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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 40

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SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1941

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LINE UP WARD CHAIRMEN FOR LIQUOR BOARD

Brown and Schulke, GOP Aids, ‘Acquire’ Property And Become Eligible.

By NOBLE REED Two Republican ward chairmen, | who have recently “acquired” property to make them eligible, appeared likely choices today for ap-| pointment to the powerful County liquor control board. They are Dale Brown, Seventh Ward chairman, and Harold Shulke, Fifteenth Ward chairman. Both were elevated to these posts by County Chairman James Bradford after his victory in a factional battle. Court House sources say their appointments have been agreed upon by Mr. Bradford and William Clauer, County Democratic leader. The County Recorder's books show that properties owned by the McNulty family were transferred to Mr. Brown and Mr. Shulke yesterday “for $1 and other valuable considerations.” The transactions were notarized bv Thomas McNulty. local attorney and G. O. P. leader.

Meet Requirements

The new liquor law, passed by the recent Legisiature and effective May 1, requires that the four members of the local boards must be free holders, householder, legal voters

and resident of the county for five after a recent very heavy air raid by German bombers,

School children in Coventry, England, dig through the rubble that was their school to see if they can find any of their books intact

ATHENS FIGHTS T0 END WITH FOE AT GATES

Faces Defeat Caimly in the Assurance Her Honor Has Been Upheld.

By GEORGE WELLER | Copyright. 1941 by The Indianapolis Times | and The Chicago Dailv News, Inc ATHENS, 12:35 p. m., April 26.— With the German Army almost upon her threshold, Athens is still [replying savagely to every attack |of the invaders. German raiders, still concentrating upon the waterfront around Piraeus and the extremities of the Attican peninsula, came over early this morning, loosing bombs so | heavy they made the capital's soil | tremble. But Athens, although called the | Paris of the Balkans, is fighting

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| Hoosier Hermit Hears Home |

| Now Is Army Big Gun Range |

| MADISON, Ind, April 26 (U. P.) —National defense meant little or nothing to an 80-year-old | Ripley County hermit found living near here—until today. Yesterday as an engineer was inspecting a densely wooded section of the 60000-acre tract that is being converted into an Army ordnance proving grounds. the old man approached. pointed to a distant farmhouse and asked: “Do vou know where those folks have gone?” “I suppose they've moved away like everyone else out here,” the engineer replied. Bewildered, the old man asked, “Why has everyone moved?’

This time it was the engineer | who was surprised. | “Didn't you know this is part | of the territory that is to be used as a range to test heavy Army | guns?” he asked. | The hermit disclaimed knowing that his home and the surrounding territory had been acquired by the Government. He read no newspapers, had no radio and | made no connections with, the | outside world except when he called on distant neighbors with | minor requests The Army doesn't know just what to do with the hermit and his" home, but he probably will have to move when the powerful shells start screaming across the area.

Shut Post Office

Commissioners Divided

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| the United Automobile Workers (C.|

| threatened strike.

Army Not Defeated

= | back harder than Paris ever fought. |An air raid warden, visible upon KEEP 6 M OPEN | the rooftop outside the writer's i ¥ § | window, hearing the first stamping {sound of the bombs, leaped for the | siren’s button with the same alac{rity as ever and then stood peering | toward the smoky pall over the ———— Piraeus docks with the same in- ; : tense alertness as when the GerPlant, Union Aids Called for mans were operating from Bul- . | garia Talks; Coal Strike May : A German raider crossed the lowClose 19 Factories. ceilinged sky, bracketed with black . en puffs of anti-aircraft fire, and disBY: UNITED PRESS | appeared over Hymettos, with smoke The Defense Mediation « Board | ihe doubled fists in the sky behind today asked General Motors. and| him, Although tearful faces sometimes i iin ack a pian are seen upon the streets, the 1. OJ) to keep the corporation's 61) Greeks are generally taking defeat plants open and to send representa- with the calmness derived from a tives here May 2 to mediate a|feeling of having their honor untouched. Perhaps the Germans, when they arrive, possibly at the |beginning of next week, will under-

The board: asked that any agree-

| on reached be made retroactive stand that this little nation can | move to the Azores and Cape Verue SOON. to April

28. Franeéis Perkins sent to the board last night. The corporation

e dispute|mans in the last war that their

sent ty Labor echo fully the claim of the Gert (army was never defeated.

‘We Have Done Our Duty’

RETREAT FROM GREECE; PORTUGAL'S FEAR RISES |

Germans Oceupy Small Islands to Flank Turkey; Suez Threat Intensified; Berlin And Five Reich Naval Bases Bombed.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor

British Imperials battled Adolf Hitler's blitz army ale most on the outskirts of Athens today as the three-week battle of Greece drew to a close and Europe’s belligerents braced for a struggle over control of the Mediterranean. The Nazi armies from the north reported they had cape ‘tured Thebes and Chalcis, circled to within 25 miles of the 'Greek capital and pushed on against the weakened Allied |defense lines. British troops, tired but still unbroken, fought back from mountain slopes northwest of the capital lin an effort to protect the only road to southern Greece and ‘permit the bulk of their expeditionary force to embark. | With the battle.admittedly lost in Greece, the British prepared to fight on from Crete and south to bolster their ‘position against expected attacks on both ends of the Medi« terranean.

Portugal's Nerves Strained

| Private advices indicated that there was increasing | fear of a German move toward Gibraltar and that Portugal was more nervous than ever as a result of pressure from ' both belligerents. | King Carol of Rumania, watching the Balkan develop | ments, finally was reported to have booked passage for late | April on a trans-Atlantic clipper from Lisbon to the United

soon move through Spain and to Portugal. President Antonio de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal, was said to be preparing to make a new declaration of policy on Monday, reaffirming the nation’s complete neutrality and thus reassuring the public, which had been alarmed by rumors of impending developements. Suez Threat Intensified

The Portuguese were said to be working fo maintain. a

artillery and troops had been sent to the Azores Islands, ‘where the Salazar Government is expected to flee if the | country should be invaded. Several thousand troops already; have gone to the Azores and another 10.000 are expected Lo There still are | about 30,000 refugees in Portugal who have been unable to get visas for the Americas. At the other end of the Mediterranean, the German

‘States, en route to Chile, fearing that the Germans might"

{C. Birthright, president of the Barbers International Union, Indianapolis, both Democrats, were named today. | At the same time the Governor (announced the new State examiner for the State Accounts Board and his two deputies. They are Otto K. Jensen, Noblesville, who has been a

member of the department since |

1930, chief examiner; Roscoe P. | Freeman, Franklin, who has served since 1931, Republican deputy, and {Edward A. Cooper, Hancock County, who has served since 1924, Democratic deputy. Edward P. Brennan present chief examiner and former State Budget

| Director, will remain on the force. | (Mr. Jensen had been Democratic |

appointments are effective at once. | Commenting on the Merit Board appointments, the Governor said: “When the Assembly passed the; | State Personnel Merit System Act,| {I found the general purpose of the | (Continued on Page Two)

Meanwhile, from the fact that the appoint-| ments must be made by County bers of the Council and Commis-| | sioner William Ayres, a Republican, appointed the four-member State ] Robert Smith, G. O. P. member week. They are Earl Beck, Eli Lilly of the County Election Board. |& Co. personnel department, and board politically under the 1941 Stout Liquor Control Law. The board, under the new law, will have complete control over isSPRUCE UP THE CAR;

the political furore which has been raging over the ap-| pointments for several weeks, reached a new high. Both DemoCommissioners and the County Council, both of which have Demo- | cratic majorities but emocratic members and anti-| Personnel Merit Board created by Bradford Republicans are holding ine 1941 Legislature to handle the out for some other candidates. ich . thiring and firing of an estimated Commissioners said they “prob-/Paul R. Bausman, Washington, Ind., ably would reach an agreement publisher, both Republicans. Monday.” The Council has been; W. Rowland Allen, L. S. Avres & Two present members of the old board—William Sidlinger, appointed by Mayor Reginald Sullivan, and suing tavern permits with no appeal to the State Commission. Any two members of a county LOCAL TEMPERATURES «esc 33 10a.m..... 5 h vee 39 Naw .... 62

cratic and Republican leaders have | Schricker Adds Allen and Appointment of Mr. Brown and! {2500 State emplovees. The Democratic Commissioners, called for a special meeting to name |Co. personnel director, and William Lawrence Miller, named by the board will be able to block issuance p—— nt 534 12 (moon) .. 60 | LOCAL FIRM GIVEN 1e

MANY CITIES MOVE UP CLOCKS TONIGHT

Local Action Still Rests | With Council.

the City Council. The Hoosier cities of Ft. Wayne, Gary, Hammond, South Bend, Mich- | jgan City, Warsaw, Wabash, La- | Porte, Elkhart and Goshen in the north ani New Albany and Jeffersonville in the south, will go on daylight time. Meanwhile, in Washington, Rep. Donald H. McLean (R. N. J.) said he still hopes to get a hearing on a bill of his which would put savings] time on a legal basis throughout

To Combat Spies

WASHINGTON, April 26 (U, P.).—The Navy tightened its antispy system today by deciding to discontinue the branch postoffice in the Navy Department Building April 30. Persons leaving the Department with packages are required to submit them to guards for inspection, but there has been no way to prevent anyone from mailing packages from inside the building. Closing of the Postoffice branch

| will put a stop to that.

ANNOUNCE NEW POSTMASTER

|deputy before his promotion. Their |cials, with an ordinance now before | WASHINGTON, April 26 (U. P.). —The Postoffice Department today ators, who bolted New York conannounced the appointment of Jos- | tract negotiations before the union eph Silcock as acting postmaster at | and Northern operators agreed on |

West Terre Haute, Ind.

holds\ defense | contracts amounting.to $75,000,000.

{given to the Board Thurs

coal (dispute,] “We can carry our heads high,” v. was | Says the newspaper Eleftheron Vima. about to force 19 major defense We have done our duty to the end plants to «close down or curtail With every means we possess as: a

operations because of fuel short. nation.and as a people. We are inages. |ferior to none. Our national phil-

The 26-day soft

A fruitless seven-hour conference |050phy which, having held for cen-|

conducted by William H. Davis of |turies, has become the moral philthe Mediation Board with repre-|0sophy of all people without excepsentatives of the Northern and tion, has taught us what counts is Southern coal operators and John L.|hot ‘he result but the eflect, not Lewis, president of the United Mine |the material victory but the moral Workers Union (C. I. O.) ended late | victory of having done what is relast night. It was continued to-| quired by our national honor. day. | “Now let come what may. Our

The Board was reported striving nation has remained faithful to for a compromise agreement for re- herself; she has honored her name

opening of the mines Monday. and stood by her history. . . ”

in gos 0 ye aor pnp OF SEEKING TROUBL

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Thomas Poggiani, Violinist

And Teacher, Dead at 34

The complications arise, of course, | | Governor Henry Sechricker today | blican Committee accountant, Charles M. Dawson earlier this is necessary to balance the new be reappointea. yefusal to renew present permits. row by the Weather Bureau. Thus

Thomas Poggiani, charter memthe country. |ber of the Indianapolis Symphony He said such time would aid in Orchestra and for many years defense, since it would give an hour prominent in Indianapolis musical extra daylight for workers and fa- circles, died today at St. Vincent's cilitate recreation. His measure is Hospital. He was 34. before the Interstate Commerce| Mr. Poggiani was born in BesseCommittee of the House and no mer, Ala. and had lived in Indian hearing has been scheduled. apolis since 1911. He was a gradDuring the last World War, the uate of Shortridge High School and

been deadlocked in a jig-saw pat-! tern of deals for two weeks. Birthright to 2 Chosen Mr. Shulke reportedly is all right! By Dawson. with most of the Republican mem- | Two of the appointments * Harry Hohlt and William Brown, | Be Li s Gov b divided between George Agnew. | N¢ Same men named by Lieut. Gov. its member Thursday. Appointment of two Republicans State Beverage Commission—are both Democrats and are slated to of any permit and thus could make a county “bone dry” eventually by OE Cp... Fair skies and about the san temperatures were forecast tomor- HOUSING CONTRACT

under the bureau's auspices, a close-to-perfect week-end ‘is coming up.

PROBE AXIS SHIP ACTIVITY WASHINGTON, April 26 (U. P). — Federal authorities are investi-| gating reports that pro-Axis ele- | ments are trying to induce seamen | not to sign up to ships sailing be- | tween United States and Latin |Colv American ports. There is a shortage [day was awarded a contract for the| of ie En Ships On Soe 6 construction of 100 family units of | es on defense housing at New Albany,

|Ind., it was announced by the Public | | Buildings Administration. i | The award is on a negotiated contract with a fixed fee of $15,500 and estimated cost of $317,500. An or-| der to proceed with construction is Mrs. Ferguson 8|expected to be issued next week, Music .......6-14/and 100 days is given for compleObituaries ... 11 ton. Pyle .. ...... 7! The units will house workers at Questions __..7-g the Charlestown powder plant.

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Mrs. Roosevelt Serial Story . 13) CAIRO, Ill, April 26 (U. P).— Side Glances. . 8 At least two persons were reported Simms ........ 8 killed at noon today when a twoSociety ..4-5 storv building in downtown Cairo Sports 10-11 collapsed, burying an undetermined | State Deaths. .11 Hulnber of persons in the wreckage.

Colvin to Build $317,500 Project at New Albany.

Times Special

WASHINGTON, April 26.—Leslie

time by Congress as a war meas-| (later Arthur Jordan Conservatory), ure. | where he served 11 years afterward Whether local communities step as teacher of violin. (Continued on Page Two) | Three years ago Mr. Poggiani

a {opened his own studio in the Wilk{ing Music Co. A year later he orGreat Guns! LONDON, April 26 (U. P).—

{ganized a violin choir, which grew /{into the Thomas Poggiani string |orchestra. Aside from his teaching activities, British troops in Greece were | Mr Poggiani also was identified reported today to be using a | with numerous musical organizanew type of gun which shoots ||tjons in the city. He was director a 25-pound shell and a howitzer | of the Indiana Central Normal which military experts call | school Orchestra and furnished in#'the deadliest weapon of its ||strymental music for the Schola type vet developed. |Cantorum at SS. Peter and Paul These guns, it was suggested, || cathedral and the St. Philip Neri caused German reports that | the British had packed the Thermopylae area with heavy guns which they were ap-

| choir. Mr. Poggiani also was director of | parently willing to sacrifice in covering the rear guard.

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{the Kirshbaum Orchestra, and had been a member of the former Cir-| |cle Theater Orchestra. At the time lof his death he was staff violinist | for radio station WFBM:

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adamant stand of Southern oper‘Wants to Be Provocative,’ | - Berlin Paper to Say.

BERLIN, April 26 (U. P.).—Gerimany, Italy and Japan are all de-

[termined to resist President Roose- |

|velt’s aid-to-Britain policy and the | President is provocatively “looking |for danger far from the American | coasts,” the Boersen Zeitung will say tomorrow in an apparently in-| spired article. The Boersen Zeitung article followed a statement by the Hamburger Fremdenblatt that Germany still stood by Adolf Hitler's warning that all ships going to-Great Britain would be torpedoed. This warning also was emphasized in authorized sources. “The American President is seeking trouble,” according to the Boersen Zeitung article. “He is looking for danger far from the American coasts. “He is seeking incidents. He wants to be provocative. “War is not coming to America but the President is running after war whoever goes into the operational areas (war zones) must know that shooting goes on there.”

FDR ON WEEK-END CRUISE

WASHINGTON, April 26 (U. P). —President Roosevelt plans to spend the week-end cruising on the Po-

Thomas Poggiani

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Helen Hampson Poggiani, whose home is] at 2729 N. Pennsylvania St.; three | daughters, Peggy Jo, Barbara and| tomac River. He will leave on the Bettina Poggiani; a sister, Miss|Presidential Yacht Potomac this

advance into Greece and along the Greek islands off Turkey, presented new threats to the British defenses around the

Suez Canal. The fighting continued on other fronts while the battle

lof Greece was ending. British bombers dumped heavy, high (Continued on Page Two)

U. S. to Patrol Wide Lane

WASHINGTON, April 26 (U. P.).—The Navy's extended patrol of an Atlantic “safety zone” was expected today to concentrate on maintaining a “safe channel” across much of the Atlantic for ships carrying supe plies to Britain. : a As informed officials understood the plan, American military planes and warships will criss-cross the channel which will be a few hundred miles wide, tagging marauding sub- ; : | marines or suspicious surface ships|this action was contained in the 'and advising cargo ships how to comment of Senator Tom Connally '(D. Tex., a ranking member of

an | dodge them. : ] Er emai the Administration's, the Senaie Fereien Relations Com= statement that this is not a way of | mittee, who said: | convoying Britain-bound ships, the| “If Nazi military and naval foraes ‘cargo ships will . proceed through should undertake to seize any Pot [the area separately, each according |0f Gteenland, I'd be ‘in favor © [to its best abilities. | instructing the Navy to eject them. o ex-|I regard Greenland as a part of

The patrol was expected t : ee : tend at least as far toward Britain |the Western Hemisphere, which we

las the longitude of Greenland, are pledged to defend.” ‘where the United States is moving] The plan for cutting a swathe to take action against any German across the North Atlantic with a forces stationed there. Mr. Roose-| naval patrol is a refinement of a velt said yesterday that Axis forces | previously reported idea of operat« may be in Greenland now although |ing the American “neutrality pa< he is not certain. | trol” in 300-mile areas circumscribe A possible clue to the nature of| . (Continued on Page Two)

War Moves Today

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

The German campaign in Greece, now nearing its end, owes its rapid advance primarily to the revolution in Jugoslavia which allowed the Nazi troops a. wide front for their drive against the Anglo-Greek forces. ‘The revolt of the Jugoslav people against being forced to join the Triple Alliance showed an innate love of freedom but from a strictly military standpoint, it opened the country to German invasion which the Jugoslav army was not prepared to resist.

Mr. Mason

Germany attached to the document a letter promising to abstain from sending troops through Jugoslav | territory. That was really a mili- | tary success for Prince Paul's diplomacy. It was understood that Belgrade

mania and the principal railway line to Bulgaria likewise crosses Jugoslav territory, both of these routes being essential for the rapid

German war material through to southeastern Europe. Jugoslavia, destined for Bulgaria| But none of the material wo

Victoria Poggiani, and a brother,|afternoon and return tomorrow evening.

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