Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1941 — Page 1

The Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Fair and continued cool tonight, with frost in low and exposed places; tomorrow partly cloudy and somewhat warmer.

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Mother's Day correspondence. The voungest soldier on the post happens to be Kellie Adkins Jr., of Logan, W. Va., who was 18 on Feb. 3 and who volunteered for a vear in the Army on Feb. 9. He's been at Ft. Harrison for a month now, likes army life, and has written his mother her Mother's Day letter, As a matter of fact, he outsmarted a utility to do so and he’s still chuckling about telegraph company’s list of printed

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counts are often padded.

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regulation governing exsent one promulGovernor M. Clifwhich does not have i could be viodepartment head who It provides that not more

hall be spent for lodging | suggestions, picked out the best one, more than 75 cents for and copied it onto letter paper and $1.00 for dinner. There mailed it home

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HOOSIER AIR CADET S KILLED IN- CRASH

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would make it kind d with a big grin Private Adkins says his mother hated to see him leave home and go to the Army, but that since he has been here he has written her so many letters about the camp that she now seems contented he is in the Army “It's an ail right life,” he said “We have good officers and that’s what makes the difference. Of course” and here he grinned widely again,” there're a couple of corpor(Continued on Page Two)

KEEP HOME FIRES BURNING AWHIL Frost Likely Tonight, With

Tomorrow Warmer. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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of sweet,” he sai

STIKES April 10 (U. PD blamed a “blind f Army planes ing cadet Dean W Lafayette, Tnd., was 1er cadet injured at Vv an Air Corps trainmiles north of

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Purdue vesterday piloted by Reed C. Ky., came down and crashed into the Owens s'iffered lacer- | described as! ikeston Gen>ral Hospital. Root, commanding “blind spot” caused of Cadet Owens’ craft

vision

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- REST OVER WEEK-END Sam .... 0 10a.m ...5 Tam... Ham ... 6 WASHINGTON, May 10 U.P).—| Ra. m..... 89 12 (noon) .. 55 President Roosevelt's temperature! 9 a.m 53 1p. m. . 56 = back to normal today, but his physician ordered him to continue ing over the week-end. He hag Beiter not let the fire go out yet, \ 3 scheduled to receive visiting The Weather Bureau predicts coni 9 n-American chiefs of staff to- tinued cool temperatures and frost this engagement was can-

in low and exposed places tonight. ; Tomorrow, the Bureau says, it will President expects to be back be somewhat warmer with partly desk Monday, when he will cloudy skies. Australia's Prime MinG. Menzies

SAVES HER, WEDS HER

JUISVILLE, Ky. May 10 (U. P). ir days after he saved Virginia 22, from drowning, Ser-! James I. Hunt, 28, Lima. O.!

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lliams By JOHN W. LOVE Times Special Writer

eave from the U. S. Army at WASHINGTON, May 10.—The Shelby, Miss, married the gentle Deanna Durbin, upon The rescue took place in a whom Universal Pictures forced near Lima. The wedding was' $206,000 last year, will pay for

in Louisville. two 155 mm. field guns with her income tax next year, provided her salary stays the same. The 155 mm. (roughly six inches) costs about $50,000, and the price of a pair of them is what the Treasury has in mind as the tax on the Durbin income.

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Books . 8 Movies 14 As for W. C. Fields, that old Churches ..... 6 Mrs. Ferguson 8 boy ‘will whack up for a pursuit Clapper . 7 Music .14 fighter, price $130,000, and pay Con .13 Obituaries ... 11 €nough more to buy a light tank, 12 Pyle ..... 7 $24000. But somebody else will . 8 Questions ...%, 8 have to buy the $12,000 acces- . 5 Radio . 6 Sories, such as machine guns. 9 Mrs. Roosevelt 7 Bing Crosby's ante from his sali . 8 Serial Stor 13 ary of $150,000 will enable the Forum . 8 Side Glances . 8 Navy to buy seven or eight torallup Poll ... 7 Society . 4, 5 pedoes They run $10000 to n Indpls . 3 Sports 10, 11 $12,000 each, whether they hit or Inside Indpls . 7 State Deaths. .11, miss Johnson . 8 :

Eugene G. Grace will just about ~

‘Dear Mom---'

Private Kellie Adkins Jr. writes (0 his mother,

It's All-Out Correspondence For Mother's Day at Fort

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Action Would Augment Pool For Britain by Freeing

WASHINGTON, May 10 (U. P). — Maritime Commission officials have ordered utmost speed in repairing seized Italian and German cargo vessels for American or British use to offset losses in the Battle of the Atlantic, it was learned today. Maritime officials disclosed that in some cases shipyards were operating three shifts a day on the repair of sabotage ang other damage. The new speed-up order was indicative of increased Administra- | tion determination to expand American shipping aid to Britain, |

Release U. S. Ships

The exact role of the Italian and German vessels in the shipping aid picture has not been fully determined by the Administration. {was believed that Mr. Roosevelt will use the ships in American service 0 as to permit release of additional U. S. tonnage to the British. Actual assumption of title to the ships was expected to await final Congressional approval of pending legislation which would permit Mr,

COMMSSIOR Sire artis oid SO COIR = & eign vessels #n our ports. The measni et oe Se By JOE COLLIER use has passed the House and is Lun 3 There awvas a mass production of literature at Ft. Harrison this pending in the Senate. ” Wie» we week, by order of the commanding officer, which may not have been, Germany has protested the plan o Lathe needed, at that. oh - to requisition her ships, but arAOE oR : Taking into full account that tomorrow is Mother's Day. the U. S. rangements for their use were nent for which the em- a.my sent out a bulletin “urging? every officer and man at every Army pressed forward anyway. ‘ Is approved by the. post, to write to his mother. The ship requisitioning measure is/| a DANI This particularly applied to the selectees, of which there are 1605 at not expected to reach a Senate deoun'S NXed MUSt COVEr pt Harrison, all from West Vir- i ———— — cision until after Mr. Roosevelt had | 'pping, bell hops, sho® ginja. And before tonight's taps, addressed the Pan-American Union each company officer will have | Wednesday, | a an employee SimplV checked with ech soldier on his BELIEVE CANAL : n receipts for whatever he May Disclose Plans

Responsible officials felt that Mr. {Roosevelt will use the occasion to disclose, partially at least, his plans | for augmenting naval and merchant shipping aid to the British, strongly hinted at in a series of speeches by members of his Cabinet in recent weeks. Senate non-interventionists, meantime, considered a change in strateey convoy issue when the ship requisi(U. P.).—The [tioning bill comes up for debate. Coast Guard disclosed today Word in reliable diplomatic quarters {was that the United States would reject the third of a series of German protests agginst the seizure of its two ships. There was a sensationai report {in ‘Capitol corridors that Mr. Roosevelt might make a personal appearance before a joint session (Continued on Page Two)

PLOT THWARTE

Coast Guard Stops Sinking Of Coal Ship in East Chicago Channel.

CHICAGO, May 10 S

U. that an apparent attempt to block a busy industrial canal at East Chicago, Ind., had been thwarted when guardsmen prevented a ship from sinking in the channel. Coast Guard officials refused to comment on the possibility of sabotage but reported they had discovered a coal boat sinking Thurs- mn day in the Indiana Harbor Canal. which scrves the Inland and Youngstown steel companies and the tandard and Texaco oil companies

The Coast Guard received a tele- | IN phone call that the ship was sink-

(ing, it was said. The boat was found with five feet of water in the engine Track Dry, Day Clear; Porter’s Cap 2d Choice.

room. With the help of the crew (Another story, Page Six)

lof the Tugboat Main, the guardsBALTIMORE, May 10 (U. P) —

en pumped out the water. They found a siphon valve below the water line had heen opened. | REPORT DARLAN IN Whirlaway makes his second bid for NEW GERMAN TALKS the triple crown of the turf on a | good Pimlico track today. Skies | VICHY, France, May 10 (U. P.).— Were clear, and 50,000 persons | | Vice Premier Jean Francois Darlan © crc peel NY She Slst We left Paris suddenly by automobile HH Lane 3 ons Widut : ; . and richest stakes—the Preakness. today and it was reported that he! The speedy Calumet Farm colt. was on his way to hold important who last week captured the Ken-

conversations at some town in tucky Derby in record time, was bet{occupied France. ter than even money this morning. It was said in well informed Porter's Cap and Our Boots were |

sources that Admiral Darlan’s talk second and third choices on the

might be similar to those of the!morning line at around 5-1. Both | famous Beauvais conference, at!/were beaten by the chestnut colt in which Marshal Henri Philippe |the Derby. The rest of the field in-

Petain and Adolf Hitler reached an cluded Dispose, Ocean Blue, Curious | agreement on French-German co- | Coin, King Cole and Kansas, the operation longest shot in the field.

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George W. Hill, president of American Tobacco (salary $456, 000), will be good for three heavy tanks, provided they can be produced at their expected cost of $100,000 each. And David Sarnoff of Radio Corp. will turn over two 105 mm. howitzers, through the Government kitty, smaller calibers than Miss Durbin’s guns and only about half the price.

The heavy statistical] work in this article was done neither in the War, Navy or Treasury Departments, but was compiled by the writer for the benefit of those members of the public who are said to be yearning to shoulder more of the national defense load. The costs of the military equipment were obtained from the Army and Navy, and the tax figures are those in the Treasury's proposals as they were announced two weeks ago. The salaries come from the first batch availaable from reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Deanna Durbin

afford the Government a $360,000 flying fortress, out of the $478.000 wages Bethlepem Steel pays him. :

ORDER HINTS AT American Fighters

Federal Vessels. |

It |

Roosevelt to requisition all idle for- |

ENVOYS DIZZY

to dodge a showdown on the

{absurd to talk about” at this time. | joe THE HAGUE, Netherlands, May mates indicated peak construction| ’

wo 155 MM Guns, Field's a Plane and Tank

Serve With R. A. F.

with the Fighter Command of the Royal Air Force. The single-seater fighters, which. age being produced in large numbers, have about the same speed as England's Spitfires, and are heavily armed. The photo | was passéll by British censors. The planes are powered with Indianapolis-built Allison motors.

This is one of the first photos of the new American-built Curtiss “Tomahawks” actually in operation |

War Moves Today

By J. W. T. MASON United Press Var Expert

OVER CONVOYS

FDR, Cabinet Seem to Differ But Do They? Does Jimmy Speak for Father?

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS

Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON. May 10.—Convinced though they are that the United States is on the point of

conveying munitions to Britain, foreign envoys here are dizzy over

British, Allied and neutral shipping losses for April indicate that the German offensive in the Battle of the Atlantic is not increasing in intensity {proportionate to the natural advanvages of smoother seas and longer periods of daylight. April is the | first month after winter's rough waters and long nights; and yet, eliminating the abnormal sinkings in the Mediaterranean, the remainder of April's losses were smaller than any other single month's

Mr. Mason

the operations in Greek waters. estimates of future German action ——————

at sea must allow for no repetition 0 N U. S. OPENS

RANGE

‘of such closely confined targets as

the apparent confusion in which were offered the Germans in the the "Administration finds itself on Aegean and the Adriatic. the eve of so portentous a step. The Germans probably moved AT MADISON PLANT President Roosevelt, it is observed, [some of their submarines into the seems to be at loggerheads not only Mediterranean ® lly So : em. rit) i Ss 4 y ress t attacks against ritish an reek 5 . ie i his Sr we By fransports and supply ships. These 3000 Continue Construction:

U-boats will not necessarily be released mow for operations in the Atlantic to increase the toll taken there. Hitler seeking to make the Mediterranean continuously unsafe for the British not only as a war measure ire itself but also in an ef- | fort to transport reinforcements and supplies to his forces in North Africa. He should require more in-| istead of fewer submarines for this purpose but he will not again find such concentrations of unarmed (Continued on Page Two)

Yet everybody knows this can not be true. Thursday night, to cite a case in point, Secretary of Agriaulture Wickard told an audience in Charlotte that “It is a_cruel and bitter mockery to let the English people believe we are going to make our help effective if we have only hallway measures in mind.” All-the-way measures, of course, mean convoys. And only recently the President was quoted as having told a delegation of Congressional leaders at the White House that suggestions for using the Navy to convoy supplies abroad were “tod

Airport Work Begun.

MADISON, Ind., May 10 (U. P)). — Approximately 3000 temporary workers continued construction at the Government's $15,000,000 Jefferson proving grounds as the range was formally opened today. Work on an airport at the north end of the 60,000-acre tract was under way and 400 of an estimated 800 permanent Civil Service employees already have been assigned | to the area. Reports indicated approximately

has been completed. Earlier esti-

Thus Secretary Wickard would

seem to be characterizing the at- 9 (Via Berlin: Delayed)—German employment would reach 5000.

it : : “ » oul a J | A total of 120 buildings will be Se ES gt a and gythorities tonight forbade AY | erected on “ten We on a —————— popular demonstrations tomorrow, miles of hard roads and from 20 ACTRESS, PRODUCER KILLED the first anniversary of the German to 40 miles of railroad track will be LONDON, May 10 (U. P) —Au- invasion. Ceremonies at war mon- | constructed. thorities announced tonight that uments; meetings, including those in Mary Lawson, 30, British actress, churches; memorial services for

and her husband, Prancis Beau- Dutch war dead, and collections for| Davis fo Sub for mont, film producer, were killed in [war victims were banned specfi-| Drafted Coach

| a recent raid on Liverpool. (cally. | CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. May 10 (U. P.)—Dale D. Davis, coach at Thorntown High School, today was appointed basketball coach of Wabash College during the year’s absence of Coach Her- | man Berns, who is being drafted | into the Army July 1. Mr. Davis was graduated from Wabash in 1936 and coached at Thorntown the last five years. Mr. Berns, formerly of Indianapolis, joined the Wabash coaching staff last fall. He was granted a leave of absence by the college. He was graduated from Wabash in 1936 and coached at Auburn and Roanoke High Schools.

Morgenthau calls a “staggering

burden.” If the Federal tax on gasoline is raised a cent a gallon, a 12gallon filling of the tank will pay for 10 machine-gun bullets of 30 caliber. The girl who buys a $4.20 piece of costume jewelry will pay indirectly 32 cents tax, ‘enough to feed a soldier for one day. A $25 camera (also 10 per cgnt tax) will provide a tin hat on the side, a $40 camera a pair of shoes for a Marine. An $800 fur coat. with its $80 tax, will pay for one Garand rifle. The tax on a pool room and bowling alley with 26 units of equipment will just about purchase a $400 Thompson submachine gun. Looking now at some of the income taxes proposed by the Treasury. the married man whose net income hefore personal exemption is $2500 will dig up enough in taxes to buy three 75 mm. shells, at $24.43 the shell (Continued ongPage Two)

- CRASH PROVES FATAL

John Walters, 44, Plainfield, died {last night at Long Hospital of in{juries received Wednesday in an auto accident in Hendricks County.

OFFER TO CUT PROFITS WASHINGTON, May 10 (U. P). —Acting Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard said today that the As|sociated Ship Builders of Seattle,

W. C. Fields

Others than the big ‘boys and girls, however, will chip in for

what Secretary of the Treasury on Navy contracts by 50 per cent.

sinkings, except for May. last year. * The entire total of losses, amounting to 488,124 tons for April, must be interpreted as unusual because of OWard a crescendo. The Greek episode now is closed and

BAN DUTCH CEREMONIES | 50 per cent of the construction work *

Wash, have offered to cut profits |

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PILOTS CLAN FIRES IN TWIN | RHINE CITIES

British Claim Naval Attack

| On Benghazi, Say Italian

Fliers Repuised. By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Great Britain's new aerial offensive struck at the Rhine land industrial center and exe tended to Berlin, the Norwe« gian and the French coasts today but London admitted heavy shipping losses mounts ling to a peak of 489,229 tons for March in the Battle of the | Atlantic. The continued heavy Royal Air Force attacks, aided last night by both Polish and ‘Dutch pilots, were acknowle edged by the Nazis, who ree ported that 129 were dead or missing in Hamburg and that ‘there were casualties and de|struction in the twin cities of {Mannheim and Ludwigshaven lon the Rhine.

The British pilots reported they {had set the great Ludwigshaven chemical factory ablaze and one pilot said he counted 27 fires, most of them destroying factories, in the | district. 1098 Vessels Sunk

The progress of the Batile of the: J

[Atlanti¢, on which United States | forces of intervention have called {for more definite data, was partly {clarified by the Admiralty figures showing that British shipping ang {shipping useful to the British had | suffered a loss of 1098 vessels totals ling 4734407 tons in the last 1% { months. | The total lost each month wa | above 300,000 tons except in Mag, | 1940, and the April total was ree | garded as certain to be increased | by later revisions.

Nazis Hold Steady Average

| Admiralty data showed that the Nazi air and submarine siege of |the British Isles had kept up & {steady average of sinkings throughs rout the winter and then mounted

In three months—September, Oce tober and July—the total sinkings {mounted above 400,000 tons, which {is a fatal rate of losses for British shipping if maintained over any (Continued on Page Two) | ” ” ” BR eg. h | ritish Losses

LONDON, May 9 (U. P.) —Ade miralty figures today showed the following British, Allied and neutral losses in the Battle of the Atlantie in the last 12 months.

Month No.Ships Tonnage Nay, 1940 ....uue 64 248,650 June venues 128 533,903 July venvann 105 405,853 AUUSt ....uveeen 88 387,471 September ...... 92 435,553 October weve 96 423.618 November ....... 85 368,808 December ..... ww 72 313,197 January, 1941 ... 58 306,002 February wwe 85 334,004 March ....... ws 19 489,229 BIE ei 106 488,124

(Detailed story of ship losses, Page Two)

ASKS POLICE AID IN * NEW MINE SHOOTINGS

MIDDLESBORO, Ky., May 10 (U, P.) —Bell County Attorney W. B, Smith appealed to Governor Keen Johnson to send State Police to pa

trol a coal mining section today after sporadic shootings at closed mines.

| Mr. Smith said he had gathered | enough information to issue ware rants for arrest of members of a motor caravan which yesterday die rected volleys of rifle tire at two {non-union mines which are not operating. He said about 50 or 60 | men rode up to the mines in trucks land automobiles and fired several { shots.

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A Year Ago—

One Year ago yesterday-— France was snug behind her unchallenged Maginot line. Holland said the Dutch were “calm.” The Belgian Cabinet met, made no decisions. Britain reported Allied troops were making progress in che Battle of Narvik, German dispatches usually dull.

were un-

One vear ago today-—

Germany's blitzkrieg of western Europe began.