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VOLUME 53-—-NUMBER 4

MONDAY, MAY

5, 1941

Phtered ny Becona-Crary Matter Wt Postoffice, Thafmhnpolls, Tha.

GROSS TAX IS

AGAIN UPHELD

| What this country

High Court Indorses Lewy On Interstate Business Of Residents.

S. Supreme Court ruled Indiana's gross income

The U today that tax properly interstate business of Indiana

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resi The high court upheld the constitutionality of the 19383 Gross Income Tax In & brought the Ingram-Richardson Manufacturing Co. Frankfort, Ind, which enamels Kitchen equipment shipped to its ple from Other states, 1 ruling was the second within a week wpholding the gross | tax law. On April 28, the Supreme | Court upheld the levy as it applies to the income of out-of-state ocom-

ohse by

-e

Pr aBaean LOGAaY'S

panies derived {rom sources within ®

the state. That case involved the Wood Preserving ©o.. of Pitisbureh which protested pavment of the tax on products treated in this state. both cases, the high court mpheld the rulings of Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell here,

Gilbert K. Hewit, Gross Income Tax director, estimated that rulings in the two oases have meant a tax loss to the state in excess of $100.000 a Vea! these nad similarly situated In the Frankfort case. the company contended that a specific proVision of the tax law exempting income from interstate commerce applied to the enameling work it does! for out-of-state companies. This| was upheld by the Circuit Court of! Appeals and was appsaled to the Supreme Court by the State The Circuit Court upheld the state's contention that if the income | were taxable, it should be under the service rate of 1 per cent instead of one-fourth of 1 per cent, as con-| tended by the firm. The high court refused to hear the company's appeal on this point Chief Justice Charles Evans Huches wrote the decision for a unanimous court i

Division

agverse

from

firms

Sissy Ash Trays

can be appiied to the |

proof.”

‘Gibraltar remains the rock of British seapower anf must be isolated.

Branded Unsafe

NEW YORK, May 5 (U. P). The National Board of Fire Underwriters declared today that | needs is more |

| man-sized ash (rays. The NBFU strongly denounced “dinky and fancy” receptacles which have room only “for about | & spoonful of ashes.” . “A ose petal,” the NBFU said, | “is very pretty in its place. But | nO ash tray has any business be the size of & rose petal, Or & sea shell ‘An ash tray is supposed to be a protection against fire, and it should be large, high-sikied, not too flat, and heavy enough not tip over at the slightest push.”

2-WAY CHECK ON

STICKER MAY 80 eer mi saws

| a ———— |

Setting Up Cafeteria Court Would Strip City Clerk |

Of Traffic Review. |

The creation of the cafeteria |

court will automatically strip City] {

{Clerk John Layton of his powers had been shot down, killing $7 men. Involves $100,000 Yearly

of reviewing traffic stickers, thereby! removing & double-check instituted | two years ago to make stickers “fixThis was learned today in an ordinance setting up the cafeteria | court, to be known as the Traffic Violation Bureau. The ordinance

will be presented to the City Coun-

¢il tonight | Under the new system, direct con-| trol over the stickers is transferred to Police Chief Michael F. Morris-| sey and the Safety Board. This is a! retin to the former method of handling stickers which was supplanted by the double-check method by which Mr. Layton reviewed all sticker payments, The clerk, who is the only elected! official in the City Administration outside of Mayor Sullivan, said he never had been consulted on the | change. He said he did not wish to]

{comment on it,

Court Is Unanimous |

“The enameling process,” he said. “was an activity performed at respondent’s plant in Indiana and the gross receipts therefrom were tax. able by Indian& under its gross income tax law The fact that the orders for the enameling were obtained by respondent’s agents and contracts were executed outside Indiana did not make the enameling process other than an intrastate activity and any the less & proper subject for the application of the taxing statute.” The court specifically declined to rule on whether the expense of transporting products between the enameling plant and points outside Indiana is & proper deduction,

MERCURY RISE AND SHOWERS FORECAST

LOCAL TEMPERATURES a m, 65 10a m, atm . «8 11% wm am ... 1 12 tnoon) am... 1pm

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Warmer-than-usual weather was scheduled for tonight and tomorrow by the Weather Bureau, which also promised showers within the next 24 hours.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

9 Movies 17 van iS ..10

5 Mrs. Ferguson. 10 Music

Clapper Comics Crossword Editorials Fashions Financial Flynn Forum Gallup Poli ..

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! Obituaries . 7, 18 12 Pegler ........10 ISP aa 9 10 Questions ..9, 10 10 Radio 14 8 Mrs. Roosevelt. 3 Homemaking .12 Serial Story . 17 In Indpls. .... 8 Side Glances .10 Inside Indpls. . § Society ....11, 12 Jane Jordan a Re nen O, 3 wi R10 Deaths. 7

Stickers as well as fines for minor traffic violations will be hand'ed exclusively by the Bureau, to be set up outside the police station, but to be staffed by police department civilian clerks. The clerks, respon-! sible to the Chiel, will collect all fines and turn them over to the of-| fice of James E. Deery, City Con-| troller. Sticker fines will remain &t $2, which also is the fine for first offense on & minor violation of the| City traffic code. Second offenses will bring $3 fines and third offenses | ‘#5 fines. The offenses will be re-| corded on drivers’ licenses and any) motorist guilty of more than three violations must appear before the

| traffic court judge.

FIRST MARBLE SHOT 15 COMING UP TODAY

Sectional Game Begins at South Side Center at 3:30.

i i

The Marbles Tournament is on!

| Beginning at 3:30 p. m. today, —

The P-38—You See I#, Then It's Gone When You Hear It

{more than 5000 boys and girls will shoot for the City Championship {and the free four-day trip to | Asheville, N. C, the grand prize in [the Indianapolis Times-City Marbles Tournament, The first sectional game to he | played in the 194] tournament will | be held at the South Side Commun{ity Center this afternoon. Frank Hopper, director of the center, and Gerald Hermson are in charge, | Entries in sectionals not playing (today have been invited to watch ‘this opener, for pointers on tourna- | ment shooting. Sectional games will {be held every day to Saturday, May 17, when the trict semi-fi-

nals scheduled, ib the Times for the

Reports From Iraq Diverge;

[the Mediterranean and

{ Derna ( blasting

i of ng 11

AIR WAR RAGES ON WIDE FRONT

Axis Tobruk Drive Reported Broken. By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Paitor

World Empire-by John T. Whitaker

1941,

SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE. The German

occupation of France, Spain,

of North Africa now appears certain unless the United States enters the war and joing Great Britain Ia preventing action before Hitler's plans can be developed and completed. Except for the Iberian Peninsula Hitler alk ready controls the whole of Europe, but he plans to make the "new order” all-embracive not from personal vamglory but

strategic reasons based on

never leaves the mitiative to others. Vichy, or unoccupied France, invites Hitler because he needs & contiguous stretch of Ger man-ruled territory from the Reich itself to North Africa, because “occupied” Italy is ine sufficient to this purpose without the naval bases at Toulon in France and Bizerte in Tunisia and because he sees the possibility of seizing

the French Navy,

Spain invites him because Gibraltar remains the rock of British seapow Mediterranean and must be isolated whether

Hitler is able to take Suey

by Th Theahabolix Timer wna Chicags Durty News, The

Portugal and much there wi

cupation tO win

of the » for sound More

a war plan that

ultaneonu which, 1

Britain only thy

or In the western America

or not. Indeed, it

Risk Million on

1.OS ANGELES, May 5 (U, P) The first minute of flight of the world's largest airplane-tie 80ton Douglas B-19 bomber--was insured today for $1,000,000 A syndicate of companies which insured the $3.500,000 plane for an $82000 premium quoted odds it would remain in the ai a minute at 13 1 1. Alter the first minute, the premium drops to $3000 an hour for the same policy, during flight tests before the bomber is turned over to the

Great Britain and Germany fought | in the air from North Ireland t% the Near Bast today as Royal Air Force bomb |

lers raided the Toagi capital and the

Luftwaffe again heavily Belfast In the Near Bast, British Imperi- | als were still fighting Iraqi troops | but details were meager and davels opments were confused by many

pounded

destpoyi workshops, NR Wn )

Cairo claimed that “the greater part” of the Iraqi air force had been destroyed and that Traqi artillery | near Habbaniya airport had been rendered “comparatively inactive.”

British Control Basra

Iraqi sources in Syria claimed that two British troop-carrying planes

Army. The test flight tentatively has been set for May 1%. The bomber has a wingspread of 212 feet; its fuselage is 132 feet long. With a crew of 10, it cond flv frdm New York to Burope and back without refueling.

4 JUGOSLAVIAN

SHIPS BOARDED U. S. Coast Busi Force One to Return to Berth After Sailing.

NEW YORK, May 5 (U. P).—The United States Coast Guardsmen

The Swiss radio reported that Traqi troops were closing in on the Habbaniya defenders after heavy | artillery bombardment. At the port! of Basra, the British troops were | said to be in control of key points, ! but there still was no definite ine dication whether Britain could dominate the Near East oil fields before the Germans moved in On the Mediterranean war front. he R. A. F, reported that British fighter planes had shot down four AXis bombers attempting to attack the seat of the Greek Government at Crete and damaged others, while | several more were reported brought down by anti-aireraft guns.

Battleship Wits Claimed

British bombers in North Africa concentrated on attacking the | and Bening airports and! enemy transports and | troop columns, The Axis claimed that the assault on Tobruk Was | stalled by sandstorms, but the Brit-| ish said that two strong British! counter-attacks had broken up preparations for a renewed assault. | In Europe, R. A. F. bombers again made a strong raid on the French Atlantic coast naval bases, attack-| ing St. Namire, where a huge rec-| tangle of fire was reported, andl Brest, where for the first time di-| rect « hits with “armor-piercing

‘ontinued on Page Three)

OUTPUT SETS NEW HIGH IN APR Production Placed at 1493

During Month.

WASHINGTON, May 5 (U. P).—

{American airplane production]

reached a the new high mark of 1498 Tor April, it was learned today.

The ‘previously record output was |

boarded Jugoslav ships in port here today and forced one to return to her berth after sailing but denied that the vessels had been taken into “protective custody.” J. 8S, Baylis, ‘Coast Guard com

New York, desoribed the boarding action as “inspections” and said he was “in no position” to give further information, “Tt is not uncommon for us to board ships ai various times” he sald, “We often do this as a pre-

[cautionary step when we receive re- | which often have

ports and rumors.” Earlier, a general radio call sent under the signal letters of the Rome Radio had been picked up here ordering all Jugoslav ships in

{the Atlantic to put in at Argentine | jater,

or Brazilian ports and those in the Pacific to enter Japanese, ManchuKuan, Thailand or Chilean ports. opajtio Ts ‘Inspected’ Six Jugoslav vessels were in this area when the call went out.

The first Jugoslav ship “ine

|spected” by the Coast Guard ap-|

parently was the Predsednik Ko-

(pajtic, 1798 tons, which sailed early |

yesterday from Stapleton, Staten Island, and returned about three hours later with armed guardsmen aboard, Two ships tied up at Brooklyn {piers were boarded early today. They were the 316%7-ton Sreca and the 1810-ton Neti, The Neti are rived here April 6 from St, Thomas, (V. I, The Sreca had arrived from {the Virgin Islands earlier, { After the ships in Brooklyn were boarded, & boatload of armed guardsmen left for Stapleton where a fourth Jugoslav ship, the 8282. ton Prince Pavie, was tied up. Baylis, who said all further information would have to come from [Washington, denied that guards men were being left aboard the vessels after the inspections were completed. Several days ago the British Ad'miralty sent out a broadcast in the name Of the refugee Jugoslav Government ordering Jugoslav ships to

1216 for March. /put into United States or British

Informed sources said that only 78 of the 1493 aircraft manufactured and delivered last month were of the commercial type. The remainder went to the U. S. Army, U. 8

| | Navy, British and other Govern- | ments,

| ports. COMEDY VETERAN DIES MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 4 (U. P.) Frank Jerome, 57, veteran comedian of the revue “Hellzapoppin,” died yesterday of a heart attack,

LOS ANGELES, May § (U. P). —The Lockheed P-38 interceptor plane is so fast it appears and is out of sight before it can be

heard. The P-38, possibly the fastest military airplane ever made, was demonstrated publicly for the first time yesterday before 30,000 persons. They saw it knife silently across the sky. When it had vanished over the horizon, the roar pro-

The plane was flying at &n elevation of nearly 3000 feet dur ing the demonstrations. Test Pilot Milo Burcham climbed the plane vertically at a speed pilots believed was more than 300 miles an hour, The interceptors design, armament, and speed are among the Army's most vealously guarded secrets, It is reported, however, to fly 460 miles an hour on threequarters throttle; its arm 1s said to le two rapid on six

Cll

+ Minute in Air |

"CAN BEAT ANY

Fuehrer Makes No Promise Of 1941 Victory, but Pledges Weapons.

BERLIN, May 3 maay always will have | Weapons of War —- regardless [American claims of aid to Britain and might achieve victory Isoon,” authorized Nazis said today in commenting on Adolf Witler's

speech to the Reichstag, Hitler, who aroused by failing to mention previous claims that the war would be won this year, declared in his speech that Germany and her allies were “superior to any. possible conlition in the world.” Questioned regarding possibility of an end in the war this year, the Nagi spokesman said:

U., P)==CGer-

superior of

th? war. [==but victory soon.” Authorized sources, asked for comement on President Roosevelt's dec laration that America is ready to fight for democracy, said that ine ternal affairs in the United States were of no interest to Germany,

Scoff at U, 8S. Arms Output

“We will leave the historical parallel between President Wilson and President Roosevelt to be an-

might come quite

‘mander and captain of the Port of | swered by history,” it was asserted.

They added that the making of Wil.

son's home into a shrine would not |

influence Europeans { Tn reference to Hitler's speech and | whether victory was expected this |year, authorized sources said that | Hitler had answered two points been raised (abroad: — 1. American claims to great arms [production in the future, | 2. Assertions that Germany must {win the war

Claim Best Weapons | Hitler's primary purpose, they | said, was to emphasize that regard. [loss of how Jong the war lasts, the | Germans will continue to have the best weapons, In his fourth speech to the Nagi | Reichstag since the war started. | Hitler reviewed the Balkan triumph |

[and roused singing cheers with his statement that “nothing is impos. sible to the German soldier.” He referred to “the democratic agitators of a country to which the German people has never done any harm,” presumably States, and sald their fear that Germany intended to do harm to that country “is nothing but an absurd lie” He assured his uniformed Reich (Continued on Page Three)

may not be possible to take Suez until the Straits of Gibraltar are closed. Portugal invites him-<though hig first step Portuguese alliance rather than immediate oc bases on that flank of the British Isles if he is Churchill foresees as the decisive engagement tions, however, is Hitler's theory that he must

have control of Africa and the bases which extend from the Azores through Dakar—this sims

Anglo-Saxon naval power, strategically,

IF THE WAR is viewed strategically Great

people but also and indeed primarily through

American victory,

“Quite |

speculation | §

“Germany is confident of winning | It is secondary to us when |

this year or lose it)

[Charles FP. Passel who returned tothe United]

over America, I probably be the rupture of the Anglos —Dhecaure he needs air and submarine

the “Battle of the Atlantic” which fonsive system. ar, will be half won important than any of these considera and Ttalians have

now,

sly with the closing the Mediterranean, ogether, would halve the efficiency of For Hitler thinks

months and becam

the punch,

Washington plann

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is already defeated and hangs on not

: : against Dakar, ough the heroic stubbornness of her

. Hitler laid early n help and the ultimate promise of Informed circles from Berlin

and Rome describe Hitler as confident of victory

American defense can be thought of graphis cally ax lying along the New York-Dakar-Lons don triangle. By confirming hiz hold on Dakar with control of the African bavex down the coat and down the islands extending from Portugal through Dakar Hitler will have broken that de The “Battle of the Atlantic”

and the way will be opened

to South America. Thiz is the way Germans

been talking for some weeks

Panic swept Berlin twice in the last twe

ican occupation of Greenland. The Germans thought that the Americans would beat them to Twice there were

rumors that ed a swift occupation of the

Azores and a joint action with the British

Such action would have upset plans which

last winter, az the writer

learned following one of Hitler's conferences (Continwed on Page Thiee)

| Nazi Polar Base Bared

Re i EE - : SH A picture taken by the Byrd Expedition at Vite Amerioa vhowing a

curiously shaped ice fracture caused by heavy pressure,

Shops Near Chile Recently Blown Up, Byrd Aid Says

BOSTON, May 5 (U. P) Germany maintained Antarctic naval repair shops at Deception Island harbor--only 600 miles from South Amer. fea——until they were blown up a few months ago, it was reported when members of the United States Antarctic Expedition arrived here today. Deception Island is a volcanic formation near the South Shetland nds, south of Cape Horn, There is a desp lake on the island, which

PARENTS WN BOSTON ie ok OES rt 5, hye TO GREET PASSEL

who was among 200 persons who greeted the returning members of Man Served Byrd As Geologist,

| his expendition aboard the motors [ship North Star, expressed astonish. Mr. and Mrs. Howard PF, Passel, 3720 N. Pennsylvania St. parents of

Isla

(ment when he heard the report, “There's some real news for you, | boys,” Admiral Byrd told raporters. “T had no idea of such activities down there.” Dr, Paul A. Siple of Erie, Pa. who had charge of the expedition's wes, base in Little America, told Admirai Byrd that he received his informa. tion from "a high Ohilean naval officer” when the North Star stopped at a Chilean port, \ “The officer told me that the shops were built there and that German explorers were in the area in 1038," Dr, Siple said. “The of cer said the shops were blown up

Local

day to Boston aboard the North Star from the Antarctic expedition, were in Boston to meet their son. They left Tndianapolis Friday and did not know then whether their son would return with them to Indianapolis, Charles Passel, a

ALL GREYHOUND RUNS IN STATE SUSPENDED

200 Employees Idle During Negotiations.

All runs of the Pennsylvania Greyhound Bus Lines in Tndiana were suspended today pending negotiations for settlement of a strike of employees in Washington. The strike, which became effective | at 5 a. m, yesterday, stopped more than 100 daily runs in the I'mdian-

Representatives of the company and the Amalgamated Association of Street Car and Motor Operators (A, FP, of IL.) were to resume negotiations with a Federal conciliator at Washington today. The union's contract expired March 27. John L, Connor, U. S. concilintor, said earlier negotiations collapsed when the union refused to continue discussions for a contract without first being assured of a closed shop and wage increase, Drivers now receiving 4 cents a mile have asked for 5 cents a mile and terminal empleo, want their rate increased from 85 cents to $1.15

mp ;nnourn ced that

| P. Alexander who, it stated, ‘mis.

apolis area. The company has about | 200 employees in Indiana. |

and you can draw your own conclu sions as to who may have done this.” Dr. Siple said that by the time ‘I'he received the report the expedition was too far from Little America to make any possible attempt at verification. He speculated that the German battleship Graf Spee might have used Deception Island as a base for raiding operations in the South Atlantic before it was sunk more than a year ago. Admiral Byrd said that the North (Continued on Page Three)

War Moves Today

By J. W, T. MASON United Prem» War Expert

When Hitler in his address yesterday declared Germany and her allies represent military power superior to any possible combination in the world, he was camouflaging the facts, Any possible combination must include naval strength as well as land power whereas it seems apparent that the Fuehrer sought to confine a comparison of fighting eMociency to numbers of soldiers and their equipment. He did not mention air strength and there again he glossed over ‘one of the major conditions of the future of the war. It is probable that next year the British output of airplanes plus the American production will ‘exceed Germany's productive capacity, Since the Fuehrer referred to the| German equipment TO ent yan: it must be assumed that he has ay oe his former conviction | MT Strength, however, which might that Germany will be able to win/be Open to Germhn argument, it is the war this year. Thus, any possi« on the naval issue that Hitler's

graduate of Miami University, Oxford, O., was a geologist for the ex. pedition. He embarked for “down under” a year ago last August.

30° FOR THE PRINTER Copyright, 1941, by The Indinnapolis Times and The Chicagd Daily News, ne. LONDON, May 5. Yesterday morning's Sunday Express carried A small item about a printer named

took a parachute bomb for an airman bailing out” and whose body, AS A consequence, never was found.

4 Apart from any comparison of

U.S. READY TO FIGHT. D. R

Wilson Memorial Address Raps Isolationism; Ship Bill Up, (Roowevelt Text, Page Three)

WASHINGTON, May 5 (U. P.)=-The House today takes up a bill to permit use of fore eign vessels. in the aid-tos Britain program, 24 hours after President Roorevelt des clared that the United States is ready to fight again for democracy. Mt. Roosevelt yesterday dedicated the birthplace of Woodrow Wilson, World War President, at Staunton, Va, as a national shrine Surrounded by high Federal, state and diplomatic officials ineluding bord Halifax, the British Ambags sador, Mr, Roosevelt charged that isolationism was an idle dream ang that to survive thix nation must aes

cept its responsibilities in the coms munity of the world,

* ‘A Simple Faith’ “He (Wilson) taught that demots racy could not survive in isolation” Mr, Roosevelt said, “We applaud his judgment and his faith.” Ry dedicating the shrine, he said,

"We are bearing true withesy to the faith that is fn usa simple faith in the freedom of democracy ih the world, “Tt 1s the kind of faith for which we have fought before«for the ee istence of which we are ever ready to fight again, “Tn the tragic conflict which the world witnesses today and which threatens everything we have mow loved as a free people, we ses more clearly than ever before the unyields ing strength of things of the spirit,

Willkie Asks Convoys

“All of recorded history bears witness that the human race has made true advancement only as 1% has appreciated spiritual values, Those urhappy peoples whe have placed their sole reliance on the sword have inevitably perished by the sword in the end.” While Mr, Roosevelt was speaks ing, Wendell 1. Willkte, 1040 Res publican Presidential onndidate, was ‘calling for convoys or ahy other method necessary to deliver War ‘materials to Britain, in a speech at Nashville, At the same time, Dr. Jamies Bryant Conant, Harvard University president, who recently returned from an official mission to Britain, was asking America's immediate entry into the war'on Britain's side. Administration lenders predicted that the ship requisition bill would pass the House quickly and go to the Senate, probably tomorrow, where isolationists hope to add an amendment that would specifical prohibit use of American naval

forces to convoy ships inte come bat zones,

WOOD NAMED HEAD OF TEACHING GROUP

Harry Wood, head of the coms merce department and diractor of financial activities at Shortridge High School, has been elected pres. dent of the Federation of Indians apolis Public School Teachers, Mr. Wood, who will serve for two Vers, succeeds B. B. Hargrave, Washington High School vice prins cipal. Mrs, Mary Hornaday Hall of School 39 was chosen recording secs retaty, Members of the new executive board are Miss Frieda Herbst, School 52; Wiss Martha Logsdon, School 76; Miss Ruth School 72; Mrs. Anna H. Lloyd, School 43, and Paul Miller, School 1.

MENZIES COMING TO VU. 8,

NEW YORK, May 5 (U, P), ww

Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies of Australia, who has been in Lone

ble combination of power against claim of fighting

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