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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 56

THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1941

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Hudson Workers Strike, G. M. Walkout Delayed 24 Hours

FRANCE TO GO ALONG WITH GERMANY

ADVISE DELAY ON MEMORIAL FOR HARRISON

VanNuys and Willis Would Set Example of Economy; Ludlow Urges Action.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY

Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 15. — Senators Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.) and Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind) today promised not to push for passage of their Senate bill calling for| $5,000,000 for a Benjamin Harrison | memorial in Indiana. | They said they hoped to set an] example which would be followed by | all states seeking unnecessary non-| defense expenditures. | But Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind), who has introduced a companion measure in the House, said he will press for its passage. The Senators and Rep. Ludlow all were recorded in favor of saving a billion dollars by cutting non-de-fense budgets, as suggested by Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau, in a Scripps-Howard poll.

This is Different, He Says

As a member of the Appropriations Committee, Rep. Ludlow always makes speeches for economy and said he thought “maybe two billions should be cut.” This Benjamin Harrison proposition is different. however,” the Indianapolis Congressinan declared | today. | “The last Congress approved $2500 for a survey committee and that committee brought in a report upon which the $5,000,000 bill is based. | They did a good job, even turned back $861, and I already have as- |. surances from Rep. Robert T. Se- | Panama. crest (D. O.), chairman of the Library Committee, that he will give my bill a hearing. “It has the approval of the Forestry Service and is now awaiting approval by the Budget Director. So I hope to get it out and will do all I can to get it passed.”

VanNuys Suggests Wait

Senator VanNuys took an entirely different view of the matter. ‘When the Harrison Memorial Commission met with the Indiana Congressional delegation in my of- | fice recently and submitted their | report, I then expressed the view that it would be difficult to get such an appropriation through now | worthy as it might be. | By NOBLE REED “So far as I am concerned, the his Senate bill was introduced as some- | Strong opposition developed today thing upon which action can be to a proposal of County Commistaken after the defense emergency sioners to lease the Court House is over. We can not afford to be (Continued on Page Five)

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College Ave. to buy HIS straw hat photographic evidence that she got

LOT-FOR-LEASE DEAL OPPOSED

Critics Say Proposed County Trade Is legal, Uneconomical.

use of a Washington St. store buildEr ing and there were indications that the proposal would fall through.

CONGRESS MAY GET Commissioners have been considMORE CASH FOR ’42 ering the store building at 219-223

E. Washington as a site for Juvenile WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. ») — Court and its alliad agencie: for The House Appropriations Commit- more than two months and reveaied tee today increased the amount of the lease trade proposal yesterday. mone;” that Congress will spend on! itself next year by $278,817 over the that the value of the Court House 1941 expenditure. It placed the! lawn for a parking lot would far extotal of the legislative appropriation ceed the rental value of the buildbill at $24,846,047. ing—perhaps by a five-to-one ratio. It was the second regular 1942, Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox, dissupply bill that the committee has cussing the proposal with other increased over present levels since {County officials, said the returns Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau | from a parking lot on the Court proposed non-defense savings of House lawn would amount to “at

$1,000,000,000 to ease the shock of least $1500 monthly while the rental

the treasury’s $3,600,000,000 recommendation. A controversy has developed in the House over who—Congress or on the short end of a deal like the President—shall take the that.” he said. initiative in trimming non-defense| Other estimates on the value of outlays. Rep. Everett M. Dirksen the lawn for parking purposes (R. III), intends to introduce a ranged as high as $2000 a month.

tax !value of the building is about $300 a month.”

resolution calling on the President The rental value of the store build- iS 2long, this may take many, many |

to submit new

“economy” budget | estimates. |

(Continued on Page Five) BY SUBCOMMITTEE REACHES NEW LOW man Minton (D. Ind), as a judge Senator Carl Hatch (D. N. M), its history in the sale of $310,000 last year. |offers, were the Union Securities

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. P.).| —A Senate Judiciary Subcommittee! today unanimously approved the 1V4 Per of the Seventh U. S. Circuit Court) Cent on Refunding Paper. of Appeals. | No witnesses appeared before the; The City of Indianapolis today whose “purity in politics” act was refunding bonds to three New York strongly opposed by Mr. Minton, the investment houses bidding jointly. Senate’s Assistant Democratic Lead-| The New York concerns, whose {Corp, The Equitable Securities |Corp. and the brokerage firm of TIMES FEATURES Roosevelt and Weigold, Inc.

MINTON APPROVED (ITY BOND INTERES nomination of former Senator Sher- N, Y. Firms Bid subcommittee, which was headed by [received the lowest interest rate in er until his defeat for re-election |joint bid was low among 15 other ON INSIDE PAGES

i {14 per cent and offered a premium |of $1271. The bond issue refunds fire proClapper ..... 17! Mrs. Fe 1g tection and city hospital bonds of Comics .vee+ 25| Obituaries. wo 8/1911 which mature this year. The Crossword ... 28 Pegler . 1g/refunding issue matures serially Editorials ... 18/Pyle ..... vee. 17/0OVer 20 years, the lest to be paid Financial .... 14 Questions 17 [out in 1962. Flynn ....... 18 Radio v7 RO 2 Ta be tram re Forum 18 Mrs. Roosevelt 17 TRAFFIC VICTIM DIES 3 Serial Story.. 29! CLINTON, Ind, May 15 (U. P.. Inside Indpls. 17 Side Glances. 18 —James Jackson, 52-year-old deaf Jane Jordan.. 23 Society .... 20-23 mute, died last night of injuries reJohnson ..... 18 Sports . 24, 25,26 ceived in an auto accident earlier Movies ....12,13, State Deaths. 8'this week.

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| Ah, It's Straw Hat Day! |

Sara Nell Gotischalk went with her daddy, John Gottschalk, 4M9 branch at Flint operating.

Mere Man Now Privil To Don Summer Headgear

By JOE COLLIER This is the day Indianapolis men traditionally lay aside their felts Thomas said that all other G. M. for straws and Panamas, most of which are neither made of

Also, say the men best informed on the hat situation here, there is lest they endanger “substantial conno particular reason why May 15 should be the straw hat day and they cessions” obtained in the negotiadon’t know how the tradition started,

U.S. TRIES FOR ACCORD ON PAY BY TOMORROW

Thomas Orders Return of | Flint Employees After Temporary Closing.

By UNITED PRESS

| Strikes by the United Automobile Wariars (C. I. O.) closed four plants | {of the General Motors Corp. at |Flint, Mich., and the Hudson Motor | [Car Co. at Detroit today, throwing | [42,500 men out of work. Resump{tion of work was expected this afternoon, however, at Flint. | Officials of the U. A. W.-C. I. O. |at Washington had postponed a! {strike call in 61 G. M. C. plants {for 24 hours until 7 a. m. tomorrow after an all-night conference § \with company officials and the Na- |} jtional Defense Mediation Board but! union officials at Flint were unable {to prevent a walkout at plants! (there. Union officials said word ‘of the delay in the strike call came ” {too late. | Plants closed at Flint were Fisher | Body plants No. 1 and No. 2, Chev{rolet and Buick. They employ 34.-

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This photograph of the wreckage of Rudolf Hess’ plane in Scotland was radioed from London today.

for Straw Hat Day . a little mixed up.

eged

straw nor workers had been told to remain

meen “on their jobs until further notice,

|tions. Moreover, if it’s raining or sunless | The company has until 4:10 a. m. for cold May 13, it’s just straw hat tomorrow to accept the Mediation day in name only for most men. {Board's recommendations for final Some straw hats are made of settlement. The union sought a |grasses, one is made of straw of a|l0-cent an hour raise and a closed |special wheat raised specifically for shop. {hats in Manchuria, some are made| At Hudson, a picket line of 3000 from palm leaves and other mate-|{to 4000 massed to re-enforce derials. ‘mands for a 15-cent an hour wage All of them are woven by na- hike after nightlong conferences tives of the Equatorial countries between company and union failed where the materials grow. Then to reach a basis for settlement. The bull {they are bought by brokers and pickets passed 43 men working on gutted, two small ad joining plants {shipped to this country for blocking Hudson's $10,000,000 airplane parts ruined and approximately 50 other and styling. | order. { homes severely damaged. | Rw to See Roosevelt Starting in Lear's Iumberyard. War Cuts Imports | Swope le Bee (vosseve the seething flames jumped to the Probably the greatest number The Mediation Board drove hard adjoining Janssen Millwork Co. and come from Ecuador, Colombia and for a settlement of the G. M. con- sent showers of burning embers Peru. No Panama ever is woven troversv. The company has $750,- throughout the neighborhood. under water and it takes a weaver 000.600 in defense work. | Lumberman Missing

The | and here's Strike call exempted defense work- 0 0 0 FIRE $2 J 0 0, Thomas Orders Return R. J. Thomas, U. A. W. president. “without fail” to their benches when the afternoon shift assembles. Mr, ! . Area Damaged; Thousands Flee Homes. day, destroying a huge lumberyard, 10 frame dwellings and seriously The flames, roaring through thousands of feet of dry lumber,

000 men. The AC Spark Plug Co. | which is making machine guns for jers, although the company asserted it was difficult to differentiate issued a statement in Washington | saying he had ordered the workers! - PHILADELPHIA, May 15 (U. P)). —A $2,500,000, six-alarm fire raged (damaged a machine shop at the {newly opened Cramps shipyard, jumped spaces T5 yards across, spreading havoc through the con-

{the U. S. Army was the only G. M.| in many cases. at the four Flint plants to return New Shipyard and Factory through the industrial section to- | working on defense projects. gested area.

So He's Eating Eggs and Fish?

LONDON, May 15 (U. P.).— A British newspaperman asked a Foreign Office official at a press conference today: “What will be the effect on the public, which can’t get {| those things, of reading that | Rudolf Hess is being fed on || eggs, fish and chicken?” “I read that a little wistfully myself,” the official replied.

8 CLUBS FACE LICENSE LOSS

| Appear Before ABC to Answer Charges.

Culminating a quiet month-long | check of all Indianapolis establish- | where liquor is sold, the

| ments

| A large millwork building was 2 Individuals Also Cited to!

maybe three months, using the fin-

lawn for a parking lot in return for est material. to weave a hat that |

sells for [than that

$300. Some sell for more

At Lansing. Mich, sub-regional! Michael Regan, a lumberyard State Alcoholic Beverage Commisdirector Don Falor of the U. A. W.- watchman, was reported missing. |Sion today cited eight clubs and two C. I. O. said that while union mem-| One death was caused indirectly | individuals to show cause why their ‘bers were working at the Fisher py the fire. A physician, Dr. Pedro | ICenses should not be revoked for

Opponents of the plan contend i

“The County would certainly be

| The Panama got its name from | 45 ere. he could not “promise how |mobile crashed into a light pole

sailors. Although no hats are woven » they will remain at their i : : in Panama, that once was the clear- | on8 ro y | while he was speeding to the scene.

ing place for shipments of hats—| Gerard Swope. business member | : thus the name. In spite 0° all thi | (Continued on Page Five) | Colapsed from exhaustion. Ap-

lnear’y every visitor to Panama | proximately 50 other firemen were i ‘we “ i ————— from their homes by the billowing on the Virgin Firemen and police Were musPermit at 31st St. moth shipyard works, which is working on defense contracts, The firemen encountered difficulty at first when several high{more quickly than he will a felt hat. the Zoning Board today for review

pressure water plugs failed to function. Fire hoses were stretched out

Thousands of persons living in the 'production and shipments o | immediate section where forced {materials used for hats and it’s hard | ON N MERIDI AN ST 1 1 | processed in Japan and China. How- | re lit up the early morning sky and 1 : ing could be seen 25 miles away. ever, silk palm fiber is be proc- : 0 | yo taands ana ZONing Board Asked for The business of merchandising man alone generally will select and for parking 22 automobiles at 3035) | purchase Ayan i Panama even N. Pennsylvania St. were filed with

Deputy Fire Chief George Ferrier |

The firms bid an interest rate of.

v Sic i Suom | treated at first aid stations for Nr pkiy buys a “genuine Panama minor injuries. | The war has interfered with the PLAN 22-UNIT FLAT f some . smoke. . re woven i . Ay a ith ans a A huge red glare from the inferno | tered from throughout the city in a I ad | yi {shipped here—the newest material. | desperate attempt to Save the Man: A Job if Wife's Along Plans for a $70,000 apartment /the hats also has its paradoxes. A building of 22 units and provision | But if his wife or grown daughter

| minutes. {after the chaos they create in their

at the Board's meeting Monday.

Properties, Inc.

lat places for nearly a mile to supThe proposed structure would be It looks as if the women, erected by the John R. Moynahan]

ply the necessary water. Residents in the vicinity turned

own hat field, would let the men quested a Variance to permit an dreds.

{run their own show. | But, instead, they have the man {try on this hat and that hat, squint{ing at each of them and trying to {recall whether each one violates the {laws of symmetry laid down in wom{en's fashion books. This takes quite a lot of time, and

not infrequently quite a lot of hats.tween $60,000 and $70.000.

apartment building in the neighborthood, which is zoned for private! |residences. | The Board also will review the, | petition of the Royster & Askin] {Mortuary for a permit to erect a mortuary and crematory. building, (with parking facilities, costing be-

By EARL RICHERT

Bookkeeping errors caused the discrepancies in the of the 1941 House of Representatives as originally listed in the new House Journal, Houston Gossett, House bookkeeper, announced today after a recheck of figures.

Mr. Gossett said that in the original report, filed Tuesday with the Secretary of State, the $3697 mileage of House members was counted twice and several items of expenses, including salaries of House employees, were omitted from the total. The total] expenses for the *41 House, as listed by Mr. Gossett following his recheck, were $106,511.70, approximately $177 less than the amount spent by the House in the 39 session. «

Errors Cited in House Cost; Figure Now Put Below 1939

expenses |

This balances with the figures in the auditor's office. Originally the Journal listed total expenses for the House at $108,330.39.

placed in the Journal today.

COMMUNITY FUND DRIVE IS OCT. 6-23

General Chairman and Goal

To Be Anounced Later.

The 22d annual Indianapolis

{Community Fund drive will open

Oct. 6 and continue through Oct. 23, Harold B. Tharp, Fund president, announced today. The announcement was a departure from usual procedure. Other years the dates of the campaign

{have not been announced until mid- | The correct figures were to be

summer. The selection for general chairman and the goal for the cam-

Omitted from the original expense

doorkeeper, and Hazel Blackwell, assistant deerkeeper; the following salaries to House officers for work on the Journal: Verona McCoy, minute clerk, $35; Freda Peevler, journal clerk, $35; Al Snyder, assistant clerk, $168; Noland Wright,

statement were the $366 and $305 | respective salaries of Ollie Berry,

paign will be decided upon and announced later, | The 1941 Community Fund executive committee is composed of A. E. Baker, Otto N. Frenzel, W. C. Griffith, William A. Hacker, Perry |W. Lesh, Thomas D. Sheerin, Miss Gertrude Taggart, Harold B. West and Mr. Tharp. Virgil Martin is Fund manager. Last year the Fund, with Mr.

chief clerk, $126; Houston Gossett, per $147; Margaret Fulp, stenographer, $35, and $661.31 spent (Continued on Page Five)

as general chairman. oversubscribed the goal of $688,500 by | $9500, the first goal to be oversubscribed since 1931.

| clubs ever cited at one time by the ABC, members said. | The clubs cited, the reasons, and the appearance dates are: : Frank T. Strayer Post 1405, Veter‘ans of Foreign Wars, 210 3. Ohio | St., selling or dispensing liquor after hours and selling to non-members —May 26. {| Voiture 145, 40, Hommes et 8 |Chevaux, 119 E. Ohio St. selling or |dispensing liquor after hours and to non-members; May 26. Hoosier Post, 624, Veterans of For|eign Wars, 143 E. Ohio St., selling Jor dispensing liquor after hours and to non-members; May 28. Lavelle Gossett Post, 908, Veter|ans of Foreign Wars, 701 King Ave. | selling or dispensing after hours {and to non-members; May 28. East Indianapolis American Le{gion Post 13, 46 N. Pennsylvania St., selling or dispensing liquor after (hours and to non-members; May 28. | The Marine Corps League, 14 W.

The concern re- out with garden hoses by the hun- | ghijo St. selling or dispensing liquor

after hours and to non-members; May 28. Hotel Men's Club, 561 W. 26th St., (Continued on Page Five)

| GERMAN MEAT RATION CUT !

BERLIN, May 15 (U. P..—An | official announcement today said | that effective June 2 the German {meat ration will be cut from 500 grams (about 17!2 ounces) to 400 grams (about 14 ounces) per indi-

vidual per week.

SACRIFICES DUE. BANKERS TOLD

‘Era of Business as Usual

Over, Speakers Warn Closing Session,

By ROGER BUDROW

The easy part of the defense program -— the business-as-usual era — definitely is over.

From now on it's going to mean sacrifices. We can’t increase our war goods output further without enforced curtailment of peace time production and consumption. The cost of defense nrobably will be almost the maximum amount that can be extracted from the population. That was the message given Indiana bankers at the closing sessions of their state association convention here this afternoon. The speakers were Claude L. Benner, vice president of the Continental American Life Insurance Co., and Prof. Simeon E. Leland, chair-! man of the University of Chicago Department of Economics and director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Both discussed the economics of defense production and financing. Between talks, the association elected officers and adopted resolutions. W. W. Gasser, Gary, was elevated fron the vice presidency to president; Arch C. Voris, Bedford, acting treasurer, was named vice president, anc Russell L. Dunbar, Sunman, Ind. was named treasurer. Resolutions urged association meinbers to co-operate to the fullest extent in promoting the sale of De(Continued on Page Five)

FC STARTS FARM SUPPLIES TO BRITAIN

Products Worth 90 Million, Robbins Reports.

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. P). —Carl B. Robbins, president of the Federal Commodity Credit Corp., revealed today that $90,000,000 worth of agricultural supplies have been “sent to ports” for shipment to Great Britain under terms of the Lend-Lease Act. Mr. Robbins told the House Banking Committee during hearings on a bill to extend the corporation's life, that these surplus foods were “purchased rapidly and sent to ports very promptly” in order to meet British needs.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, May 15—There is a reason to believe that President Roosevelt has reached a definite decision on war policy, both as to the hows and the wheres, and is now bothered only about when to announce it. | The impression among well in- | formed persons here is that, unless |events force him to act earlier, he | will not reveal his plan before the | fireside chat scheduled for Tuesday, | May 27. The Hess affair, however, may hurry matters. The flight to Britain of Hitler's right-hand man may

necessitate a speeding up of Nazi

Roosevelt's Mind Reported Made Up on U.S. War Policy

plans. Even if Hess fails to" tell the British a single military secret, the psychological effect of his desertion on the German masses cannot be other than depressing, and this would seem to create a need for some quick shot in the arm to make them forget the episode. Some sensational new move of dazzling victory, observers here feel, would be the obvious antidote. That might be tried against the British in Iraq, in Egypt, at Gibraltar or in the British Isles. Or it might be against what is left of France and France's African colonies, or in Spain and Portugal. And some of these moves might

AID HITLER, PETAIN ASKS; BRITISH HINT HESS TRICK

Nazis Believed Using Syria for Flights To Iraq.

On War Front Summary of Petain speech... 3 Joe Alex Morris on Hess. Page 3 Postpone convoy showdown.. 3 St. James Palace bombed.... 3 Fighting in Egypt

By UNITED PRESS : Hitler's plan to make the world forget the mystery of Rudolf Hess was past its first barrier today as French Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain said in a radio address that the French people must collaborate with Germany in Europe and Africa.

The aged Marshal declared that France “by necessity” must join Germany's “New Order for Europe,” in the hope that she could “overe come her defeat and save her rank as a European and colonial power.” Great Britain officially implied that Adolf Hitler sent Hess to Scote land in an effort to trick Britons into a peace on Axis terms.

Churchill Delays Statement First official word on the mysterie

Lous. Hess case came from Ernest

Bevin, Minister of Labor, who called the No. 3 Nazi a “murderer,” said he believed that Hitler knew of the fantastic flight to Scotland and that he would never negotiate with the Nazi leaders. Bevin’s statement obviously was issued with official approval but Prime Minister Winston Churchill chose to keep the Germans guesse ing as to what, if anything, Hess has revealed by postponing a full statee ment to the House of Commons, Churchill merely defended the Governments delay in revealing the arrival of Hess and promised an extensive statement as soon as pos= sible. Encourage Forgetfulness

On the war front, there was a

{series of events which seemed to

forecast Hitler's next step, which authorized Nazis in Berlin said would be of such great diplomatis and military importance that ig would completely overshadow intere est In the Hess mystery. 1. British Foreign Secretary Ane thony Eden charged in Commons that the Germans were already using air bases in French-mandated Syria to move Nazi technicians—e fore-runners of invasion, into the Iraq battlefield. 2. Turkish President Ismet Inonu considered a letter from Hitler im= plying that the time has come for Turkey also to abandon her alliance with Britain and line up with the Axis “new order.” 3. A broadcast of the Baghdad radio station — unconfirmed else« where—said that Soviet Russia had permitted Russian pilots to “volun teer” for service with the Iragi in “retaliation” for British volunteer aid to Finland in the Russian-Fine nish war. This would indicate further co-operation between Hitler and Stalin in the Near East.

GOOD OLD SUMMER TIME ON WAY HERE

LOCAL TEMPERATURES Gam .... 65 10a.m .... 7% Ta.m. .... 67 lam .... 77 8am. .... 71 12 (Noon) . 79 Sa.m..... 73 1p.m.... 81

It would be a mistake to boast about it, but there is every reason to believe that summer temperatures are at long last on the way to Indianapolis. The Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy skies and even teme peratures for tonight and tomore row.

BERLIN SOOTHSAYERS IN A MESS OVER HESS

BERLIN, May 15 (U. P.).—Aus thorized Nazis said today that Gers man mesmerizers, soothsayers, palm readers and astrologers would “have a dark future” because of the Rue dolf Hess case. They said they were unable to confirm earlier reports that all such persons would be barred from publie practice because Hess was reported to have conferred with them before his flight to Scotland.

UPHOLD SHIP TRANSFER WASHINGTON, May 15 (UP.) == The Senate today rejected, by a vote of 43 to 38, an amendment to the ship requisitioning bill designed to prevent the transfer of vessels seized from one belligerent power to

quickly draw in the United States.

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