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FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1041 If 0

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MAY WORRY NAZI

Germany Must Move Slow

Racial, Religious and Language Groups of South- |

east Into New

By DAVID Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis T

BERLIN, April 25.—Bismarck was credited with say-| defenses above Thermopylae, and ing at one time “There are only two people in Europe who the pass itself, against German at-

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ly in Trying to Fit Various European Order.

M. NICHOL imes and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

The dispatch below was fled at Athens just prior to the appearance in Berlin of the first reports that the Germans had broken through at Thermopylae. By GEORGE WELLER

t. 1941, ov Tie Indianapolis Times | The Chicazo Daily News, Inc.

ATHENS, Greece, April 23 (Delayed).—Fighting a stout delaying action in what is admittedly a forlorn cause—the defense of Greece's sacred city against the Germans— a handful of British Imperial troops) are trying to hold the mountain!

eonidas Would H

ail British Eumeboean Gulf to about 300 yards, instead of an equivalent number of feet. Toward this slender line, scores of trucks filled with men

moved past the writer for hours, Monday morning, while the stars

|paled. Few of these men spoke;

they understood that their mission was to hold the line as long as possible—and with little or no aviation to help them. Last week, when hope was still held out that the Pindus-Olympus line, north of Larissa, would hold, the writer slept in a deserted farmhouse beside the warm sulphur springs which, emerging from the

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Stand at Pass

tine highway climbing the mountainside behind Thermopylae, but the Austrian alpine troops who handled the captuge of Mt. Olympus no longer have the road to help them. Your correspondent’s car, passing down the mountain on Sunday, was almost the last to traverse its hairpin zigzags before the bridge blew up the salient culverts. Like the highway across the Thessalian plain from Larissa, littered

tims of Nazi strafing, the serpentine is garnished with vehicles which

with scores of skeleton trucks, vic-|

JAPANESE LINER

Los Angeles FBI Charges Suspicion of Violating Draft Measure.

LOS ANGELES, April 25 (U, P.), ~The Federal Bureau of Investiga= tion today held four Germans, | seized aboard the Japanese liner Buenos Aires Maru at sailing time, “on suspicion of violating the Selective Service and Training Act.”

NABS 4 NAZIS ON

Plainfield High Will Give Play

Times Special « PLAINFIELD, Ind. April 25.— Miss Jean Gray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Gray, is a member of the cast of “Springtime in Eden,” senior class play of Plainfield High School which will be presented here at 8 p. m, today in the new school auditorium. She is one of 18 members in the cast and has been active in

ASK FLAG DAY REGISTRATION

Draft Officials Favoring June 14; Roosevelt Makes Decision.

WASHINGTON, April 25 (U.P.). —Selective Service officials today favored June 14—Flag Day—as the date for the next registration of men for compulsory military service.

President Roosevelt will make the

| lost their footing during the retreat

mountain, give the pass its name. land are now offering shelter for

| At that time it was thought that

Shaimatics and ; musical productions since her Miss Gray freshman year. The 46 members of the senior class, who will be graduated May 23, will leave the following morning for a con-

final decision as to the date. An executive order designating another registration day—the second since enactment of the Selective Service Act—is not far off, officials said.

Four automobile loads of FBI agents boarded the ship last night,

understand the Balkans problem. I am one and the other tacks from Lamia, the tae ey has already gone mad.” |wpon the opposite side of the {ye Germans would be stopped prolonged battle snipers. But, by| ii oaks ¢ : . ppb ‘ | marshy plain. {north of Lamia, at the mountain) the same token, even should the and searched 37 other Germans en This well illustrates the difficult maze the Germans must | There, between mountain foot- stronghold of Domokos, but, since, British fight their way forward into| route to Japan, thence to Germany. tread in unscrambling their newly-conquered southeastern hills and the sea, Leonidas’ 300 the latter's high plateau could not| the Lamian plain, they could not|The Buenos Aires Maru's departure

: : { Spartans died under a showering be used for artillery because re-| hold the latter long because the was delayed an hour while they territories. | searched the Germans, one by one,

No section of the world has land went through their luggage. such a mixture of racial, religious and language groups. Neighboring villages often have different tongues and isolated communities cling jealously to their national customs. There are, in Jugoslavia, for example, settlements of Jews who still speak Spanish, a backwash from the inquisition. To the Nazis, who have placed great emphasis on population and language borders, that would headache enough in itself. Preliminary conversations were held this week in Vienna, it has been announced, to lay the basis for the subsequent division while the impatient satellites of the Axis, particularly Hungary and sh Bulgaria, have Mr. Nichol been grabbing what they could.

Nazis Insist on Control

Germany is not at all prepared to permit any such haphazard cutting up of territory, and authorized circles here have pointed out that the future boundaries need not, and probably will not, follow the troop penetrations. Whether any program of resettlement on the gigantic scale that would be required to “nationalize” the Balkans will be undertaken, was not indicated. The Nazis in the past, however, have shown no reluctance to abandon their announced programs—as witness the Russian treaties—when they have some reason for doing so. In the case of the Balkans, there is a deeper consideration, from the German view, which probably will overrule any political question. Whatever solution of racial and language problems may be achieved, it can be counted on not to interfere with the economic new order so long as Germany continues to dominate the continent.

Decision Up to Berlin

Today's Boersen-Zeitung indicates this plainly in an article about the “opportunities for the southeast.” Now that England is being driven from the continent, the Balkan nations, this article says, can “at last adapt their individual national economies to their natural resouices and requirements.” Less plainly stated, but implied in all such declarations, is the fact that Germany will do most of the deciding about what these requirements actually include. Indastries have been overdeveloped in the Balkans, the BoersenZeitung argues. There must be more emphasis on agriculture. Its list of suggested crops included grain and oil seeds, both of which Germany could use, and “that type of

pgricultural product, such as pre-|

serves, meat and sausage, for which Germany could offer good markets.” Those factories already in operation in the area may be permitted to find a place in the integrated economy of Europe through such combines as the giant Hermann

| | Goering works, the paper indicates, adding that any further industrali[zation “will have to be kept within the limits of resources and require- | In one sense, the development is not unnatural. The German Colossus, in the last six years, has almost tripled its proportionate share in [Balkan exports, and supplies almost [half the total imports of the area. | For the future, the Boersen-Zeitung | says, such barriers as customs and [currency manipulations must also be removed, opening the way for leven further penetration. |" How long it will require to put such a system in working order is another question. It is one of the |paradoxes of the new order that, [in its urgency for economic opportunities under German domination, it has destroyed at least temporarily some of its most valuable possibilities. Jugoslavia, in 1939—last year for which nearly accurate estimates are available—supplied about $60,000,000 worth of produce, chiefly agricultural, to greater Germany and former Czechoslovakia.

Communications Damaged

But one of the features of the German blitz is the devastating at- | tack on communications, railroads |and bridges (and what the Germans did not destroy, the Jugoslavs probably did). To export agricultural produce to anyone will be largely impossible until this system is repaired. In former Poland bridges are still being rebuilt 18 months after the close of the campaign. Rigid rationing was not introduced there until last month, an indication that roads and railways have only now reached such a state that they can drain off the surplus to other parts of Ger- | many.

BUS SERVICE SOUGHT | BY BEL-ROSE GROUP

Additional mail service, street improvements and bus service, are among the subjects to be discussed by the Bel-Rose Civic League Monday at 7:30 p. m. at a meeting in School 91. C. Titus Everett, club president, said that committees also will be appointed at the meeting to carry out the gorup’s program to achieve better zoning, a community house and park and the extension of Baltimore Ave, through the east end of the Fairgrounds. The Rev. Harold W. Ranes of the North Baptist Church will give the invocation and assisting Mr, Everett will be Mrs. Allen Martin, secretary-treasurer and John Ford, vice president.

JIMMY IN MANILA; HINTS CHINA IS GOAL

MANILA, P. I, April 25 (U. P). —Capt. James Roosevelt, son of

President Roosevelt, arriving today by Clipper plane from Honolulu,| | said the guess that he was bound! | for Chungking, capital of national-| ist China, was “a very good one.” | Capt. Roosevelt formally declined to reveal his destination. The United States is aiding China to resist | Japanese aggression under the ‘Lend-Lease Act.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

County City Tetal 1940 Set RANR 10 26 36 1941 LAA RRR RAE ELE ER] 29 21 50

—April 24— Accidents .... 21 Injured ...... 4 Arrests ...... 41 (Dead ........ 0 THURSDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines tried tions paid Speeding ....... 7 ¥ $60 Reckless driving. 5 3 6 Failure to stop at through street. Disobeying traffic signals ... Drunken driving All others....... 13

1 1

5 33

sean

Totals ..evvee. 31 $109

MEETINGS TODAY Home Show, Grounds, all d

Indiana Motor Rate and Tariff Bureau, a

meeting, Hotel Severin, 10:30

nem m meeting, Hotel Severin, 8 a. m Indians

rin, all day. . Federation of Community Civie Clubs . m

ting, Hotel Washington, 8 p Ie Chi, luncheon, Canary

PO xchange Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin

Optimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club

Manufacturers’ Bldg. Fair ay

Compensation Division,

Section, American Chemical Society, biennial student meeting, Hotel Sev-

Cottage,

Boys Ellridge, Malinda Fox, at St. Francis. Earl, Margaret Henbree, at St. Francis. Albert. Frances Nichols, at St. Vincent's, aes, Catherine Brammeil, at Meth- | odist. Christian, Marg Niemeyer, at Methodist.

DEATHS

emia, | Nova Strawmever, 68, at 5002 Carrollton, | cerebral hemorrhage. | Amos Roberts, 75, at 548 Chase cerebral thrombosis | Thomas M. Hines, 24 at 1115 Laurel. acute dilatation of heart John Hennessy, 75 at 520 E. Vermont, cerebral hemorrhage.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

conn ween. Us 3. Weather Burean

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair today, tonight and tomorrow: somewhat warmer tonight and tomorrow. Sunrise..... 4:53 Sunset TEMPERATURE —April 25, 1940

BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m...30.36 Precipitation 24 hrs. endin

.| Total precipitation since | Deficiency since Jan. 1

4a. Mm... an. 1.....

of Persian )avelins, and today, calm, quisite aviation protection was un- lines of communications from the

stubborn men_ whom your correspondent saw digging themselves in two days ago, are meeting the combined attacks of German dive bombers, tanks and infantry,

The sea now is shrunken, widen-|

| available, further retirement to the | Thermopylae line because neces-

| sary.

an alternative to through the defile between

| serpentine downward is cut off.

| Thus the troops are literal suc-/ One man was made to remove his

| cessors of their Spartan heritage, Modern engineering has produced | fighting along the seaside corridor the passage, in order to protect their comrades the | far behind them at Thebes, Athens

ing the passable area along the! mountains and the sea, in a serpen-'and in Southern Greece.

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onger

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SLACKS— Important groupings

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—The customary 30-day account—the JUNIOR CHARGE ACCOUNT (payments are made weekly) —and accounts tailored to special needs. There will be the least amount of red tape—

AND NO CARRYING

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SATURDAY

shoes. Richard B. Hood, special agent in {charge of the FBI office here, refused to disclose what they were looking for, or discuss the arrests.

ducted tour of Washington, D. C., and the East.

It was indicated, however, that the charge was a technicality to hold the Germans until their case could

be considered by a Grand Jury.

UNTIL

Only those men who have reached the age of 21 since the original rege istration on Oct. 16 last will be obliged to register this year. The registration last October was for

men 21 to 35, inclusive.

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(3) Wardrobers (4) Clear Faces, including Glen plaids

Suits for business and when you are away from it—suits for travel and vacation, for sunny days and for cool, sultry nights.

Suits for downtown Indianapolis and for suburban areas .

for Churchill Downs . .. the Motor Speedway— for right straight through the summer.

NEW SIR!—in the best of taste and the best at YOUR price, no matter what the price!

GABARDINES, ....

beginning with the WEARINGTONS at $25—

FLANNELS— pec

Plain grays and chalk stripes;

and ending with the Hickey-.

Freeman distinguished customized

Gabardines at $68. In between are

PRINCETOWNS and FASHION PAR KS—particularly outstanding in value and selection (3 piece).

39.15

(Wearingtons) at $25,

And a special presentation of

plain gray flannels customized by Hickey-Freeman at $58.

Also of special note are the WORSTED FLANNELS from Fashion Park at $45.

And the Cambridge Grays— PRINCETOWNS at

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HICKEY-FREEMAN SUITS are all the way to $100.

FASHION PARK raises it’s famous “fifties” to a new height of value and excellence,

PRINCETOWNS, with a wealth of “hand work.” London Cold Water shrunk, the summer!

$35, $40 ad $45 29.75 w. THE MAN'S STORE

CHARGES. The New Accounts desk is on the balcony.

a Pelta Theta, luncheon, Canary Cottage, noon. Betta Tau Delta, luncheon, Columbia

, noon. hy Sigma. luncheon, Canary Cottage, oon.

These are the widely famed 4-piece suits that put men in a: better frame of mind (and body) by giving variety and change all . in one suit. Shetlands and Tweed types, in the softer coloring, the extra pair of SLACKS (GABARDINE) extends their range through

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Fair tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight and in extreme south tomorrow; cooler in extreme north portion n tomorrow afternoon. . Mlinois—Fair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer tonight; cooler in north portion tomorrow, Lower Michigan—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; scattered light showers in extreme north portion tonight; warmer in south and extreme east-central portions tonight; cooler tomorrow. Ohio—Fair and continued cool tonight: tomorrow fair and warmer. Kentucky—Mostly cloudy in extreme east and fair and continued cool in west and central mortions tonight; tomorrow fair and somewhat warmer.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Weather Amarillo, Tex. ..... Bismarck, N. D ston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Denver Dodge City, Kas Jacksonville, Fla. Kansas City, M Little Rock, Los Angeles Miami, Fla Minneapolis Mobile, Al

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Home Show, Fair Grounds, all day. Purdue University Training Detachment, dinner, Hotel Washington, 7 p Am n Chemical Society,

ca Hotel Severin, all day

MARRIAGE LICENSES are from official records Court House. The Times for errors in

. m, convention,

(These lists the Coun h oh responsible names and addresses.)

Wesley R. Rhodehamel, 22. of 714 E. 33d; Virginie R. Perry, 20, of 4911 Carrollton. enneth E. Grubb, 24 of 515 E. 12th; Harriett F. Silvius, 23, of 322 N. Mount. Robert H. Husson, 25, of 37 W. 2ist, $05: Freda Crane, 30, of 37 W. 21st, 502. Walter BK. Jackson, 31. of 837 N. Delaware: Dorothy M. Booth, 25 of 2240 N

i in. Py ain, 40. of 1428 N. Hamilton; Norma L. Beeson, 21, of 907 Hamiiton.

BIRTHS Twin Boys Virginia Ansted, at St.

Girls

Ni e Bjurstrom, at St. Francis. auline Rugore, at Coleman. masy SY Vincent's. vicia Pace, a ._ Vincent's, puss, Le Leland, at St. Vincent's. william, Martha Sines, at Methodist. Valter, Ann Spencer, at Methodist. Clarence, Meryle Allison, at 1710 Prosect,

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