alcoholic Bev-

ntung machines recently installed in the State Auditor's office,

20 tion was more than $100000 for that messengers were commonly to get it to him early this morning week to 10 days vacationing at the | 11 materials and tools to be used in the | used and that since then all his so he sent it through the mail 18 County's $600000 WPA road build- Statehouse mail had been delivered | The letter, incidentally,

| home of Mrs. Willkie's mother, Mrs. Cora Wilk. Mr. Willkie expects to spend ok]

look at what I erage Department might use tabu- of his time touring his Rush County

farms before returning to New York to practice law.

| plained,

{purchase as many things as we can | from her to maintain her balance.”

PARKING METER TEST T0 BE RECOMMENDED

wal Effective in Other Cities, Study Shows.

The trial use of parking meters in a limited portion of the downtown area was (0 be recommended at a meeting today of Mayor Sullivan's Traffic Advisory Committee, The committee was to meet at 1:30 p. m. at City Hall for the report of a subcommittes on parking meters. The committee, under the direction of Samuel B. Walker, controller of the Wm. H. Block Co.,

“and she is running short!|atec We. have agreed to lated.

German dispatches said that probably 250,000 Greek ‘soldiers were involved in the surrender; unofficial Italian estimates put the total at 22 divisions of “at least 300,000 ‘men.’ King George, the Greek Crown Prince and Government had fled to Crete. Dispatches from Berlin and Rome forecast the immee |diate end of the Battle of Greece, probably by capitulation ‘of the remaining Greek armies, and looked forward to new ‘blows against the British in the Mediterranean, probably, both at Suez and Gibraltar, Britain's last foothold in Europe,

Too Much Nazi Power

For 18 days the Greeks and an elite British Expeditione ary Corps had stood off the pounding of the Wehrmacht, Outnumbered in man power by odds of anything from five to 10 to one and in machines by a far greater margin, the

made a detailed study of the ef-

fectiveness of the meters in other cities and found they have worked | out practically in reducing parking | congestion. The subcommittee, however, did|

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Allies had fought as stubborn a battle as was within their capability. But Germany had too many guns, too many tanks, too ‘many Stukas, too many reinforcements. Collapse of the southern Serbian Army, enabling the

of meter device, indicating it ouid| through Bitolj Pass, turned the Allied campaign into one

leave the selection to the Safe

Board.

The Advisory Committee meet- | ranges the British and G

ing today marked the first assembling of the enforcement report submitted

City officials last month. The rec- |

re-|

ommendations in that report laid | the groundwork for the appoint-| that of Thermopylae and there was nothing but a broad flag

‘ment of a traffic engineer at City Hall and creation of a cafeteria court at the police station.

70,000 or 'Few' Nazis Killed?

ISTANBUL, April 23 (U.P). —Diplomatic quarters claimed today that 70000 German troops have been killed and 200,000 wounded so far in the Balkan campaign.

BERLIN, April 28 (U.P). — Military quarters insisted today that German losses in the Balkans have been very small. “We shall hear the German High Command's final report very soon,” a military spokesman said, “and it will reveal they are small.” He hinted that losses would be smaller than in any other campaign except. that in Norway in which 1317 troops were reported killed. :

Starting in the northern mountain reeks slowly gave ground. They

*|long rear-guard action.

group since the halted to give battle at each natural barrier, then retreated to} south to the next mountain range and fought again.

Today the Germans had cut through. the last barrier,

highway and rear guard detachments who were prepared to

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War Moves Today

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

With the retirement of the Greek J to Crete, German control of the entire Balkans ‘now is temporarily assured and the European

of the last World War, No fundamental advance in strategy is discernible in the plans of the German General Staff¥n following up the collapse of Greegs, Instead reports which are circulating in Bardpe regarding Germany's possible next moves point to Turkey and Russia. If they prove correct Hitler will be treading the exact path of the Hohenzollerns to the final footmark. During the World War, the German Army was held up along the Western Front and sought com-) pensation eastward. The Western garia and Hungary were Germany's’ Front then ran through France. allies. Rumania was occupied by Today, the Western Front runs|conquering German Army. Ser through the English Channel and |likewise was conquered and into the North Atlantic; and the rest of what is now Jugoslavia was Germans, being blocked there, are under German domination.

again moving eastward. Only Greece, then much salle’ In the last war, as now, gBul- (Continued on oy gh

The impending end of the Battle of Greece and the

flict increasingly duplicates the strategic pattern

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