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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 46 SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1041

REPORT NAZIS FLYING TO IRAQ

TRACK FASTA nse BRITISH IMPERIALS FIGHT RECORD CROWD AT AXIS SHIPS, F OR OIL F LDS CONTROL

AWAITS DERBY PATROL TOLD

Weather Perfect: Our Boots U. S. Crews to Avoid GunDrops to 2d Choice, With fire ‘at All Costs—Short To Bolster B. E. F. In Egypt; Germans Say Half of England’s Shipping Sunk.

The People’s Choice

I Hitler's Plans

For World Empire!

A Startling New Series From "SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE"

By JOHN T. WHITAKER

Whirlaway a Question. Of Getting Sunk.’

LOUISVILLE, Mav 3 (U. P).—A WASHINGTON, May 3 (U. P).— Kentucky sun and Blue Grass |The United States Atlantie patrol springtime at its best favored his- ‘has been ordered to “avoid shooting toric Churchill Downs today for the (at all costs short of getting sunk,” 87th running of the Kentucky Der- 'a usually well-informed official said by | today. | The patrol, now operating at least {2000 miles off shore and within 1500 ‘miles of western British ports, has been informed, this source contin‘ued, that its mission is not to destroy Axis surface vessels, submarines or airplanes but “to spot them,” broadcast information regarding their whereabouts and remain in contact until British forces can overtake the Axis raider.”

The foregoing information came from a source so usually well-in-formed as to be persuasive. The United Press checked with the Navy Department and was told by an authorized spokesman: “We have no comment on that one.”

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By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

British Imperials and Royal Air Force planes battled ia defense of the Near East oil fields today, while a Nazi air squadron was reported flying toward nearby Syria and Axis propagandists labored to arouse the Arab world against England. The new war front in Iraq, centering around the bee sieged British air base of Habbaniya, overshadowed momen« tarily the main theater of the battle of the Mediterranean, but the fight went on unceasingly at the Libyan port of To bruk and the Egyptian frontier town of Solum in defense of the Suez Canal. At Tobruk, the British reported they had thrown back ered nan Alkate iio Tepest strong Axis attacks with|believed to be flying toward Syria.

: em In Berlin, Nazi sources would not heavy losses, including 11 confirm or deny the report but said tanks, and the Nazi

High [that since the Island of Rhodes was Command claimed only minor

Italian it was possible that German . ; . . planes had taken off from there. gains in the offensive against|Nothing could be said, however, as that coastal city, where the Ger-|t0 whether a squadron did leave man communique said the British Rhodes headed for French Syria

Although a gray haze hung on & the horizon back of the barns as the half of a throng expected to reach 100.000 by post time at 4:45 p. (Indianapolis time), flowed into the flag-bedecked stands and flower- | spangled centerfield, the last chance] of a muddy track had vanished and each of the 11 trainers said his horse would go to the post. | Reports that the hundreds of grooms the grounds would call a strike if they weren't conceded a $10 fee for leading each winning horse to the paddock continued to circulate but the deadline for the walkout came and went without incident A dozen grooms questioned in the stable area professed no knowledge of the strike call ‘

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Field and Probable Odds

LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 3 (U. P).—The field for the 67th running of the Kentucky Derby, with horses listed in order of post positions, follows:

Reporting how informed circles in Berlin and Rome now describe Hitler as confident of victory over America,” John T. Whitaker reveals Germany's impending moves in France, Spain, Portugal and North Africa as a prelude to his bid for winning the "Battle of the Atlantic.” Among other subjects, Mr. Whitaker will bare:

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Prob. Odds 50-1 60-1 15-1 5-1 20-1 100-1

Owner C. Putnam Hugh S. Nesbitt Mrs. Vera Bragg Calumet Farm Rocco Palladine Valdina

Horse Swain Staretor Blue Pair Whirlaway Little Beans Valdina Paul

Jockey Adams Woolf James Arcaro Moore . Lemmons

Weight 126 126 126 126 126 126

I. Hitler's aims against "the New York-Dakar-London triangle." 2. The cards with which Hitler prevented Petain from playing the aces of fleet and empire. How France's Admiral Darlan is "co-operating" with Hitler.

Nits F. D. R's Pattern

But the foregoing outline of patrol objectives appeared perfectly to fit the pattern of what many persons here believe is the design of President

Weather Perfect

The weather was perfect and the mile racing oval wag pavement-hard

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—almost too hard for Louis Tufanos Market Wise, the one -orefooted colt in the field. Trainer Georgie Carroll tested the Wood Memorial winner in an early gallop and after conferring with the owner decided to take a chance in

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Market Wise Robert Morris Porter's Cap Our Boots Dispose

Louis Tufane J. F. Byers C. S. Howard Woodvale Farm King Ranch

25-1 10-1 2-1 5-2 8-1

Anderson Richards Haas McCreary . Bierman

Roosevelt's expanded North Atlantic patrol. That is, that the American patrol vessels shall “convoy the Axis raiders” rather than convoy muni-tions-laden vessels in the British life line. Asked at a recent press confer-

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the $75,000 classic. The crowd, pouring down 4th St.| in a steady stream, flowed into the course in waves. A wide cen-| terfield area nearest the finish line] jammed quickly and by noon almost every vantage spot on the grounds was occupied by the butehér, the baker and the candle-stick maker who had only $1 to pay for his ticket. The 50-cent admission | section was filled first while the in-| flux of the $100 box-holders was slow. | Col. Matt Winn, the portly Irish-| man who has built the Derby from| a $3000 neighborhood picnic to the | national institution that it is, took| one fond look at the fans as they! milled around his plant and jubilantly announced his dream of a 100000 crowd was about to be realized. “This is the year we do it,” said, with his face beaming,

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a AR 0 |City is very low. “an | it’s been a long time a-coming.” WE Y CAR L AND The Indiana Farm Bureau was

Porter's Cap Favorite | More than 1000 police. firemen, | snappy Kentucky home guardsmen and members of R. O. T. C. units patrolled the sprawling grounds. Touts and tipsters did a roaring business outside the gates and the] turnover of $1 periscopes behind the| big brick wall on the back-stretch was brisk as usual | Guardsmen spent a few hectic| hours in the early morning chasing| an elusive shell-game operated by| a giant Negro in the centerfield. | They could hear his throaty cry of “gimme two or gimme fo'ah”| through the massed spectators, but the game disappeared more quickly (Continued on Page Two)

Glass Is Plucked | From Boy's Face |

METHODIST HOSPITAL doctors last night picked glass for three hours from the face and hands of 15-year-old Jack Resor, who was cut in a chemical explosion in his home, 1319 Linwood Ave The youth, a junior at Howe High School, was experimenting in his homemade laboratory. He ran downstairs to his parents Mr. and Mrs. John Resor.

Farmers Dig Wells Deeper

ence what a patrol vessel should do if it encountered an Axis warship attacking a merchant ship, Mr. Roosevelt said the instructions were to radio him for orders. Congressional discussion of the convoy problem has subsided for the time being but is likely to develop again Monday when Repubiicans in the House plan to attack Administration legislation to authorize Mr. Roosevelt to requisition foreign shipping in American ports. House isolationists are talking of potential amendments which would prevent transfer to Great Britain of Danish, German or Italian ships seized in our ports, but Congressional leaders believe the bill will go through the House substantially as Mr. Roosevelt wants it.

Tobey Plans Amendments

Senator Charles W. Tobey (R. N. H) intends to offer to the ship seizure bill an amendment which would forbid assignment of the Navy to convoy duty. There is no indication, however, that he will be able to obtain adoption of such a proposal which, in effect, would be a vote of mis-confidence in the Administration. Meantime, the plan to place 25 tankers immediately at the disposal of the Maritime Commission for “service to Great Britain” has been checked for a few days.

As Drought Menaces Crops

Soaking Rains Are Needed to Save Wheat; Dry May To Do Untold Damage.

By WILLIAM CRABB

A farmer walked into the County Agent's office for a chat today. “Might as well come to town,” he told Agent Horace Abbott. “I can™ do anything more on the farm till it rains” The well drillers didn’t have time to talk about the drought—so many wells in the County have gone dry. The State Conservation Department was watching its instruments - —|carefully—the water table under the

waiting for its directors to arrive in about 10 days—the wheat crop is at its critical stage and the reports will be very interesting. | At a dozen danger stations throughout the State, the foresters are reading “five” on their instruments. This means that a forest fire

Eats Popcorn at Bar. {will start and spread rapidly from {sparks and matches and all hands

LISBON, Portugal, May 3 (U. P.).| must be on the alert. —Carol, abdicated Rumanian King,| And J. H. Armington, the Weathetwas en route to America today man, shifted his typewriter to the

aboard the American Export liner|red ribbon to record April as anExcambion, with Magda Lupescu, other month deficient in rainfall

MAGDA SAIL WEST

Mistress of Ex-Playboy

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he i : his mistress for 20 years, and Brn- last J Jepeient mmoith Yn the est Udreanu, his former ‘lord] The farmers and the other folks chamberlain. {who ig most ph jeresed in whether ‘ ini ti ; : or not it rains or shines aren't Tog SeSttatioh was uncertain. | winging their hands in desperation. ne report was that they would The dry spell has hurt some, but leave the ship at Bermuda and! there have been dry spells before. transship to South America, prob-| If this is a far as it goes, and it ably to take up residence in Chile. Jains oon ang Bg Juiane pd Another report was that they would wheat. alfalfa. oats rh v rT continue to New York, go from s I fact. few Vg there to Havana, Cuba, and from|o ok. Act, a IEw counties in the thers to Valparaiso Chile It was | D0 ther part of, the State haven't said they had no visas which would] ot yp Tecred bY HE Ory. soe uch permit them to remain in the| gut everybody's pretty well agreed Carol, who once had some of the| hat 3, dry, May WouK do Snwig y = DS u gaudiest uniforms and one of ths A fenit dry spell—which canmost Jas ish Sourts in Buon, shared not be ended by just scattered show2 small cabin with Udreanu. Helers—is one of a long series which traveled as Count Vrancea. Miss started nearly two vears ago. The Lupescu, listed as Madame Lorenz, result is a parched subsoil in the shared a cabin with an Anrep in] (Continued on Page Two)

woman, May Rose Aymer. sn Hours before sailing time, Carol's)’ MANVILLE'S EX-MATE WED

Two of the fingers on his left hand were nearly severed. His condition is not regaided as serious.

MERIVALE'S SON WEDS ROSTON, May 3 (U. P).—Actor Jack Merivale, son of actor Philip Merivale, was married today to actress Jane

after a two-year footlight romance. The cermeony was petformed by the Rev. Thomas Bridges at the Cathe-

dral Church of St. Paul (Episcopal). |

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

6; Movies 7! Mrs. Ferguson 8 13 Music ......8 14 ....12/ Obituaries ....11 8| Pegler 8 5 Py 7 Cath hbhs 8 . 8 Mrs, Roosevelt 7 8 Serial Story . 14 Homemaking . 5 Side Glances . 8 In Indpls .... 3 | Seciety “ica 4 5 Inside Indpls.. 7|Sports ....10, 11 8iState Deaths. .11

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Sterling of New York!

Museum's General and Horse, Defeated by ~ Elements, Now Rest in Pieces on City Dump

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party boarded the ship as incon- | NTE ) | spicuously as possible. The former | _ nrocile as (playboy wore a rumpled, double-|actress and former wife of Tommy breasted gray business suit. Miss Manville, asbestos heir, was honeyLupescu wore a smart blue en-|/mooning here today with her third {semble. Both looked thin and tired. husband. Walter McGowan, wealthy They went immediately to Carol's|gsan Francisco and Santa Cruz real cabin on the promenade deck and estate operator. They were married

CLAIM F, . R. BACKS BROADER TAX BASE

Advocates Cite Plea for $3,600,000,000 Revenue.

WASHINGTON, May 3 (U. P).— Congressional advocates of a broader income tax base were encouraged today by President Roosevelt's revenue statement to Congress, which, they believed, supported them. In a letter to Chairman Robert Ek. Doughton (D. N. C), of the House Way¢ and Means Committee, Mr. Roosevelt said the $3,600 - 000,000 asked by Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. represents the “minimum” of needed revenue, He suggested that the income tax ‘can not fix the tax liability of individuals and corporations with

equity so long as the tax base is defined to exclude substantial and

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woman and went to the ships bar, | where they sat eating popcorn. |

FARMERS SEEK MORE OF DEFENSE DOLLAR

| CHICAGO, May 3 (U. P).—More {than 200 farm leaders today planned {a campaign to increase agriculture’s share of the National Defense dol(lar. | Delegates to a two-day meeting {sponsored by the National Co-Op-lerative Milk Producers’ Federation advocated a Washington conference {to protest Federal policies “designed {to keep the American farmer the under dog.” A 10-point program asked “total| cessation of strikes and lock-outs” in| {defense industries, and “a Federal! | policy to restore economic equality git between agriculture, industry and

By JOE COLLIER GEN. BARTOLOMMEO COLEONES and his horse today rest in pieces, on one of the City's dumps. Sic gloria transit, The general and his horse were loaded yesterday onto a truck, dismantled because intact they were too high to escape electric wires and other modern contraptions, and hauled to their final resting place. And it was none too soon, aecording to Wilbur Peat, director of the Herron Museum which has owned and worried about the statue for many vears. A few years ago, after the general and his horse were kicked

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out of the horse barns at the Indiana State Fair Grounds to make room for liver horses, the statue was put on a pedestal on the Museum plaza. There it remained temperamentally until yesterday. The weather did them no good. It was necessary to treat the plaster statue constantly with all manner of materials, none of which did any good.

In spite of all efforts, the statue deteriorated, sprouted white patches that looked bad, sweated, and chipped off here and there. For many months the general and his horse were a one-statue WPA project as the workers attempted to save them.

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The situation in French North Africa; Hitler's methods versus Petain's instructions to

Why "Marching inte Spain is going to be easy for Hitler."

MONDAY IN

INDIANAPOLIS TIMES EE —————

BOBBITT FEARS FOR ECONOMIES

Budget Cuts Contemplated. By Republicans in Power, He Tells Women.

Unless Republicans gain control of the State government, economies ordered by the 1941 Legislature will not be carried into effect. State Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt told the Indiana Federation of Republican Women's Clubs at the Claypool today. “The cuts in the budget were made with the idea that the offices would be administered by Republicans,” he said. “They will be paper cuts only unless Republican: can administer those offices and duties. Democrats never have been

known to live within a budget— even their own—so why would anycne expect them to live within a | budget prepared by Republicans. “We are saddled with a herde of Democratic officials and employees who will seek at every turn to embarrass our p Mr. Bobbitt told the women that when the Assembly ordered the $5. 500,000 budget reductions, ‘they believed the Republicans had been returned to office by the vote of the

F. D. R. Relaxes In Tiny Cottage

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, May

| 3 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt to-

day relaxed in almost complete seclusion at a tiny, three-room cottage which eventually may rival the fame of his Warm Spring (Ga.) “little white house” or his palatial Hyde Park home in upstate New York. Built on a wind-swept hill of the Kenwood estate recently purchased by his secretary and military aid, Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, the cottage is wellremoved from the main residence occupied by other members of the President party. From its livingroom windows can be seen the dome of Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson. Only some 125 miles from Washington, Gen. Watson's estate is expected to become the President's retreat when seeking weekend relaxation.

SIX SHIPS LOST IN GREEK EVACUATION

2 Destroyers, 4 Transports Sunk, British Say.

LODON, May 3 (U. P.).—Two destroyers and four transports were lost in the evacuation of the British

people last November. They couldn't foresee that one man, greedy for power and patronage, would run to (Continued on Page Two)

AND IT’S PERFECT FOR SPRING FEVER

LOCAL TEMPERATURES Cam. .... 49 10a m.... 63 Tam: ....53 1am. . 68 8am. ...5 12 (noon).. 67 Sam... 61 1pm. ...68

It's a swell day for a circus. Tomorrow will be a swell day for a circus, too.

Then, three days ago, the horse's tail fell off. just at the beginning of the fly season. Yesterday when the statue was dismantled, it was discovered that the plaster had powdered inside and that tor many weeks, probe ably, it actually had been a safety hazard. It might at any moment have fallen. And now at some city dump, there is a pile of jagged pieces of plaster of paris, which, as a committee of the whole enjoyed some remarkable art triumphs and cultural achievements during an honorable, though troublesome, career.

Expeditionary Forces from Greece, the Admiralty announced today. It acknowledged that casualties from German dive bomber attacks had been heavy. The destroyers Diamond, 1375 tons, and the Wryneck, 900 tons, were bombed and sunk after they had picked up 700 survivors from a transport blasted and set afire off Nauplia. Since the Diamond had a complement of 145 men and the Wryneck a crew of 98 men, it was feared that, with the 700 survivors, many of the 943 men were lost when the vessels were sunk. Three of the transports sunk by the Germans were empty. The communique disclosed that of 8000 troops and Jugoslav refugees waiting to be embarked at Kalamata, only 500 were saved because the Germans had occupied the port. The Admiralty disclosed that German motor torpedo boats repeatedly attacked one of the large convoys carrying troops in Kaso Strait but were driven off without loss either to transports or escort vessels. This was the first official report that German naval units were operating in the Mediterranean.

SHARE DEFENSE WORK

Four Indiana companies have received part of $798,125.18 in national defense contracts, the War Department announced today. They are the Shane Uniform Co, Inc, Evansville, $1889; J. R. Edwards Machinery Co., South Bend, $1407; Sullivan Machinery Co, Michigan City, $12,469, and the JefSoscnville Quartermasters Depot,

Imperials were fighting bravely. The British also claimed a successful surprise raid on an Axis column near Solum, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. Furthermore, S out h Africa's premier, Gen. Jan Smutts, announced that airplanes and troops were en route to Egypt to join with

and bolster the Suez defenses. In Iraq. meager reports indicated that severe fighting was in progress at Habbaniya and possibly in the Rutbah-Roti area of the western desert near the Trans-Jordania frontier. German radio broadcasts carried many reports of native leaders and religious figures urging the Arabs to join in a “Holy War” against the British but these reports lacked confirmation from any other sources. The Germans also reported that an ‘“‘army of Salvation” had been raised and “paid for” by the British in ,Trans-Jordania, apparently for use against the Iraqi. One report, which the Ankara radio attributed to Iraq cfficial sources, said that the Iraqi besieging the British airdrome at Habbaniya had penetrated the British defenses after fierce fighting, which was still in progress. Greatest

ugliest developments of the war.

the B. E. F. evacuated from Greece

interest, however, cen- |

| (beyond which lies Iraq). | Usually reliable sources in Berlin |said it was understood that the Iraq | government had denied reports that \it had appealed to Germany for #id against Britain. | Details of the, meager but included: A British report that R. A. BP airplanes, presumably flying from Palestine, had attacked and silenced several Iraq batteries that had been |shelling the British air base at Habe baniya. Fighting was reported still in progress. A London suggestion that British Imperials recently landed at Basra would march on Baghdad in an efe fort to overthrow the pro-Axis gove ernment and end the threat to the British oil fields. A Berlin report, quoting an offi« cial Iraq statement, that 30 tong of bombs were dropped on Habe baniya airdrome on Friday by “Iraq planes” and that 26 British planes were destroyed. | German sources also reported thas |the British had attempted to bomb the residence uf the Iraq premier. Berlin quoted the Syrian Radio as reporting that Iraqi troops had |eccupied several border points, [presumably on the frontier ‘ of touches on

(western Iraq, which (Continued on Page Two)

fighting were

Irag—'Ugly Development’

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, May 3.—~The new Arab “revolt in the desert,” against the British in Iraq. is regarded here as being potentially one of the

The late Col. T. E. Lawrence of Arabia led one such revolt against

the Turks when they were allies of the Germans during the World War, His intervention at a critical moment at that time was largely instrus

mental in saving that vital region for Britain and her Allies. That Col. Lawrence was British. Now it is strongly suspected that another “Col. Lawrence,” this time of Teutonic origin and acting under orders from the Nazi General Staff, has been busy stirring up the Arabs. The present trouble is believed to be the beginning of a concerted move to cut the Empire's jugular vein at Suez and sweep the British out of the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Should the move succeed in all its ramifications, its effects would be felt literally around the globe. It would mean the complete isolation of Turkey and virtually force that country to take orders from Berlin, The only alternative would be to suffer the fate of Rumania, Jugoslavia, Greece and the rest. It would mean also virtual encirclement of the Soviet Union. On the west, south and east—from the Baltic clear around the map to

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dication, however. that Hitler can time.

50, while there are complications regarding Syria which concern Marshal Petain’s repeatedly announced refusal to allow any belligerent use of French colonial possessions. It would be theoretically possible for the Germans to fly two to three divisions of infantry from Bulgaria

to Iraq or from Greece to Syria and then proceed overland to Iraq. The

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[Vladivostok—Germany and her Axis |allies would hem Russia in. On her north is the Arctic Ocean. Joseph Stalin, the man who started the war by giving the go-ahead signal te Hitler, would find he had launched a boomerang. Palestine and the homeland ese tablished for Jews from all parts of the world, would be at the mercy of Hitler, the most pitiless Jews pbaiter of modern times, and of the Arabs whose ire was aroused by Jewish immigration. The British Empire would be cut into five separate parts with oceans in between; the British Isles, Cane ada. South Africa, Australia and India. The Iraqis are reported to have asked for Nazi aid. This the Nazis could provide either through Turkeg via the Berlin-to-Baghdad Railway, or from Greece via Syria where the Arabs have little love for

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War Moves Today

By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert : Appeals from the Iraq Government to Germany

for aid in resisting British treaty troops suggest that the pro-Axis coup d'etat in Baghdad of Rashid

too soon. The Axis is in no present

position to give effective aid to the Iraq revolus

hands have been forced by Great

Britain's quick appraisal of the situation. German help would have to reach Iraq by air transport for most of the journey. There is no ine

order such an expedition at this

To do so; he would have to trespass on Turkish or Syrian territory. He has not yet won the Turks to his side and may fail to do

flying distance in each case is about 800 miles. Heavy motorized equip ment and tanks, however, could not be thus transported, except possibly in sections and then only in small numbers. But, there are no adequate lands ing fields in Iraq for the descent of such large iorces. They would (Continued on Page Two)