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Scripps —HowARBY VOLUME 53—NUMBER 54

TUESDAY, MAY

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13, 1941

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HESS: ‘I CAME TO SAVE HUMANITY’

London: ‘Split With Hitler

STREAMLINED PARTY URGED BY BRADFORD

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Wants District Leaders to!

Name Precinct Captains In County Setup.

By VERN BOXELL A “streamiined” County party organization to modernize the local setup, which he termed “far behind politically,” had been recommended today by County G. O. P. Chairman James Bradford. In a speech before a large crowd at the Irvington Republican Club last night. he urged that legislative action for the change be started at the next Assembly session. He pre-

dicted that in the next election there would be 375 precincts in the County, and said “that is too large | an organization for one man to] handle.” | He urged that districts to include | approximately 40 precincts be cre- | ated, each to elect an alderman. | This district leader would then appoint precinct captains and also meet with the County committee to select a county chairman.

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Bradford said this would “bring ag

higher type of citizens into the party! leadership.” Pleads for Party Unity

Under the present law, precinct committeemen are itercd in the rimary balloting and they name ‘he County chairman. Ward leaders are selected by the chairman. Myr. Bradford also made a plea for party unity, and said that “I am not going to coerce or fight anybody and I am hot chairman of any group or fraction.” He said that the 125 appointments he had made at chairman had been divided equally between the rival groups of the last primary. In a discussion of election laws passed by the 1941 Legislature, he lauded the new registration act which covers Marion and six other large counties, and said he would name George Johnson as the Republican board member. The other member is to be appointed by the Democratic County chairman. This bi-partisan board will take control of registration from the County Clerk. Predicts Rippers to Stand

Mr. Johnson was G. O. P. County committee registration officer during the last campaign and active in behalf of securing passage of the new, law Mr. Bradford also predicted an early Supreme Court decision on constitutionality of the new G. 0. Pr “decentralization” laws which give the party control of State patronage. He charged that Democratic leaders ‘are “stalling for time” but said he believed that “about one month from today. the courts will declare the laws 98 per cent constitutional.” He said he believed that the “other 2 per cent.” the law covering appointment of an interim Attorney Genersl. might be declared urvonstitutional

TARPEY RESIGNS AS WEIGHTS OFFICIAL

Thomas E. Tarpey, City weights and measures commissioner since 1935. resigned today. He told the Safety Board that he wished to leave office by the end of this month to join the sales staff of | the Fred Beck Co. Indianapolis | wholesalers. The Board granted | Mr. Tarpey a two-weeks' vacation | beginning May 15, his first in five years. Mr. Tarpey became a City employee in 1930, when he was appointed a creamery inspector for the Health Department by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. He remained in that post until he took his present position. It was understood that a successor will not be named until next month.

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“Three to Make Ready,” The Times' new daily serial, begins today on Page 21.

{atmosphere or of the storage room,

‘evil of beer patrons of package

[vent this.

Failing brakes let this

street.

Chicage elevated train crash the bumper at the track end of dead end station and dangle out over | The train was pulling in an empty to pick up a rush hour

L Crashes as Brakes Fail

through

crowd and although splinters and broken glass were showered on

the street noe one was injured,

Enforcement Would Mean Violation of Rights, Opponents Argue.

The question of whether drug stores and groceries can be prohibited from selling “cooled” beer | without violating their constitutional rights was argued by attor-! neys for two hours in Superior Court 2 today. The hearing was on an injunction suit brought by 21 Indianapolis druggists against State and County | enforcement officials. The suit at-| tacks the constitutionality of a pro-! vision in the 1941 Stout Liquor Law which prohibits stores selling alco-

holic package goods from vending “jced or cooled” beer.

Claims Vague Wording

Paul Stump. attorney for the druggists, declared the ter m “cooled” was “so vague as to render the act invalid.” “No enforement officer could determine what is meant legally by the term ‘cooled’ beer,” Mr. Stump said. “How could any police officer determine when the law is violated?” He said the law does not say whether the beér should be the same temperature as the outside

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Extends Restrainer

Walter Lewis, deputy Attorney General, argued that the provision was put into the law to correct the

stores drinking at the curb and on the streets, and that the provision against selling iced beer would pre-|

i Superior Court Judge Herbert

IGED BEER LAW Five More Wi TERMED VAGUE;

In Mibs Tourney

MORE WINNERS in the Indianapolis Times<Citvy Marbles Tournament sectional playoffs were announced today by the Tournament Committee. They were: English Avenue Boys’ Club— Robert Dunn, 11, of 1238 English Ave, Lauter Boys’ Club— Virgil Wash-

| burn, 13, of 29 N. Richland St.

Kirshbaum Center — Herman Berkovitz, 12, of 2920 Park Ave. Jewish’ Communal-—Marvin Rubin, 12, of 1325 Union St. First United Brethren Church —Norman Johnson, 11, of 517 Dorman St.

BUNDISTS SEIZED BY SOUTH BEND. POLICE

Leader Addressed Meeting Near Bendix Plant.

“SOUTH BEND, Ind. Mav 13 (U.

P.) —Police today arrested Gerhard | Wilhelm Kunze of New York. na- |

tional president of the GermanAmerican Bund, and William Luedtke of New York, national Bund secretary, together with three others described as Bund members, for questioning in regard to a meeting last night in South Bend. They were later released. Among those seized was a Dowagiac, Mich, man who said he was employed as a toolmaker at the Bendix Aviation plant, and his wife. The group had attended what the police said was a Bund meeting at a private residence within a block of the Bendix Aviation plant They were questioned for almost

SHIP POOL FOR

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In Mid June: F. D. R. Cancels Address. By LYLE C. WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May dent Roosevelt's goal ‘tons of emergency shipping for im mediate service to Great Britain

will be reached by mid-June, informed officials said today. Officials said it would include idle | foreign ships to be taken over here, [six new merchant ships scheduled [for completion within 30 days and |some cargo ships now engaged in |intercoastal trade. Intercoastal shipping operators (and representatives of the Maritime Commission meet in New York (today. The conference is expected {to result in a number of intercoastal ships—as many as

turned over to the shipping pool. Knox Starts Speculation

| These developments came as Navy Secretary Frank Knox

‘turn to the convoy controversy— | i

closely associated with the program

of more and more ships for Britain T

—by asserting that convoys may not be the solution to the British-aid problem. “Possibly we will have to devise a new defense to see that the goods which we manufacture will reach the other side of the Atlantic.” Mr. Knox told the American Society of Military Engineers last night. He did not explain "new de|fense,” but his address further confused the disewssion of convoys and raised questions of what, if any, plans Administration officia |are considering as substitutes for

| convoys. Await Ship Requisition 0. K.

| Basis for early completion of the |2,000,000-ton shipping pool. the {United Press was informed, is the expectation that the ship requisition (bill will become a law within a fortnight. It would permit the | President to purchase, requisition, |take title to or charter 83 idle for[een ships in American waters. The bill, to which Senator (Charles W. Tobey (R. N. H)), in'sists he will offer an anti-convoy amendment, is scheduled to reach the Senate floor tomorrow. It was approved, 11-to-4, by the Senate Commerce Committee yesterday, The Capital was more immediately interested in the unexpected cancellation of the address which Mr. Roosevelt had been scheduled ‘to deliver tomorrow night before {the Pan-American Union. White House announcement of the cancellation explained that the (Continued on Page Ten)

I'm Guilty, Judge Pleads and Pays

AMONG HIS souvenirs, Municipal Judge John McNelis has a sticker receipt today. When the Police sticker payment opened at 9 a. m. today,

Judge McNelis' secretary was waiting with two $1 bills which

his billfold. The sticker was the penalty the Judge paid for parking his car too close to the fire station at Kenwood Ave. and 30th St.

AID OF BRITAN CLOSE TO GOAL

May Reach 2,000,000 Tons

13. —Presi« | of 2,000,000 |

50, Ra {according to some estimates—being |:

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Rudolf Hess

Beer Mug Scarls Hess Badge:

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Shared Hitler's Imprisonment and Fuehrer's Power; Followed Hitler Even in Vegetarianism. |

By UNITED PRESS | A scar on his head where a beer mug crashed was Rudolf Hess’ | badge of honor. He acquired it while acting as bouncer at one of the beer hall | meetings where naziism was born. Even then he was Adolf Hitler's private secretary and most intimate friend. | For 20 years more—until last week-—he was slavish in his devo- | Se mt tn —|tion to Hitler and the party; a man conceded even by his enemies to be incorruptible, so devoted to a cause that his personal life was ascetic. Like Hitler, he was a vegetarian. He neither drank nor smoked. Unlike Hermann Goering and other Nazi leaders, he passed up all opportunities to get rich at the expense of Nazi party victims or Ger-man-conquered nations.

PROPOSE DRAFT DELAY OVER 30

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Selective Service Heads Rei with AEarels These facts, and the cold, precise

Favor New Age Limit {manner of the man, his blind faith | [in naziism, the esteem and author-

If Law Is Revised. | . |ity that he enjoyed under Nazi rule,

{ WASHINGTON. May 13 (U. P).|all made his flight to Britain the —Selective Service officials will more astounding. recommend deferment of all men| Neither the Nazi Party nor the lover 30 years old if Congress grants| German nation could have any | President Roosevelt authority to|secrets from Hess. He had not only |defer special classes registered for the right but the duty to inquire military service, it was learned (o- into the function: of every Governday. |ment department, and he was depThere was some talk of deferring |uty party leader. In 1934 Hitler de{men more than 27 vears old, but |creed that Hess “must, whether perlinformed officials said the 30-year |sonally or through the agents whom limit was the most likely. Only 11|he appoints, participate in the forper cent inducted into service so mation of every law enacted, irrefar have been over 30, while T7 per spective of the department from cent have been in the age bracket| which it originates.” [® 18 to 27. Lamers Jere Teports then thal Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, in| Siuer Was abou name Hess his Poche Congress yesterday to give | SUCCESSOR, promoting him above | Mn Roosevelt authority to defer | Hermann Goering, to take charge of ‘men by age groups, pointed out Germany in event of Hitler's death | that “many of our problems” arise | °F absence. He failed to do so, and in connection With the older train-|¥hen the war started he named ces. Gen. Hershey is deputy Goering his successor and Hess next

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He Was 'Incorruptible’ Nazi

erlin: ‘Deluded’ BULLET HOLES

SEEN IN PLANE AFTER LANDING

Fuehrer Takes Personal Command of Naz Party; Explanations of Flight Conflicting.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor The fantastic airplane flight of Rudolf Hess to Great Britain today opened the possibility of far-reaching reper< cussions in the European war and prompted British speculas tion that the No. 3 Nazi objected to Adolf Hitler's increase ing collaboration with Soviet Russia. In London, it was stated that Hess was “writing a grea deal” in the hospital where his fractured ankle was treated after a parachute landing in Scotland from a bullet« punctured German fighter plane. In Berlin, Hitler took over personal command of the Nazi Party and unexpectedly addressed a conference of party leaders, who demonstrated what was described offi« cially as “an overwhelming resolution and will to victory.™ Nazi spokesmen, apparently anticipating a public declarae tion by less, said that his words could not be accepted be« cause of his mental condition and possibility that he would speak under duress.

Bullet Holes in Plane The bullet holes found in the wreckage of Hess’ plane were regarded as evidence that he was attacked by British fighter craft on his flight from Germany and it appeared that the Spitfire pilots came close to shooting down the most valuable prisoner taken in the war. The signs of attack aroused speculation on possibility that Hess was forced to take to his parachute before he ‘reached his goal. On the other hand, the holes might have been relics of some previous encounter of a German pilot with enemy guns or might even have made by bullets fired when Hess took off in defiance of Hitler's orders, although that possibility seemed unlikely. Hess was known to be a bitter foe of Communism When he landed by parachute he was quoted as saying dra matically: “I have come to save humanity.’ Hess’ voluntary status as a British prisoner of war brought opposing explanations from official sources in Bers lin and London. But its importance was indicated by the fact that it overshadowed all military developments—the ‘bombing of South England harbors, new Luftwaffe attacks ‘on enemy shipping, the reported sinking of 13 ships in ate tacks on a British convoy, another R. A. F. bombardment ‘of Mannheim and Cologne, and attacks by Nazi armored units and planes on the British at Tobruk, Crete and Malta,

Darlan Returns to Paris

It also overshadowed diplomatic developments, prine ‘cipally the return of Admiral Jean Francois Darlan to Paris after a meeting with Fitler, apparently to receive a new plan to replace the Compiegne Armistice which took France out of the war. ; : Tnose developments passed almost unnoticed as Brite ain sought to wring the greatest possible propaganda and military value from the flight of Hess and the Nazi Party, opened up with explanations that Hess was suffering mental delusions that he might help bring about an “understanding between the two belligerents. The Nazi Party, ‘in an official statement, argued that Hess had been suffering from a progressive illness, had cons sulted astrologers and was mentally not responsible. The British described him as perfectly sane. Besides the London and Berlin explanations, there ale

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in line, but it generally was con-

four hours, photographed and fin- | gerprinted. | Police Chief W. K. Ingram said| 6 a. m. nothing was found in their posses 7 a.m ...

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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ready were other theories: 1. The trip might be a part of some strange trick the purpose of which could only be subject to wild guesswork,

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| Spencer, who last week issued al temporary order restraining police | sion in violation of existing laws. from enforcing the “no iced beer”| Kunze revealed that he and provision, extended the order for |Luedtke were on a coast-to-coast one week and asked attorneys to tour, “in the interests of the A. V.

‘submit briefs by that time for de- Publishing Co.” which police indi- | were predicted by the Weather Bu- | tions, including Gen. Hershey's anc termination of a permanent

in- {cated was the official publication

junction. company of the Bund literature.

By GEORGE H. MILNE United Press Stal Correspondent

GLASGOW, Scotland, May 13. —David McLean, Scottish plowman who “captured” Rudolf Hess with a hay fork, was a herp of the war today and his cottage on the moors a few miles from Glasgow became a center of wide interest. It was only last night that the McLeans—David, his mother and his sister—knew the identity of the man who came down by para-

| chute near their cottage.

I had heard of the landing of a mysterious German aviator at the McLean farm and I hastened there with pictures of Hess. “Sure, that's the man,” Mclean said when I showed him Hess's picture, “No doubt about it,” said his mother. “So we had a distinguished visitor after all.” McLean indicated definitely that Hess was alone when he parachuted from his ammunitionless fighting plane as its gasoline supply ran out. “I was in the house,” he said. “Everyone else was in bed. I heard a plane roaring overhead. Then, as I ran out, there was a crash and I saw the plane burst into flames. “I was a bit frightened when I saw a parachute dropping slowly down through the gathering darkness. Peering up, I could see a man swinging in his parachute harness. I concluded at once it was a German aviator out so I returned to the house for help. % “They were all I looked around for some weapon.

8am ... 58 12 (noon) .. 68

| Sat... 68 1pm .... NN

| Slightly warmer temperatures reau for tonight and tomorrow.

The skies are to be partly cloudy.

| Stood Over Him With My Hay Fork,” Scot Captor Says

I could find nothing else except my hay fork. Fearing I might lose the airman I hurried round by myself to’ the back of the house and

into the field.

“I saw a man lying on the ground on his back, rolling to get himself out of his parachute. I stood over him with my hay fork and said: “ ‘Who are you? What are you doing here?’ “He smiled and, as 1 assisted him to his feet, he thanked me.

could see he had an injured foot,

helped him into the house. By this time my old mother and my sister

had got out of bed and started to some:

“I never drink tea as late as this,” he said.

of water.’

“He told us he had left Germany about four hours previously and

had landed because night was approaching “He was a striking looking man, over six feet, wearing a very

magnificent flying suit. His wrist bracelet were gold. Mrs. McLean said:

“We felt he was someone of importance because of his clothes and |

his gold wrist watch and identity

They were as fine as a pair of gloves.” She said he showed many gold

teeth when he smiled.

Hess was taken from the McLean home to a Boy Scout hut and

then to a military pital, where

|to consider Gen. Hershey's request. | He said that if it is decided to take | {up revisions of the act, the Committee would consider all sugges

JOHN ROOSEVELT ENLISTS IN NAVY

F. D. R.s Youngest Son

. Will Attend Supply School. |

WASHINGTON, May 13 (U. P) .— [The youngest Roosevelt son, John, |is joining the Navy because he has |decided that a world with Hitler | victorious is “not the kind of world he would like to live in,” his mother, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, said today. The other three sons are already in the armed forces. John's eyes would prevent his being accepted by a draft board, Mrs, | Roosevelt said. After making his decision, he sought a way in which he could serve. As his experience is lin buying and selling (he was a | Boston department store executive until he resigned effective May 10), he was told he could serve in the Navy Service of Supply. He at once took a correspondence course in supply. He plans to enter the Navy Supply School to be opened at Harvard in about a month. When he successfully com= pletes the course, he will be commissioned an ensign in the Navy, Mrs. Roosevelt

{report a general bill to perfect the {draft machinery.

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but otherwise he was all right. I

make tea. My mother offered him

‘I'll only have a glass

| watch, wrist compass and identity |

disc. His boots were magnificent.

orderlies said that his toenails had

2. It might have followed a showdown with other Nazi Party leaders which endangered his life. ~ 3. It might simply be the wild act of a demented man,

Mason Dies of Heart Attack; Wrote ‘Today's War Moves’

NEW YORK, May 13 (U. PD. J. W. T. Mason, war expert of the United Press and The Indianapolis Times, died of a heart attack toe day at Doctors’ Hospital. He also was the author of books on philose ophy. He was 62. - After writing and filing his fae mous column “Today's War Moves™ at the offices of the United Press yesterday morning Mr. Mason res turned to his hotel in Manhattan, There he suffered a heart attack. His wife called a physician and

Mason was taken at once to the §

hospital where he died today at a. m. (Indianapolis Time). Mr. Mason was born in Ne burgh, N. Y., Jan. 3, 1879, the of John A. and Georgiana L. M He was married to Edith Hs Halbert, daughter of Capt. erick Halbert of the British cantile Marine on Feb. 24, (Continued "Fo Ten)