Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1941 — Page 1

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REPORT MYERS

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FORECAST: Cloudy wily showers and thunderstorms and cooler tonight. and tomorrow.

: FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1941

" FDR DEFIES NAZI RED

i Entered as Second-Class

at Poatoffice, Tndlanapolls, Ind.

~ WARNS U.S. HAS FOUGHT OVE

GIVEN ‘G0 SIGN ON MAYORALTY

Deluse Hinted for State Post; Feeney Says ‘I Won't Run for Congress.’

By NOBLE REED

Word has gone out quietly from the Marion County Democratic high command that the “go sign” has been given’ Judge Dewey E. Myers for the Democratic mayoralty nomi-

vice president, who also has ‘been a leading candidate for the nomination, has been “picked” to run for Secretary of State, according to the same sources. : " The third “decision” passed out guardedly is that Sheriff Al Feeney, ‘currently termed tHe “incorrigible,” will be asked run for Congress in the Primary against Rep. Louis Ludlow.

The Democratic chieftains - -pre- : . viously -had offered Mr. Feeney the

County .Treasurer nomination but he refused it flatly with some sting-

ing sarcasm about people “trying to

tell me what to run for.” . Feéney Denies All

Asked today: about the Congress “offer,” Mr. Feeney said: “—No, I'm not a candidaté for anything . . . yet. I'won’t run for Congress -and-the report about my being a candidate for County Treasurer is out, too.” Party leaders are seriously considering some strong candidate to run against Rep. Ludlow on the ground that the veteran Congressman is losing votes in Marion County by his isolationist stand. Some party men predict that if Mr. Deluse is forced out of the Mayor's contest, his City Hall fol"lowers will bolt the organization and attempt to overthrow the Court House machine headed by Ira Hay-

It's a ‘Feeler’

It is not’ known whether Mr. Deluse will be willing to take the Secretary of ‘State spot on the ticket and the secret “go sign” for Judge Myers was designed to measure the extent of the “kick back” from City Hall before definite action is taken. If the decision raises too much of a storm around City Hall, the party leaders will be in a position to back down and say “it was an unfounded rumor” and thus avoid an open break. “Things are merely in the exper mental stage at this time of th ‘game,’ one party leader. sdid i shielding the the backroom maneuvers.

TRIALS AT SPEEDWAYTO START TOMORROW

(Another Story, Page 30)

Fast drivers in fast automobiles race against time out at the Speedway oval tomorrow in the competition for the prize pple position in the 500-Mile Memorial Day classic. It is the .opening day of the 1941 qualifying trials and the coveted position goes to the driver and car "with the fastest time for the. 4-lap 10-mile test. Speeds recorded on future qualitying tests do not count in the pole position battle. Trials. will start officially at. 10 a. m.,, allowing the gasoline jockeys until 7 p..m. to - grab the coveted spot in the front, row line.Speedway officials said the gates]. will be open to the public at 9 a. m. tomorrow, --

FEATURE PROMISED

: LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. ....67 10am...173 7aMm.....70 11am ...73 8a m. . 13 12 (noon)... 77 9a.m..... 7 d1pm....."79

The weather tonight ang tomorrow will be; a quadruple feature, the Weather Bureau promised. There will . be considerable cloudiness, showers, thunderstorms and lower temperatures. Are you al] set?

TIMES FEATURES —ON INSIDE PAGES

22 Obituaries ees 1 23 |Pegler c.ceees 24 2 Pyle ees oncee 23 37| Questions ... 23 24/Radio ....c.. 19 Financial .... 43|Real Estate... 18 Flynn 24 Forum ...... 24 Gallup Poll... 23 In Indpls..... 3 yg Indpls. 23 ane Jordan.., 28 Johnson ...3. 24 Movies .....1. 20 Mrs. Ferguson 2)

Clabper «eee. Comics .. Crossword ...

Mrs. Roosevelt 23 School News. 8 Serial Story... 42 Side Glances. 24 Society 27, 28, 29 Sports .....30,33 State Deaths. 7

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Trustees ‘Report ‘Spending

{to distribute gifts, large or small, to benevolent and educational proj-

‘land $5000.

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Review of Wk. 13],

Parachutist Dangles Headfirst for 20 M Tries

Fellow fliers rescue Walter Osipoff after a 20- minute hearst Tie.

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LIST CASH GIFTS OF FOUNDATION

$106,016 for Charity and Education in 1940.

The Indianapolis Foundation disbursed $106,016 from its available funds for charitable and educational purposes during 1940, Foundation trustees reported at their bi-month-ly meeting at the Columbia Club today. In addition to making their annual report, trustees reviewed Foundation activities during last year. } * In announcing the disbursements, the trustees issued a statement declaring that “there is an increasing appeal to the Foundation by both public and private welfare agencies to help maintain standards of work already achieved or provide an extension of service to meet new conditions.” The Foundation was establ shed

ects of Indianapolis under a permanent organization and with professional guidance. The principal funds, from which the Foundation’s appropriations are made total $2,613,922.22 and are held in and administered by three trustee banks. : A total of $20,973.75 was made available to the Board of School Commissioners for the James E. Roberts School for physically handicapped children. The trustees pointed out that there are 225 children in the school receiving the benefit of thi§ program of work. Under existing law 75 per cent of the 1940 expenditures . (Continued on Page Four)

FIREMAN HURT AT REX LABORATORIES

Flames Cause $4000 Damage at Defense Plant.

One fireman was injured today as flames swept through the Rex Laboratories, 1717 Gent St. causing damage estimated at between $4000

Most of the interior of the Rex plant, which manufactures . metal products for national defense industries on sub-contracts, was destroyed. The blaze, which started on the north side of the building where large quantity of paint was stored, had ‘ gained considerable headway before firemen arrived about 1:30 a. m. They fought it for nearly two hours. B. D. Aufderheide, owner of the plant which employs six skilled woikers, said he was unable to determine how the fire started. He said the kind of products manufactured by his plant could not be made public because of restrictions on defense information. Mr. Aufderheigde said he would remodel the plant and resume production at once. Lieut. William B. Russell, of Fire Station No. 5, was badly cut by flying glass when. he smashed through a window to get a stream of water

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SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 16 (U. P.).—Naval officers said today that the rescue. of Lieut. Walter Osipoff, Marine parachute jumper, was unauthorized. It was in violation of orders. It jeopardized the lives of five other men. But it was such a breath- taking display of courage and acrobatics that the two “culprits” were cited y to Navy Secretary Frank ox for decorations. Lieut. Osipoff hung head down

and helpless, his parachute tan- .

gled on a static cable beneath a transport plane flying over Kearney mesa, a Navy bombing range. His hips and legs were snarled in the shrouds. The three men

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Two Navy ‘Culprits’ Who Cut Shrouds With Propeller Cited

in the plans couldn't pull him back up. Tie plane couldn't be landed without dashing him to death on_the ground. That was the situation when Navy Lieut. W. W. Lowrey, 34, Dallas, Tex. and Aviation Chief Machinist’s Mate J. R. McCants, 41, Jordan, Mont., took off without permission, or authority in anopen cockpit Navy scout plane,

" Lieut’ Lowrey at the controls, Mr.

MeCants holding a butcher knife, They made the rescue but theycame, so close to killing everybody concerned that Lieut. Osipoff became hysterical and swooned before they landed him. It happened during parachute (Continued on Page Four)

DROP. LOT-FOR-LEASE

COURTHOUSE TRADE

commissioners Find Deal Is Illegal, Uneconomical.

The lease-trade proposal involving rental of the Courthouse lawn for a parking lot has been abandoned ' by County Commissioners, they announced today. Commissioners had considered a plan to lease the Courthouse lawn for a parking lot in exchange for use of a Washington St.- store building as a site ‘for Juvenile Court and its allied agencies.

However, Commissioners said that |-

an investigation disclosed that legal obstacles stood in the way of leasing the Courthouse lawn, because it was donated to the State for Courthouse purposes only. Opronents of the plan also contended that the rental value of the lawn ‘for a parking lot would far exceed the rental value of the store building at 219 E. Washington St. Commissioners continued deliberations on a deal to rent the store building outright in order to get Juvenile Court moved out of its present cramped quarters in the basement of the Court] use as soon as possible.

ELEANOR DARE STONE MYSTERY UNSOLVED

NEW YORK, May 16 (U. P).— Dr. Colin’ Fink of Columbia Uni-} versity,*who has been doing research in . connection with the so-called “Eleanor Dare stones,” said today he had reached no conclusion ag. to whether they are genuine. . “There are some indications one way and other indications the other way,” he said. H. J. Pearce Jr., vice president of Brenau College, who has the stones, said, yesterday at Gainesville, Ga., “that an Atlanta stone-| therm. had faked at least some of em

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ARRANGE BUSSES FOR PARK SCHOOL TOURS

Special busses for the Park School Garden Tours, tomorrow and Sunday, will leave from in front of English Theater each day at 1 p. m. and return to the Circle at 6 p. m., the committee announced today. The busses will make a tour of all

into ‘the building. One of . his hands was badly lacetated. |

the gardens, and a visit to the

H oeltke, Statue |

WILLIAM C. HOELTKE SR,

- 1843 Brookside Ave.. the man who

posed" for the statue of George Rogers * Clark that is on the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument, -died last night in City Hospital. He was 87 and had been ill for more than “two months. Mr. Hoeltke was the son of Baron William C. von Hoeltke, who came to Indianapolis as a youth and was prominent im business here for years. Mr. Hoeltke is survived by eight children, William C. Hoeltke Jr., Fred Hoeltke, Jean Hoeltke, Miss Mary Hoeltke, Miss Josephine® Hoeltke, Miss Freda Hoeltke, Mrs. Louise Thomas and Mrs, Eda Parker, all of . Indianapolis. He also is survived by 14 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

ELDER AND WHALE

T0- RECEIVE $80,000

Represents Final Fees in I. R. R. Receivership.

Final Indiana Railroad receiver-| ship fees totaling $80,000 will be allowed Bowman Elder and. Frank M. McHale, under an agreement reached by greditors and Federal Court trustees. Final hearing to close the eight-year-old receivership of the railroad has been set for June 15 before Judge Herbert E. Wilson in Superior Court 5. Mr. Elder, who has been receiving $12,000 a year as receiver for the railroad, is to get $30,000, and Mr. McHale, ‘whose: salary as attorney has been $12,000 a ‘year, is to get $50,000 under the agreement. The fees were recommended by trustees in Federal Court proceédings at Wilmington, Del. last week when the case was returned to Supelos Court here for final adjudica~ on Judge Wilson said the receivership will be closed by July 1 and the company will return to original stockholders, with Midland United Corp.” holding the biggest mortgage. Reports from Federal Court trustees in the case showed that Mid« land United has agreed to waive priority rights on its claims, permit-

ting other general creditors to be paid ly &

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(AZ) PLANES IN SYRIA BOMBED: LIBYA REACHED

{British Drive Axis Forces |

Out of Egypt, Recapture Solum and Pass. BY JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor Great Britain smashed at the

Axis armies in the Eastern Mediterranean today with a lightning land thrust through the Solum front and a stab .through the air at German and Italian air forces moving through French Syria to Iraq. Coincidental with President Foosevelt’s increasingly stiff warn inngs to France and his reference to former undeclared American wars .|for freedom of the seas, the British forces in the Middle East struck on

11S DOUBLE "ESTIMATE

6. M. PAY HIKE AVERTS TS STRIK

No Closed or Un or Union Shop, Peace Formula Says; Coal Talks at Crisis.

| By UNITED PRESS An 11th hour settlement today warded: off a strike in the General Motors system and: kept production | machinery rolling on $750, 00, 000 in defense orders. At the same time wage-hour negotiations in New York between Southern soft coal operators anc

the ‘United ‘Mine Workers of Amer- | |

ica reached a deadlock today whick: John L. Lewis said might be “productive of a crisis in the industry.” Six hours before the, U. A. W, strike deadline at 61: G. M. C. plants, the corporation accepted a Defens: Mediation Board peace formula and ended ah eight-weeks threat of a walkout by 160,000 of its employees. The peace formula: ‘1. A flat increase of 10 cents aa hour for all hourly employees retroactive to April 28 and ‘embodied in a contract for one year:

No Closed Union Shop

2. No closed or union shop cr maintenance of membership claus:. 3. Establishment of an impartizl referee who will make final decisions in imposing penalties for violation of shop rules or the union contract. 4. In advancement of. employees to higher paid jobs—their ability, training and capacity being equal---preference is to be given employes with the longest seniority. | 5. The company will not lock o: 1 its employees during the contract. ‘The union will not call a strike un il]

the strike grievance machinery is}

exhausted. General Motors’ action may po: nt the way for settlement of the Hudson Motor Co. strike at Detroit, (Continued on Page Four) .

REPORTS CAMP: COST

WASHINGTON, May 164 (U. 2). —Rep. Albert J. Engel (R. Mich.) said today that construction costs at Ft. Devens, Mass., have increased 100 per cent from an originally esti‘mated $12,474,061 to $25,188,943. This was the sixth ina series of reports Rep. Engel has made to the House on his one-man investization of Army camp construction costs. ; He said the Army’s effort to complete in 90 days, during winter weather, what was normally a twoseason. job resulted in “an inevitble reduction of efficiency” And gher costs. Nearly 47 per cent of the original estimate of the cost—or $5,817,246 —was paid out for Army and contractors’ overhead, insurance and taxes, and ovr, Rep. Engel said.

CHUNGKING Is "BLASTED

CHUNGKING, May ‘16 (U.P) .— Fifty-four Japanese bombing planes rained demolition and incendiary bombs .on Chiha’s capital today, causing extensive new damage and

rendering 2000 persons, home] Casualties : :

through * the Dardenelles, bossibly]

on Hannover. German air action over Britain. .

two fronts protecting the Suez Canal and the Mosul oil fields. Royal Air Force planes bombed, machine-gunned and damaged Axis planes, including Nazi troop transport aircraft, at the Syrian hases of Palmyra, Damascus, Rayak and Beirut. Hell Fire -Pass Falls

. The Army of the Nile operating in

Western Egypt recaptured Solum,| . | {ell Fire Pass and Mu Said, appar-

, pushing the Axis mechanized i201 s out of Western Egypt and yack=into Libya, while the beseiged 3ritish "at Tobruk also made a Jrust atthe Axis rear lines. The British atfack:on Syrian air bases put Britain and France alfrost in a state of war in the Near The. French protested, reig that the Beirut barracks Pad been attacked and that one French officer was killed. Britain’s attitude, however, was that the current negotiations between . Vichy and Berlin on “collaboration” had resulted in making Syria a Nazi-occupied area. - The French were reported to ‘be reinforcing their border garrisons next to British-held Palestine, Turkey Feels ‘Isolated’

| London military sources said they were skeptical of a report that (¥er‘many also had moved tanks and (artillery into Syria. In, Jerusalem it was reported that scores of Syrian officials were re-

‘signing because of the French ‘col-|

laboration” policy and - that Gen. Henri Dentz, French High Commissioner, had refused to act except on] direct orders from .Vichy. Dispatches from Istanbul said that Turkey felt ‘completely isolated” from Britain ‘because of German advances, indicating doubt that the Turks could carry out their mutual aid pact with Britain. It was believed that Germany has offered Turkey the Greek islands along the Turkish coast if Turkey will permit war materials and possibly troops to transit Turkey en route to Syria-and Irag—a demand almost duplicating Nazi requests to Jugoslavia two months ago.

‘Officially, Turkey's reply was to| call up reserves, previously exempt |

for business affairs . health. More significant was the Wet that eight German vessels and four or five Italian ships have passed

bound for Syria. In the air fighting, the British resumed their heavy attacks on Germany, raidi several cities including Berlin ahd concentrating There was little

J, T. STOKES, DEAN OF DRUGGISTS, DIES

Opened Store 40 Years Ago At 226 N. Meridian. Joseph T. Stokes, dean of Indi-

anapelis druggists, died today at his home, 3555 Wdshington Blvd.

Mr. Stokes, who was 71, opened|

his first drug store with his brother, John, 40 years ago at 226 N. Meridian St., across from the Post Office. John Stokes sold his interest in| the store to Joseph in 1911, and to that store Joseph added stores at Michigan and Pennsylvania "Sts. and in the Hume-Mansur Build:

n Mr. Stokes was born in Cambridge City, Ind., and came to Indianapolis in 1889 where he started as an apprentice druggist on Massachusetts Ave. } He was active in Masonic work, belonging to Mystic Tie Lodge, Scottish Rite, York, and the Shrine. He was a member of the Columbia Club, the Board of Trade, the Tabernacle Prdsbyterian Church and the Indiana State Pharmaceutical Association. He was past president of the old Marion Club. Mr. Stokes is survived by his wife, Marjorie; a sister, Mrs. Jen -Males of Richmond; two brothers, Charles of Richmond, and John of Indianapolis, and a step-daughter, Mrs. Suzanne Larsen. Funeral services will he at 10

FINAL

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LOSING, i R LES

HINTS SEIZURE OF ISLANDS IF

Matter

| Affairs on Day-to-Day Basis Now; President"

Says, Recalling Two Undeclared Wars On. Freedom of Seas Issue.

{Text of Appeal to French, Page 3)

By LYLE C. WILSON _ United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May 16.—President Roosevelt today, in effect, defied Germany to make its blockade of the Red Sea effective and recalled that the United States twice had fought undeclared wars on similar issues. The United States is preparing to send 2 cargo ships into the Red Sea with supplies for the British armies in the Middle East. In anticipation of such a move, Gérmany has declared the areal combat zone. in which it will prey on all shipping. The President said that Germany's. Prolslec in_ this case was to make its projected blockade effective. In addie tion, he said, it involved the issue of freedom of the seas, a vital point on ‘which the United States, even in its infancy, fought two undeclared wars.

* Believed Pressure Move

The President declined to go into a discussion of U. 8. French relations, despite his -strongly worded. protest; night against Franco-German collaboration which mig

Western Hemisphere. He said it was too early to speculate on the tobire coursh of strained relations between Washington and Vichy, but: he

prevent an alliance with Germany and the subsequent seizure of the huge Normandie and 12 other French vessels in our ports may still be in the nature of a pressure move to try,

{ Will Martinique Be Seized

tions are hypothetical at this time and must be decided a8 they come up on a day-to-day basis: 1. That. the United States may seize Martinique and other French possessions in this hemisphere. '2. That Admiral William D. Leahy, U. S. Ambassadot to France may be called home for report and consultation. The American republics at Havana last year agreed that any one of them could act in an emergency to take over any, foreign’ possession’ whose status was endangered. If time permitted, the American republics would consult and act. jointly. In any event, the actual operations would depend largely on the U. S. Navy and Marines.

Recalls Early U. S. History

Mr. Roosevelt said that the two historic occasions on which the United States fought undeclared wars to: maintain freedom of the seas involved the case of the Barbary pirates.

terranean and the time when British, French and Spanish privateers preyed on Afierican merchantmet in the West Indies. : In both instances, he sold, the fledgling U. S. Navy wag brought into play successfully, clearing up the situation. i There was some speculation whether the present operae tions of the U. S. Atlantic patrol might not involve somewhat

many has declared a combat zone extending to the terris torial waters of Greenland, now an American defense pros tectorate.

WASHINGTON, May 16 (U. P.) —President Roosevelt today placed directly up to Congress responsibility for devising means to economize

He indicated ‘directly that he is looking with an extremely critical eye on the pending Farm Appropriation Bill which would provide $450,« . 000,000 for parity payments in addition to some $500,000,000 in soil cops servation benefits.

HOME

menace the defense of the United States and the entire. left the impression that his appeal to the French people to °

to swing France away from closer co-operation with the Axis,

who sought to bar U. S. merchant vessels from the Medi= -

similar issues to the Red Sea closing. In the Atlantic, Gers =

on non-defense items in the record-breaking Federal spending program. °

The farm bill, passed by. both Senate and House but which has not yet been sent to the White House, represent a very fertile field for consideration in cutting nondefense items, the President said.

Leaders in Congress .previously had indicated that the parity payment fund might he cut severely in view of a new bill for 85 per cent parity loans. Mr. Roosevelt was bitterly ‘critical of persons ‘who demand economies but are unwilling to propose where such economies specifically should be applied. It is the old and very clever game ‘of passing the buck, said the President. And he added firmly that it is up to the people in the House and Senate who say such. cuts can be made to devise the methods by which they are to be made. The President took up three specific’ i where economies have

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National ; Youth

servation Corps and Farm approps"

riations.

1. NYA—He said that the NYS work in training men and women for defense industry is extremely important. He questioned whether any economy coud be effected by trimming NYA appropirations. 2. CCC—He admitted that some= thing will be done to integrate the CCC more closely with the seless. tive’ service program, although he

pointed out that most CCC persone

nel is below the draft age. 3. Farm Appripriations — Th & question which will be paramount when the bill reaches his desk will be whether the parity pa have been considered in the © light

all other benefits obtaining to agris.

culture, Mr. Roosevelt said.

figures at the outset of New farm programs looked —

as cattle already are over parity i others such as cotton and w

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Whitfle Farm Bill, FDR Says