Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1941 — Page 1
VOLUME 55—NUMBER 58
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Germany New Turkish Treaty; "* Rhine Area Raided.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor - British armed forces in the Eastern Mediterranean struck at the Axis in French [Syria and Iraq again today, ahd battled the Nazi North Africa corps for strategic positions on the Libyan frontier and at the besieged city of Tobruk. In Syria, British bombers again raided the air base used by AxXis aerial units at Palmyra and were reported by the French to have been . pursued for the first time by French * fighter craft. Unconfirmed reports: reaching Istanbul said clashes had occurred between French and British forces
on the Palestine border. The Royal| 8 Air Force also reported it had ma-|~
chine-gunned German aircraft at the "Mosul Airdrome in the Iraq , oil fields. Gen. Henri Dentz, high commis- * sioner of Syria, was believed to have -. concentrated about 60,000 troops in - the Palestine border. Claim African Gains The troops concentrated on the frontier were said to include two French divisions, one colonial division and one Foreign Legion division. In North Africa, the Germans reported they had wiped out Bras gains (announced yesterday) in the Solum frontier sector. Sharp fighting was reported around the Lib
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Chungking, capital of Free China, looked like this May 3 as a huge formation of Japanese bom city, wiping out entire blocks in a few seconds, The attack was the anniversary of two previous Japanese devastations,. 10,000 Chinese were killed and wounded; May 3, 1940, 500 Chinese were killed -and wounded; this year only five were killed. United China Relief, the reason is that. China, with the aid of foreign groups, Jay meanwhile built shelters for everyone in the solid rock of the
ver rained hundreds of tons of bombs on the
On May 3 and 4, 1939, According to the
HULL SAYS FDR’S VIEW JUSTIFIED
Ft. Capuzzo, where the British they captured 500 ° prisoners . disabled numerous motor vehicle
British communi
ly to the Libyan frontier but reported by Berlin to have bs hurled: back. Reports received by the Germ .Official News Agency throu French sources relayed Iraq cla that the pro-Axis Premier Rashid Ali Al-Gailani had rallied his ¢ in a battle with the British at {the port of Basra. : Cairo reported that the Premier had. released all political prisoners, including former Premier H Suleiman, who was appointed Iraqi ambassador to Moscow. Iraq and Russia recently established diplomatic relations. / : Birmingham Blasted
The war in the air was renewed in Euro with the British bombers striking at Cologne, Boulogne and the French coast. The Luftwaffe hammered the great English indus-, trial city of Birmingham and ot Midlands targets during the night. American-built Douglas ,DB-7 planes, renamed Havocs by the British, were among Royal Air Force fighters in the attack on German airdromes in northern France, the London Air Ministry said today. “In spite ‘of the air war, greatest interest centered on, the " campaign in the Near East, and especially en “the position of ,the French Government in. view of stif(Continued on Page Three)
A MERE OPERATION CAN'T STOP GEORGE
The condition of George Ryan, 3702 N. Illinois: St, who underwent an emetgency operation a week ago at Methodist Hospital, was excellent today. It was so good, in fact, that he and Miss Marion Jenckes, 3602 N. Pennsylvania St., were married at 11 a. m. in his hospital room. : Dr. George A. Frantz, pastor of the First Presbyterian. Church, - performed the ceremony and members of the immediate families attended. The couple had set today as the wedding date before the operation was known to be necessary, and the ceremony was to have taken place at the church. Miss Jenckes is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray G. Jenckes.
ASK CHRYSLER RAISE
DETROIT, May 17 (U. P.).—Officials of United Automobile Workers (C..1. 0.) Local 7 said today they had requested Chrysler Corp. to open negotiations for wage increases for approximately 12,000 workers at Chrysler's Kercheval and Jefferson plants.
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imax today as district contests
Indicates That R Reports: on
To Fn, Nazi Cotaboration,
Were D tur WASHINGTON, May " w. P.).
'| —Secretary “of State ‘Cordell * Hull
said today that the United States!
1 {had received official reports which justified President Roosevelt's condemnation of certain actions by the ‘French regime at Vichy and ‘his apprehension over Franco-German collaboration dangerous to this hemisphere. At the same time), another State Department spokesman said that full details of projected FrangoGerman co-operation have fot been received here, possibly because an agreement between Vichy and Berlin on all essentials has. not been completed. There was growing apprehension -afficial quarters here that Fran-co-German collaboration might entail giving Germany air and naval bases in . the Mediterranean. This belief increased with reports of German flights through Syria in the drive toward Suez. If such concessions are to be made by France - under ‘political and economic” collaboration with Germany, these officials - said, it might be reasonable to assume that other concessions as valuable in a military sense might be made. Making a prediction on the White House steps after a conference with ‘President Roosevelt, Senator Claude Pepper said: “I have no doubt that Hitler imtends to occupy ‘Dakar ‘either by force or by collaboration with the French. I think he will. make his first attack on us from Dakar through South America. “It is foolish, it is worse than folly, for us to allow hinr to occupy these strategic areas. He is taking them to strike at the enemy, and who is the enemy but us? “Hitler's policy is to encircle the United States-by grabbing the strategic vantage points and then launch attacks on the United States over an -area wide enough to disperse American defensive forces.” ‘Mr. Hull made his remarks at ‘a press conference a few hours after Senator Robert R. Reynolds (D. N. C), new chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, raised a “go slow” sign against any Administration action to interfere with French sovereignty outside the Western Hemisphere. Mr. Reynolds said that if the (Continued on Page Thee)
The Indianapolis Times - City Marbles Tournament neared a. cli-
placed four finalists in competition for the city marbles championship. The final round will be at 10 a. m. next Saturday at the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza after which] the lucky winner can get ready for a four-day trip to Asheville, N. C., to compete in the Scripps-Howard regional tournament. The four who emerged as district 8 Winners today are: WILLIAM VAUGHN GRISHAM, 11, of 12431; 8S. East St. from School 3|31—South (Garfield) District. EDWARD CHAMBERLIN, 12, of 2116 Brookside Ave, from School
1 Blue,
LONDON, Kray 17 (U. P.).~The Ministry of Home Security said today that 6065 civilians were killed and 6926 injured seriously enough to
ed 61 persons as ia. and expressed belief they had been killed. Except for September of last year,. the | casualties were * the most “se-| vere of any month of the war. The afinouncement brought the total killed in air raids to 35 953 and the total wounded to 48,227. The ministry said that those killed in April included 2912 men, 2418 women, 680 children and 55 unclassified. Wounded included 3659 men, 2748 women and 519 children.
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6065 British Civilians Killed In Nazi Raids During April
Missing were 48 men, six women and seven children. ; Casualties for last October were 6334 killed and 8695 wounded.
~Casuslties caused ‘by Germen. ho raids reached their peak in Sepntember of last year when 6954 persons iwere+ killed and. 10,615 Were wounded. Total casualties since. June 18, 1940, now stand at" 84,241 in killed, wounded and. missing. Admiralty ny today showed a total of 12,312 British ‘naval casualties so far announced, including 477 officers and 4795 men killed and 705- officers and 6335 men missing and presumed dead.
W. 1, BAIN NAMED DEITY PROSECUTOR
Succeeds Edwin .-McClure, Who Resigned.
William D. Bain, 4232 Rookwood Ave., .a practicing attorney in Indianapolis for more than 30 years, yesterday "was appointed deputy | prosecutor by Prosecutor Sherwood He was immediately sworn
into office. Mr. Bain succeeds Edwin McClure, who resigned. Mr. Bain, a member of the law firm of .Cox, Bain & Cox, is a Republican and was a candidate for Circuit Court judge 'in the 1938 election. He is 54 years old and married. He was born in Spencer. Mr. McClure resigned May 6 in a shakeup of the prosecutor's staff while Proseclitor Blue was vacationing in Florida. At the same time Deputy Samuel
pal Court, where he headed the staff, to the Court House office, and sLeo T. Brown was transferred from, the Court House to Municipal Court.
STUDY BOOKSHOP LIST WAS GTON, May 17 (U. P.). —The Dies Committee today studied a 1200-name membership list of the Bookshop, a local co-operative enterprise, in connection with ‘an investigation which Chairman Martin Dies’ said would “expose a nhumber of Government officials and em-
. front organizations. »
ployees” as active in “Communist |. Se
Four Marbles Finalists Shoot For Asheville Trip in Week
Columbia Ave. from St. Rita School —West (Rhodius) District. GENE VAUGHN, 13, of 312 E. St. Clair St., Apt.. 8, from School 2, last year’s city: champion—North (Fall Creek) District. Runners up, who will receive |» medals and serve as alternates to: the finalists, were: . JACK GALLAGHER, 12, of 912 Lexington Ave. from St. Patrick’s School—South (Garfield) District. STEVEN MINARDO, 13, of 1307 Bates St., from Holy Cross School— East (Brooksitle) District. ADOLPH LAMBERT, 12, of 1929 N. Haugh St, from Holy Trinity School—West (Rhodius) District. . ROBERT PRESTON, 12; of 2446 School
33—East Broke District. AVEN,
IN. LaSalle Bt.
from 51—
Blum was transferred from Munici-1day by the State Sel
| Notice—This Girl Needs: Her Notes
Bernadine Dee, ‘daughter ‘of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Dee, 430 E. Fall Creek ® Blvd.,. cante -home from Bloomington yesterday .with her class’ notes .to study for final examinations over the week-end. Someone broKe into the car when it was. parked: downtown and stole her luggage, notes and all. To whomever has these notes her message is:“I need them’ very badly.”
ARMY ISSUES GALL FOR 755
Group Will Be Inducted Between June 2 and 5.
A call for 755 more Indiana men | to be inducted into the Army be- | tween June 2 and issued to- |
tive Service headquarters. The latest call-the eighth since the beginning of the Selective Service System—will bring 10, appreximately 14,000 the total number of (Hoosiers sent to the armed services. Lieut. Col. ‘Rob Hitchcock, State Selective Service director, ‘said that in view of the small requisition between June ‘2 and 5, it wis sible that another: call’ ‘would be 5 sued for additional men Liter in June. . All local boards have classified men enough in advance to have a considerable reserve of Class 1-A ‘men available for service, Hitcheoek said.
CHICAGO QUADS ALL DIE WITHIN 10 HOURS
CHICAGO,
they were born to the 19-year-old wife of a lunchroom cook. . Dr. William ‘Cormack of the hospital staff said three died about 1:45
..m. (Indianapolis Time). ’ "The babies were two and one-half hospital in a taxicab last night and
‘was. born.
pounds. - The father is Bdward Adams, 23 The young mother was in condition. the hospital
In March 208 persons were | on:
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$1,800,000,000 CUT PROPOSED
Rep. . Drsey Would Slash
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By MARSHALL MONEIL Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, May 17. A vet-
eran Democratic. member of the
House. Ways and Means Committee —Rep. Wesley Disney of Oklahoma —today specified reductions by which he .said Congress could cut $1,800,000,000 from the Government’s non-defense budget. This “followed President Roosevelt’s * press-conference statement vesterday that the obligation to propose specific : economies is on ‘those .who advocate such lump-sum savings as a billion dollars. That does not necessarily apply to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, the President added, although . Mr. - Morgenthau recently told the Ways and Means Committee that a billion could and should be save commented to the Secretary that such ‘an ‘undertaking would require | (“more than parlor guts.” Pro ls for non-defense spending in the'1942 fiscal year budget, Mr. Disney said today, total $6,675,000,000 (not ‘including’ refundings, transfers to the old-age. reserve account and ordinary” costs - -of the Army. and Navy). . .° Of “that, sum, fixed charges—interest on the ‘public debt, veterans’ pensions and trust account payments—will take $2,716,000,000. The $3,959,000,000 balance represents expenditures which could be retluced or, iy i ved these: Various a agr e "are I (Continued on Page Three) :
MAIDEN FLIGHT OF
B-19 ‘DELAYED WEEK
- SANTA MONICA, Cal,, ‘May: 17 (U. P.) ~The maiden flight of the
largest : airplane «ever -built—the| : B-19: bombér—has : been}
Douglas [postponed until next week, because: [its brakes must bé adjusted. Lo Majors Stanley Umstead, Howard C. Bunker and Donald Patt: had ex-
pected to make the first flight to-|.-vy fly the. ship “with-|
day. -tout announcement’ next week | if: the "Weather is’ favorable. ’
were dispatehc:. to Wright Field. Kooording ls ty|the stalemate
, At that time, Rep. Disney |
a [7 ARMY FLIERS
KILLED IN TWO OHIO (RASHES
Both Outir uring. Storm; 5 Die as Ship Rams Hill "at Logan.
COLUMBUS, —Seven army fi two plane crast about 50 miles
» ‘May 17 (U. P).
s which occurred
storm last night The office of at Logan, O,, five bodies had the wreckage «f a ship . which rammed into an isolated hillside at Sand Run in hilly Hocking County. The State Hichway Patrol said that the vietimis in the Hocking crackup had bee: identified as Second Lieuts. Fobert! Sonnenfield, pilot; William J. Wiandt, James Griswell and Robert L. Brown and Sergt. James ¥ Davis. The ship was from Bark:dale Field, Louisiana, Patrol headquarters said.
2 Die ai Martinsville
A witness said that the ship was so badly splinte::d that none of the wreckage piece: weighed more than five pounds. Two fliers diec in the other crash on a f#rm near Martinsville, O., in Clinton County, of Dayton. The accidents occurred at almost the same time—around 8:30 last night . Dead at, Mar iinsville , were Capt. R. H. Van Der=1,, Dayton, and Capt. John C. Stanley ‘stationed at Wash"ington, D. C. Wright Field officers would “aot comment, but .nvestigating parties were sent to ech scene. The bodies from the Hocking Valley wreck
aeriff W. PF. Duffy reported today that
1 “Acco: (\" Hocking ~ Coun Sources, parts 3f the plane which cracked up at {land Run were scat
| teted over a hottomland area, 75
yards by 50 y=.ds. Heard [lane Circling
Residents of nearby Carbon Hill said they heard the plane circling for half an hour before it crashed. Heading west, 'he- pilot apparently banked the plaie and it struck the hillside, cuttiziz a swath through trees and und:rbrush until it burrowed into a oad at the foot of the hill. Enrollees froin CCC Camp Nelson prevented onlookers from getting close to the plz ne. : Officers at “right Field, Dayton, doubted that either ‘of the two planes were heaged {6% there. They had no repos of missing ships, either to or fi om the field, and said the planes po::ibly were en route to some other Army field.
1 DEAD, 2 HURT AS "CHILE PARTIES RIOT
SANTIAGO. Chile, May 17: (U. P.)—Member: cof the Radical Party and the Vanguardists (Nazi) staged a gun battlk
and two othcrs were wounded. Police arrested Arturo Hoffman, 17, a membe of the Vanguardista, who was said {0 have confessed that he. had fired 3 gun “into the ajr” during the clash. Fourteen ‘other men:and sever ‘women were. arrested when police raided = Vanguardista headquarters ‘Those arrested gave the Nazi salute and sang’ their patty song as tliey were driven away by police: yo
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24 minutes later the last of the four|} Physicians gave thei] N babies oxygen and put them in|}: incubators. Their estimatéd weights were one to one and one-quarter
May 17 (U. Po—[} 2 Quadruplet daughters died at Mercy|] Hospital today within 10 hours after|] No,
& m. and the other shortly before 5| CN
}months premature. The mother,|| Frances Adams, was taken to theif
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Wilbur Shaw . . . seeking his third consecutive 500-mile race: victory. e will attempt to qualify his Maserati this afternoon. He probably will try for the No: 1 300, too.
CRISIS NEAR ON SOFT COAL PAY
Southern Onérators: Firm; Development Expected in Shipyards Tieup.
By UNITED PRESS, Negotiations approached a showdown today in the dispute threatening production of soft coal, indispensable: fuel .for defense industries, - Representatives of - Southern operators and ‘the United Mine Work--ers Union (C. I. 0.) continued in conference although operators said “hopeless” ent John IL. ‘productive
and U. M. W. Pres Lewis said it might of a. crisis.” The dispute centered on Southern operators’ demand for a wage scale’ 40 .cents per day below that in Northern: fields. Mr. Lewis has threatened a new work stoppage in both Northern and Southern fields unless agreément is reached by Tuesday. Another labor-management deadlock continued on the Pacific Co#st where a strike of 1700 A. F. L. and | .|C. I. O. machinists closed "11: San Francisco shipyards with $500,000,000 in defense confracts. John P. Frey, chief of the A..F. L. Metal Trades Department, indicated a major development may be expected soon. . .Gov. Culbert. Olson of California met again with strike leaders and employer representatives. It was reported he might attempt to call a mass meeting of the 15,000 workmen | made idle by .the strike. Mr. Frey disclosed that Acting (Continued on Page Three)
WIFE OF BOTTLING FIRM: OFFICIAL DIES
Mrs. Leo E. Yuncker Rites To Be .Monday.
Mrs.- Leo E. Yuncker, wife of. the secretary-treasurer of the CocaCola Bottling Co. here, died yesterday in Her home, 4565 Park Ave. A native ahd lifelong resident of Indianapolis, Mrs. Yuncker was Miss May Koss before her marriage here ‘to Mr. Yuncker:41 years ago. She was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church. ‘She also is survived by two brothers, Louis Koss of Carmel, president
and William Koss of Indianapolis. The Rev. Frederick Daries, pas-| tor of the Zion Church, will officia at services at 2:30 p. m. Monday the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. Burial will be in Crown Hill. |
You Can Clock The Race Cars
- CLOCK THE CARS youiselr during the qualifying trials at the ‘Speedway. Get out your watch, keep one eye on the second hand,
time, _ and you ean translate elapsed time for one lap. into Ihiles an hour with this chart.
Average speed. .
WILLIANS AND QUINN FIRST 0 TAKE TESTS
Both Top. 124 W. M. P. H. as + 20,000 Speed: Fans File ** Into Stands.
By .J. E. O'BRIEN ; Buffeted by a stiff wind, the : first of more than a score of drive ers today qualified their cars for
| the .500-mile race in an effort to
win the coveted “pole” position. One of the ‘largest morning throngs ever to. gather at the Speedway for qualifications saw Merrill * (Doc) Williams qualify at an average speed of 124.014 miles an hour, followed closely by Harry. McQuinn with an even better 125.449 mile an hour average. As. the parade of qualifiers got under way, traffic to the Speedway was reported snarled all the way back to Perry Stadium and more cars streaming toward the motor« dome from every direction. By early afternoon it was estie mated that there were 20,000 in the stands and Speedway officials predicted that there would be nearly 50,000 on hang before the trials ended. ‘2 -After the first two qualified, there was- little action on the track as drivers waited for the. wind te
'| abate. Say Thy ly
Wind Adds Hazards : The wind made the rough north. east’ turn - even: more treacherous, but: the first: drivers turnedtin ims pressive . speeds in spite of it; and the battle. Jor, the. inside front row position® in the: race ‘was spirited, Williams'' qualified ‘the: and Fur Special, a Miller-powered front drive four-cylinder car which .- drove last year. He was forced to take two trials because his helmet blew off ‘on the. back stretch. McQuinn qualified - an eights cylinder ‘ Alfa-Romeo and. he. had to take two trials, one of unofficial. When -he went the first four laps the officials ‘did ‘not’ sép him raise his hand to signal an ats tempt, and they did not time him,
22 Ready to Go \
‘The nine hours between 10 a. mw, and 7 p. m. were allotted for trials, and some 22 drivers hoped to travel . the four-lap, 10-mile.test at better than 115 miles an hour, thus gain« ing a place in the 33-car siarting field. The prize at stake was the pole position—the inside spot in the first row on Memeriat Day. This will go to the driver and automobile with the quickest: time today regardless of speeds turned in on future qualie fying days. There were three favore ites for the pole—the same thres who started last year’s race in the front row and finished it in 1-2-3 order.’ . Two Maseratis Challenge
These were Rex Mays, pole holder last year and winner of the A. A. A, driving championship in 1940; Wile bur Shaw, the 1940 race winner, and Mauri Rose, who started last. year’s race in the No. 3 spot in th front row and:rode under the yellow flag to third place behind Shaw and Mays on Memorial Day. X Mays was to drive the eight-cyle 3 irrder Bowes Seal Fast Special, the same car that i him the pole last year with a spee f 127.850, Shaw was the pilot of the Boyle team’s maroon . Maserati, which has been given a new engine since the last face, while Rose was behind, the wheel of another Maserati. This ‘one, known as the Elgin Piston Pin Special, was: purchased by Lou Moore from the French team that raced it in last year’s classic. Other possible contenders fof front-row positions were Cliff Bere - (Continued on Page Ten) : / 2 8 » : Harry McQuinn, in an 8-cylin-der Alfa-Romeo, rear drive. La Lap i e Speed © 1 cesessrsssesse 1:11.24 126.334 Bi esvavevess 151068. 185.334 6 3. 101190 125.174 4 1:12.15 124741 suse able 3 125.449
Merrill (Doc) Williams, in the. Indiana Fur Special, 4-cylinder from drive,
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FRENCH SHIPS L00 i
NEW YORK, May 17 (U. PJ.
-| The ship chosen i 135 |the 5703-ton freighter Me de.: 1 moutier, Which is taking on a