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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 39

The Indianapolis Times

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FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1941

Nazis Drive On Athens, Admit Many British Escaped Trap

| U.S. EXTENDS PATROL TO GREENLAND

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3 PLEAS FILED BY PARTIES TO RIPPER FIGHT

Both Sides Urge Speed and Each Blames the Other For Delays.

By VERN BOXELL A flurry of legal activity broke out in the Battle for the State House today, each side attempting to pin all blame for delay on the other. Climaxing the maneuvering was a plea by Republican attorneys that the Supreme Court rule on whether

a constitutionality test of the G. O.|

P. “decentralization” laws exists in| the declaratory judgment suits filed | by Governor Henry F. Schricker. Earlier, the Democratic attorneys had requested that the Supreme Court rule on the constitutionality| of the “ripper” laws when it hands]| down an opinion on the appeal. But! the G. O. P. counsel, in a response filed today. said that “the issues in this appeal do not include any question of whether any part of any! statute is constitutional and this, court ean not constitutionally decide any issue not presented by the appeal.” Oral Argument Sought

the

Step-by-step, court moves went this way: 1. The Democrats asked immediate oral arguments on a G. O. P. appeal from the injunction order issued March 31 by Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox which blocks appointments by G. O. P.-dominated boards under the contested “ripper” laws. They asked the Supreme Court to order the hearing without waiting for the filing of briefs. 2. The Republicans asked for a change of venue from the county

New 28-Ton Tank Smashes Through All Hazards ™ tS Jai

200.000 TONS OF SHIPS SUNK. BERLIN CLAINS

‘German Mountain Troops Circle Thermopylae, English Retreat.

ACTION TAKEN 10 COUNTERACT * MOVES BY AXIS

Ships to Roam Half-way to British Isles; FDR By JOE ALEX MORRIS | United Press Foreign News Editor | Denies Convoy Intent but Stresses

Axis armies were reported push-| Canada Defense.

ing on toward Athens in the face lof bitter Allied resistance today and A ke Sree WASHINGTON, April 25 (U. P.y.—President Roosevell that increasing aid from the United qqiq today that the United States is taking action to counter ‘act Axis forces which may be in Greenland and indicated that an extended naval patrol system will be employed to ‘make good our promise to get war supplies to Britain.

Saud We 3 ~ Sea Losses Stressed Charging across its testing field, a 28-fon Chrysler tank splinters a telephone pole. In the background is a reviewing stand and the huge Detroit arsenal where tanks like this are being built, capable of breaking down poles, crushing houses and running through water hazards. They carry 75 mm, cannon. The first tank of this type was turned over to the U. S. Army yesterday following a test of its power and maneu-

verability,

to Greece whatever the

in the declaratory judgment cases! 2 PER CENT WAIT now pending in Circuit Court. | 3. Asserting that a “very dangerous precedent” had been set by the Supreme Court, G. O. P. attorneys asked a rehearing on their petition for a writ of prohibition. They pointed out that “this is the first time in the history of the entire |

‘What's What’ on Taxes. United States where any such in-|

junction has ever been allowed to} BY EARL RICHERT a stand by any court of last resort, Over two months ago. Governor and the decision herein is manifest- | Schricker, comply ing with §; Joie ly erroneous and a very dangerous|!ion passed by the G. O. P -domi-

, » [nated Assembly, asked the U. S. prpetient. Revenue to

: { Bureau of Internal . Th . 0. P. waiv p - veisk ml & vo : ot Va ven e al - | grant the state treasurer permission nied that the high court could rule [to examine income tax returns of

on the constitutional questions now. {the defunct Two Per Cent Club

- and its former officers. Public Interest Cited

{ Up to date, State The first two actions were filed James Givens has not “heard one vesterday, the third this morning.

word” as to whether he has been In asking a speed-up in appeal granted or refused permission to procedure, Attorney General George

examine the returns. . He said today that he was going Beamer, representing the Democrats, ; said:

[to write a letter to the Internal “Matters of highest

Revenue Bureau in an effort to portance concerning the operation

learn “what's what.” of State government «are ins

He said that he would also ask whether, if he is granted permisvolved in this appeal and the public interest demands that a final de-

sion, he must come to Washington TE to look over the returns or if the cision be had at the earliest possible Bureau would send the records to moment.” In their response, the G. O. P.| Mr. Givens, can be used only to : determine whether addi:ional gross (Continued on Page 18) 3 LOVELY WORDS to U. S. Treasury regulations, “If anyone owes the state gross The resolution, a copy of which po was sent to the Internal Revenue . 40 {certain individuals and the Two Per Cent Club of Indiana have been (respect to income tax liability for past years.”

Threatens to Write Internal Revenue Bureau to Learn

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| him. claimed the issues in the appeal | income tax deficiencies for the past FAIR AND WARMER income tax, I certainly want to Bureau by the Governor, stated . 43 1pm 37 under investigation by the U. S.

The returns, if made available to were limited to the power of the vears should be assessed. according know about it.” Mr. Givens said. LOCAL TEMPERATURES that “it is common knowledge that 48 Fair skies and warmer temperatures were forecast for Indianapolis , Bureau of Internal Revenue with for today, tonight and tomorrow by

the Weather Bureau. Although the bureau refused to be pinned down,

| Treasurer

British defenses at Thermopylae un n ou HULL AND KNOX ‘at the time of the U. S. | % —__ . | States was acting in this connec- f | | Greenland defense pact, the |though Berlin admitted loss of two] The German Embassy, apprised of duction of at least $1,000,000,000 in Federal non-defense spending to! |states and local governments “have | gifts, Rep. Doughton called a secret

| States would reach Great Britain. A Nazi High Command c:tatement that German armies in |after a bitter thiserjay Dactle and Mr. Roosevelt said he did not know definitely whether {were driving on toward Athens was a aw . |partly offset for the Allies by the Axis forces were in Greenland, but that they may be and words of Washington Administra- this nation is taking steps to counteract that situation. tion spokesmen. Suggestions that German forces {may already have occupied part of tion came from President Roose- pirate Department disclosed |velt soon after both Berlin and § J ‘that German weather parties {Rome had attacked as “war mon-| . gering” Administration speeches! ‘had once been discovered on [calling for America to carry] ; ice- i [through full aid to Britain, : the yi Shed en and | Cabinet Officials Imply were “cleared out. i | The President did not reveal what The Germans also put emphasis Naval Force to Be Used | action is being taken about Greens | | If Necessary. land. The new pact gave this coune of her best-known U-boat com-! ; - ___!manders and their ships. | a | Official announcements reported | WASHINGTON, April 25 (U. P).\Mr. Roosevelt's allusion to the pose ’ that the ‘otal of enemy shipping|—Vigorous statements by Secretary sible presence of Nazi troops in BIVENS TIRES OF Share Load, States Told [SOCIAL WORKER: i: = 5 iba ho sie corse sna wow mb si Lys efi i * |effor o prevent embarkation of] ; » ’ t “thig|Of any Axis occupation o a ane i . ’ { - : | British troops from Greece pwc] Secretary. Pratik Eat Ried . ish territory. WASHINGTON, April 25 (U. P.)—Chairman Robert L. Doughton | 'reached almost 200,000 tons, com-|is our fight” appeared today | Mr. Roosevelt said also that aid (D. N. C) of the House Ways and Means Committee urged state and | local governments today to “take back” the task of paying for public | works and part of work relief. ease Federal financing of the de- | | fense and British-aid programs. The | surtaxes on individual incomes— plea was made in connection with | beginning on the first dollar of tax‘the $3,600,000,000 program which able income—for new and increased | Treasury officials urged the Ways excise and luxury taxes, new corand Means Committee to adopt yes- | poration income surtaxes, upward | terday. | revision of the excess profits levy, (been paying off their debts while meeting of the committee today to {we have been increasing the Fed-|plan further hearings, beginning eral debt.” | Monday. | “It seems they could well take | Assistant Secretary of Treasury | back a part of the load to ease the John L. Sullivan, explaining the { Federal tax burden,” he said. | Treasury program, maintained that After receiving Treasury Depart- it was “eminently fair,” and re-

Greece had won their way past the His remark recalled that | Greenland and that the United jon the Axis successes at sea, al-| Ly: the right to set up bases there, pared to a total of 254,000 tons..of | confirm indications that the United hag been, and will continue to be, | He advocated that step to cairy out a Treasury appeal for a re- | Mr. Doughton contended that the{and heavy taxes on estates and (Continued on Page 1°?

ment recommendations for drastic|

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Demands Perkins Resign

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Old Time Reformer Gone Mrs. Baker Sells New Type to People.

Long before 1929, the social worker appeared on the American scene as a bookish kind of reformer, accepted by the public as a kindly sort of character whose heart was in the right. place. But when he assumed prominence in the expenditure of relief billions, the social worker became identified with the depression and its dislocations of which everyone became heartily tired.

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British ships sunk in the Dunkirk evacuation. It was claimed that another 50,000 tons had been sunk elsewhere by bombers, raiders and U-boats and that 872 vessels totaling 1,900,000 tons had been seized by Germany since the start of the war. Many British Escape The Battle of Greece continued to go against the Allies, but German progress toward Athens was much less rapid than had been expected at Berlin. , There were indications from Nazi sources that the British may have succeeded in evacuating a large part of their troops as a result of the herdic rear guard action by Imperial troops at Thermopylae. The Germans said that the Brit-

| By UNITED PRESS The labor situation was highlighted today by the demand of Senator | Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.) for the resignation of Secretary of Labor Frances | | Perkins and appointment of a “two-fisted man with intestinal fortitude”

as her successor.

| Senator Byrd criticized from the Senate floor what he described as dianapolis assembled at the Clay-|

Miss Perkins’ “astounding ineptitude” in handling strikes affecting de-| fense. . Meanwhile, the Defense Mediation | Board brought operators and miners | together in an effort to end the soft coal shutdown “as quickly as possible.” John L. Lewis, president of United Mine Workers (C. I. O.), led a dele- | gation of 10 miners into the conference, which also was attended by five representatives each of Northern and Southern operators. “Our only objective is to get the mines reopened as quickly as pos|sible,” said William H. Davis, chair-

General Motors strike involving 135,000 workers reached an appar-

000 worth of defense contracts.

A genera: walkout loomed at Detroit after negotiators admitted a stalemate on two paramount issues:

‘plants. | Twenty-four other labor disputes {clogged defense production as the man of the three-man panel. Oth- House of Reptesentatives rules comers on the panel are Walter Teague, | mittee announced it would vote |chaitman of Standrad Oil of New Tuesday on whether to report the Jersey, and Clinton Golden of the Vinson compulsory mediation bill

Last minute efforts to avert ol

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of the forecast indicated spring is “* on its way back to Indiana.

| At Chicago the Carnegie-Illinois | Steel Co, largest subsidiary of Unit-

ROY F. HARTZ, LOAN

{to the House floor. | A strike of 2000 A. F. of L. con-| {struction workers was settled at San

the American people . . this time

|as one of the nation's front line|

defenses.

To do this job of publicity better, 8Uns on it and that every bridge | hensive radio talk on the subject 250 representatives of private and (had been blown up in the British | soon by President Roosevelt. Neither

pool Hotel this morning for the In-

Institute of Public Relations. Mrs. Baker outlined the “A, B, |C.’s” of the job, sharing the morn|ing institute program with William | H.

{ merce. Mr. Book spoke on “Public | Relations and Social Legislation.” At this afternoon's session, Norman E. Isaacs, Indianapolis Times

'A 10-cent wage increase and a | managing editor, was to speak on | closed shop in General Motors’ 6 [7 Piiblie Relations in Social Work |

rom a Newspaperman's Point of | View.” Miss Gertrude Taggart, member of the Children's Bureau Board of the Indianapolis Orphan Asylum, was to speak on “Public

To Mrs. Helen Cody Baker, na-| Crab tionally known publicist for the Chi- [on the ships first while docks and | application, cago Council of Social Agencies, and |cranes were still intact and had | reach its destination in the shortest hundreds like her, has fallen the sacrificed the heavy artillery to [of time and in maximum quantity. task of selling social work back to make it possible to use as small a | So—ways must be found to do this.”

ish had loaded their heavy guns

rear guard as possible. Berlin sources said that every mountain along the road had heavy

| public social service agencies in In- '!etreat.

Line Still “Unbroken” The British claimed that despite

|dianapolis Council of Social Agencies their latest “withdrawal,” the de-,

fense line was still “unbroker” and that heavy casualties had been in|flicted on the Germans. * | The German Army apparently

Book, executive vice president of | Was approaching Athens bus its ex- | REPLY TO LINDBERGH

ent deadlock, threatening $750,000,- | the Indianapolis Chamber of Com- &Ct Position was uncertain. Berlin reported that Nazi troons ; page from history to their way past Thermopylae

had stolen a (win where a British {drive at bay. The German High Command re(Continued on Page 12)

$627,246 LOW BID

Calls Hitler's Birth ON WATER GO, DAM

rearguard held the € press t

States sobn would extend its naval | extended activities in the Atlantic to insure| “temporary outcome” of the war delivery of war supplies to Great | there, Britain. Neither Cabinet member directly : mentioned convoys or the more The President was emphatic in favored alternatives “short-of-con-| defending the right of this country voys.” But both, in separate|to extend its neutrality patrol speeches last night, struck the | wherever necessary to defend the theme: “We've got to deliver the safety and security of this hemi goods” to Britain. They implied that |Sphere. The patrol, he said, could force would be used to do so, if| be extended to all of the seven seas necessary. if such a step were required to pro Secretary Knox said: “We have! tect our interests. OR OT ChRs . . . We can-| He denied ‘that the United States not allow our goods to be sunk in plans to iustituie SERYOYS for ic—we shall be beaten if getting American materials to Re Ariane Wessun Britain but said the patrol in the

id: + ad Atlantic is being extended. Secretary Hull said: “Aid must 3 be supplied without hesitation to ay id 10g 35) Nitin the patrol | Great Britain and other countries. protect supply ships moving to |. . . This policy means, in practical

; Britain. that such aid musti™ nr," ta1ked of plan in that con=

nection is the extension of the U. 8. neutrality patrol at least 300-miles off Newfoundland, and possibly Greenland, which would cover almost half of the sailing distance from Halifax to the British Isles,

Compares Pioneer Practice

Denies Convoy Plans

Some members of Congress be[lieved that the Knox-Hull speeches |were a prelude to a more compre-

| me msm ahead. - \ | These pioeer patrols, he cone F. D. R. GIVES SHARP tinued, went out 200 or 300 miles |because it wasn't safe to wait until {Indians were discovered only two : {miles away. WASHINGTON. April 2s (U. Bo. Asked to define the difference bee | —President, Roosevelt today sharply | wee), patrols and convoys, the |eriticized Col. Charles A. Lindbergh | pn. coon said that convoying ins land others in this country who ex-{ =." ‘A jan . tvolved the escorting of merchant

he opinion that the Axis will ships in a group to protect them

{defeat Britain. ‘ ha frogqn attack. Patrols, he said, ine Their viewpoint, he told a Press | olve reconnaissance over certain

conference, is like that of the ap-| . : _|areas of the oceans to find out if peasers who Wanted George Wash lany aggressive ships might be coms

: I ington to surrender to the British |, into ihe Western Hemisphere. New developments, the President

during the hardships of Valley | Forge. He also compared them to | ° ; (continued, show that the danger of Ine: Copperheads of Jue Civil War attack is now greater than in 1938,

ica tory. : Period oA Vas sorry | And, he continued, in the United

A Human Disaster Smith & Johnson, Local

that there were people with such {mentalities in high places where [they could write or talk.

States has an obligation under the Monroe Doctrine to protect Canada against attack by any power oute

CHURCHILL TO BROADCAST LONDON, April 25 (U. P.)).—Prime Minister Winston Churchill will broadcast a speech at 9 p. m. 3 p. m. Indianapolis Time) Sunday. It was assumed that Churchill] would review the war in Greece and the Mediterranean generally.

FIRM HEAD, IS DEAD

Lifetime City Resident Is Stricken in Florida.

Roy F. Hartz, president of the

WILLKIE DEMANDS ‘FACTS’ American Loan Co. for nearly a quarter century, died yesterday at

PITTSBURGH, April 23 (U. P). hi i i SR TL Wile cared oon winter home in Miami Beach. the Administration today to give! Mr. Hartz, whose home he the American people the “full {at the Marott Hotel, was a x Bw facts” on the reported sinking of|resident of Indianapolis and had war materials en route to Great been prominent in Indianapolis Britain and urged immediate steps pysiness life many years. His asto halt the sinkings, |sociation with the American Loan

Co. began more than 35 years ago. TIMES FEATURES His death closely followed that of ON INSIDE PAGES

(his long-time associate, W. A.

who died March 17. Mr. Hartz was a member of the Seventh Christian Church. ColumAUtos ......s +34! Johnson 22 bia Club, Scottish Rite. the Shrine Clapper .......21| Movies .....28 and Calvin Prather Lodge. F. & A. Comics 38 Mrs. Ferguson 22 M. all of Indianapolis, and the Rod Crossword ....36 Obituaries ....14 and Reel Club at Miami. Editorials 22 Pyle Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Financial Radio ........20|L. Pride Hartz; a son, W. P. Hartz, Flynn Mrs. Roosevelt 21 and a granddaughter, Miss Suzanne School News .. 9 Hartz, all of Indianapolis. | Serial Story ..38 Services will be conducted Mon-

Umphrey, founder of the company,

|ed States Steel, closed two blast fur- Diego, Cal, after delaying work on |naces as a result of a coal shortage $3,500,000 worth of naval housing {caused by a work stoppage in the projects for 10 hours. The Navy coal industry. granted wage increases.

Athens Full of Soldiers

By GEORGE WELLER Copyright. 1941. by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News. Ine.

ATHENS, April 24 (Delayed). —Suspended halfway between war and peace, Athens today fought off new seaside and waterfront air raids by | German dive-bombers while Greek soldiers, newly released from the | Mibaniah front, greeted the duel, between expert Nazi 'fliers and Hellenic anti-aircraft gunners with cheers. Meanwhile, a reported landing on the island of Euboeca was said to have been thwarted by Britisi | demolition experts blowing up had been in Janina said the GerChalkis Bridge between the main-/ man authorities there had allowed land and the island, the largest of them to depart without hindrance, the Greek kingdom, in the Aegean!although entitled to hold them as Sea. war prisoners. | The principal victim of today’s sus-| Because the capital is the only {tained attacks on the coastline was absolutely sate place against the a small freighter with a large num- omnipresent German aviation, liv(ber of British civilian passengers,|ing accommodations are becoming including many women and chil-|scarce, some of the soldiers being |dren aboard. In full view of metro- obliged to sleep in the busses in |politan roofs, the boat was attacked which they arrived. But glisteningland sunk at Piraeus, the port of eyed soldiers and their sweethearts, Athens, by 12 German planes, four reunited for the first time, strolled of which did the actual dive-bomb- the boulevards in enlocked pairs. {ing from a height of a few hundred oblivious of everything except the

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BOSTON, April 25 (U. P.).—

University anthropologist, said last night that “the failure of medical science to sterilize the wife of one Alois Schicklgruber (Adolf Hitler's mother) “was the greatest human catastrophe of the t century.” He told the 25th annual session of the American College of physicians it was unfortunate that medical science failed to use its knowledge to prevent the birth of persons almost certain to be anti-social, and that it lacked the knewledge ‘“unerringly to take surgical measures against the birth of a Hitler or a Mussolini.” He advocated birth control, sterilization and euthanasia as means of “checking human degradation,” saying they could be used “to prevent the existence of hundreds of thousands of individuals whose heredity obviously is so bad that the chances of their living useful or even innocuous lives are virtually nil.”

TRAINING OF GIRLS URGED

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt advocated today in an article in the

‘(a hearing March 31.

Firm, Submits Estimate.

Prof. Earnest A. Hooton, Harvard |

The Indianapolis Water Co. to|day announced that the low bid for

| construction of its proposed 1800|foot dam on Fall Creek to form the Oaklandon reservoir has been submitted by Smith & Jackson, local (contractors, whose figure as | $627,246. H. S. Morse, vice president and general manager of the utility, said eight bids were received and opened March 31, but announcement of the results was withheld pending approval of the project by the Indiana Public Service Commission and the Marion County Flood Board. The Commission approved the project April 18 after conducting The Flood {Board held a hearing on the com|pany’s petition March 27, and sub|sequently, on April 23, conducted a | public hearing, but has not taken |action yet. | Mr. Morse said the combination |of extended drought and increased demand for water because of war defense production makes it im|portant to the company to get the

NEW YORK, April 25 (U. P.).— project under way as rapidly as pos-

I sible. Other contracts must be nego-

Those who say that the dictator- |side of the Western Hemisphere. ships are et win are wrong,| The President would not say what he continued. The American peo- |instructions have been ‘as to what ple, he said, were going to fight for | the neutrality patrol is to do if it | democratic processes. |sees a British convoy attacked.

War Moves Today

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

Reports from European information centers describing German plans for new forthcoming offensives are based on emotional reactions to the rapid German thrust through the short distances to the Balkans rather than on a realistic examination of the difficulties of far-flung campaigns. While Hitler's next adventure is his own secret, nevertheless his military machine has no power for perpetual motion despite its spectacular use of blitzkrieg methods over the limited areas. Present trans-Atlantic rumors credit the Fuehrer with planning the strategy for five major operations during |the coming months. They are, first, a drive through Spain to capture Gibraltar; second, a drive through Turkey, to reach Suez; third, a diversion from the Turkish movement to occupy the oil fields of Iraq and possibly Iran; fourth, an offensive from Libya to the Nile; fifth, an attack against Russia to gain access to the Ukraine grain fields. These combined operations, added to the maintenance of supply routes

from New York to San Francisce and back to Chicago. For the movement of large bodies of men over such distances, it is necessary to use railways. It seems reasonably certain that not more than 10 per cent of the German army is mechanized and possibly not

Homemaking. . In Indpls .... Inside Indpls.. Jane Jordan.

.29 State Deaths.. 7 Presbyterian Church officiating.

| Side Glances..22 day at the Flanner & Buchanan 3 Society. . 24, 25, 29 Mortuary, with the Rev. Sidney

| A brown tide of soldiers engulfed 21 Sports. .31, 32, 33! Blair Harry of the Meridian Heights

the city, many from the army that had been in Albania, Some who

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fact of being together after six months of war. The German Legation, located in (Continued on Page 12)

Ladies’ Home Journal a year of tiated for the stripping of the resercompulsory service for girls as part|voir site of trees, houses, fences and of a permanent home defense pro-ifor the relocation of roads and bridges,

in conquered Jugoslavia and Greece, would require the protection of lines of communication aggregating over 5000 miles. That is the distance

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as much. The rest of the combat arms must follow rail routes, excep for the comparatively small n (Continued on Page 18)