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hip Bill Debate Opens: Convoy Issue May Be
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French Drivers Arrive
No, that's not a 125 m. p. h. ra wagon that Rene LeBegue (left) a
ce car, It's a slow-moving baggage nd Jean Trevoux are trying out in
the Pan-American Clipper terminal in New York on their arrival
vesierday from France. They will here Memorial Day, They had to ¢
make the trip from unoccupied France.
to race. LeBegue finished 10th las
Expansion Prompted
drive in the “500” at the Speedway ut a lot of international red tape to It’s Trevoux' first trip over t year.
ALLISON TO ADD 12 ENGINE TEST UNITS
by Increased Produc-
tion of Motors for Britain and U. S.; Extra Land Obtained for Water Needs.
By SAM TYNDALL Immediate expansion of the engine test building at the
southwest corner of the main 3) was announced today.
Allison production plant (No.
Plans call for the construction of 12 additional two-
story brick, concrete and steel
, sound-proof test sheds whien
will bring to 48 the total number of sheds available for test-
ing the liquid-cooled warplane
WOMEN VOTERS STUDY DEFENSE
Want Public Aroused to AllOut Effort in ‘Battle of Production.’
By ROSEMARY REDDING Times Staff Writer
KOKOMO, Ind., May 14.—The In-
diana League of Women Voters will |
concentrate on an immediate campaign to arouse public demand for an all-out effort to win the “Battle of Production.” The organization’s board, meeting here last night, outlined a defense program for the League which will include an intensive three months’ study of League program items closely allied with national defense. The group’s biennial council meet-
ing opened this morning and will]
continue through tomorrow noon. The defense study program includes: 1. Taxation and defense. 2. Inter-American co-operation. 3. Living costs and defense. 4. School facilities and housing in defense areas. 5. Relief in relation to defense. 6. Collective bargaining in connection with defense. 7. Civil liberties in relation to defense. Stand Is Outlined
The state program is in line] with the defense program adopted | last week by the National Coun- | cil. The League's defense “stand”! is as follows: | “The League recognizes the! grave threat to democracy and to American security brought about | by continued aggression. Because our form of government is being seriously challenged, the League is now determined to put its understanding and experience to work in defense of that democracy.
motors. | Expansion was necessitated by the steadily increased daily production of motors—now being delivered to the British
| : - and U. S. Governments at a
| combined total of more than 400 per turned from a
| month. restricted information.
ISOLATIONST GROUP WAITS FIRESIDE CHAT
; Roosevelt Views Sought as
Nazi Red Sea Threat Stirs Senate.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 14 —Noninterventionist Senators indicated today after a strategy conference that they are considering postponing full-dress debate on the convoy issue until after President Roosevelt has delivered his fireside chat to the nation on May 27. The conference of six leaders of the non-interventionist bloc was held in the office of Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) an hour before scheduled Senate consideration of the foreign ship-requisitioning bill. Senator Charles W. Tobey (R. N. H) had planned to try to attach an anti-convoy ban to that bill. Senator Tobey, one of the conferees, declined to say whether he would go ahead as planned, but added that he might have a statement on the question later today.
Wheeler Explains Stand
The conferees all reported that they had reached no final decision and that their discussion had centered chiefly around a matter of timing the anti-convoy move. It
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was indicated that a majority felt the move should be postponed until Mr. Roosevelt has made his position clear. “We're all united on the question of not sending convoys,” said Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.), another of the conferees. “I think Senator Tobey has made a very fine contribution to the cause of peace by introducing his resolution and we intend to fight against convoys regardless of what anybody says. “The President of the United States has promised that he would oppose involvement with foreign powers and that we would not send American boys as sailors, soldiers or aviators, abroad.”
F. D. R. Summons Naval Aid
President Roosevelt meantime called in Undersecretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal for a luncheon conference to report on his recent
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talks with British Admiralty officials. Mr. Forrestal has just resecret mission in
Exact production figures is|London.
His conference apparently dove-
Although officials did not disclose [tailed into the protracted discussion the amount to be spent on the that Mr. Roosevelt held yesterday (latest expansion, it is believed the with Admiral Ernest J. King, com-
new sheds with $60,000. At the same {ime it was announced that the local General Motors engine division has purchased a 17-acre tract containing {a gravel pit located west of Plant | No. 3. Gravel Pit Acquired
The gravel pit is to be used as a dumping “depot” for waste water used to cool the engines run on the test blocks. It is necessary to return the water used for cooling to the ground near its source in order to maintain a water table level adequate to serve the many wells at the Allison plant site. | The new vest sheds will be duplicates of the present ones, which are two stories in depth, one story underground. Each has a stack at each end for use in drawing air by (the propeller and in turn exhaust{ing it from the shed. Each test room is equipped with a separate control and observation room. The basement and that part of the shed adjoining the observa(Continued on Page Six)
‘WISE USE OF NAVIES WILL WIN'--WINANT
Freedom Loving People Back Britain, He Says.
LONDON, May 14 (U. P).—The “freedom-loving and peace-loving
necessary equip- mander of the Atlantic fleet which ment installed will cost at least is maintaining patrols far out at
sea—perhaps even inside the combat areas of the “Battle of the Atlantic.” In announcing the luncheon conference, White House Secre(Continued on Page Six)
HOG PRICES TOP $9, BEST SINCE LATE '39
Receipts Light, Demands Heavy at Local Yards.
Hog prices at the Indianapolis stockyards today crossed the $9 “floor” set by the Government last month and rose to the highest since the soaring market of September, 1939. Farmers selling their hogs here today received as much as $9.15 per 100 pounds for their choicest. There was good demand from the packers
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for the recipts which were lighter than usual. Dollar wheat appeared on the Chicago Board of Trade for the first time in a year. May wheat sold as high as $1.0155% a bushel in response to House approval of the farm bill providing for 85 per cent of parity. payments on wheat and other farm crops. Corn hit the best prices in about four years and soy beans were the highest this season before profittaking lowered prices. Senate passage of the new loan bill, 75 to 2, was after, the markets closed.
|year to year because the law fixes
counting the mileage twice if that
Vice President W. W. Haute.
Leading figures in the Indiana
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Bankers’ Associa tion convention here today included (left to right) Gasser, Gary; Granville Wells, Jamestown, and President Paul M. Bogart, Terre Mr. Gasser was expected to be named president in tomorrow's election,
CHECK JOURNAL
Note Figure on Salaries For Members Exceeds Fixed Amount.
By EARL RICHERT Discrepancies found in the expenses of the 1941 House of Representatives, as listed in the new House Journal, today caused House officers to begin a recheck of their figures to learn just what is wrong. The ‘41 Journal, completed and filed yesterday with the Secretary of State, listed the per diem salary total of the 100 members for the session at $64,819. The per diem salary total for the same number of members in 1939 was $61,122,
Figure Fixed in Law
This total cannot change from the salary of each member, except the speaker, at $10 per day for the 61-day session. The speaker gets $12 a day. All this added up makes $61,122, the total reported for the 39 session. The new Journal listed the mileage expenses for the ’41 members at $3697. This, added to the $61,122, would make the $64,819 per diem salary listed in the new Journal. But in totaling all 41 House expenses, the $3697 mileage was added to the $64,819 per diem salary, thus
was the way the per diem figure was reached. The total expenses of the ’41 House, as listed by the Journal, was $108,330.39. Records in the auditor's office, (Continued on Page Six)
F. D. R. RECOVERING: HAS 2 ENGAGEMENTS
WASHINGTON, May 14 (U. P.) — President Roosevelt, recovering from a stomach disorder, spent his ninth consecutive day in the residential section of the White House, but scheduled two engagements today. Undersecretary of Navy James V. Forestal was invited to have luncheon with Mr. Roosevelt and report on his recent conferences with Admiralty officials in Great Britain. The President planned to confer this afternoon with Sidney Hillman, associate director of the Office of Production Management. Mr. Roosevelt informed his engagement secretary, Maj. Edwin M. Watson, that he might call in additional visitors later in the day. He expects to return to his office in the
peoples of this earth are coming to
HOUSE OFFICERS
next day or two.
“The American people have inaug- |Tealize that this war is not Briturated a plan for defending democ- | 20'S fight alone,” United States racy by throwing its weight on the Ambassador John Winant said to-
side of those who share with us| ay: common ideals of freedom and be-| On the wise use of the navies of (Continued on Page Six) the world may hang the destinies of free peoples of the world,” the American Ambassador told the English Speaking Union. “When dictators conspire together men and women of good will everywhere must act together. This is no time for vain regrets or futile
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WASHINGTON, May 14 (U. P.) — Effective tomorrow, prospective soldiers for the U., S. Army will have to prove that they have the equivalent of at least a fourth-grade education. The Army will tum down in the future anyone who isn't aware of the fact that eight plus one makes nine; that water won't burn regardless of how long you boil it, or that , for one reason or another, spend more time under water than
s. New literacy tests will be given to all men before induction starting tomorrow. They were drawn up
after Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall said, in effect,
that the Army doesn’t want to jeopardize its ranks with the .presence of anyone who hasn't the Sjuivatent of a fourth-grade educan. Here are some of the other sample test questions: How many months in a year? Can airplanes travel under water? Are bananas a kind of fruit? But before reaching the questions, the prospective soldier must first display ability to write his name, address and age. His ability to read and retain information also will be tested. He
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Macbeth
MacDuff (Hess): ‘I Would Not Be the Villain Thou Think’st.’
NEW YORK, May 14 (U. P).— The British find a parallel to Rudolf Hess’ flight in Shakespeare's Macbeth, the British Press Service reported today. It quoted these excerpts from Macbeth:
ACT 1V, SCENE I Lennox (Himmler)—'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word Macduff (Hess) has fled to England. : Macbeth (Hitler) —Fled to England! . Lennox (Himmler) good lord. Macbeth (Hitler) — Time, thou anticipat’st my dread exploits; the flightly purpose never is o’ertook
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this moment the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand. ... ACT 1V, SCENE II
Lady Macduff (Frau Hess)— fly the land? Ross (Goebbels) — You must have patience madam. Lady Macduff (Frau Hess)—He had none; his flight was madness; when our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors. Ross (Goebbels) — You know not whether it was his wisdom or his fear. Lady Macduff (Frau Hess)— Wisdom! To leave his wife, to leave his babes, his mansion, and his titles, in a place from whence himself does fly? He loves us not . .» all is the fear, and nothing is the love; as little is the wisdom, where the flight so runs against all reason. ACT 1V, SCENE III
Macduff (Hess, a prisoner of war in Britain)—Fare thee well, lord; I would not be the villain that thou think’st for the whole space that’s in the tyrant grasp and the rich East to boot.
‘TO THE FARMERS’
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am .... 55 10am Ta.m....5 11am. .... 8a. m. 12 (Noon(.. 9a m. ipm....
Three words for Central Indiana farmers from the U. S. Weather Bureau: “Rain is coming.”
HESS’ TOENAILS RED
GLASGOW, Scotland, May 14 (U. P.).—Hospital attendants, relaying reports of their star patient, Rudolf Hess, reported today that his toenails were painted red.
Is the Banana a Fruit? Will Water Burn? You Must Know If You'd Get in the Army
“There are many different kinds of houses. Some houses are small; other houses are large. Large families need large houses. Houses can be made of wood, brick and stone. They may have only one room, or they may have several rooms. Farm houses are not usually close together. City houses do not have much land around them. Not all people own the houses in which they live. Many people rent their homes.” The trainee then will be asked: Are all houses small? Name one material of which houses are made? Are farm houses close together?
‘Behind the Times,’ State Bankers Told
T00 CAUTIOUS, UHAIR CLAIMS
Carroll Binder, Foreign News Expert, Will Address Banquet Tonight.
By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM Several hundred Hoosier bankers blushed this afternoon after hearing a recital of some of their shortcomings by a fellow banker. They heard themselves described as behind the times, as held back by the fear complex, procrastina-
PLANNED TRIP WITHIN 2 DAYS
War Not England's Alone, Says Winant Vichy Approves ‘Deal’ With Nazis; Naval Bases Bombed.
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War News on Other Pages Joe Alex Morris analyzes Hess mystery......... Does Hess flight veil move into Syria?............. Vichy has its back to the wall.......... tesssnnnnes Japanese start offensive in China ....eevni iisiivsniinnne eosin French connivance in threat on Suez revealed Other war, defense and labor stories
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ing shadow over warring Europe today with Nazis asserting that the “tragic illusion” of Adolf Hitler's deputy included plans to return to Germany within two days and the British scenting a sinister scheme for peace on Axis terms. Both Winston Churchill and Hitler were believed likely to enter directly into the Hess affair with speeches designed to get the greatest possible propaganda benefit for their contrary viewpoints and the British Prime Minister may interview the No. 3 Nazi. Hess was said by the British to be talking and there was increasing hope that his words would be of tremendous ime portance to Britain, but responsible British sources increasingly leaned to the view that Hess might well have been the fantastic leading character in a plot that only Hitler could have imagined and that he flew to Britain to
organizing a peace movement with the Fuehrer's knowledge, Winant Urges Naval Use Other developments in the war were overshadowed, but
several seemed important: 1. A speech by John Winant, U. S. Ambassador te
tion, resistance to chance and reluctance to accept the new. Caution, they were told, has been “a little overworked,” and conservatism has grown into lethargy, Their critic, Fred L. O'Hair, president of the Central National
{Bank of Greencastle, was the prin- |
cipal speaker on the afternoon program of the Indiana Bankers’ Association's 45th annual conven-
| Hotel. Binder Speaks Tonight
The feature address of the twoday meeting will be that of Carroll Binder, foreign news editor of the Chicago Daily News, at the annual banquet tonight in the Riley Room. Governor Henry F. Schricker, a former banker, also will speak. Mr. Binder, whose subject will be “The Foreign Situation Tonight,” has had 20 years experience as a correspondent for the Chicago Daily News in seven foreign countries. Mr. O’Hair told his fellow bankers that most of them have been blindly passing up much needed business in the personal loan field, while the more farsighted finance companies have been cashing in. Finance companies, he said, in 1939 held $10 of retail installment paper to $4 held by commercial banks. Too often the banks, he added, have an “austere, frost bitten atmosphere ‘‘the atmosphere of a second hand store,” while finance companies have a friendly attitude. Stressing the importance of (Continued on Page Six)
LAND-BUILDING SWAP
New Site Is Proposed for Juvenile Court.
County Commissioners today were investigating the legal aspects of a proposal to acquire a lease on a three-story business building at 219223 E. Washington St. to house the Juvenile Court and its agencies. The Commissioners said they were considering trading a lease of grounds on the north side of the Court House for a parking lot to owners of the building. Increasing congestion in the Court House basement caused by increased Juvenile Court activities and expansion of several other County offices is making the move necessary, they said. It also has been suggested that County Welfare Department offices, now in a building at Senate Ave. and Washington St., be moved to the proposed new site. The legal question involves the status of the grounds on which the Court House was built 75 years ago. The ground was donated to the County in a State grant “for the purpose of building a- Court House.” Attorneys raised the question fwhether this would prevent the Commissioners from leasing the ground
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What had he done, to make him {tion opening today at the Claypool |
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Britain, saying that the destinies of free people might de ‘pend upon the ‘““wise use” of the world’s navies and that the war is not Britain's alone. | 2. Germany clearly warned that 27 United States ships scheduled to carry supplies to the British in Egypt would be ‘subject to attack if they entered the Red Sea. | 3. The Petain Cabinet at Vichy unanimously approved
‘the still secret decisions reached in the recent conference .
between Vice Premier Admiral Jean Francois Darlan and added that “the effects of the negotiations will be felt soon,”
Bomb Helgoland Naval Base 4. Despite unfavorable weather, the R. A. F. bombed the big Nazi naval base of Helgoland and ships and military targets at Ostend while Italian planes raided the British naval base at Alexandria. 5. Five Axis columns on the Mediterranean front struck
they had been thrown back to their original positions.
an “aerial blitzkrieg” for six days on the British Mediterranean fleet and that absolutely no damage had resulted. 7. The French in Tunisia reported that the bodies of many Italian soldiers (one estimate said 30,000) had been washed ashore there after British sinking of transports. 8. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden warned Japan that there would be no softening of British policy in the Far East unless British interests in China were respected and charged that the French Government had permitted Germany to send torpedo boats down the Rhone River to the Mediterranean.
Hitler Given Telling Blow
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor
Hess’ astounding parachute descent on Scotland dealt Hitler and Hitler ism a more telling blow than 10,000 British bombers. That is the view of informed diplomats here who base their opinion on a wide knowledge of German psychology. If Hess is sane, it means a rift in Hitler's ranks so portentous that it would be difficult to exaggerate idea of German unity, There is its gravity. It would mean that the really no such unity. There is &
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The mysterious case of Rudolf Hess threw a lengthen-
try to cireumvent- ‘“unconquerable’” British resistance by
from Libya into Egypt and claimed a 45-mile advance in % the Solum area, but the British said that after the advance 4
6. The British claimed that Axis planes had conducted
WASHINGTON, May 14.—Sane or crazy, Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf a
Fuerer’s right-hand man escaped from Germany only a short step ahead of the executioner.
If crazy, it would amount to confirmation in the minds of many that Hitler and his entire entourage are abnormal personages—not lunatics, far from it, but men whose mental equipment lacks balance. Inevitably it would cause the average German to wonder if he is not being led into world conquest by a Fuehrer with some kind of a complex or mental aberration.
Hess, it is observed, was the most popular of all Nazi leaders. Hitler is feared, Goering is not widely liked and Goebbels is hated. Thus when the simple, unambitious Hess walks out on Hitler and his crowd because he cannot stand their company any longer, or because association with them has driven him crazy, its effect on the masses will almost certainly be considerable. Nazi propaganda harps on the 4 gy
superficial unity, based on terror, and it was this that led the frightened people to cast an almost 99 per cent vote for Hitler when Hitler demanded it and had the polls watched by the Gestapo. But the last even half-way free election prior to Hitler's dictator= ship—in November, 1932—gave the National Socialists only 196 seats in the Reichstag out of a total of 584, The fact that Hess has turned his . back on Hitler and fled Germany . will almost certainly have its effect on the German people. It must have a profound repercussion on the. national morale.
FOOD WORKERS DOOMED
MOSCOW, May 14 (U. P.) —Radio. . « |
Moscow reported today that 12 ems’ ployees of an Odessa food co-opera tive were sentenced to death and 25 others were given prison toms for speculating in wines and can with a loss to the state of $500,000.
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