Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1941 — Page 1
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Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Nazi, Believed Suicide On
U.S. TO CLASSIFY ALL DRAFT-AGE MEN §
PATTERN USED IN LUFTWAFFE BOMBING; STALIN BACKS RASHID ALI
New ‘Deal’ With Hitler on Near East Hinted
COUNTY BOARD KEEPS LIQUOR
ACTION SECRET
List of Grants and Refusals| & Not Made Public; No || Reason Given. |
The new Marion County Liquor Board, given increased powers under the new 1941 Stout Liquor Law, | today adopted a policy of keeping secret all applications for permits and the Board's action on them,
When asked for a list of taverns granted renewals of permits, William P. Sindlinger, Board president, refused to make them public. He declined to explain the reasons | for this policy. Former boards under the oid law| made public all applications any| time members were asked for them. |
Refuse Identity
The new Board today granted renewal of permits for eight taverns in Marion County and approved nine dance permits for places having alcoholic beverage permits. The identity of none of these was revealed by the Board. The dance permits for taverns) selling liquor are a new requirement provided by the 1941 law. The dance fee is $50 a year.
Organized 2 Weeks
The new board, which is given power to grant or reject applica-| tions for liquor permits instead of] merely making recommendations to the State Board as under the old] law, was organized two weeks ago!
Scared the Boys
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The theory among the younger | generation that girls and south- | paws can’t shoot marbles has been exploded by Katherine Smith, 12-year-old Times - City Marbles Tournament entry at the Nertheast Community Center. Katherine won up te the semi-finals in
BM | Selective Service officials esti-
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MONDAY, MAY 12, 1941
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SEEKS TO LIST ALL SKILLED IN
House Committee Favors End of Statutory Limits | On Size of Army.
WASHINGTON, May 12 (U. P). | —Selective Service headquarters has |directed immediate classification of [the 10,000,000 remaining unclassified men who registered last October in |a move to obtain complete data on iskilled workers and potential soldiers, it was learned today. | At the same time, the House Mil|itary Affairs Committee approved [legislation removing all statutory {limits on the size of the Army.
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mated that approximately 6,000,000
Entered as Second-Class
at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind,
DEFENSE WORK
lof the 16,000,000 draft registrants| =
[have filled out questionnaires thus | far. | Future Planning in Mind
| Headquarters said that the new instructions were sent to state di-
|rectors for immediate transmission |:
[to the 6200 local draft boards. They
to all registrants was |made in an effort to facilitate future planning and to obtain new
workers needed in the defense pre) gram. : They felt that the selective service machinery, which had been jammed at the outset, is now geared to handle the entire classification smoothly. Previously, the questionnaires had been dispatched a few at a time just a little ahead of actual induction requirements. Officials said that the sending of
Because, 121 years ago, Florence Nightingale was born, Indianapolis hospitals and nurses today observed national hospital day with varied programs and public visiting. Florence Nightingale founded the profession of nursing. Today hundreds of nurses attend the sick and the injured in Indianapolis. They &answered
on a bi-partisan basis as provided by the new statute. | Other members of the board are Charles C. Meischke Jr. and H. Dale’ Brown, Republicans, and Lawrence |
is a Democrat.
that sectional, defeating the boys and the right-handers. but was defeated Saturday in the finals. She lives at 2835 N. Gale St., and is a VB grader at Schoel 51. (Sec-
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questionnaires to ali registrants! pedside buzsers, cheered up pa-
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tients who were “blue,” and assisted in surgery. Intense concentration of their long and difficult tasks, and hours and hours of classroom work are the price nurses pay for the right to practice their profession. Miss Carmen Ayres of Methodist Hospital, sitting with her patient, is symbolic of what nurses and nursing mean to the thousands of patients who need attention.
does not mean that ail will be ‘given physical examinations now, ror that any enlargement of the program is in the offing. he , “We simply want to get a better
City One of 250 Key Points
C. Miller, Democrat. Mr. Seiiny
tional Winners, Page Three.)
ANTI-PERKINS FIGHT
is ce 0 wouse 77,000 IN STAT FAGE GM TIEUP
—Rep. Leland Ford (R. Cal) asked House members today to sign a peAllison Plant Here Likely to Be Affected By a
tition to President Roosevelt asking him to “remove” Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins from the Material Shortage. More than 27,000 workers in In- | diana’s seven General Motors plants
Cabinet. “I hope every House signs it,” Mr. Ford said. “I will be affected if members of the | United Auto Workers (C. I. O) go on strike Thursday as scheduled in
think she «(the secretary) has earned it. She deserves it. My BRONX PANDA ILL; BRAIN IS X-RAYED {60 General Motors plants. | Five of the seven plants have
member” of the
people are very dissatisfied with the NEW YORK, May 12 (U. P).—|
way these strikes have been handled.” Brain specialists and zoo curators) voted to follow the lead of the nastudied X-ray photographs today in| tional organization in the threatan effort to diagnose the illness of ened strike. The two plants which Pandora. the Bronx Zoo's giant have not taken such a vote are the panda. Her condition is critical. | Allison Division plant here and the Pandora, who came to the 2oo|Delco-Remy plant at Kokomo. The from West China and was seen dur- | U. A. W. is not organized at Aliiing 1939 and 1940 by 200.000 visitors son and the American Federation of | to the World's Fair, has been ill for | Labor's United Auto Workers union | three weeks from attacks suggesting | is the bargaining agent at the Koepilepsy or some other brain ail-|komo plant. ment. Yesterday, she was taken to! While the Allison and Kokomo the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical {plants will not be affected directly Center for a brain X-ray. | by the strike, they may be affected
ee, —— | indirectly. Some of the General MERCURY TO CLIMB,
| Motors plants scheduled to go on | strike are making engine parts vital
SKIES REMAIN FAIR to the production of warplane
motors at the local plant. Without |these parts, production would be difficult. | Allison already has been affected {slightly by a strike in progress at
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Sam. .... 44 10am .... 59 Tam .... 49 Ham . 60 8am. .54 12 (neon) 62 Pm...
Sa.m. .... 38 . 63
Fair skies and warmer temperatures were promised for Indianapolis tonight and tomorrow by the Weather Bureau. Temperatures now are sub-normal.
{This plant makes numerous parts
used by Allison. Among the plants voting to follow {the lead of the parent union in the strike is the local Chevrolet Comi mercial Body plant, engaged in {defense work through subcontracts for bodies for Army mechanized hd * | units. French Drivers nn The various Indiana G. M. plants U S and the number of emplovees in- . 3. Tomorrow [cuee: ~~ | Allison Division, THE FRENCH RACE drivers. /9000; Chevrolet Commercial Body, Rene LeBegue and Jean Trevaux |Lndianapolis, 1300; Guide Lamp, will arrive in New York tomorrow | Anderson. 3500; Delco-Remy, Anon the Pan-American Clipper, the |3erson, 10.500; Delco-Remy Battery, Speedway office here announced | Bunete, 800; Chevrolet, Muncie, this afternoon. 1300: Delco-Remy Radio, Kokomo, The drivers had n removed | : from the Clipper at a Azores, | The Shderson Delcy-Remy pian: by the British, but diplomatic in. | (Continued on Page Two) tervention enabled them to con- | tinue the trip. They will wait in New York for their French-made Talbot cars which will arrive on the steamship Siboney on May 19 or 20.
HITLER'S PLANS FOR WORLD EMPIRE
"SPAIN cannot decline when Hitler repeats his request for the fourth and final time," says John T. Whitaker in the final article of his series today on
LOSE FRAUD PLEA
WASHINGTON, May 12 (U.P) — The Supreme Court today denied the petitions of the five New Orleans men for review of their conviction on mail fraud charges growing out of the recent political scandals in Louisiana.
MEASLES IN COUNTY JAIL Two prisoners in the Marion County Jail came down with measles today and were immediately isolated in the jail hospital by Dr. Robert Dwyer, jail physician.
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the Excello Corp. plant in Detroit.
| picture of the whole selective serv{ice program, especially regarding
| skilled workers,” it was explained. | Calssification at this time of all |of last October’s registrants also {would clear the decks for handling | of the registration and classification |of men who have reached their 21st | birthday since the first registration, | These men are expected to be reg- | istered early in July. | End Present Restrictions | The Army limit was removed as the House Committee reported a War Department “omnibus” authorization bill introduced by Chairman Andrew J. May (D. Ky.). | Its major provision is a section |lifting, for the next fiscal! year, |starting July 1, all present restric- | tions on the strength of the varicus branches of the Army, the air | corps, the nurse corps and the air corps flying cadets. The Selective Service Act lifted {the ceiling on the overall strength |of the Army but did not remove the | restrictions on the size of the in- | fantry, cavalry and other branches of the armed forces.
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W. MICHIGAN BRIDGE (CONTRACT AWARDED
County 0. K.’s $36,000 Bid Of Smith and Johnson.
A contract for construction of a {new W. Michigan St. bridge over | Little Eagle Creek was awarded to the Smith & Johnson Construction {Co., Indianapolis, by County Com- | missioners today. | The firm's bid of $36.000 was $2000 {lower than either of the two other |bids submitted. | The cost of the bridge will be shared equally by the City and |County under an agreement reached several months ago. | Bonds totaling $46,000 were issued | jointly by the City and County sevleral months ago to pay for the | structure. { The contracting firm said ar'rangements will be made to route
Indianapolis, |traffic over a temporary bridge dur-|
|ing rebuilding of the bridge.
'ASCAP Music Returns to Mutual Network Tomorrow but Other Chains Hold Out
ST. LOUIS, Mo.. May 12 (U. P). —The music of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers returns to a major radio network tomorrow for the first time in more than four months. Mutual Broadcasting System stations resume using ASCAP’s 1250,000 songs. Under an agreement ratified last night, on the eve of the opening of the National Association of Broadcasters’ 19th annual convention. The network, first of the major chains to come to terms in radio's music war, agreed to pay ASCAP 3 per cent of gross receipts for the next four years and 3': per cent thereafter until Jan. 1, 1850 Before Jan. 1, each radio station which used N°" music paid § W
movement of military aircraft. a high-speed teletype hookup and
national weather maps at least four times. The local unit already has
arrived at the Civil Aeronautics Authority headquarters at Municipal Airport and it will be hooked up when the new circuit goes into operation. The new system is described formally as an “express meterological service,” and included on the circuit will be 13 U. S. Weather Bureau stations, Army and Navy bases, and major reporting stations of the CAA which make hourly weather observations to guide commercial air traffic. Weather reports from Canada. Latin America and ships at sea also will be available. The information gathered by the “express service” will be flashed immediately by teletype to every Army and Navy airfield in the country.
City Revises Law
In 'Express Weather Hookup'
The Government today ennounced the establishment of a new speed-up system of weather reporting that will facilitate large-scale
The new system will link 250 key points, including Indianapolis, with
will cut the time needed to make
ROOSEVELT AND MENZIES MEET
Senate Committee Backs Use of Seized Ships, Re- | fuses Transfer Ban.
WASHINGTON, May 12 (U.P) .— President Roosevelt, virtually recovered from a stomach ailment arranged for a series of British-aid conferences today, as the Senate approached action on the foreign ship-requisitioning bill.
The Senate Commerce Committee, by a vote of 11 to 4, approved a House bill. authorizing the
For Nanny Goat
TULSA, Okla, May 12 (U. P). —The City Commission today recognized the rights of the lonely nanny goat. A citizen had been permitted to keep only one goat. But, a goat owner told the Commission, a nanny goat gets lonesome by herself, and manifests her loneliness in constant bleating, which annoys the neighbors. The Commission the law so a citizen could keep two goats.
BETHLEHEM LOSES IN COURT WASHINGTON, May 12 (U. PJ). —The U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today upheld in a two-to-one decision a National Labor Relations Board
order requiring the Bethlehem Steel Corp. to disestablish the employee
representation plan in nine of its
requisitioning of idle foreign ships in United States ports. Upon recon of Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Rear Admiral Ermory S. Land, Maritime Commission chairman, it defeated an attempt to forbid transfer of these ships to a ig Mr. Roosevelt, s under the care of his physician, confined himself to the residental section of the White House, where he scheduled meetings with Australian Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies and Mr. Hull. Mr. Menzies, carrying oral “personal greetings” from Winston Churchill, conferred with Mr. Roosevelt for an hour on various) aspects of British aid and the world | situation. The President also allotted some of his day to going over operation of the lend-lease program with Harry L. Hopkins, Administrator.
plants.
per cent of its gross revenues for
The agreement, ratified unanimously by Mutual stockholders, affects only network programs.
with the National Broadcasting Co. and the Columbia Broadcasting System. These conferences, it was said, have not begun to discuss percentages to be paid by these networks to the society for use of its music. Niles Trammell, NBC president, said the Mutual contract would not hasten negotiations for his two networks and Edward Klauber, CBS vice president, said his network would continue conferences «with
ASCAP until “better terms™ are reached J
the privilege. Networks paid nothing. rk
ASCAP continued negotiations|Oppos
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“Mutual led the way in breaking the log jam of music for the Amerpeople,” W. E. MacFarlane, Mutual president, and Alfred J. McCosker, chairman of the board, said in a joint statement. “The tion was well organized, but it reached its peak early in the deliberations.” Edwin C. Mills, chairman of the administrative committee of ASCAP, declared that no better terms “under any circumstances or at any time will be offered to NBC or Columbia or any other network than those accepted by Mutual.” He said no better terms than those accepted by affiliated stations of MBS would be offered stations affiliated with other networks. : “This is the confirmed resolution of ASCAP's board of directors,” Mills said.
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INVASION
HEROISM IN AIR
ISNULLIFIED BY CARELESSNESS
Owners of Buildings Failed To See That Fire Guards Were on Duty.
By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. LONDON, May 12.-—Two crimes were committed in London on Saturday night. One was committed by the Luftwaffe when it made what is openly acknowledged to have been nothing more military than a super-effort |at destruction and bloodletting. { The other crime was committed {by a number of stupid businessmen {who went away for the week-end | without providing fire watchers for [their premises. If the latter gentlemen had done their patriotic duty [the former gentlemen would not {have accomplished a tenth of the destruction which they did manage to inflict. Higher-Ups Complacent The fact is that the heroics of the Air Force and the millions of acts of self-sacrifice and cool courage which are being contributed by humble citizens are stil] being undone by complacency and disorganization in high places and by the traditional week-end complex of the numbskulls who still do not know that there is a war. A number of buildings went up like torches Saturday night because volunteer fire watchers had failed to report for duty and because their owners and occupants did not make certain that guards were there. Fire watchers in other buildings braved high explosives and risked their necks on slanting roofs to put out incendiaries which fell on their own premises only to find that their buildings were being ignited by unprotected buildings adjacent to them. The flames got out of control before firemen were able to batter in the doors of locked buildings. Central Direction Lacking
The aftermath of Saturday's raid was equally dismaying. Despite frequent repeated campaigns in the press against rubbernecks, London's streets yesterday were filled with folks in from the suburbs and country towns to view the damage. They blocked traffic and interfered with firemen who were still struggling with lingering blazes. They crowded busses and trains which were already jammed and cleaned restaurants of food which was 1eeded for the normal population. No official organization had made itself responsible for checking this traffic on the roads and railways leading into the city. Today as we wandered around districts which were battered we got the impression that there really was no central direction behind the effort to clean up the mess.
‘AIR CORPS GETTING READY FOR TRIAL
Need for Time Stressed in Talk by Gen. Arnold.
WASHINGTON, May 12 (U, PJ). —Maj. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of U. S. Army aviation, asserted today that the Air Corps is “rapidly getting ready fcr trial by battle.” The silver haired Army flier, who returned recently from a threeweek secret mission in Great Britain, told the Woman's National Democratic Club that command of the air depends upon time, and that “every day we can live on borrowed time means we are one day nearer to complete preparedness.”
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Plane Flight
Airdromes in Britain
Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Nazi
|sions.”
of succession. He had been one of Hitler's closest and most trusted advisers since he and Hitler were jailed together after the
1923. Hess was 45 years old and had served in the German air corps during the first World War, Today's announcement said that he had taken off in his plane from Munich about 6 o'clock Saturday night and must have crashed or met other misfortune. The Berlin announcement said that “a letter left behind showed unfortunately in its confusion traces of mental derangement which arouses fears that he was a victim of mental illusions.” London heard Radio Berlin announcing that he had committed suicide. The Nazi Party said that Hitler had forbidden Hess to fly because of a “progressive ailment,” but that Hess had recently been making flights and that his adjutants had not been reporting them to the Fuehrer. This announcement came after a week-end in which Great Britain's bomber fleet and the German Luftwaffe battered enemy targets with mounting fury that emphasized the increasing striking power of the Royal Air Force but also renewed speculation on an early invasion of the British Isles. The “invasion pattern” that British authorities attributed to the German armed forces was emphasized by heavy Luftwaffe attacks on R. A. F. airdromes during bom-
a troupe of children.
Farther along the street a group The bedding they had carried to their air raid shel'ers the night before lay on the steps beside them. On the sidewalks, girls stood in groups, laughing, flirting, occasionally trying to thumb rides on passing cars or trucks. Some passers-by trudged with a preoccupied stare past the ruins of what a few hours before had been their favorite store, bar or movie, giving scarcely a glance to the single, tottering wall that remained. Demolition squads worked tirelessly. Trucks, fire engines, Y. M. C. A. mobile canteens swirled past, swerving around chunks of masonry strewn in the roadway. In cafes and milk bars customers stood four deep at the counter, drinking steaming cups of tea, munching biscuits and talking excitedly of the night's experiences. This time the Germans had hit Westminster Abbey and the buildings of Parliament with incendiary and explosive bombs, but there was little to distinguish the reaction of
Mr. n German losses
Munich “beer hall” putsch in|
Are German Targets
After Week-end Westminster Wrecking.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
and personal deputy to Adolf
Hitler, was missing tonight after an airplane fight and an official Nazi Party announcement said he had left a letter ‘that aroused fears that he was “a victim of mental illu=
When Germany went to war in 1939, Hitler named Hess as next only to Reich Marshal Hermann Goering in the line
|bardment of 40 different localities
in Britain last night. Attacks on air bases might be (intended primarily to lessen the force of R. A. F. bombing raids on
German targets—Hamburg, Bremen, Emden and Rotterdam were at« tacked again—but it also has been believed that the Germans would concentrate on airdromes in an effort to soften up British defenses following this spring's heavy bomb ings of British naval bases and ports. Although experts have expressed doubt that air bases could be knocked out effectively by bombing, the fact that the Luftwaffe concens trated on the R. A. F. was regarded in London as of greater military significance than the heavy week= end bombing of the British Capital, which wrecked such famous struce tures as Westminster Abbey and the House of Commons. In the Middle East, Rome claimed to have bombed three British war= ships out of a squadron that again fired on the big Axis base of Ben« ghazi while the British reported that their offensive patrols were slashing at the enemy in the areas of Solum and besieged Tobruk. Nazi sources in Berlin said that Nazi troops, in a surprise attack, had occupied the Greek island of Milos, only 75 miles from the Brite ish-Greek advance base at Crete, and had captured 200 Greek soldiers and 118 British troops. In Iraq, the British seemed to be moving rapidly toward control of the pro-Axis Army that threatened the Near East oil fields but the action of Soviet Russia in ape parently casting her diplomatie
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‘Just Like Other Raids’
By HOMER JENKS United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, May 12.—A nurse who had worked all night administering to maimed air raid victims stood in front of her hospital watching a wrecked German bomber being towed along the street, gaily escorted by
“I'm not sorry to see that,” she said.
of women sat in doorways gossiping,
the man and woman in the street from what it had been after any big air raid. The fact that the Ger= mans failed to return last night and the number of raiders brought down by R. A. F. night fighters were topics of many discussions.
The Germans had lost 33 planes Saturday night and Londoners had believed this was the beginning of a bitter and sustained aerial seige. Most of them bedded down in shelt= ers before dark. There were three alarms but no bombs fell. There was a feeling of spring in the air that all the smoke, dust, and down-at-the-heel appearances could not efface. It was reflected in the girls’ bright coats and dresses and their ready smiles. The destruction of the House of Commons debating hall, including such relics as the Speaker’s chair, dispatch boxes and statues of famous statesmen; the damage to the House of Lords, vast Westmine
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War Moves Today
By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert
Reich Marshal Goering, as commander-in-chief of the German Air Force, is now being compelled to consider new tactics in night bombing to bring down the increasingly heavy casualty toll being inflicted by the Royal Air Force. permanent cessation of mass attacks during bright moonlight nights cannot be known in advance but he must discover some method of moderating the
Whether he will order
or else admit the British night
defense makes German night domination of the air impossible. Last night the Germans stopped mass raids on British cities for
the first time during the month and scattered their attacks. There can
2!/be no doubt they took this action because of the unprecedented losses
they have been suffering during
their spring offensive. A total of 130 planes brought down in the first 10 days of May is serious enough in itself. It gains added danger to the Germans from the fact that the curve of casualties shows an upward swing, having reached a total of 33 planes destroyed Saturday night.
London reports the number brought down Saturday nighy rep-
| resented about 10 per cent of the
attacking force. That is the high= est percentage yet reached in night casualties and approaches the proportion of German planes destroyed last summer during the daylight air offensive against Great Britain,
abandon mass daytime a when casualties had reached (Continued on yy Two)
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