Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1941 — Page 3
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1941
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Nation Will Survive 4
Athens Waits Calmly in Shadow of Doom; Sur render Called 'Excusable.’
By RICHARD
United Press Staff Correspondent ATHENS. GREECE. April 23, 3:30 p. m. (Delayed)—Athens lives in| the shadow of impending doom. relieved only by the calm philosophy of | the Greek people who believe that “no matter what happens, Greece
Will survive.» (This dispatch was sent about
hounced by radio that the Greek Arm
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the British Imperials still fighting Off Germans in the east, and that he and the Government was fleeing to the island of Crete.) As I look into the sad faces Around me, especially those of the Greek wounded limping in the
Streets, I can see the calm resigna- |
tion of a people still confident of their eventual destiny. At the battle front the fighting continues under a broiling sun. (In London the Athens radio was
heard broadcasting last night a war |
communique saying there were no
details of the capitulation of the]
Greek northern army but that ‘other Greek troops continued their orderly withdrawal.” The Public Security Ministry was quoted that waves of German planes attacked Pireaus, the island of Salamis and other regions of Attica. causing considerable damage to ships and in-
stallations and a few civilian cas-|
ualties) About an hour ago Premier Manel Tsouderos read a proclamation to the people saying he was leaving for Crete with the King, and expressing “the firm will of all of us not. to submit to the invader.” He referred to the German invaRion as “an attack of an empire of 100.000,000 persons on our backs in order to save her cowardly partner which we had defeated.” Of the capitulation by the army in Epirus, he said, “The military signed with the Germans without being ordered seems to have been
Aosta Spurns Warning
LONDON, April 24 (U. P) —Ita ing that
safety of Italian civilians in Ethiopian areas not under British controi | will be in operation by unless the Italians lay down their arms, it was announced today. The warning was given by Maj. Gen. A. G. Cunningham, British
commander-in-chief in East Africa, Italian Viceroy of Ethiopia, who went to Khartoum to negotiate. Cunningham told the envoy April 15 that there must be a compiete Italian surrender. Two days later the envoy returned and asked that proposals be made in writing be-
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Assassinated? 5) TONS SHELL , THPOLI HARBOR
‘Big British Guns Roar and Vast Sea of Flames Lights Up Axis Base.
By GRATTAN P. McGROARTY United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD A BRITISH WARSHIP IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, OFF “TRIPOLI, April 21. — (Delayed) —
I have just seen the greatest naval bombardment of the war.
| From the deck of a British war|ship I watched naval rifles hurl more than 500 tons of steel and high explosive upon the German and Italian base at Tripoli. Naval officers tell me that possibly never in the history of the Royal Navy has a greater single bombardment been carried out by the fleet that flies the white ensign. The Mediterranean fleet raced silently through ‘the night to get | into position for its daring attack. Then, in the white glare of an eS early morning moon the big guns spoke.
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three hours after King George any in Epirus had capitulated, leaving
an act prompted by exhaustion, which is excusable after such an uneven but victorious six months] struggle (against the Italians)....” I met two British soldiers who | sai® they had been taken prisoner by the Germans and had escaped. They said the Germans were ravenously hungry, and were “‘ransacking houses for food. turning the inhabitants out into the streets.”
“We belonged to an armored unit {protecting the militia and Australian sappers as they blew up bridges, covering the withdrawal of Imperial troops” they said. “We had not the faintest idea the Germans were near. An ox cart filled with Greek civilians passed, then came a machine gun. They made
Jean Fontenoy, president of the Nazi-approved Popular Assembly Party in Paris, has been missing for eight days and Vichy reports indicate he may have been murdered.
POWDER PLANT | Vast Sheet of Flames | The warships were within pointblank range of the harbor after 10 PEN E ARLY having swept their way through mine-infested waters off Tripoli. EY As the big shells exploded, a vast ho ana the Creek Clvilighs My A —————— sheet of fiames shot up from the bridge to test it for mines. Eight target area. The firing continued Germans polished off our two : . . : weeks supply of rations in about 10 Charlestown Will Produce fof Tyres. kit wat one of the minutes. We mingled with the First Batch by May 1 etl a pho Greeks, escaped down the road and § [ereales, concentralions on Jus Powlater some civilians gave us cloth- |er ever trained on a single objec- . . a d | Col. Hardy Says. | tive. The fires increased rapidly ing and hid us in the hills. The| | among the enemy positions Germans er hating the Ertish | Times Special | (An official Admiralty announceHEY Hund. € swam the Vardar, CHARLESTOWN, Ind. April 24. ment today—Thursday—said that Per whom § ave tamed —The first batch of smokeless gun- 1,187,200 pounds of explosives had rsons whom 1 hav a | o N been poured into Tripoli.) insist that this campaign has not (powder will come off the production "pi oot hits were scored on target been a waste of heroism or human line of the huge new Government after target, including the Spanish life from the British point of view powder plant here by May 1, 17 days fort, the quays. the underground oil —that the British perils Here {ahead of schedule. depots. One-ton shells appeared to are giving the rmans a ow . : ‘ explode on these and other targets they will never forget. By the middie of May the first with shattering force. production line will be going at full a speed, turning out 100,000 pounds of | Defenders Off Guard cannon powder daily, according to! The British attack apparently Lieut. Col. R. BE. Hardy, plant con- caught the defenders of Tripoli off {struction and operating officer. guard. The secomd of the six production] The naval bombardment started
ly has received and rejected a warn-|
British forces in East Africa would not be respensible for the lines to be constructed at the plant a few minutes after British bombers
June. Lieut. had heavily pounded Tripoli from {Col. Hardy said. 4 until nearly 5 a. m. Each line will produce 1000000 As the battleships, cruisers and to an envoy of the Duke of Aosta, pounds of smokeless powder daily. destroyers silently glided into fir- | Five of the lines will produce pow- ing positions off Tripoli, I saw burning houses and looting. There der for the cannon of the U. S. Scores of bombs fall along the Tripare no British troops in that area. Army and Navy while one line will ol sea front. There are tens of thousands of produce powder for small arms. The Italian and German batteries Italian civilians in areas of Ethiopia The last of the six production sent up JNindreqs of anti-aircraft which the British forces have not lines is Scheduled to begin operation | Shells and tracer bullets in a futile
attempt to hit the British bombing
vet occupied. but from which Italian around Christmas.
CE ener ss ve ce 1) 6 AWLESS. SAY BERLIN SPOKESMEN
to avenge alleged cruelties of the BERLIN, MN a.
cause, in view of their importance, they must be forwarded to Rome. A day or two later, it was announced. a reply was received from the Duke of Aosta that he would not cease fighting. He emphasized that the responsibility for the Italian population was up to Britain “in areas occupied by the British.” It was said authoritatively that the Government had received “fairly reliable” reports that in the Jimma' area of Ethiopia native troops are
Italian Administration. i
In his message to the Duke of Aosta. Gen. Cunningham said: | “It is the duty of British military : commanders with all the forces at April
against the Italian Army with the that Baron Franz von Werra, utmost vigor and nothing will be German military flier who escaped
allowed to interfere with that ob- non a Canadian prison, had been ject as long as fighting continues.” justified in decamping from
| United States because “the United
{States no longer recognizes the
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their disposal to prosecute the war Authorized Nazi quarters said today 26,
the
! planes. Each Ship Assigned Target
| Each of the warships that took part in the attack was assigned | specific targets. | Six ships in the harbor were hit. | (The Admiralty announcement said that the bombardment had 'been even more successful than first thought, that two ships “were actually seen to sink.” one was seen to explode and four others were afire.) The railroad freight yards and power plants took direct hits and could be seen bursting into fire.
Cree, Seat of Government,
By UNITED PRESS The island of Crete, to which King George and the Greek Gov-
ernment has fled, is 60 miles off the tip of Greece in the Mediterranean. Britain sent troops there months before her imperials were landed on the mainland and the allies are believed to be entrenched in a position which might dominate the eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea. Crete is fourth in size among the Mediterranean’s islands. ranking behind Sicily, Sardinia and Cyprus. It is 35 miles wide and 160 miles long. Its area is about 3320 square miles. housing a population of approximately 400,000 persons. Its ruggedly indented northern coast offers only one completely protected anchorage for large vessels— at Suda. The south coast is less broken, and has no natural harbors. The greater part of the island is covered bv four principal mountain ranges, dotted with numerous caverns. best known of which is the Dictaen Cave at Lassithi, the birthplace of Zeus, chief of the Greek gods. Three rivers drain Crete’s central plain. emptying southward. Its principal cities are Candia, the former Cretan capital with a population of zbout 25000: Canea, the seat of government si:ce 1840, and Retimo. All are on the north coast. : An agricultural country. Crete’s development has been hampered by Jack of communications and a shortage of finances for roadbuilding. Its communications have
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is tie Traffic Record County City Total 10 26 26 23 20 April 23— Accidents 20 Injured ..... 4 Arrests. . .. 45 | Dead .. 4 WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines tried tions paid 24 20 $115 10 7
1940 1941
Speeding... Reckless driving Failure to stop at through street 11 Disobeying traffic signals , nw Drunken driving 4 All others ...... 51
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35 30 31 . 3
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15 2 10 95
Totals ... $260
MEETINGS TODAY Home Show Manufacturers’ Bidg., Fair Gieunds Promotion a Uni everin Hotel. Brown Instrument Co., meeting, 7:30 p. m., Severin Hotel Shell Oil Co.. meeting, 7:30 p. m., Sev-
erin Hotel. ade Association. §:15 p. m.
1. Severin Hote Association, luncheon,
ness noon Washington. on, Hole and Petroleum Credit Group. dinner 5:30 pb. m, Hotel Wash-
Scheel, reception, 6:30
ington, na! state Poatd, lunch-
apolis Home Show. noon. ton. udian pals Club, annual ousiness
ng. ink-Arms Hotel. 8 p.m. Y 3) mezica n Philosophical Association annual public address meetng Hotel Lincoln
4:30 p.m. ng b of Indianapelis, luncheon. Indianapolis n Caravan Club.
D. of C.. meeting, §
Athletic Club. noon. luncheon, Murat Temple,
noon. Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon. oi Camera Club, meeting, 110 “inth St. 8 b. . Thet
m. a Pi, luncheon, Canary Cot-
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Exiled Greek
principles of international law.” Armor-piercing shells fired by one | _ (The Department of Justice at British warship tore deep into an Washington reported Tuesday that! underground oil depot and the GerLacks H arbors von Werra had fled to South man and Italian naval headquarters amesies and termed it a “flagrant| were smashed. |abuse” of United States hospitality.) | The B:itis s - been hampered further by frequent, “The facts in the case are that he kied ah vombers Hey Sprine and often disastrous, earthquakes. was released on $10,000 bond,” they | the enemy positions before they Crete, the prize of numerous said. “Meantime another case came flew off. Mediterranean wars in ancient and up in which two German naval medieval times, has been Greek officers were handcuffed and handed | | since 1913, when it was ceded by over to Canada. | the Turks.
Vivid Glare Over Area
€ I watched fleet air arm planes Van Werra saw that the word | drop long-burning flares over at
It was the principal intermediary ‘hospitality’ evidently was accom-| the moment the British fleet in the transition of Oriental civili-| panied by dangers for German war| broadside into position for the pune zation to the Greek mainland, and prisoners and that the concept of bardment. The flares cast a vivid | |
its culture antedates that of Greece. | international law no longer has any glare over the target area. | Although its history is interlocked meaning to the United States. Apparently the shore batteries with Greece's, it took little part in ET thought that the air raid was still | the Persian and Peloponnesian wars CORSETIERS SAIL MEN in progress when the navy shells and during those conflicts Cretans ’ started to land and fired heavily were held in low esteem. The HAVE SAME WORRY at the flares. axiom, “all Cretans are liars,” be- | The concussion of the big guns gan then. CHICAGO, April 24 (U. P.).— rocked the battleship on which I Crete was held early by Egypt, A corsetier and a sailmaker have am writing this dispatch. The and successively passed into the problems in common. the Journal flashes of fire blinded me for a hands of the Romans, who incorpo- of the American Medical Associa-; moment. A little later the lighter rated it with Cyrenaica, the Byzan- tion said today. guns went into action and by this tine Empire, the Saracen pirates, “If the sails are not cut cor- time the whole fleet was participatthe Venetians, the Turks and finally | rectly,” said an article on “corsets ing in the bombardment. the Greeks. . and backache.” by a Boston physi- | The first run of the warships past jcian, “they do not draw right and Tripoli lasted for 20 minutes. SudCHER IS {hence the boat will not sail as fast| denly the fleet turned and headed las it should. back loosing terrific broadsides. SPECIAL GUEST HER | “There is a real art to cutting Two enemy shore batteries tried Dr. aul Mort, former Tech sails, and the same is true in the '© get the range of the fleet and teacher and now a professor at| cutting of cloth for corsets.” | Opened up. I felt the shells swish Teachers’ College of Columbia | ect gneiss tt tea atomntetat | overhead, dangerously close, and University, was a special guest at’ TRY DR. LITTLE MAY 21 | plunge into the sea. the Janes E. Roberts Schoo! for| CHICAGO, April 24 (U P).—The| Crippled Ghildren at a noon luach- case of Dr. Dorrington Little, 57, OLDEST RESIDENT DIES eon today. Evansville, Ind., charged with swin-| KOKOMO, Ind, April 24 (U. P). At 3:45 p. m. he was to address dling two men of more than $10,000, —Mrs. Clara Chittich, 80, oldest Indianapolis public school teachers today was continued to May 21 jn resident of Burlington, died here on “The Significance of Major Psy-| felony court. Two Chicago men al- ast night of injuries suffered when chological Discoveries Since 1900” leged Little posed as the adminis-| St'UCK by an automobile at Burling‘at Caleb Miils Hall, Shortricge High trator of the one-million-dollar| 0% March 15. She was the widow 'School. Dr. Mort visited Indianap- estate of his father-in-law, James| of Dr. A. J. Chittich, well-known olis schools this morning. | Moore, of Evansville. | Carroll County physician.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
wea U. S. Weather Bureau
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Fair with Ww. light to locally heavy frost tonight; tomorrow cloudy and warmer.
Sunrise ...... 4:54 Sunset
TEMPERATURE —April 24, 1990— 11 p. m,
BAROMETER 6:30 a. m. ... .. 30.30
Precipitation 24 hrs ending 7 a. m. . Total precipitation since San. EJ. Deficiency since Jan. 1 .. Caiensead
MIDWEST WEATHER
Indiana—Fair, slightly cooler in extreme south portion, light to locally heavy frost tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy and | warmer
Ilinois—Fair, slightly cooler in extreme south portion, light frost tonight: tomorrow partly cloudy and warmer, light showers in extreme northwest portion. Lower Michigan—Fair with light tonight: tomorrow partly clogs frost warmer with light showers in northwest portion and near Lake Michigan. Ohio—Fair with light to heavy frost tonight; somewhat colder in east and south portions tonight: tomorrow fair with rising temperature. Kentucky—Generally fair and cooler with light frost in exposed places in west and north portions tonight; tomorrow fair with rising temperature.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M.
Stations Amarillo, Tex. . Bismarck, N. D.
Leslie, Kathleen Ross, at Methodist. James. Alma Hunt, at Methodist. Robert, Beatrice Martin, at Methodist Sherman Elsie Stickles, at 415
Lambda Chi Alpha Alumni Association, Russet Cafeteria. noon Indianapelis Moter Transportation Club, | Ine., luncheon. Fox's Steak House, noon. ma Nu. luncheon, Columbia Club, | Norwood. Cy | Orville, Hattie Bohannon, at 1438 Ken- | ington. { Clyde, Alice Piper, at 2518 vania.
S. Pennsyl-
MEETINGS TOMORROW
, nk. Ennetta Terry. at 2864 Paris. gHitme Shiw, Mjanulacturers Bldg, Fair] Julius. Roberta Thomas, at 1538
N ) | Senate. ne ore. 10-30 oT pureat. | “Ollie. Myrtle Brown. at 339 8 Walcott.
es Wm. Unemployment Compensation Division, | Jeon. Helen Hendrixson, at 732 N. New meeting, Hote verin, 8. m. oo, , . Indiana Section, American Chemical Se. |, Theodore. Evelyn Walton. at 1822 Lexciety, biennial student meeting, Hotel Sev- Worter Blanche Blow. at 2241 Martin-
erin. all day dale eration of Community Civic Clabs,| ““griiiett Alma Wellbaum, at 2223 N Temple. :
meeting, Hotel Washington, 8 p. m Si Bruce. Roberta Nowlin, at 2820 Carroll-
| i in 3 1
Pp > { igma Chi. luncheon, Canary Cottage. |
noon. | na Chanee Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin, | Lawrence. Daisy Mann. at 1104 | "Optimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, | o Cecil, Clotinea Spurgeon, at 1
ing noon. : : Phi Delta Theta. luncheon, Canary Cot- Robert, Beatrice Grimes, at 1224 W. New
tage, noon ork. : ; Delta Taw Delta. luncheon, Columbia -Horace, Flossie McGinnis, at 123 Albany. Boys
Club, noon. ppa Sigma. luncheon, Canary Cottage.| john, Catherine Petty, at City James, Ethel Fraser, at Coleman. Raymond, Alice Cooney, at St. Vincent's. Kenneth, Anna Harker, at St. Vincent's. Virgil, Lucille Childress. at St. ‘Vincent's. Immer, Viola Welsh, at Methodist. d a Helen Harris, at 2427 Martin-
ale. Charles, Willoughby, 1238
Homer, Esther rs, at 1011 E. Ninth comiiliam, Eva Buchanan, at 1046 Whit:
Oliver 123 N
. Ka noon MARRIAGE LICENSES
(These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times
is net respon for errors in names and addresses.) Alma at
Marvin L. Pitkin, 22. of 1445 Saulcy; Clelline Linder, 17, of 338 Beauty. Charles H. Rice Jr. 43 of Atlanta, Ga.: Helen D Seward, 37.
‘of 3382 N. New Jersey. Max E Fogers, 17, of 38 E Ninth:
K. 18. of 831 Euge jam M_ Browning, 2%, Marjorie Ferree, 23,
DEATHS Mary Hartup, 68, at 978 Stillwell, cardio vascular renal. -| Sanford H. Robinson, 77, at 3921 Broaa- -| way, uremia. Emma L. Nelson, 78, at 2007 N. Capitol, cardio vascular renal Mike at St. Vin-
Mitchel Cohen. 48, pyonephrosis. Flossie B. Siebert. 49, at 215 EB St. Joe, Sulmolaly tuberculosis. Lillian Miller, 26, at St. broncho-pneumonti
a. Mary Elizabeth Phillips, 82. at 6028 Col1 cerebral hemorrhage. phigus Clara
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Will Ha wing M. Hamilton, 26, of 2018 W. Vermonk Dona L Smith, —, 6%h and Val-
ley View, Ho E Ba an. 58. of Sheldon, Wis.: Elsie Raab, of Lawrence, Ind. Joseph Shapiro . of 1431 Sturm: Dora
33 Livin. 28, of 1431 Sturm.
BIRTHS Girls Russell. Marjorie Sellers, at St. Robert. Elizabeth Brooks, at St. Francis. Clarence, Virginia Brown, at City. | Louis, Evangeline Shepherd, at St. Vincent'’s. Leonard, Ruby Hubbell at Methodist. Lila, Dorothy Markie, at Methodist Harold, Dorothy Dukes, at M
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Vincent's,
muel Gross, 52. at Methodist, New vulgaris.
ga L. Lewis 86 at Central, arterio-
sclerosis. Elzada Caine. 58 at City. PFdward LaShelle, 56. at 1 sylvania, coronary occlusion. I. Newton Johnston, 74, at 1131 8. West, hy . 3 Having 71, at 918 N fi nna M. Halbing, 71, a . Garfield hypertension, ;
pem-
Francis.
nephritis. 716 N. Penn-
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