Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1941 — Page 19

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ORGY" IN FILM COLONY PROBED

16-Year-Old Girl's Charge Considered as One Man Pleads Guilty.

HOLLYWOOD, May 8 (U.P. .— vo legal actions were due today the investigation of reports of orgies in the home of a prominent actor.

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considered a 16-year-old, movie-struck girl's charge that she 1ad been assaulted by two men in the luxurious beach residence. Superior Court heard Adolph Larue, who had been charged with another assault on the girl, ask for probation on a charge of contributing to her delinquency. He has recently been drafted in the Army. Larue and Virginia ; Lopez, the girl's 32-year-old roommate and a Cuban fashion designer, had been charged with rape, but Larue appeared unexpectedly yesterday to plead » guilty to the lesser charge. Miss Lopez, -who is charged with having looked on without protest at the time of the attack, will be tried today unless she also changes her plea. The girl, brown-haired, babyfaced Sylvia Hamalaine of Hibbing, Minn., testified before the Grand Jury yesterday, along with Miss regarding the Christmas revels in the actor's home. They said the actors lolled, naked, on bearskin rugs in the living room. Two other witnesses, one a producer of “B” pictures and the other the husband of a prominent actress, denied there were improprieties. Orie actor described the Christmas party as “a pleasant evening with a charming host.”

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THE UNITED STATES, striking an ever faster tempo in the production of war goods, approached a showdown this week on the question of using convoys to guarantee delivery across the sub-marine-infested Atlantic. War Secretary Stimson climaxed increasing demands for American action with a sensational summons § fos all-out use of the Navy. 3 Replied Navy. Secretary Knox: H “The fleet is always ready. We must save British seapower.” RR Cried anti-intérventionists: “We are being stampeded to war by a : verbal blitzkreig of deception.” i Warned the Axis press: “The : consequences are clear.” } Bannered a London headline: ° “We will be in the war soon, says : Washington.” FE

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CONTROVERSY—

CONTROVERSEY over America’s role continued at a high pitch. Wendell L. Willkie, considered as the possible head of a new agency to build up national morale, called for less talk and more action, whether or not it means convoys. . Democrat Senator Wheeler, leading isolationist, branded Mr. Willkie as the “leading propagandist for war engaged in platform dive-bombing. . . .” Demo-, crat Pepper of Florida asserted that the American people are willing to “spill their blood” to crush the Axis. ... Nye of North Dakota charged the Administration speakers were attempting to whip up popular support for convoys which the American people do not want.

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC—

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS in the American and British preparations for the coming Battle of the Atlantic: * 1. The House passed a bill permitting Mr. Roosevelt to take over

more than 100 idle merchant ships owned by Axis and conquered nations.

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2. The House also passed a bill to establish mandatory priorities and rationing of materials needed for defense. It was described as a bill to end “business as usual.” 3. Defense officials and labor leaders discussed methods to carry out President Roosevelt's call for 24 hours a day, seven days a week production of planes, tanks and guns. 4 The President signed a $3,415,521,750 “two-ocean” appropriation bill for 1942. 5. The War Department announced plans for the greatest maneuvers in the nation’s history to test the efficiency of 1,400,000 regulars, selectees and guardsmen under conditions of mechanized warfare. 6. Federal officials, took more than 150 German seamen into custody in seven states in a campaign to halt infiltration of fifth column agents masquerading as tourists, refugees and sailors.

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The Royal Air Force claimed & record bag of 22 German night bombers while King George VI sat in an operations room and watched reports come in. The effectiveness of the defense in the Battle of the Moon aroused spec-

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secret apparatus to combat night raiders. King George talked to two pilots hefore they fook off; both bagged a Nazi raider. 2 ” 2

ON FIGHTING FRONTS—

THE “LITTLE WAR” in Iraq, providing a sideshow while the world awaited Hitler's next stroke, subsided during the week with the British Imperials apparently gaining the upper hand. Other developments were:

1. Britain reported loss of about 500,000 tons of shipping during

April, probably the worst month |

of the war. 2. The R. A. F. and the German Luftwaffe traded heavy air blows. Nazi targets were Belfast, Liverpool, Glasgow, Plymouth and other ports and shipbuilding centers. British bombers raided Mannheim, the Middle Rhine industrial area, Brest, Bremen and shipping off the Dutch coast. 3. Both sides claimed successes in the siege of Tobruk, while British reported their planes had struck two ships in an enemy convoy, possibly carrying reinforcements to North Africa.

DIPLOMACY—

CHURCHILL, HITLER and

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week of dramatic diplomatic developments, 1. Churchill won an overwhelming vote of confidence from the House of Commons, 447 to 3, after pledging the Empire to a “fight to death.” 2. Hitler, in a speech to the Reichstag, declared that no matter how long the war lasts, Germany and her allies will be superjor to any possible world coalition. He failed to mention previous claims that the war would be won this year. 3. Stalin assumed the post of Russian premier, removing Molotov to a lesser role, indicating a move to strengthen the Soviet armed neutrality in the face of increasing German power.

A reliable source in London reported Hitler is concocting a new deal with Russia to prevent the increasingly belligerent attitude of _the U. 8. from influencing Russian policy. The bait: Control of Asia, even to the extent of stabbing Japan in the back.

HOOSIERS MAKE GOOD—

FORMER SENATOR SHERMAN MINTON, nominated by President Roosevelt for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals bench in Chicago, to succeed the late Judge Walter E. Treanor, Emil Schram, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., selected to become the new presi-

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change. .

LOCALLY=—

LEGAL OBSTACLES were cleared for appointment of a municipal traffic engineer when the State Tax Board approved an appropriation of $3600. , . . Meanwhile, the County traffic toll reached 53, 13 more than last year at this time. . . . Parents, with the end of the school year approaching, learned the State Board of Education had made textbook adoptions necessitating purchase of two new books in four grades and three in others. Washington dispatches indicated that a 700-unit defense housing project is in the making for Indianapolis, probably Speedway City . . . and here’s fair warning —contracts are now being let for the Indiana State Fair, now 115 days away. CI

0DD ITEMS—

DEMOCRAT SENATOR REYNOLDS of North Carolina introduced a bill to establish a chiYopodists’ corps in the Army, to relieve the aching feet of doughboys. . . . The National Board of Fire Underwriters demanded more man-sized ash trays to replace the “dinky and fancy and unsafe” type. . . . Former King Carol of Rumania, bound with his redhaired mistress, Magda Lupescu, for a South American refuge, passed the time playing bingo. . . . Magda ate popcorn.

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An attempted escape this week by the “mad dog” Esposito brothers, sentenced to the eleciric chair for murder in a Fifth Avenue holdup, as they neared the gates of Sing Sing Prison, ended in failure when they were overpowered by their guards. Anthony; who swung at a deputy, fell and then refused to rise, is being carried into the prison. William (at right) seems cowed as he is dragged along.

ASIDE—

HAILE SELASSIE, empsror of Ethiopia and Lion of Judah, entered Addis Ababa five years after he was exiled as a result of the

' Italian invasion of his empire.

SABOTEURS USE FIRE, FBI WARNS

State and Local Police Urged to Guard Against Arson in Defense.

WASHINGTON, May 8 (U0) P).— The Federal Bureau of Investigation today warned state and®local police to guard against saboteurs using fire to destroy national defense production. FBI experts, writing in the law enforcement bulletin, said that arson, is committed by the saboteur, is “more serious, more dangerous and more devastating” than the activities of ordinary “firebugs.” “The saboteur is the agent of a foreign government and has at his disposal resources, information, and funds far greater in amount than any commercial arsonist,” the FBI reported. “His motives are more malicious and destructive. “The fact must be faced frankly that the saboteur in the,form of an enemy agent 1s more dangerous than the usual peace-time arsonist. One objective of an enemy agent is to stop production and one possible answer may be sabotage so carefully concealed, so carefully planned, that it does not appear to be sabotage at all. } “Sabotage by fire is one of th most plausible means of accomplishing that end.” This warning coincided with efforts by Atto:ney General Robert H. Jackson to tighten defenses against fifth columnists by a systematic check of the activities of aliens who have overstayed temporary leaves

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2 Investigators Go to Florida After Asphalt Deal Expose

By THOMAS L. STOKES WASHINGTON, May 9.—Developments are beginning to pile up along the national defense front in Florida. Two special investigators, one from the Budget Bureau and an-

other from the House Military Affairs Committee, are being sent to MecDill Field at Tampa to look into circumstances—particularly as regards price—in the acquisition of land for the Army Air Corps’ Southeastern base there. They . will inquire into reports that have come to the committee that a group of Florida politicians bought up the land and laid it out in lots and then got a fancy price for it from the Government for an air base. Preparation of the land for an air base was an exXpensive operation. Meanwhile, the House Military Affairs JLommittee was asked formally today, in a letter from Rep. Robert Ramspeck (D. Ga.) to Rep. Andrew J. May (D. Ky), chairman, to investigate all circum=stances surrounding the 3,600,000gallon asphalt contract for Eglin Field, Fla., another Army Air Field. It was this situation into which the energetic Senator Claude Pepper ‘stepped on behalf of PanAmerican Oil Co. By political pressure in several directions he succeeded in holding up award of that contract to the low bidder, a Georgia corporation, so that, in the end, Pan-American, the next low bidder, was &ble to dispose of 1,800,000 gallons to the Government. The Pan-American already had the asphalt on barges near the field so confident was it that it would get the contract,

though four other big oil companies were bidding. he : Information about this contract also is-being gathered now by Rep. Hatton W. ‘Sumners (D. Tex), chairman of the House Judicidty

Committee, relating not only to tie various bids but also to local Federal officials ‘in Florida, Including the Treasury procurement office at Jacksonville, ‘upon whom Senator Pepper brought pressure to hold up purchase ‘ orders for the Georgia corporation, the low bidder, The Judiciary Committee is being supplied with the names of all officials involved in handling the contract from bottom to top, as well as the bids of the unsuccessful big oil companies. Senator Pepper's activity on behalf of the oil company, which was represented by ex-Congressman Millard “F. Caldwell, of the old Pepper law firm, was dramatized in a bite ter Senate debate so full of pere sonal attacks that the Senate finally expunged the whole proceed = ings from the official record. This has focused attention on the national defense contract situe ation «in Florida. } Investigation of all the circum stances will show the powerful ine fluence that the Florida Senator exerts through his political pull

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control of Federal patrordage in the state. 3 It is beginning to. appear hens as if the House must be depent upon to make a real investigation of the asphalt contract and others Senators are slow to investigate each other by virtue of what is known as Senatorial courtesy.

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