Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1941 — Page 2

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Hoosiers in Washington—

DELEGATION RAPS PROPOSED SEAWAY

Rep. Schulte Only Member Who Is Still Undecided on St. Lawrence Project; Willis’ Office Boosts Ft. Wayne America First Rally.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, May 3.—When Clarence A. Jackson,

executive vice president of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, came to Washington this week and reported 91 per cent of the membership against the St. Lawrence seaway

almost complete accord. Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.) declared that while he thought he probably | would oppose it he didn’t wan to make any advance commitment until he had seen the|

|sier plan. |radio this week to again plead for| President Roosevelt has not 2!

l-out aid to England. {| “IN the kind of a world in which gent the matter to Congress we live today America has no choice and many think that he may bat A A delay it for some time because sure that this country remains se- | of the mounting opposition. lo ET Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. aggression across the sea. | Ind.) said he is against it sight- | “In fact, right now cur best de-| unseen “at this time” fense against aggression is to sup-! Among the 12 Hoosier Congress- ply Great Britain with the food, | men, only Rep. William T. Schulte planes, ships and tanks she needs (D. Ind) said he had not decided i ho14 back the Nazi drive to cona| yet. All the others are against the quer the world. If England falls] seaway as an attempt to pul OVer a yheve will be one less nation stand-| long-time project as a defense. ing between us and Hitler, measure “In our drive to supply the British | Since Rep. Schulte comes from |e are developing what other na-| the First District, which borders on|iisne tried desperately and too late] Lake Michigan, he has more to con- |, develop—the capacity to produce sider in regard to the proposal than|ipe weapons of defense. Given time its probable effect on the railways to build the factories and the ma-| or power companies chines and develop the human skills| | we need, we can produce armaments more efficiently and more rapidly | It was pointed out that such an than any other nation on earth. outlet would permit ocean-going And England's gallant defense is vessels to be made in the lake ports enabling us to gain precious time | and this would give the matter a... which to supply both England | defense angle based on the same and ourselves with munitions of! idea as building powder plants and war.” the like in Indiana now All of which adds up to the fact] But since it would cost hundreds that Adolf Hitler may make the of millions of dollars and take Sev- yy, iteq States the greatest military eral years to build, I cannot sup-|.,.. naval power the world has ever port it as a defense project at this oo, with most of the Hoosiers in time,” Senator Willis said in sum- Congress protesting every step of | ming up his opposition to it the way |

Mr. Jackson himself termed it as, 4 fine example of one of those BOBBITT FEARS |

things that can wait.” | i

| Relations Committee. Secretary of Agriculture Claude

Open to Ocean Vessels

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The State Chamber's resolution condemning action on the seaway now was put into the Congressional Record by Rep. George W. Gillie (R. Ind). Rep. Louis Ludlow (D.| Ind.) made public a letter he had| written a constituent stating his | @and against it, and Rep. Raymond

8. Springer (R. Ind.) voiced his op- Budget Cuts Contemplated position in the Congressional Rec- ) i ' By Republicans in Power,

ord He Tells Women. (Continued from Page One)

Called Nonessential

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cannot shoulder the great burden such as the St. Lawrence Seaway | economy program, State Chamber of Commerce is Vio-|ipe no)ic last November, will the men recognize the very great danger were proud and which they wish require at a time when the people “Our people, regardless of party James as ‘Yes Man’ Both Presidents Coolidge and Henry F, Schricker an errand boy | According to a tabulation pre-/James told the Irvington Republiclargest single source of electrical the State Senate, “he was one of and an ultimate estimate of $1,120,- James said. “He voted for every ‘ ¥ This is the law which created onehe served as ters into the Fourth District this|name a single employee except his Sentor C. Wayland Brooks (R. Ill) |Governor Schricker better than his each envelope contained a copy of sents the minority party and that which now is the law. 'succeeds in upsetting the acts of the that I learned my capable and dis-| HOOSIER SOLDIER KILLED of Illinois, has accepted an invita- | Ind. was crushed to death when he fea First rally next Monday night|day. Lieut. John C. O'Haver said

of our defense program together project,” Rep. Springer said. | “Only through obedience”to the lently opposed to this UNNECESSAry| ,.,nje of diana be given the govin the expenditure of such a vast restored.” are struggling to meet the cost of affiliation, are opposet to this un-| “Members of the 1941 Legislature Hoover tried and failed to put the because his own party beat them pared in the office of Senator Wil-/an Women's Club yesterday, energy in North America, with an the McNutt-Elder-McHale maB588.000 to the United States. single piece of legislation framed by cost of the Panama Canal” the voted for the 1933 Reorganization man rule in Indiana. Letters Boost Rally Lieutenant - Governor under the week to boost the America First chiei assistant. As a matter of fact. at Ft. Wayne Monday night {own party. Of course, our new laws Senator Brooks’ speech against he is not entitled to the dictatorial Senator Willis’ letter reads: 1941 Assembly.” tinguished colleague in the United] MILWAUKEE, May 2 (U. P).— tion to deliver an anti-war address) fell beneath a 155 mm. Howitzer in Ft. Wayne | Mr. Miller was boarding a bus for

proposal, he found the Indiana Congressional delegation in|

|R. Wickard, the top-ranking Hoo- | in Washington, went on the|

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Margaret Apel (right), 17-year-old New Bethel High School pupil, has been designated as the “healthiest girl in Marion County.” Margaret won the distinction after winning township elimination contests

| in the county 4-H health competition and finally receiving the highest t Walter F. George of the Foreign score from doctor and dentist examin

ers. With her here is Elinora

Brewer, 16, of Wayne Township, who placed second.

Iragq—'Ugly Development’

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French. The Nazis could then move against the Suez from two directions—from the east across Palestine and Sinai and from the west across Egypt from Libya. Should these tactics show definite signs of success, the British would face the painful decision of either withdrawing their fleet from the Mediterranean before Suez and Gibraltar had been blocked, or allowing it to be bottled up. The odds would be in favor of withdrawal Already British spokesmen are pointing out that Suez and the Mediterranéan area are not vital to Britain. Victory or defeat, they agree, will be decided in the British Isles and along the sea lanes between those isles and America. It has been known for some time that German agents have been active in Iraq, Syria and throughout the Arab world. They have played upon the nationalistic feeling always strong among the inhabitants. After the siege and fall of Kut Al

Amara in 1916, Britain's position in the Middle East became extremely precarious. To rally the Arabs to his side, General Sir Stanley Maude, who took over after Kut, promised them independence. Using this pledge, Col. Lawrence won their confidence completely and helped lead them to victory only to see the pledge “betrayed,” as he expressed it, after the war. In 1920, the disillusioned Iraqis revolted. Lawrence, who had refused a title, decorations and other high honors offered by the king in person, openly stated that it was not astonishing that their patience had broken down. He insisted that the British mandate over Iraq gave the Arabs less voice in their affairs than they had had under the Turks. So keenly did he feel about his own innocent part in the “betrayal,” that he gave up his title of colonel, dropped his own name, joined the A. E F. as a private and became known as “Aircraftsman Shaw.”

War Moves Today

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have to come in sections and comparatively small detachments of British units should be able tc work havoc among them. It would seem that such practical difficulties would deter the Germans from attempting so hazardous an expedition. A more practical maneuver from the military standpoint, would be to fiy troops from southern Greece to Syria. Thereafter, they might be assembled and proceed along land routes to Iraq without molestation, if France were to consent. There is no reason, however, to believe Marshal Petain would repudiate his own strongly defined policy of non-intervention. Only recently, hé said French honor demanded that no action be taken detrimental to the interests of France's former ally, Great Britain. This stand applies to Syria, no less than to North Africa. Furthermore, during the final stage of the British evacuation from Greece, the Germans themselves seent to have indorsed the neutrality of Syria. On May 1, Vichy rewspapers reprinted a statement from the German-controlled Paris press declaring that if any British forces sought refuge in Syria from Greece, they would be interned. It would naturally follow that any

IMMEDIATE RULING IN RIPPER SUITS ASKED

Immediate judgment on the three suits filed by Democratic Governor Henry F. Schricker attacking constitutionality of the G. O. P. “decentralization”™ program was asked today by attorneys for four elected Republican State officials. In a petition filed in Hamilton Circuit Court, where the cases were wenued from this county, they asked that judgment be passed as soon as the transcripts are transmitted. The petition‘charged that “although the change of venue was granted more than a week ago, the Marion County Clerk thus iar has failed to transmit the transcript.” Meanwhile, filing of a Democratic brief was awaited by the Indiana Supreme Court before it orders oral arguments on a G. O. P. appeal from an injunction blocking appointments under the new laws. The high court has said it will rule on the constitutional questions when it hands down its opinion on the appeal.

JAPANESE FIRE CHUNGKING CHUNGKING, May 3 (U. P).— Japanese bombers today showered incendiary and explosive hombs cn Chungking’s suburbs, causing many fires which, however, were speedily extinguished. Casualties were re-

“The taxpayers of this country with other nonessential projects|ithe courts and hamstring the entire “In my own state of Indiana, the," + te people, as expressed at project at this time. Those business- jo. ,;nent of which they formerly sum of money as this project would | Schricker Rapped by our defense program. necessary project.” could not have made Governor | geaway project across. to it” State Auditor Richard T. lis, the project would provide the| During Mr. Schricker’'s term in estimated initial cost of $266,170,000 chine’s best behaved yes-men.” Mr. This would be “three times the the McNutt crowd. He not only summary pointed out. Act but he was one of its authors. “For four years, Senator Willis’ office sent 500 let- 1933 dictator law, and could not rally which will be addressed by the Republican party has treated In addition to the Willis letter, do recognize the fact that he reprethe Lease-Lend Aid-to-Britain Bill, powers that would be his if he “It was with great satisfaction States Senate, C. Wayland Brooks| Willard E. Miller, 30, Greencastle, to my fellow Hoosiers at an Amer- | truck at Camp McCory late yesterUrges Attendance | observation duty at the time,

“I feel called upon to urge everyone within practical distance of the auditorium to make every effort to hear in person the word of ‘Curly’ Brooks, whose sincere determination to save the United States from the moral and financial annihilation of war is attributable both to his sound thinking and to his first-hand experience of what war really means. central and southern sections of “Wounded seven times in the state. . World War, in which he enlisted at] ca the age of 20, Senator Brooks will! For example, nearly all the “dug be fulfilling a pledge Monday night|Vells in southern Marion County which he made more than 20 years|NaVe gone dry. The water levels have

i e—a pledge ‘to help dropped so that many of the driven BE i of Earn boys the | Wells have required additional drill-

ls horrors of any needless foreign war | \ng—about 140 to 160 feet is necesin which anybody might at any time

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Farmers Dig Wells Deeper As Drought Menaces Crops

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ported low.

wells, 10 of them in Indianapolis. Twenty-six of these, including those here, were at their lowest levels since before the 1936 drought. This is a serious situation locally because so many of the downtown air-conditioning plants depend on water from underground. It also has brought inconvenience to a number of farmers throughout the State who

German forces reaching Syria would have to be interned, likewise, if there were any consistency in Vichy’s policy. A considerable number of French troops is understood to be in Syria who might cause the Germans to feel they had alighted on a hornets nest if they challenged

Syrian neutrality. Apart from that complication, there is no reason to believe southern Greece has adequate aviation bases for flying German transport planes to Syria. The British stated that there own planes were unable to operate effectively during the evacuation from Greece because of lack of bases; and this may be a reason why the German Luftwaffe scored very limited success in checking the evacuation. So it would appear as if the Iraq challenge to the British cannot rely on German help. That situation can hardly be expected to raise Axis prestige among the Arabs, which seems to have been one of the German intentions in financing the anti-British Baghdad coup. Better strategy would have been shown if the Iraq outbreak had waited for a more opportune time for Germian intervention. That, however, would require major

jchanges of policy both at Ankara

and Vichy of which there are no open signs, as yet, and which may not happen at all.

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11 HORSES WAIT DERBY'S. START

Porter's Cap Favored, Our Boots 2d; 100,000 Are Expected.

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than his trained pea whenever the law approached.

Porter's Cap, the California entry owned by C. S. Howard, was the favorite with early arrivals. i

tvo-minute glimpse of the nine-horse duel, S. 4th St, in downtown Louisville, looked like a section of Blvd, and that accounted for the overnight shift in sentiment from the home-town (favorite, Royce G. Martin's Our Boots, to the strapping Howard colt. The California visitors have seen so much of Howard's fabulous luck —or is it luck?—they simply overwhelmed Kentucky's hardened hardbooters, who had installed Our Boots ds the early Derby favorite six weeks ago. Most observers on the grounds all week called it a two-horse race with one startling exception. That ques-tion-mark was Warren Wright's | Whirlaway. The golden chestnut! son of Blenheim II still was con-| sidered the fastest horse in the race cover any given quarter-mile stretch and many believed he could win if Jockey Eddie Arcaro conquered Whirlaway’s habit of bearing out in the turns.

Expect Dispose to Challenge

Just such a disaster cost Whirlaway his last two starts, one in the mile Derby trial last Tuesday.

Porter's Cap, rated in the morning line at 2 to 1, Our Boots (5-2) | and Whirlaway (5-1) faced a strong | challenge from King Ranch’s Dispose, saddled by Max Hirsch, who! brought home Bold Venture in 1936. Dispose, despite his disappointing showing in the Experimental Handi- | cap at Jamaica, was the eastern

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favorite at 8 to 1. Included in the field were J. F.| Byers’ Robert Morris (10-1), Mrs. Vera Bragg's Blue Pair (15-1),] Rocky Palladino’s Little Beans (20-1), Putnam's Swain (50-1), Louis | Tuffano’s Market Wise (25-1), Hugh Nesbitt's Staretor (60-1) and Valdina Paul (100-1). All but one horse in the field was capable of handling a muddy track as well as a perfect course. Robert Morris was tested once in the mud and failed miserably.

Market Wise Has Sore Foot

One owner, however, preferred soft footing. Georgie Carroll, the former jockey now training Market Wise, said the Wood Memorial winner had a sore foot and probably would show at his best on a sloppy course, Porter's Cap, Our Boots, Dispose, Blue Pair and Little Beans, all Ken-tucky-bred, earned their heavy backing with important victories. Running at his best when the pots were biggest, Porter's Cap won nearly $100,000 in 1940 and early 1941, scoring in the Washington Park futurity, the Santa Anite Derby and three weeks ago in the Chesapeake Stakes at Havre de Grace. Our Boots became the leading juvenile of 1940 by winning the Belmont Futurity trial and the Futurity itself; Dispose won the Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah; Blue Pair, never out of the money in 16 starts, beat Whirlaway in the Derby trial, and Little Beans has broken even in two duels with Porter's Cap.

PHIL BAKER DIVORCED WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, May 3 (U. P).—A divorce from Phil Baker, radio comedian, was granted Mrs. Margaret Cartwright Baker yesterday by Circuit Judge OC. E. Chillingworth on her charge of

mental cruelty.

NAZIS REPORTED FLYING TO RAG

‘British and Arabs Battle for Oil Fields’ Control; South Africa Aids B. E. F.

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Transjordan and Syria and through which the oil pipe lines run to British ports in Palestine.

Regarding Ankara reports that | Iraq was threatening to cut the oil pipe lines to the Mediterranean, it was said authoritatively in |London that the British long ago |made plans for such an eventu- | ality. An unconfirmed report circulated {in Berlin that the Iraqi had already (halted the flow of oil from the | British fields in Iraq through the | pipe lines leading to the Palestine coast at Haifa. These reports, however, said the pipe line had not been destroyed. Normally, the pipe lines can carry about 40,000 barrels of oil a day. The British Broadcasting Co. last night broadcast an apepal to the people of Iraq to “disown Rashdi Ali and those few military leaders who for the sake of their own gain have sought a uh es Great Britain and betrayed the interest of your country.” The operations throughout the Mediterranean area were being conducted by both sides with an eye on the attitude -of the leaders of a vast Mohammedan world stretching from the Indian Ocean through the Near East and across North Africa. The British charged that the Axis powers were attempting to stir up the Arabs throughout the Near East.

B. E. F. Reorganizes

The success or failure of the Axis campaign may hinge on the ability of the British to crush their foes in Iraq and maintain a firm grip on the Iraq oil fields. The British were rapidly reorganizing the Expeditionary Force res- | cued from Greece in order to stand off the Axis thrusts through Libya (and probably through Syria against

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George Gilbert Mize . . . 1918

George Gilbert Mize . . . 1941

” ” ” T0 NAME SLATE the Suez Canal, but further details —— {of the battle of Greece indicated

: that considerable losses had been George Mize Is Scheduled | said that two

suffered there. ; y | The Admiralty To Head Unique Veterans {British destroyers and four transports had heen sunk during the Group Here. | evacuation and that casualties were heavy as a result of Nazi dive Seven Indianapolis boys who had just returned from service in

bomber attacks. The destroyers lost were the 1375 World War I met in the spring of | 1920 and organized a unique Bunch)

ton Diamond and the 900-ton Wryeon club.

neck, both sunk by German bombs after they had picked up 700 surToday this club has 250 mem-|vivors from a transport that was bers, many of them fathers of hos | set afire. Three other transports who, in turn, are enlisting in de-|reported lost were empty, but the fense units. -— Like many luncheon clubs, it is| composed ,of men selected from] each representative business or| profession in the city. But unlike the rest, everv member, must have seen service in the Army, Navy or] Marine Corps from April 6, 1917, to Nov. 11, 1918.

Thus the Service Club was appropriately named. Some day it must become a “last man’s club.” But today it is going strong and on June 2 will elect its 22d president, George Gilbert Mize, exofficer of field artillery, Purdue graduate and chief engineer of the Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Co. Other officers to take over will be Maurice E. Tennant, vice president; A. D. Lange, secretary; John T. Couchman, sergeant-at-arms.

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3 DIE IN MANILA FIRE

MANILA, P. I, May 3 (U. P).— Three persons were dead and hundreds were homeless today after the largest fire in Manila’s history last night swept through a downtown district, destroying whole blocks of business and residential

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speed of the German advance prevented the British from saving more than 500 of 8000 troops and Jugoslay refugees waiting to be embarked from Kalamata. Informed Nazis said in Berlin today that High Command figures showed a total of 10,917,000 tons of British shipping, or shipping useful to the enemy, had been sunk since the beginning of the war. The figure on total tonnage, which the High Command is expected to

announce tonight, represents about half of the total shipping originally available to Britain, the Nazis

| sources said.

In the air war, 200 German planes bombed Liverpool and the surrounding Merseyside area for hours last night, causing heavy casualties and damage.

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houses. The blaze, caused damage estimated at several million dollars.

|sary in most instances. undertake to embroil the United| Since August, 1939, only February, April, May and November in 1940 showed rainfall excesses. Some of the months showed deficiencies as much as two inches. Thus, when rain does fall, it sinks through the topsoil as if it were a sieve and is absorbed deep in the subsoil. The short rooted plants like wheat and rye suffer, Farm Bureau Secretary Larry Brandon. sees the drought danger more as long range than immediate. While the subsoil is slowly becoming dryer and dryer, the farmer is having to work his ground more and more intensely in order to make a living. That is, the farmers economics prevent him from planting clover and other replenishing crops on the back 40. Now, the State Conservation Department maintains 60

States.’ “The people of the Fourth District are indeed fortunate in having this privilege to hear that pledge fulfilled—and by one of the Senate's outstanding orators and one of the ablest and most valorous opponents of American convoys and all other similar steps toward war.”

Opposes Close Friends

Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. J) deserted the Administration feadership again this week when he voted for both the Tobey and Nye anti-convoy resolutions in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In doing so, he opposed two close personal and political friends—Secretary of State Hull and Chairmar

are being forced to haul water for their stock and for their families. Forest fires have spread over more than 1000 acres in the last week. This is unusual because the vegetation is becoming green and the danger from such blazes ordinarily diminishes at this time, So Indiana probably won't shrivel up and blow away in the near future, but from the sand dunes up north to the levees down south, you'll hear the chant—“How. Dry I Am!”

BLackstone office

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4 AT 12 o'clock tonight the Indiana Bell will complete another large project for Indianapolis ata cost of approximately $1,250,000. Two new dial central offices will be placed in service.

GArfield office, occupying a new building at 2941 Shelby street, will provide dial service for telephones in a southern section of Indianapolis.

, newly installed in’ the

Irvington telephone building, will furnish dial telephone facilities for growth in that area.

TWO NEW DIAL TE OFFICES GO INTO

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MArket office has been greatly erlarged and will relieve other central offices. Over 7,000 telephones will be added to this office tonight.

Altogether, some 13,000 telephones will be affected by tonight’s “cutover.” About 10,000 will be changed from manual to dial operation.

The establishment of the new offices; the addition of equipment; and rearrangement of office areas are forward steps consistent with our aim of more and better service for Indianapolis.

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After the "zero hour” tonight be sure to use the green telephone book. It contains the right numbers, Discard your old directory.’