Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1941 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 51
FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1941
Entered as Second-Class Matter
at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.
$E THREE CENTS
Japanese Foreign Office Paper Urges End Of War In China
300 R.A.F. BOMBERS RAID GERMANY
Want Any Plowing Done? GUNS, BUTTER
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Jerry Glaze . .. First Mate at the wheel.
Just a guy who likes to get in there and help out daddy, that’s Jerry Glaze, age 214. Jerry took to tractors early and his father, Earl, used to set him on his lap when there was tractor work to be done on the farm at Five Points Road near the Shelbyville Read, Jerry caught on to
the mechanics of such right away, winning the rank of First Mate at the wheel. If there's shifting of gears to be done, Jerry, whose legs haven't reached their full length, calls in Pop. Jerry finds he’s a handy man to have around.
BOBBITT OPENS FIRE ON BEAMER
Attorney General Erroneously Interprets New Highway Law.
By VERN BOXELL
Claims
A new controversy in the State House feud flared today with a bitter personal attack on Attorney General George Beamer by Arch N. Bobbitt, Republican State Chairman, He charged Mr. Beamer with a | “completely erroneous” interpretation of the new highway law passed by the G. O. P.-controlled Legislature and called it “a deliberate attempt to sabotage our constructive program.” Mr. Beamer is merely a “purported attorney general” on “Ssitdown strike,” Mr. Bobbitt said, referring to the “ripper” law which ousted Mr. Beamer on April 1 and provided for an interim appointment by a G. O. P.-dominated hoard. The ouster was blocked by a temporary injunction obtained by | the Democrats, however, An opinion in which the Attorney General's office held that the Highway Commission cannot purchase “even a 75 cent article” without advertising for bids in all four local
center, | The G. O. P. leader insisted that the provision of the 1935 highway | act, which said that “the chairman | with the approval of the commission may authorize the purchase of small tools, implements, machinery, materials and supplies in any sum not exceeding $250 without adver(Continued on Page Seven)
UNOCCUPIED FRANCE TO GET U. S. WHEAT
WASHINGTON, May 9 (U. P.).— French Ambassador Gaston HenryHaye revealell today that the United States has agreed to supply unoccupied France with two shiploads of wheat monthly as long as the present status of the Vichy government remains unchanged. Henry-Haye said he was informed of this decision by Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles. He believed the wheat, which he said approximated about 10 per cent of the total French needs prior to the new harvest, will be purchased with frozen French funds in this country.
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
Hope fo Resume Marbles Play
SECTIONAL GAMES in the Indianapolis Times-City Marbles Tournament were called because of rain yesterday, but tourney officials hoped to continue the play-offs today. ; A joint play-off for the Municipal Gardens and School 75 centers was called whem eight players were left. The eight will decide the sectional championship this afternoon, weather permit-
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Other games scheduled for aft-er-school this afternooh are Mayer Chapel, North East Community Center, St. Rita's, Kirshbaum Center, J. /T. V. Hill, Rhodius, School 31 and Christian Center.
AIR LINE AGREES T0 CITY TERMS
American Approves Plans For $30,000 Addition to Airport Building.
Terms of the new agreement now
| being negotiated between the City | OF PAPER FIRM DIES |and three airlines using Municipal | )
daily newspapers was the storm | Airport, providing for a $30,000 ad- |
dition to the airport administration
{ building were agreed to by Ameri-
can Airlines, Inc. The agreement was made known in a letter to the City Legal Department from Pruitt, Hale & MacIntyre, New York, attorneys for the airline. The other two lines using the field, Eastern Air Lines, Inc. and Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., have not replied to the Works Board proposal for a new’ lease agreement. In addition to fihancing the administration building addition, the airlines will pay increased landing fees of $50 per month for the first two schedules and $25 per month for each schedule thereafter and increased rentals for office space. The new lease agreement was proposed by the Board in an attempt to make the airport which now costs the taxpayers $30,000 a year to operate, self-supporting. | The proposed addition would be] built in front of the present admin- | istration building and would contain a large observation balcony for visitors. °
ROOSEVELT IS RECOVERING WASHINGTON, May 9 (U. P). — President Roosevelt, while continuing to recover from a stomach disorder, cancelled the semi-weekly press conference scheduled for this
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morning. The President previously cancelled a week-end trip to his Hyde Park, N. Y., home.
CHUNGKING RAIDED
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OR BOTH? TAX BILL TO DECIDE
Henderson Clashes With Treasury Viewpoint at Tax Bill Hearing.
By MARSHALL McNEIL
Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, May 9. — As hearings continue before the House | Ways and Means Committee, it] becomes clearer that the pending | revenue bill, in addition to being | the largest, is perhaps the most im- | portant since the income tax oe- | came law more than 25 years ago. | This is not merely a bill to raise about $3,500,000,000 to help pay national defense costs. It is also a bill that will reduce consumer purchasing power, divert consumer purchasing power, and have important effects throughout our economy. One of its aims is to curb inflationary price rises grow- | ing out of our vast national defense expenditures. | Committee opinion has not yet jelled: no one knows yet which of the three major tax plans submitted to the committee will be ac|cepted; or how various features of each may be merged.
More Taxpayers Likely
But this much, at least, appears probablé: There will be new in-| come taxpayers next year; those already paying income taxes will pay a great deal more; familiar {goods and services will cost more, |because in some cases new, and in {other cases heavier, taxes will be levied upon them; corporations wilh |have to give up more of their profits to. the Government; and, perhaps, income heretofore exempt may begin to pay off to the Federal Treasury. Having agreed to get $3,500,000,000 |or more new revenue, the commit- | tee is faced with the basic question |of whether the burden should be | borne. more by ability-to-pay taxes |or by consumption taxes. Or, stated another way, the ques[tion is whether to rajse drastically Mr. John Doe's individual income (tax, or make him pay 20 per cent tax on his new auto, instead of 3.5 per cent.
Guns or Butter? Of course it isn't that simple; in
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fact, Mr. Doe probably will see both |his income tax and his auto tax
|g0_up. : Tied up with this tax bill,
have guns or butter or both. The Treasury told the committee that “the dangers of inflationary price movements are real,” and Treasury Secretary Morgenthau said: “The resources now employed in the defense industries are not enough to produce the guns and {tanks and ships and planes that |we need to carry out the program | {to which we are already con mitted. | [We must hasten the re-empliyment cf our idle resources.” Colin F. Stam, chief of th: joint (Continued on Page Five)
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I, FERD KAHN, HEAD |
55-Year-0ld Business Man Stricken in Florida.
i I. Ferdinand Kahn, president of {the Capitol Paper Co. died last (night in Hollywood, Fla. The 55-(year-old business man had been ill nearly two years. | A native of Indianapolis, Mr. {Kahn was a member of the In|dianapolis Hebrew Congregation and B'nai B'rith. He had been visiting {in Florida for his health. | He is survived by his wife, Ann B.; [two daughters, Mrs, Lewis Lurie and |aliss Peggy Kahn, and two grand|children, all of Indianapolis. | Rabbi Morris Feuerlicht will offi|ciate at services to be held at 10 a. m. Monday at the Indianapolis | Hebrew Temple, 10th and Delaware Sts. Burial will be in the Indian-
{service and that twenty more are Ibeing assembled for similar duty also | is the question of whether we shall |
|apolis Hebrew Cemetery.
Your Attention, Please!
Sorry to interrupt your reading of war news, but let's have your attention please! Whatever else you read in today’s paper isn't going to affect you as directly nor as immediately as an announcement City Collections Superintendent Ray Herner has to make. Mr. Herner wishes to make it || known that beginning Monday, garbage and ashes will be collected on the summer time schedule. This is twice a week for garbage and every other week for ashes, tin cans and trash. Please cover garbage cans tightly as a sanitary precaution. That is all. Thank you.
5. TO IGNORE RED SEA PERI
Plans to Send 27 Ships; Bitter Feud Rages Over
True British Losses.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 9 (U. P.).— Twenty-seven United States merchant ships are about to be sent into the Red Sea despite Axis threats to sink them, it was learned today, coincidental with a new German protest against ship seizures here and another Cabinet address urging convoys. These developments in national defense were accompanied by bitter dispute regarding the true story of British Josses. It pears now that accurate figures sinkings have not been revealed the Maritime Commission. Congressional isolationists are suggesting that Great Britain or someone is withholding the facts from the peoplé of the United States while asking simuitaneously for more and more assistance. American ships flying the American flag, and manned by American crews are expected to begin carrying war materials into the Red Sea for British use within the next few weeks. The United Press was informed that seven vessels have been tentatively assigned to that
under the Lend-Lease program, Protection Studied
Protection of the ships and American crews was reported under consideration by the State and Navy Departments. Organization of the munitions service to the Red Sea is by the Maritime Commission. President Roosevelt last month revoked the proclamation which had closed the Red Sea to American shipping as a war zone. The Red Sea flotilla will avoid the Battle of the Atlantic by operating across the Pacific, around In(Cor tinued on Page Five)
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Here's Romance
That's Killing
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 9 (U. P.).—The script called for a Greek soldier—any Greek soldier —to take Cassandre in his arms and kill her. Milos Safranek Jr., of New York got the first nod. He liked the assignment. But Thomas Jefferson Duffield Jr. of Cambridge, another Greek warrior, horned in. He wanted to take Marie M. Herrera—Cassandre to the cast—in his arms, he said, adding that he would fight for the privilege. Safranek, son of a Czechoslovak official at Washington and a Harvard junior, and Duffield, a senior, met under the lightningstreaked sky before curtain time last night, wearing their crested metal helmets, lugging heavy riveted shields, and carrying ponderous (property) swords. Exhaustion‘and buckets of water doused on them by fellow students ended the noisy combat. Neither
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TOKYO CANNOT WINBY FORCE, ARTICLE SAYS
Economic Penetration and Peaceful Domination Are Proposed. TOKYO, May 9 (U. P.).—Govern-
crushing China by armed force, are
|considering a revision of policy un|der which the scale of hostilities
would be reduced and every effort made to promote peaceful conditions and improved trade in Chinese areas now under Japanese control, it was indicated today. Intimation that the Government might soon alter its Chinese policy was given by the Japan Times and Advertiser, a mouthpiece of the Foreign Office, from which it receives a subsidy. “Ideas of overcoming this mastodon of nations (China) must have little more appeal, even to the most sanguine of soldierly minds,” it said.
Envoy Called Home
Soon after the publication of this editorial, it became known that Kumataro Honda, Ambassador to the Japanese-sponsored Nanking regime in China, was coming here next week for conferences on China policy. The Nanking regime was set up by Japan in an attempt to undermine the Chinese Government. It puports to administer Japaneseoccupied territory in the name of the Chinese people. The Times and Advertiser was the medium by which, on April 30 a world “peace plan” was published here which would have given Germany complete domination of Europe and Japan complete dominaB East ; ¢
\ a PL N » p ie ; s and Advertiser said that Japan's policy in China was twosfold—to restore peace throughout the country and to develop China as a partner on Japan’s “Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.” Peace and Prosperity
“A peaceful China must necessarily mean the termination of hostilities,” it said. “Hostilities would cease either by elimination of the cause of fricton or the provision of conditions which would assure a basis for orderly living . . . “The effect of a Japanese con-
quest over the Chinese Government |
would be decidedly incommensurate with the cost involved. The superiority of Japanese arms hag been as convincing as China's ability to survive corporal punishment. . . “Peace imposed by armed garrisons would always involve considerable expense. Chinese co-opera-tion will not be forthcoming unless there is good reason for it, Coercion would be useless. The Nanking Government should prove its rule beneficient and the Japanese Army should prove that its presence in China means no encroachment on China's political and territorial integrity, but instead means peaceful, friendly intentions.”
CHILDREN ARE READY FOR MUSIC: FESTIVAL
Audience of 8500 Assured At Coliseum Tonight.
More than 3000 public school children, some of them slightly nervous at the prospects of their first public performance, today awaited the first annual Music Festival to be presented at 8:15 p. m. in the Coliseum. The event promised to be the biggest thing of its kind ever attempted in Indianapolis, with a ticket sellout of 8500 assured. A. B. Good, schools busihess director, said there will be no box. office sales, No standing room will be sold. The audience will be filled with proud parents and admiring friends. The program will be directed by Ralph W. Wright, public school music director, WIRE will broadcast the program for a half hour beginning at 8:30
duelist was wounded.
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By JOE COLLIER It is possible that no more than 1000 of the babies born in Indiana in the next four years will be afflicted with spastic paralysis, but the State today was making plans for their welfare. At a meeting of doctors and tech-
ed Chungking shortly after noon! today, killing at least 50 persons and wounding 150. Damaged structures! included the Chiu Ching Middle
| CHUNGKING, May 9 (U. P).— picians at the State Board. of j 28 | Sixty-three Japanese bombers raid-| Health building, all the technical
knowledge accumulated from clinical experience at Riley Hospital was reviewed and demonstrated. The clinic, financed by the State
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trail blazer in the victims of «
Spastic paralysis is caused by injuries at birth, and there is no known way to avoid them. They may be caused during labor or they may result from the failure of certain brain cells to develop. While in infantile ralysis the afflicted muscles are limp and useless, they are contracted and useless in spastic paralysis, The problems in each case, however, is the same—re-education of the use of the afflicted muscles. The little, victims are taught through constant’ repetition how to control those muscles, at least to the place where they can dress and feed themselves and to walk. The pro-
State Applies Skill Learned ot Riley Clinic . In Caring for Victims of Spastic Paralysis
continued training at home by the parents. Since the clinic was established there have been 468 cases at Riley. In addition, there are two field workers who follow up cases. Clinic
Once the parents understand that children afflicted always will be more or less of a responsibility, but that the responsibility can. be re-
gram now in use at the clinic is an intensive training, to be, followed by|
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Lord Halifax
HALIFAX ASKS JOINT ACTION
Would Concentrate British Sea Power, Assure Nazi Collapse.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 9 (U, P.).— Lord Halifax, the British ‘Ambassador, said today “joint action .of: the Uhited States and Great Britain? is necessary to insure safety of :the Atlantic sea lanes; “vital link between production and combat.” Assistance of U. S. naval patrols is making possible concentration of British sea power in “most dangerous areas” threatening the flow of American aid, the Ambassa~ dor told members of the Minneapolis Rotary Club. Lord Halifax said three “trump cards in the hands of “freedom” were control of a preponderant portion of the world’s oil, copper and rubber supplies by nations opposing a Nazi triumph of “corruption and cruelty.” He said 70 per cent of the world’s oil supply, 85 per cent of available copper and 90 per cent of the crude rubber output “is still beyond Hitler’s reach.” : “These are hard and simple facts which constitute a challenge to those djubting minds which cannot see ceriain assurance of the ultimate collapse and defeat of Hitler.” He said the answer to the question: “Can Hitler be defeated?” lies “partially” in American mills, shipbuilding plants, and factories, and “partially through our unfaltering devotion to our cause.” He declared a Hitler victory means the triumph of a ruthless industrial system that no nation that values free enterprise could survive.”
NOW IT'S T00 WET FOR PLANTING CORN
Rain Soaks Top Soil but the Farmers Don’t Complain.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ... 4 10 a. m.... 7am ... 48 11 a. m.... 48 Sa. m.... 48 12 (noon) .. 48 a.m... 48 1pm... 48
Many Marion County farmers were delayed again in their corn planting today, but they weren't complaining. It was too wet! Although May still is below normal in rainfall in the city, many places in the county have received much more. The farmers had been delayed in their planting because the ground was too dry and unworkable. But Horace E. Abbott, Marion County agricultural agent, visited all sections of the county yesterday and said the situation was much improved. The “too wet” situation is a temporary condition, which the farmers appreciate after the long dry spell. Barring more immediate rain, there should be no time lost in planting, Mr. Abbott said. Although the rains have not begun to replenish the sub-soil or raise the critically low water. table, they have helped the wheat growth, the pastures and alfalfa,
.| aceording to Mr. Abbott.
Although today’s skies were over-
Soviet Diplomatic
Great Britain's growing heavy toll of Luftwaffe bomb men, Emden and Berlin coi
Iraq. The Iraqi were cleared off the plateau from which they had shelled the R. A. F. air base at Habbaniya and were pursued by British Imperials toward Baghdad. London said that the Iraqi air force had been ‘virtually destroyed.” lA German and Italian planes bombed the Suez Canal, reporting
that an attack of several hours had done heavy damage to installations
which the Axis campaign in the Mediterranean is aimed. The canal company said that neither water nor rail traffic had been interrupted. Rome reported that British airplanes had bombed the big Axis base at Benghazi, on. the Libyan coast, but that Italian torpedocarrying planes had scored hits on a British battleship, an aircraft carrier, two cruisers, a destroyer and three large. merchant ships in three attacks on a Mediterranean convoy that appeared to be carry-
In the Indian Ocean, the British reported that they had sunk a German armed merchant raider of about 10,000 tons, rescuing 27 British officers and seamen and cap-| turing 53 Germans. The British cruiser Cornwall was slightly damaged in the clash. On the diplomatic front, an an-| nouncement at Moscow that Soviet Russia had withdrawn recognition of Jugoslavia as well as of Belgium
Invasion Plan
R. A. F. when and if the Nazi air cutting British supply lines with America, The pattern includes: 1. Steady: bombardment designed to immobilize® all British ports (as the regular attacks on Liverpool for the last eight nights) and allout submarine warfare in the hope of destroying communication ‘lines and starving the British Isles. 2. Land offensives in North Africa and against Gibraltar in an effort to drive Britain from the Mediterranean and win the Near East oil fields. This also would be intended to nullify the British alliance with Turkey and re-open the former Kaiser's dream of a Berlin-to-Baghdad route. 3. A concentrated and much largej offensive-—day as well as night— by the Luftwaffe against R. A. F.
plus American
Mr. Mason in an inferior
estimate that the Germans have not used more than that number of bombers in their recently intensified night onslaughts against British A The tish at least have somewhat more than equality with the Germans in the air distances now being travelled. By c¢oncentrating their attacks on British western and
cool | northwestern po! have lost the
the Germans
and railroads in the area toward)
ing reinforcements to the Middle! East :
LONDON, May 9 (U, P.).—British sources today under which they believe Adolf Hitler will launch day ing attacks on Royal Air Force and naval bases in an effort to invade England and win the war this year. Reliable sources say the plan calls for an ‘attempt to ground the
TAKEOFFENSIVE IN AIR; NAZI SEA RAIDER SUNK; UEZ CANAL ATTACKED
Iraqi Soldiers Pursued Toward Baghdad;
Move Gives Hint
Of Stalin’s New Policy.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
air force seized the offensive
today in the largest bombing attack of the war against Ger= many while Royal Air Force night fighters again took a
ers over England.
The battering British attack in which more than 300 planes dumped about 1000 tons of bombs on Hamburg, Bre-
ncided with new blows and
counter-blows on the warfront in the Middle East, with the British reporting rapid progress against pro-Axis troops in
and Norway aroused new speculas tion on the policy of Josef V, Sta« lin toward the Balkans. On the eve of the German invasion of Jugoslavia, the Russians signed a non-aggression pact with the Belgrade Government, which generally was viewed as a vain gesture toe ward discouraging the Nazi ine vasion. Since then, however, Stalin has assumed the premiership, the promised stiffening of Turkish resistance (backed by Russia) against Germany has failed to develop and there .has been a growing belief
deveting itself entirely to strength= ening possible future attack. If such & program is developed definitely it would indicate that Stalin had accepted the German domination of Southeastern Europe.
1200 Miles Round Trip
The R. A. 'F. bombardment of Germany, including minor thrusts at Berlin, appeared to be a result of the long uphill fight toward aerial parity with the Luftwaffe.
American-built airplanes were un« derstood to figure prominently hn the attack, which extended 606 miles from British bases to Posen and was admitted in Berlin to have been a strong bombardment as far as Hamburg and Bremen were cone cerned. London’s Air Ministry reported that pillars of smoke rose 10,000 feet above blazing shipyards and induse trial areas in the two great port cities. British air forces obviously still are numerically weaker than the (Continued on Page Five)
Outlined
outlined the plan and night bombs
and submarine attacks succeed in airdromes and British naval bases. This would be intended to ground the British air force as a necessary prelude to invasion and to prevent the fleet from re-fitting or even ree fuelling in home ports, thus ime mobilizing the warships. . 4, A climactic invasion of Britain at many points, if the foregoing conditions were fulfilled and Brite:
ish defenses thus softened up.
British sources took the posie tion that in any invasion attempt, the public must face the possibility of gas attacks. The first part of Hitler's pure ported plan now is under way, the British said, pointing out that the ports of Plymouth, Bristol, Livers pool, Cardiff, Swansea, the Humber, Clydeside and Belfast had been hammered hard.
War Moves Today
By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert
Last night's raids on German cities by a record number of British bombers may be accepted as the first - practical demonstration that eventual British air superiority over Germany is on its way toward realization. 8 usually estimated when British plane production
Next year has been the time
contributions will place Germany position in the air, but it seems
‘now possible that parity may be passed by Britain before then, more especially for night raiding. British reports that between 300 and 400 planes participated in last night's attack on Germany indicate the Royal Air Force has reached equality with the Germans in night operations.
It is a fairly safe
flying time which they possessed auring their raids on London, East Coast. towns and Southampton.
The round trip between England ey
and Hamburg is about 750 miles. The round trip between the nearest
French bases and Glasgow is ap= = |
proximately 900 miles. The British, in this case thus have an advan pt of 150 miles which means less petrol (Continued on Page Five) . :
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that the Moscow Government wasw: ~ its own frontiers against